Lenovo ThinkPad X300 review

• PortTracker review
  A useful appliance that allows you to monitor what is - and has been - connected to your network, as long as you're running Cisco switches.
• Packeteer iShaper review
  Packeteer's combination WAN accelerator and traffic shaper is second to none in speed of CIFS transfers, and among the leaders in overall performance; however, users needing shared byte-level caching musst wait for the next release.
• ClearMyMail spam filtering review
  Anti-spam software doesn't have a great reputation. A new approach is to run the whole thing as a service, taking the hassle away from the user. But is it really that simple?
• RedSeal Security Risk Manager review
  Working out where a network is most at risk can be a time-consuming process. RedSeal's Security Risk Manager offers a system administrator some real assistance in working out the most vulnerable weak spots - but at a price.
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• Synology Cube Station NAS review
  The size of a paint can, the CS407 houses 4TB of RAID 5 storage, speaks almost any file sharing protocol you might think of using, and its embedded Linux OS is open to additions; on the downside, its breadth of capabilities will tempt you to overload its somewhat meager system resources
• Windows Vista SP1 review
  Microsoft is getting set to deliver the final bits of what has become an increasingly controversial patch cycle. Windows Vista Service Pack 1, which went 'gold' a few weeks back, was finally made available via Windows Update yesterday.
• Android SDK review
  What is Google's Android like behind the publicity? We took the SDK for a test-drive to see if it's a good place to build applications.
• Kingston memory card readers review
  Adapter kits make it easy to get stuff on and off a mobile phone, and having one built into the USB stick that you carry anyway makes it easier still.
• Yosemite FileKeeper Pro 2.8 review
  Reviewing backup software is usually a chore. There is a legion of products out there, some good, some very comprehensive but just too difficult to use. A few are awful, including some from supposedly big software houses. This one turned out to be very different.
• Dell XPS M1330 laptop review
  The XPS M1330 is unquestionably Dell’s best ultra-portable laptop to date, and quite possibly the best machine of its type on the market.
  
• Belkin N1 Vision Draft-N Wi-Fi router review
  There's an LCD screen on this Draft-N router, but do the features match up to the looks?
• Blue Coat SG Client review
  Software for Windows XP that allows a mobile PC to work as a client to a Riverbed Steelhead WAN acceleration system.
• Edimax BR-6504n Wi-Fi router review
  Proof here, that 802.11n Draft 2.0 delivers better performance than Draft 1.0 - and in this case at a good price.
• Windows Server 2008 review
  It's been a long time coming but Windows Server 2008 has finally seen the light. Our reviewers have found the product comes with an impressive range of new features - the improved security a definite plus - even if there are some glaring gaps.
• US Robotics Wireless Ndx Router USR5464 review
  Yet another Draft N router. but how significant are the speed advantages?
• PacketTrap pt360 Tool Suite review
  There's a growing range of network management products that are being offered for nothing. While these don't have the range and sophistication of their paid-for competitors, they offer the system adminstrator a valuable and effective tool. We find that PacketTrap's pt360 suite has plenty to recommend it.
  
  
• Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1 review
  We found file copying to be much slower than under XP or pre-SP1 Vista, Microsoft insists that there are security as well as performance enhancements in Vista Service Pack 1. You also won't be reduced to minimal functionality if Microsoft's activation system suffers from glitches.
• HTC Advantage X7501 PDA phone review
  Packing a smartphone into a tiny laptop's body sounds like a good idea. Has HTC made it work?
• VMware ESX Server 3.5 review
  ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 build on the strong VI3 base to improve scalability and add key new management features. These evolutionary upgrades fill important gaps and ostensibly set the stage for the next big release, which may mark the advent of virtualisation as the rule in data centres, not the newcomer. VMware has plenty of work to do to get there, but the company's track record of solid, stable, production-ready releases continues intact with VI3.5.

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