Nvidia’s long-awaited 3D kit finally arrives and when it works, it’s every bit as good as we’d hoped it would be.

The design is impeccable, the build superb and the screen extraordinary, but the price is a huge barrier. We ponder the icon that is the Macbook Pro 17in

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

An HD screen, Blu-ray drive, TV tuner and competitive price result in an excellent-value entertainment laptop.

A beautifully designed, powerful system that almost no-one will be able to justify buying. If your IT department can find the budget to put a new Mac Pro on your desktop, you're lucky indeed

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Intel's Netburst might have become a retrospective embarrassment for the firm, but CPUs based on the best-forgotten architecture are apparently still hitting sky-high clock speeds.

Still holding its own at this price, but note the HD 4830.

A capable card – decent performance without a high price.

Incredibly powerful laptop system at high spec, but you can also opt for a cheaper, lower spec version

The ATI HD 4800s hit a sweet-spot of performance and price. If you're after high-end performance at a few hundred dollars less than the 4870, then this is your card

A cheap card, with the bonus of reasonable gaming ability.

Not the perfect value card it once was, but still worth a look.

On its last legs, it costs as much as faster cards.

Can't handle gaming and beaten by cheaper media cards too.

Can’t handle gaming, and beaten by cheaper media cards too.

Cheap and functional, but rivals perform better.

Impressive Blu-ray performance from the cheapest card on test.

The desktop icons now comes with a speedier processor and twice as much memory as standard