Stacks of potential, but current hardware is underwhelming and the client software a mess.

Whisper quiet, well built and well designed, but a lack of power and expandability will keep enthusiasts away.

There was a time when semi-professional video editors and home-video enthusiasts had little choice but Adobe Premiere. Back then, video capture and output depended on proprietary hardware, which often only worked with its bundled software.

For the last few years Creative has played catchup to the likes of iRiver, Rio and Apple.

The buzzword in Excel 2003 is XML, best illustrated by the new mapping feature. This lets you map cells, columns and ranges to data held in XML data sources, so you can create Excel workbooks showing data from Web Services or other back-end data stores. The XML data is validated on input into Excel against a custom XML Schema under your control. Excel can also save your work in a native XML workbook format, which keeps any formatting but avoids the proprietary XLS file format. You may also, however, save data as a pure XML data file, leaving any formatting in the template. This XML data file can be put through BizTalk or imported into a back-end database.

A fully featured hard disk AVCHD camcorder with plenty of recording space

A fully featured hard disk AVCHD camcorder with plenty of recording space

MSI lines up to take a shot at the iPod Nano. Certainly a valiant effort, but was it a bullseye?

The Portege 3110CT is one of the latest in Toshiba's line of notebooks and continues the tradition of portability established with the first in its line.

Flexible, beautifully designed and reasonably priced. An excellent attempt to attract the masses.

Excellent features and performance, but it’s pricey and you need a suitably powerful PC to make the most of it.

Running costs are high, but with a high resolution and superb performance, it’s a groundbreaking product.

Despite various attempts at Windows Desktop alternatives, Linux is still best suited to servers, for which Red Hat is by far the most popular choice. With this in mind, it came as no surprise when in May 2002 Red Hat split its product line in two: Linux and Enterprise Linux.

While not unfamiliar with barebones PCs and small components designed to take your PC out of the study and into the lounge room, the MSI MEGA PC is the first out-of-the-box system we've reviewed that would snuggle right in amongst your hi-fi components.

Not without its impracticalities, but the touch is a simply brilliant marriage of software and hardware

Great in day-to-day use, but poor software and high price dent its appeal.

The design is excellent, but you pay a hefty premium.

The PLV-Z5 has its benefits, but can’t quite match the all-round ability of the best in its class

The Navman looks and feels like a quality PDA.