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HP Compaq NX9420
If you're looking for a 17-inch wide-screen laptop that offers corporate-caliber security, power, and battery life, the HP Compaq nx9420 is the only game in town.

Lenovo 3000 J105
The Lenovo 3000 J105 is best suited for basic office and home productivity tasks; but with limited upgrade options and a one-year warranty, better deals are out there.

Pioneer Inno
The Pioneer Inno is compact, gets great reception, and lets you enjoy live satellite audio and your own tracks on the go. Better battery life and more storage would make this XM portable even better.

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RIM BlackBerry 8700g
The RIM BlackBerry 8700g offers T-Mobile consumer and business users a robust, user-friendly messaging device and cell phone with great performance.

Creative Fatal1ty 1010 Mouse
The Creative Fatal1ty 1010 has useful features such as swappable weights and adjustable sensitivity levels, but subtle design flaws keep it from becoming our favorite.

Gateway FX510XL
Gateway packs a lot of power and features in its top-of-the-line FX510XL for a very attractive price. If you can live without a polished interior design and don't mind a restricted upgrade path, you can find a good deal here.

Apple Mac Mini Core Duo
Apple packs more media-specific features into the Mac Mini to make an inexpensive and useful entertainment-room computer. It's tremendously easy to use, although it surprised us with poor image processing.

Lenovo 3000 N100
In addition to a set of features and connections suitable for the small-business user, the Lenovo 3000 N100 delivers strong components and performance at a competitive price.

Canon Pixma iP6600D
Versatile stand-alone operation and good photo quality make the Canon Pixma iP6600D appealing for digital camera owners, but slow operation and mediocre text output mean it's a bad choice for SOHO or business use.

Toshiba Satellite P105-S921
The Toshiba Satellite P105 offers a thorough set of features and strong gaming performance at a relatively affordable price.

Overdrive Gemini.SLI
Overdrive's HyperClocking techniques push the Gemini.SLI beyond its clock-speed potential, but it's still too expensive, especially with a few high-end staple parts being MIA.

ATI Radeon X1800 GTO
Its sub-$300 price makes the Radeon X1800 GTO tempting, but its performance isn't compelling enough, and upgrading to two cards is expensive and inefficient, thanks to ATI's clunky CrossFire technology.

HP Pavilion DV5000z Turion 64
With the Pavilion dv5000z series, HP delivers a well-designed and versatile multimedia laptop that starts at a highly affordable price point.

Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600
Combining TV, DVR, stereo, DVD player, and high-performance PC in one big laptop, the Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600 delivers the most complete portable multimedia experience we've seen.

Canon Pixma MP500 Photo All-in-One
Families and digital photo hobbyists should consider the well-designed Canon Pixma MP500 for prints, but we were disappointed by its mediocre color film scans.

Dell UltraSharp 1707FP
With an attractive design, ample adjustability options, and great image quality, the Dell UltraSharp 1707FP is one of the best 17-inch LCD monitors. We're especially impressed with its low price.

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-M2
The Sony Cyber Shot DSC-M2 takes quality stills and videos, if you can get past its awkward design.

The Belkin Wireless-G Travel Router
The Belkin Wireless-G Travel Router combines great design and support, a low price, and decent performance, making it an obvious choice for business travelers who need Wi-Fi connectivity.

Apple iPod Hi-Fi
The pricey Apple iPod Hi-Fi portable stereo speakers are well built and sound great, but they don't bring anything new to the table.

MPIO One FG200
If you really want video on a budget, the MPIO One fits the bill, but we'd prefer to have a fractionally larger Cowon iAudio U3 or, better yet, a video iPod.

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Celedy Draw 2
Celedy Draw 2 offers a nice mix of vector drawing and desktop-publishing tools with an elegant and intuitive interface.

ABS Ultimate M6 Sniper
Its Athlon 64 FX-60 CPU isn't overclocked, and its pair of graphics cards can be trumped, but the ABS Ultimate M6 Sniper is still plenty fast for gamers and boasts excellent build quality, a good mix of high-performance components, and stable operation.

Velocity Micro Raptor 64 DualX
The Velocity Micro Raptor 64 DualX delivers the build quality, the component choices, and the value we hope to find in a high-end gaming PC, but due to some newly discovered power issues, you'll need to think carefully about your configuration and gaming demands.

Maxtor Shared Storage Plus Drive
Consumer NAS drives don't get classier or easier than the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus, but we'd like to see Gigabit Ethernet on it.

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