One of the slickest looking racers available on PC, but abandon all hope ye without a wheel.

Great quality, great features, great price.

It’s one of the few to include a fax machine and the ADF could be useful, but we expected far better print quality and faster speed at this price.

Reasonably affordable to buy, but high running costs combined with poor-quality output mean you’re better off spending your money elsewhere.

Without support for differential backups and with a light feature set, Norton Ghost feels cheap, nasty and dated.

The price is reasonable, but the interface is poor and speed and quality are below average.

Forget budget DSLR, this is for serious photography. Extravagant in almost every way, the D700 is superbly responsive and produces stunning images

A cheap and cheerful approach to Flash but the sheer power it offers is exceptional, as is the price.

Gorgeous, expensive and exasperating in equal measure, and yet still desirable despite its myriad faults

It's the prettiest looking RTS we've seen in a while, but how does it play?

The follow up to Rise of Nations packs strategic punch.

This well-built compact is a solid point-and-shooter, but it struggles in low light

Offering a 16ms rise- and fall-timed TFT, Mitsubishi has developed a real winner here. The low redraw rate allows for performance that almost mirrors that of CRT, while maintaining the weight and size advantages of TFT screens.

A shift of focus to advanced CSS and JavaScript handling, but Dreamweaver is beginning to look old-fashioned

The best compact Sony yet, with bags of features squeezed into a very stylish package.

One of the practical devices for large back up jobs are external hard drive drives, which not only offer competitive capacities, but are easily portable and perfect for offsite storage. Maxtor's OneTouch II is pitched squarely at this type of application and, as the name suggests, makes it easier with a single button for back up.

While the price of LCD screens drop to comparable pricing levels with CRTs and sales are on the rise, technologically they are held back because at the end of the day the picture delivered by an LCD limits its application compared to a CRT.

Cleverly extends Photoshop Elements’ appeal to both digital photo novices and the more experienced

Excellent quality and speed for reflective media, but the V200 makes heavy work out of transparencies

An intelligent defragmentation utility that can help to maintain server efficiency.