Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Not great value for money, but the XPS 700 offers plenty of power and striking looks.

World's Fastest Notebook.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Very fast for some applications, but poor gaming performance and strong competition reduces its appeal.

Seriously powerful mobile gaming grunt with all the bling, from Dell. Yep, Dell.

Dell Dimension XPS B733r

A powerful and feature-packed notebook. But it can’t match the quality of Dell’s XPS M1710.

Fantastic design and highly-configurable power make this XPS useful, desirable and good value.

Luxurious extras and design make this a highly desirable machine. It’s ideal if space is at a premium at home.

Our preconceptions have been blown away, and the Hercules XPS 510 takes home the Value Award.

As far as performance is concerned, the Emagen Lightspeed XPS is a fairly competitive offering. It sits in the middle of the pack as far as price is concerned, but managed to sit at second to third place in most benchmarks - it even came top of the class in 3DMark05. The 3.6Ghz Pentium 4 certainly helped there. And the fact that it’s $600 cheaper than the Pioneer system also works in its favour.

Dell Dimension XPS B733r

Dell Dimension XPS T550

Dell Dimension XPS

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

In many respects, this system is very similar to the one which was reviewed in last month's issue

Not perfect, but the best all-rounder.

Improvements all round keep PowerPoint well ahead of the competition.

Microsoft’s radical redesign promises ‘better results, faster’. Be fully prepared for this world-leading productivity software.