The hard disk is 160Gb. In practical terms we ran two heavy-use user accounts — both of them crammed with settings, utilities and software for creative pros — and stored about 20 full movie files before we managed to fill it up.

When it’s finished, the screen returns to normal and you can view the uncorrected and corrected settings by toggling a radio button. Our first reaction was horror — the system had given us a screen setting with a ghastly blue wash that didn’t look nearly as clear as it had been before.

Some of the included applications are a little bit of a mystery. Anyone with the money to spend on a software family such as Creative Suite 4 would surely be a pro-level designer and use Dreamweaver instead of Contribute, but the latter’s still there.