It's no secret that a large proportion of Dell inkjet printers are built by Lexmark, sometimes with slight variations from—or even improvements to—Lexmark's own equivalent printers. The Dell P713w All-In-One Wireless Photo Printer ($199 direct) is ...

Prints, copies, scans. Duplexer for two-sided printing. Reasonably high quality-output. Both Ethernet and WiFi

No fax. No automatic document feeder. Relatively low paper capacity

The Dell P713w All-In-One Wireless Photo Printer is a good fit for the dual role of home and light-duty home office multifunction printer (MFP).

Some multi-function printers (MFPs, aka all-in-ones or AIOs) deliver lots of features. Others emphasize high-quality print output. The Brother MFC-9320CW ($500 street) focuses squarely on speed, with the fastest overall time on our tests for its price ...

Fast. Prints, scans, and faxes over a network. Standalone copier and fax. Reasonably high- quality color graphics. Ethernet and WiFi

Limited paper capacity. No duplexer (for printing on both sides of a page)

The Brother MFC-9320CW comes up short on paper handling, but it offers fast color printing as well as scanning, faxing, and copying.

Seagate's FreeAgent DockStar Network Adapter is the successor to its FreeAgent GoDock+, the optional docking station for Seagate's line of Seagate FreeAgent Go portable drives. DockStar sets the Go drive free by making it not only network-enabled but ...

Provides access from anywhere to your USB drives or FreeAgent Go drive. Sleek and professional looking drive dock

Users charged to access Pogoplug-based Web service for drive management

Simple to setup and easy to use, remote access to USB drives doesn't get any easier than with DockStar.

When Brother introduced its first generation of color lasersmore precisely, the first generation built around Brother's own print enginesabout two years ago, it focused on the small office and workgroup as the target market. However, the first printer ...

Fast. Reasonably small size. High-quality text. Graphics and photo quality suitable for internal business use

Relatively high cost per page. Limited paper handling

The Brother HL-3070CW delivers high-quality text, reasonably high-quality graphics and photos, and fast speed at a price and size suitable for a small office.

One of the things that most impressed mein both senses of the wordwhen I unpacked the Lexmark Platinum Pro905 ($399.99 direct) multifunction printer (MFP) was a packet of support information with a hard-to-miss, letter-size page featuring a toll-free ...

Fast photos. Prints on both sides of a page. Automatic document feeder. Works as standalone e-mail sender

Slow (for the price) for business applications. Several features don't work quite they way they should

Aimed primarily at a busy micro or home office, the Lexmark Platinum Pro905 is packed with office-centric features plus the ability to download mini-apps from the Web.

Whether you're looking for a home all-in-one (AIO) with high-quality photo output, a home-office AIO with fast speed and office features like faxing, or, better yet, a single AIO (or MFP, for multifunction printer, if you prefer) for both, the Epson ...

Fast. Ethernet and WiFi. Prints, scans, and faxes over network. Duplexer. Automatic document feeder

Sub-par text quality. Low paper capacity

Packed with features, but limited by low paper capacity, the Epson Artisan 810 is a good fit for both home and light-duty home office use.

HP has a good track record with its compact photo printers, so I was expecting that this year's model, the HP Photosmart A646 Compact Printer ($149.99 direct), would probably stand out as a winner. The reality, unfortunately, doesn't quite live up to ...

Touch screen with generally well-designed menus. Prints 5-by-7s, 4-by-6s, and panoramas up to 4 by 12 inches

Speed is acceptable but slow. Messages on the printer LCD and the approach to printing from a computer can be confusing

The HP Photosmart A646 Compact Printer is a worthy successor to the Editors' Choice A636 in many ways, but it falters badly on ease of use.

The Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 Home Server is a well built home server with plenty of features and a sturdy drive bay. For Lenovo's first entry in this market, the workmanship stands out among the NAS boxes I have reviewed this year, even if the bay door ...

Features are stable. Hardware runs quiet. Sturdy construction. Utility makes mapping drive letters a breeze

Power savings feature is too complex for average users. Uses low-end processor

The Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 is a good product for small businesses or homes that don't do a lot of media streaming.

product, the Thunderbird open-source e-mail client, has its own devout following, and has now taken flight with a new version. Thunderbird 2 was strictly for power users, but version 3 changes all that. It's as simple as pie, having cut down on the ...

Good mail search features. Tabbed interface. Generally easy setup. Supports multiple e-mail services in one inbox. Customizable through extensions

No Exchange support. No calendaring or scheduling functionality

For those who need a desktop e-mail client and don't need to work with an Exchange server, Thunderbird is decent, and Linux users can't do better. But webmail clients, Windows Live Mail, and Mac OS X Mail provide Thunderbird stiff competition.

Most offices of any size, down to and including home offices, can make good use of tabloid (11- by 17-inch) or supertabloid (up to 13- by 19-inch) output at least occasionallyfor printing large spreadsheets for example. Relatively few small offices ...

Up to supertabloid (13- by 19-inch) output. Fast. High-quality output across the board. Ethernet connection

Limited paper handling, with only one tray, a 150-sheet capacity, and no duplexer

The HP Officejet 7000 Wide Format Printer makes tabloid size and larger printing (up to 13 by 19 inches) affordable for even the smallest office.