While 64-bit computing has been around for a while (for the two of you who could afford Intel's Itanium, and now Itanium II processors), the dream of 64-bittery for the humble home system has been a long time coming.

The price war among Netbooks and mini-notebooks is hot at the moment, especially leading up to Christmas. We source the best prices from around the net this week.

With MARS, Asus managed to do its own version of a "beyond GTX295" dual GPU card. It has two full-speed GTX285 cards per slot, a total of 2GB RAM, a full complement of 240 shaders and 512-bit buses per GPU

Despite some odd feature choices, this is an affordable powerhouse of a laptop. A great value mid-range Centrino 2 laptop, as long as you're not worried about battery life.

The most fully-featured notebook we’ve seen, but price will determine just how desirable this stylish notebook really is.

Offering bags of gaming power for an attractive price, the GeForce 8600 series is an enticing prospect.

Looking to build your dream machine? We explore the latest components on the market, and give you advice on which ones to hunt down, along with the general price you can expect to pay for each major component.

A blisteringly fast processor, strong build and stylish design make this an extremely attractive laptop

This motherboard is a promising appetiser – although the real meal is yet to come.

If it’s a Blu-ray equipped desktop replacement you’re after, the 8920G is a fine choice.

This GeForce2 card has a lot to commend itself. It came in as the cheapest of the 32Mb GeForce2 cards by a long way...

There is quite simply no holding nVidia back. Hot on the heels of the top-performance GeForce2 GTS chipset, with its capacity for up to 64Mb of fast DDR...

An exciting glimpse at future performance, but by the time games appear to make them worth buying, the price will have plummeted.