The notebooks were subjected to several benchmarks to give an objective evaluation of their speeds, performance and applicability.

Almost five months on from our last notebook roundup, where we were slightly unsettled and amazed that it was possible to call the latest notebooks 'desktop replacements' and actually mean it, the PC Authority team is back with another comprehensive round up of mobile monsters.

There are always moments in life when you wish you had your camera to hand. The Labs team rounds up the latest pocket cameras.

Internet everywhere, for affordable prices. Dave Stevenson investigates the claims, tests the speeds and delivers a verdict on the best plan for your mobile dollars.

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.

Can you ditch your compact digital camera yet? We test the latest batch of phone cameras to find out.

The first place to start tweaking is your BIOS. Enter your BIOS by hitting a key combination on system boot (look out for F1, Del etc). A word of warning though, the BIOS is a very powerful tool, but can cause damage if pushed the wrong way.

This month the Labs team cast a critical eye over the latest Intel Pentium 4-based desktop replacement notebooks. Traditionally, desktop replacement means fully-featured, premium notebooks with

GPS is about far more than in-car navigation. Join us as we get running and cycling with seven of the latest recreational satnav marvels

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

Testing anti-virus software is a tricky endeavour at the best of times, due to the inherent nasty nature of the test subject. For this anti-virus roundup, we asked independent anti-virus testing lab, AV-Test.org (www.av-test.org) to conduct the testing for us in their controlled environments. AV-Test.org has access to thousands of viruses, and is a respected anti-virus testing lab.

Hard drives used to be the coolest thing - in the olden days, when all home PCs were slow, a hard drive was often a measure of how 'good' your computer was. For quite sometime, however, processor and graphics technology stole the limelight. Hard drives have been taken for granted - an ambient component that accompanies your sparkling graphics card and gi-normous heat sink.

The last time we covered 19in monitors was way back in October 1998 when the 19in screen size was only just becoming a viable option for consumers and home users. At the time the cheapest screen on te

Not long ago both Intel and the underdog, AMD, battled to reach the coveted and psychologically significant 1GHz mark. When the AMD Athlon reached the landmark first - it marked a new era in c

They may look big and complicated, but a digital slr is just as easy to use and takes far better pictures than a pocket digicam

With so many factors to consider, choosing a motherboard can be a bewildering exercise. We put 11 models through their pace to find the ultimate in performance, flexibility and value

Print, scan, copy and fax with one single device. We put 10 all-in-ones through their paces.

The Nehalem-based xeons are a landmark release, with exceptional performance married to great power.

Fifteen security packages go head to head in our labs test, including Kaspersky, Norton, ZoneAlarm, McAfee, F-Secure and AVG. Find out which will keep you safe and which could let you down.

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