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Industries keeping a sweet outlook during these sour times.

Still not sure whether it's worth upgrading to Vista? We put XP and Vista through the ultimate face-off.

They repainted the globe too

It's a sign of the times when Compaq's Aero 8000 runs Windows CE in a box bigger than a Sharp PC-A250 (reviewed issue 23, p86) running Windows 98. So what's the big idea? Windows CE uses no moving parts, while software in ROM means immediate start-up times, high reliability, and long battery life all highly desirable qualities in a portable.

Why are we reviewing something that is a mere 36GB? Simple -- because this one drops access times and pumps up the transfer rate. Not targeted at the home user, the 36GB WD Raptor is marketed as an enterprise-level SATA drive -- the fastest drive on offer by WD. Capacity becomes an afterthought for the Raptor with its 10,000rpm spindle concerning itself with speed, resulting in seek times of around 5.2ms, compared to the 8.9ms of a 7,200rpm drive.

We love hardware. As users ourselves we feel your pangs of wanting the newest, fastest rig and components. Unfortunately it's hard to justify the cost of bleeding-edge hardware at the best of times - more so with the cost of single graphics cards at times exceeding the $1000 price barrier. This is as much as some users would spend on a total system upgrade.

There are any number of reasons why you could be delayed by traffic congestion and up until now, there’s been little motorists could do about it. We've road-tested a traffic-equipped GPS for a week to see if it can help.

We used a range of tests on the wireless equipment to gauge their abilities to perform under duress, as well as provide empirical evaluations on the set-up, configuration, management and software capabilities.

Analyst reveals tale of two chip companies.

Intel today announced details of its new broadband-capable wireless chip, Rosedale, which is capable of broadcasting up to six times further than DSL.

Paper can be reused up to 500 times.

From movies and games to sporting events and even pornography, David Bayon explains why 3D displays are the next big thing.

Pocket-sized digital camcorders are becoming more capable all the time. We round up ten of the best

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