You can buy language pakcs for your particular industry containing words common to your professional field, but the speech engine does a great job training itself to terms you use often that aren’t in the dictionary. It also comes with a headset and microphone that plug straight into you PC’s microphone jack so there’s nothing more to buy.

If there were only one reason to buy the HP 4510 series it would be the typing experience. With a full extended keyboard, it takes a keyboard layout approach we’ve seen far too rarely. Each key is only a few millimetres above the chassis and needs only the slightest touch, and a small gutter between each key cuts down errant keystrokes dramatically.

Part of the service offering is free space on Seagate’s servers — though why you need it with 320Gb in front of you is a mystery. There’s also a system to sign up with the company to access the features that allow you to control your backup and retrieve data over the web.