In the last six months of 2009 Australians made 325 million fewer local calls as we abandoned fixed lines in favour of mobile plans or phone-over-internet services. The T-Hub could be part of Telstra’s plan to recover revenue lost as a result and drive more customers to use a home phone number again.

A few consumer touches like the HDMI output and touchpad-based media controls make it much more than a corporate machine, but don’t plan on traveling too far from a power point as all that data crunching drains the battery fast.

Together with a host of add-ons from CD cataloguing software to a label designer, Toast has moved forward when basic OS capability threatened to render it obsolete. It’s still a snap to use and great value for money.