Make no mistake, this is one heavyweight of a notebook. The 3.3kg of the Satellite 2800 accounts for some of this, but otherwise it applies to some of the exceptional features found on this model.

You're taken through each step by a series of onscreen animated diagrams that are a far sight more helpful than other guides the competition offers.

The test images taken at maximum quality and resolution show that the FinePix is quite capable of producing solid images

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Picture this scenario: your daughter is in her bedroom using the old laptop computer to do some schoolwork, you are busy finishing a presentation for work on the desktop computer thats connected to the colour printer and your partner has just arrived home from the gym. Suddenly everyone is in the main computer room.

As a television-based photo printer, the NX-500 is quite capable

Underneath the behemoths rough exterior is a friendlier beast. Along the front of the machine is a series of large buttons and dials, with each function clearly labelled.

At this stage you can get modules for games, memory expansion and backup, a digital camera, an MP3 player, a GPS and a mobile phone module

The DAV310 from A-MAX Technology circumvents this limitation by being able to play MP3 tracks straight off a CD - just like your PC can.

Home videos are great fun but we seldom manage to record each scene on our cameras in exactly the right order to create a flow of video and sound that is pleasing and easy to watch. In many cases it could bore the socks off most viewers.

Sony is no doubt a technological behemoth, an innovative market leader in everything electrical, and fun. For Sony, digital photography is no exception, the DSC-S70 being the 3.3 megapixel entrant in the highly successful Cyber-shot range.

A 22in monitor is obviously a very large unit. The ColorPro 22D that came into PC Authority was also an engineering sample, which goes some way toward explaining the lack of embellishment.

If there is one camera that truly possessed a funky design, then the Ricoh RDC-7 is it. The camera is flat, in much the same vein as the late seventies style cameras, or what you might expect in a funky seventies Cold War spy flick.

The GeForce3 chip is quite an incredible thing.

An informed account of what Linux is, why its free, what Red Hat is, the differences between it and Windows and so on.

It is easy in the heat of debate to forget that filtering is about protection, and filter software does not just attempt to block access to Web sites that most people would consider unsuitable for you

It is really not that long since we have covered digital cameras in the PC Authority Labs, only a little over a year, and yet the technology has progressed in leaps and bounds in that time. Back then,

ISP-based filtering services have met with a mixed response in Australia. AOL provides parental controls so that family members can be provided with filtered Internet access according to their age gro

As digital cameras have improved, people have found that they can be used to produce more than just web quality images and, consequently, there is a growing demand for photo printers. While traditiona