Impressive technology, but increasing cores doesn’t necessarily increase performance.

Quad-core makes it powerful and good value at the price. Noise and stability suffer though.

Slim and stylish, this isn’t the most powerful quad core we’ve seen, but it’s by far the cheapest.

Incredibly powerful laptop system, with a few small issues that hold it back from true glory.

Dell’s first foray into using AMD processors is a modest performer, but fair value.

Not the most useable email tool, but very sleek.

A bit large for our liking but the price makes it tempting.

A little large and lacking in superfast data connectivity, but unrivalled as an email tool.

If you don’t care about weight, this is what a laptop should be

Fantastically engineered, but a bit too bulky for comfort.

Innovative, solidly engineered and packed with features – an almost perfect smartphone

Custom design watercooling and some judicious overclocking make for a showstopping performance and price.

An easily managed appliance for small offices. Performance is modest, but it offers useful remote access features

An HDMI-equipped board ideal for small media-centre systems

Packed with features and closer to Adobe Premiere Elements, CyberLink PowerDirector 8 is close, but still not close enough.

A huge capacity, classy specification, plenty of business-related storage features and lightning performance

You've seen our First Look at the E71, now here's the full review. A stunning phone perfectly molded to the needs of anyone whose life revolves around email

Cheap, but there’s not much here to cheer about

A solid, general-purpose pedestal server with good storage and a classy management act – plus it’s quiet as a mouse

A mighty dual-GPU board that makes light work of even today’s toughest DirectX 10 games.