Palmtops/PDAs (Casio, Compaq, Handspring, HP, Palm, Sony, Toshiba)

Personal digital assistants (PDAs, or palmtops if you prefer) have come of age. Whatever the operating system they use, these gadgets are now as popular with consumers as they are with the business community. So we’ve decided to take another look (you can read our last round-up here) at these pocket-sized computers.
Microsoft’s recently launched Pocket [...]

Top-spec consumer PCs (Armari, Compaq, Dell, Evesham, Mesh, Time)

It’s nice to dream. If money really were no object and you were going out to buy a new PC, what would you pick? You can now get a really top-spec PC for around £2,000 and some manufacturers will offer something similarly stunning for a lot less.
Any PC is only as good as the components [...]

Sub-notebooks (Acer, AJP, Compaq, Elonex, Fujitsu Siemens, Toshiba)

It wasn’t so long ago that the sub-notebook was thought of as an expensive toy: fine for people doing lightweight work on the move, but of no use for serious business applications.
How times have changed. Today’s ultra portables are now hard on the heels of their bigger brothers, in terms of both performance and functionality, [...]