Output quality is an undoubted strength, as are its looks, but most businesses will find the lack of capacity annoying.

Impressive print quality, a good turn of speed and decent features, but it simply costs too much to own.

Yet another solid HP laser, but it’s beaten by ?rivals in virtually every key area.

Revolutionary features and stunning power: for anyone lucky enough to have the cash, the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds is the ultimate mobile workstation

Fantastic battery life and a transflective screen aren’t enough to justify a price this high for the everyday business user.

A rough, tough laptop with serious attitude, but its keyboard proves an Achilles heel.

The Xerox Phaser 3125N isn’t much to look at, with a design not unlike business lasers from the early nineties. Unlike its ancestors, however, it’s only a fraction of the size and significantly more powerful.

D-Link offers a well-built desktop NAS appliance that looks good value, but for business users it’s short of features

A standard-issue corporate laptop with suspect ergonomics.

A great multimedia phone with surprising business features, but it feels clunky

A good effort by Palm, but it’s a long way behind the best both ergonomically and functionally

Solid client security applications, though lack of centralised management puts Kaspersky Small Office Security in a different league.

The power and flexibility of an enterprise product, but F-Secure Anti-Virus Small Business Suite 8 also comes with a good deal of the complexity of one.

This phone can do it all, but it’s exceedingly frustrating to use, and that counts it out

A striking laptop that’s incredibly portable and has good battery life. But the screen is a big disappointment

Not a great performer in testing, but a firmware update that delivers the performance we saw with the TL-WR841ND would make it great value.

Respectable performance and a security assistant makes the Belkin N1 Vision a good contender for a small office.

The especially full feature set of the 7404VNOX makes it stand out from the crowd.

An older router missing a couple of key features, but worth considering for a small office equipped with older and slower Wi-Fi and Ethernet equipment.

The DGFV338 is a combination ADSL modem/router packaged in Netgear’s traditional metal case and powered by a particularly large and heavy mains adaptor.