If you're building your own server, Asus offers a few options to get you started.

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Asus RS700-E6/RS4

The good Backlit keyboard Good storage options The bad Chassis gets hot Styling isn't all it could have been The Dell Studio XPS 13 is a very good laptop. It could have been excellent, but Dell seems to have actually tried too hard in some areas, such as the laptop's design, and we feel it's backfired slightly.

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Dell Studio XPS 13

The good Fingerprint reader Nvidia Quadro discrete GPU Centrino 2 Very fast Matte display The bad Overpriced Tacky design Keyboard a bit too small 4GB RAM wasted on 32-bit OS Average battery life Despite its strong performance, the tacky design and inflated price leaves the Toshiba Tecra R10 behind the competition. Design If you end up buying a Tecra R10, we hope you like grey. This laptop is grey on grey.

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Toshiba Tecra R10

The good Solid metal construction Full ExpressCard/54 slot Big keyboard The bad Odd resolution loses a few pixels No mobile-broadband options (yet) Awkward mouse button placement HP offers a premium aluminium-clad version of its plastic Mini 1000 while keeping the price down, making the Mini 2140 the business netbook to beat.

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HP Mini 2140

The good Automatic duplex unit Quick print speed The bad Clunking noises during and after printing Incredibly bulky So-so photo and text prints While it may seem like an ideal office multifunction printer on specs alone, the L7590 has its fair share of problems. Variable print quality and its sheer size do a lot to offset the speed and versatility to be found within

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HP Officejet Pro L7590

The good iPhoto now has face recognition, geotagging and social network integration iMovie regains advanced tools lost in iMovie '08 GarageBand now has music lessons The bad iPhoto's face detection isn't perfect Social network integration needs some work iMovie is lacking for advanced users Apple iLife '09 is a great application suite for simple media organising and editing, and the addition of features like face recognition, geotagging and music lessons makes it worth the update. Apple's iLife '09 may be just an evolutionary upgrade from iLife '08 , but oh what an evolution

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Apple iLife '09

AMD's Phenom II processor is designed to boost the company's presence in the desktop market. But how does it fare against Intel's latest Core i7 (Nehalem) chip

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Benchmarks: AMD's Phenom II

The good Commonly used features more accessible Flashy, eye-catching presentations are even easier to make Added interoperability across the suite The bad No business-grade email client iWork.com web component doesn't allow for true collaboration Lacks auto save feature Intuitive interface design and easy access to useful features make iWork the best office suite choice on the Mac. Though it lacks some of Microsoft Office's advanced options, iWork '09 is an emerging powerhouse in its own right. Apple's iWork '09 is an excellent investment for Mac users who need a well-designed and easy-to-use productivity suite

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Apple iWork '09

The good Free Compatible with Windows, OS X and Linux 64-bit compatible across platforms Really sexy interface Simple to use Adheres to ODF document standard The bad Memory hungry Limited feature set Doesn't open MS OOXML files Built-in web browser is painfully slow and generally horrible While the interface of IBM's free office suite is sexy, its hunger for system resources and lack of features mean that OpenOffice.org 3 is still the best free office suite. Also, watch out for Symphony's lack of OOXML support. The latest version of Lotus Symphony (version 1.2) came out of beta on 4 November 2008, and in honour of this we thought we would look at the latest release of this historic office program

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IBM Lotus Symphony 1.2

The good Beautiful, large display Excellent performance Good battery life 3.5mm headphone socket microSD expansion with 8GB card The bad Some instances of lag No free navigation software It's one of the most expensive smartphones available The Touch HD is a fantastic phone, if you can afford one. It out-performs every HTC phone previously and looks fantastic doing it.

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HTC Touch HD