The calendar is what you’ll get the most use out of — all the other features are adequately covered by other devices you’ll already have. It’s handy to have your contacts on it, but they’re probably already on your mobile.

Yes there’s novelty in writing on a computer with a stylus or light pen and as nice as it sounds having all your notes on your computer instead of scrawled on paper, we simply react differently to compressed wood pulp.

Most multifunction centres connect straight to your PC via a USB cable, and if you’ve ever tried to share a printer over a network of different operating systems you know how tricky it can be. If you have a small office or home network it’s worth looking at models that connect to your router and let you install the software to access them on each system.