This monitor aced many of our image quality tests, handling fine colour transitions with ease and producing sharp images.

Though the IBM T541 features a plain specification and scored poorly at clarity, it did fairly well at colour, greyscale tests and real-world tasks

When it comes to design principles, the IBM embodies a completely different approach to the Toshiba

While many ultraportable laptops, like the Toshiba R200 go all out to get size and weight to an absolute minimum, a great deal of usability is often sacrificed – the X505 is impractically small for constant daily usage while the R200 has limited battery sizes.

The IBM ThinkCentre S50 Ultra Small is the world's smallest 'full-function' desktop computer according to manufacturer IBM. Whether it's the world's smallest or not, it's certainly one of the smallest we've seen.

Not a stylish machine, but it’s good value, well built and boasts surprisingly impressive battery life

This notebook was designed from the ground up with business and security in mind, and it succeeds.

When it comes to desktop replacements, the Dell Inspiron 5000 is a case study in portable power.

Well built and with astonishing battery life to boot. It’s pricey but decent value.

Lightweight but perfect for heavy duty business, this ultraportable is sure to impress.

There is a full keyboard with a trackpoint as the built-in pointing device and a generous palm rest.

Being enterprise software, one usually needs considerable expertise and time to obtain optimal performance and functionality. This is especially true for a product as comprehensive and feature rich as Lotus Domino 6.5 which is fully programmable and can provide workflow, knowledge management, document management, archiving, database and collaboration services via a client-server or browser based thin client model.

Like Volvos of old, Lenovo was a solid, reliable and unexciting name. Up until now. The business-masters have turned out a very desirable, stylish and powerful laptop.

The squarish, brick-like appearance may look like an uninspired design to some, but just picking it up will reveal the superior build quality of the L365 over any other screen in the Labs.

Acer has taken a different tack to IBM with its version of Centrino. Whereas the ThinkPad focused on being small and portable, the TravelMate 800 is a better-featured notebook with a 1.6GHz processor, 15in display and a fast graphics chip

Intel's new Centrino is possibly the most hyped notebook technology ever launched. Centrino is the name for a group of Intel's technologies including a tweaked P3-M CPU, built-in wireless, and excellent battery life.

ViaVoice Web is a voice recognition package designed especially for Internet users. It links into email programs, both Netscape and Microsoft Web browsers, chat programs and includes special Web oriented jargon to make it much easier to take voice recognition onto the Internet.

Here's a monitor that would look at home on an executive desktop.

Samsung’s new Flash disk can extend battery life and boost performance – at a price