Nathan Taylor has spent way too much of his life poring over technology white papers, chip diagrams and benchmark results. How can we tell? He once had in-depth discussion about the Itanium's extreme instruction-level parallelism and how it ultimately turned out that developers really wanted thread-level parallelism.

William Maher is PC Authority's Online Editor. His current tech wishlist includes wireless broadband, an ultraportable notebook under 1.5Kg, and a 3G phone that doesn't require firmware upgrades to stop it crashing.

Alex Kidman has used (and often broken) just about every technology going, from using an Apple II floppy drive as a doorstop, to giving an Apple rep a near heart attack by throwing a Macbook Air up into the air to see if it would fly. He likes Apple gear because they make machines with personality, operating systems that work (mostly), and because Apple doesn't believe in product activation. Well, at least not yet.