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Samsung's Galaxy Note defies easy categorisation and really begs the question: just how big is too big? This Android 2.3-powered device packs a 5.3in screen, but it’s a little too large to really be called a phone and a little too small to be called a tablet. Samsung itself describes it using the slightly cringeworthy moniker of ‘phablet’. It’s not all bad, however, and in both design and use the Note actually fills its unusual niche quite effectively.

There’s something to be said for the increasing commoditisation of PC products. It seems like only yesterday that good-quality 27in LCD screens were a rare luxury, but now practically every vendor has a big monitor going cheap. That said, with prices plummeting all over, quality can be a bit hit and miss. The AOC E2752PHZ, however, is a 1080p 27in screen selling for around $400, though you’d be hard pressed to tell it's price, with even LED backlighting, bright colours and plenty of detail evident across our test gamut of games, media and productivity.

Sometimes, you just want to bust out of having to think about value and cram as much horsepower into a computer box as you can. However, performance is a word that has a different meaning depending on who you talk to and who you buy from. As you’d expect, it’s something the local PC makers offer in spades – on any type of application – while brand-name PCs continue to struggle with PC gaming. That's a certainly not a problem with the three local desktop PCs reviewed here, though.

There’s a fun idea behind the Mighty Dwarf Speaker — it’s a large USB-powered speaker driver that works by vibrating whatever surface it’s affixed to. It’s an interesting gimmick, with different surfaces producing varying qualities of audio, but most outputting a lot more volume than you’d expect from a device about half the size of a can of soft drink.

When Photoshop Elements 9 was released in 2010, it included several cool new features, most of them drawn from big brother Photoshop, and it was hard to imagine where the consumer image editor could go from there. However, Adobe has somehow managed to add another set of impressive new features to Photoshop Elements 10.