It's well over a year on from the Year 2000 issue and the bug that never was, and many corporate IT managers are now better placed to view the PC market in a much calmer environment, and open their budgets to new products.

The 133MHz-based platform is now firmly established - not, as was predicted, using the very expensive RAMBUS memory, but the much, much cheaper SDRAM memory. Big, fast hard drives are no longer the sole domain of servers. Thanks to ATA/100 they can be found in most corporate systems. Vendors, particularly the bigger players, have put more and more time and development into making the corporate PC more remotely manageable and, perhaps more importantly in this online world, far more secure than in the past.

Something that the bigger vendors can do, that the smaller ones struggle with, is to implement the standardisation of a product line, with some vendors guaranteeing that the system line won't change for six months or more; all good news for the hassled IT manager with support costs and time to worry about.

So here's a selection of the latest corporate machinery, some from big name companies, others from even bigger name companies. All are based on 933MHz Intel Pentium III processors, but there the similarities end.

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