High-capacity desktop drives have never been so affordable. Darien Graham-Smith puts 23 to the test to find the best

Play your video, photo and music files on your TV from a networked PC. We put five network players to the test

We know you want to play games, so we've put 18 PCI Express graphics cards under the microscope to see who really does the job the best.

Enlarge your workspace with a widescreen monitor: We round up 13 LCDs from 20in up to 24in, with prices you won’t believe

There may be two main CPU manufacturers, but picking the right processor is anything but simple. We put 51 CPUs through their paces

Ultra-mobile PCs are the future of mobile computing according to Microsoft. Ross Burridge looks at the devices and the technology

Will home media centres do to the entertainment industry what video did to the radio star? With new technology reshaping our lounges, homes could soon become fully functional media hubs.

To test the TFTs in this month's Labs we relied on a few different methodologies. All TFTs were tested on the same test bench PC consisting of a Gigabyte 8GE667-PRO motherboard and 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with 512MB of DDR RAM, running Microsoft Windows XP Professional.

Why bother buying a big screen that takes up part of your wall, when you can buy a cheap projector and take up the entire wall?

Finding a good PC or notebook for the family is not as hard as you might think. PC Authority  puts the latest models to the test.

Store it in your pocket. PC Authority takes fifteen USB drives for a spin around the block.

The 19" LCD fits now represents outstanding value for money, and is so much nicer to use than a 17" screen. We round up and test the best.

If your PC is less of a speed demon and more of a dinosaur then it's time to upgrade your CPU. We put the latest low, mid and high end processors to the test.

Since the launch of PC Authority magazine 30 issues ago, we have placed an emphasis on the concept of computing in the real world. This means that all the PC hardware that passes through our Labs is t