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Asus - Maximus II Formula
P45 motherboard for hardcore gamers: Asus has rolled out the successor to its Maximus X38 motherboard with the startlingly unimaginative name of Maximus II Formula. The new model uses the P45 chipset which positions Maximus II below the Asus Rampage Formula...

HTC - Shift
laptop-PDA hybrid with problems in both areas: HTC's Shift is a strange hybrid of a device. Announced before Asus's EeePC was heard of, and so before its myriad of followers hit the streets, and before Intel's Atom processor for small format devices was...

ElectroBox - MiShake
interesting new player in the digital media market: The last time we saw an innovative new way of controlling media on a portable player it came from iRiver in the form of the Clix 2. In this instance the depressable case controls worked well....

MWg - Atom V
fully featured PDA with some attractive extras: MWg's Atom V packs in a lot of features. It is a Windows Mobile 6 Professional device complete with 2.8-inch touch screen and GPS antenna. It is quad-band GSM and it'll manage HSDPA connections at speeds...

Agnitum - Outpost Security Suite Pro 2009
budget priced security solution to protect against the latest threats: Agnitum's Outpost Security Suite Pro 2009 is the latest version of a suite of security tools designed to protect you against Internet threats, and scan your computer for viruses or malware. Unlike rivals such as McAfee...

Nokia - 1650
low cost mobile with a few nice features: You shouldn't expect too much from Nokia's 1650. The phone costs a mere 44 SIM-free from Nokia's online store, so it clearly falls into the lower end of any list of phones based on specifications. The...

Fujifilm - FinePix S100FS
attractive 'bridge' DSLR-style digital camera: The digital revolution in photography might appear to have created two general classes of snappers: those who want to point n' click with the minimum amount of effort and the serious professionals who demand total control...

Greenstreet - Art Craft Scrapbook
get crafty with a digital scrapbook: A scrapbook is a collection of notes, photos and memorabilia that focuses on a particular theme or topic, and makes for pleasant reminiscent browsing on some future rainy day. Either that or it's anything written by...

HP - LaserJet P4515n
fast network business mono printer: If you're running a small to medium business, or you're just a prolific writer at home and have a number of PCs connected to your server, then for those day-to-day bulk document printing jobs you want...

Logitech - Pure-Fi Mobile
wireless speakers for your phone: Music-playing mobiles are pretty much ubiquitous nowadays. Unless you are going for the really budget end of the mobile phone world, it is likely that your handset plays tunes and that it comes with its own...

OO - Diskimage 3 Pro
drive and partition imaging: Most computer users would admit to having a fairly large collection of documents, digital media and other files that would be either impossible or expensive to replace in the event of disk failure. While simple tools...

Chillblast - Fusion Photo OC II
entry level photo workstation or high-end desktop system: As the price of digital cameras and HD camcorders continues to fall, many people are now using their home PCs to do video and photo editing - or rather trying to. There is nothing more frustrating...

Asus - Lamborghini VX2SE
luxury notebook to rival Acer's Ferrari range: Its not often that a jaded old hack goes Wow! when opening a box, but Asus's Lamborghini VX2SE seems to make everyone do just that, including us. Maybe it's the bright yellow lid of our review...

Epson - B-500DN
business colour inkjet printer: With new business-class inkjet printers from HP and Epson, there's a definite move to challenge the supremacy of the colour laser in the office. Epson's B-500DN is an industrial-strength inkjet, designed to be cheaper to run...

Zotac - GeForce GTX 280 AMP Edition
Nvidia maintains its grip on the performance crown: While AMD seems to be concentrating on making the mainstream market its own, Nvidia has continued to hang onto its crown as king of the hill when it comes to outright performance. Cementing that place even...

OKI - C5950n
workgroup colour laser printer: OKI has a range of colour laser printers in the C5000 series and, as the model number suggests, the C5950n sits at the top of that range. It's a narrow but deep printer, thanks to its...

Black Bean - SBK 08: Superbike World Championship
challenging two-wheel power racing: It's perhaps surprising, in a games market awash with four-wheel racers covering everything from Formula 1 to off-road and street', that there have been so few games given over to motorised two-wheelers. Most of the time...

GETAC - E100
rough and tough Tablet PC: While GETAC is not the only company to release mobile PCs that are best suited to war zones or extremely harsh conditions, the company has managed to make quite a recent splash with its B300 notebook...

Kodak - ScanMate i1120
medium-price sheet-feed business scanner: Business scanners, designed for high speed conversion of paper documents to digital ones, can cost a lot, but Kodak's ScanMate i1120 comes in at under 400 which is comparatively inexpensive. The ScanMate is designed much like...

2K Games - Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution
Civilization lite on a console: Revolutions generally involve much unpleasantness and brutal devices that tend to start with the letter G, like gibbets and guillotines. Sid Meier's latest revolution is, however, a far more palatable prospect that doesn't utilise anything so...

Navman - S30 3D
3D sat-nav that does navigation and only navigation: Since Navman joined forces with Mio earlier this year we've been waiting to see what interesting developments it'd come up with on new devices. The S30 3D is part of a new range of updates to...

Crucial - 32GB SSD and SK01 external storage kit
32GB Solid State Drive: The slow but irresistible move from HDD (Hard Disk Drive) to SSD (Solid State Drive) is already under way and is sure to accelerate over the next few years. Give it three years - five at...

Sapphire - Radeon HD4870
stunning graphics card with a manageable price tag: When ATI unleashed the long-awaited RV770 core on the public, in the form of the HD4850, many were impressed by the bang for the buck the core offered, but they knew something even better was just...

MSI - K9N2 Diamond
Nvidia nForce 78a chipset for Phenom: The MSI K9N2 Diamond is a mid-range gaming motherboard that supports the Phenom processor with three PCI Express graphics slots, four DDR2 memory slots and a huge passive cooling system on the chipset. The board uses...

Genius - G-Shot HD55
cheap but flawed HD camcorder: Genius has, in the past, produced a string of standard definition camcorders at affordable prices, and usually with a stack of built-in extra functions like Webcam, music player and storage device. This is the company's first...