If you’re locked into Intel, there’s value to be had. But AMD’s Sempron is the budget-buyer’s king.

Intel's Netburst might have become a retrospective embarrassment for the firm, but CPUs based on the best-forgotten architecture are apparently still hitting sky-high clock speeds.

While the Celeron's history is dotted with major successes, like the legendary Celeron 300A and overclockability, the name has remained a budget brand. Comparatively the CPU lacks features, with only 128KB of L2 cache to AMD's 256KB.

A range of cut-down Core 2 Duo processors that are fine for everyday tasks.

An old PC is like putty in your hands. Tim Dean looks at how you can shape it into a new system with a few easy upgrades.

Synonymous with cost effective CPUs, Intel's Celeron has carved a market for itself by producing products which are reliable and boast something many others cannot – interoperability. This has been achievable by producing products that work with the same socket 478 pin configuration found across the entire range of processors.

Choosing a CPU for your PC isn’t an easy task. Here are our picks for budget, mid-range and high-end systems.

Make no mistake, this is one heavyweight of a notebook. The 3.3kg of the Satellite 2800 accounts for some of this, but otherwise it applies to some of the exceptional features found on this model.

Chip giant Intel has announced that it would introduce a model numbering scheme across its consumer CPU range.

The Acer Aspire SA20 is a machine built on a budget and it performs accordingly.

There used to be a time when buying a computer was a fairly simple affair all you had to do was choose a rig that suited your needs as well as your budget. This usually entailed taking the latest, fas

It's not the new iMac, but it's not too far from it. See our first Look review of Dell's all-in-one Studio One 19

While the build quality of the ASUS A4000L is good and sturdy, this notebook is much larger than the others featured in our roundup.

A promising debut for UMPCs, but the controls are tricky to master

While large formed notebooks are great for the users with a static location, ultra portables are still the easiest and best way of conducting business for students, business people and the road warriors.

Intel will bump a Celeron M processor and several other small-package Core 2 Duo CPUs to new steppings in a move aimed at improving speeds.

David Fearon pulls apart the tiny notebook, and asks why Intel and Microsoft can't match the excitement.

A genuine step forward for the laptop, with unbelievable capabilities for the price, plus an ultra-low weight.

Despite the improved specifications, the Q1-SSD is anything but mobile computing nirvana.

A good, basic notebook that’s specifically designed with the accident-prone user in mind.