PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

VideoLogic is a name few people would now instantly associate with graphics accelerators. In fact, its parent company, Imagination Technologies, was present at the birth of the PC 3D accelerator field in June 1996 with its PowerVR card.

There was once a time when 3dfx ruled the 3D accelerator market, but...

More DSL flavours than colours of the rainbow. Tim Dean breaks some of the acronyms apart.

All the acronyms and obscure new technologies got you in a jargon jumble? Tim Dean busts it up to help us make sense of it all.

A lot has been made of the coming introduction of 3G, a network that will provide broadband-like speeds to mobile phones. The introduction of the service will, if the pundits are to be believed, creat

Fun with a cheap and powerful Serially Attached SCSI card and 15,000 RPM drives in a blistering RAID 0 configuration.

Fun with a cheap and powerful Serially Attached SCSI card and 15,000 RPM drives in a blistering RAID 0 configuration.

Several PC makers expect to have Nehalem-EX 16-core DP desktops, in fact super workstations, at the chip's launch towards year-end

Both graphics card giants have unleashed powerful new additions to their ranks recently, and their battle for supremacy is hotter than ever. We put the new arrivals through their paces

Bring PC-based intelligence and automation to your home with this complete guide. It's cheap and easy to now have the 'Jetsons' house.

Great real-time performance, particularly with high definition footage. But the EDIUS Pro software still needs a few more features to usurp the competition.

Will splashing out on expensive RAM make a real difference to PC performance? And if so, how much should you buy? We supply the benchmarks and lay the details bare

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

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.

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

One gigabyte of RAM is enough to get most applications running smoothly, but should you buy the cheapest or the fastest?

The Centrino platform has just received a major revision. Tim Dean peers inside Sonoma and takes a look at what we can expect.