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We provide the commentary on a bruising eight-round battle between Vista and Tiger.

Better sound for your laptop from Creative, plus the little white lies about its heritage exposed.

Leigh Dyer reveals Novell's radical new X server set against Vista

Want to break free from a Microsoft world? Leigh Dyer looks at the alternatives.

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

Leigh Dyer arrives in OS heaven with a triple-booting Intel Mac.

The iDshot from Sanyo is the latest digital still-cum-digital video camera in a package that can capture still images between 640 x 480 and 1,360 x 1,024 pixels.

Successor to the ubiquitous 350D, Canon's affordable yet powerful 400D D-SLR is a serious weapon whether an amateur or pro.

There are many things that are given the 'instant' moniker, but usually products from the IT world are not among their number. Slow PC boot times (whatever happened to instant-on PCs?) and a whole mess of configurations takes the instant gratification out of most technology...

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.

We never thought we’d see it happen, but now you can run Windows XP natively on a Mac.

High definition video is the next big thing for Australia. We explain the essential technologies for your TV or living room PC, and what to expect from our broadcasters.

We put every current model from ATI and NVIDIA through its paces to find out which offers the best performance and value.

Nick Ross straps himself to ATI’s would-be SLI killer and asks does it deliver the goods?

This early Nforce 570 for Intel board lacks luxuries and speed compared to Intel chipsets, but boasts a good price.

The Mac OS X 10.4 client codenamed Tiger brought some 200 new features, notably Spotlight, Apple's new desktop search technology, on its release last Friday.

High-performance digital cameras are appearing thick and fast at the moment. Take the innocent-looking Fuji MX-2700 (reviewed issue 21) and the Sony CyberShot DSC-55E (reviewed issue 22, p95): both are slim and sexy, yet boast resolutions of over two megapixel and features by the truckload.

The Fujifilm FinePix 40i is one of a new breed that will perform both still and video capture as well as accommodate playback of MP3 digital audio

Almost all computer monitors and TVs use the same technology that first appeared in the 1940s: the CRT. How both consumers and manufacturers would love a viable flat panel display. LCDs dont make the grade: its too hard - and expensive - to produce LCDs larger than 20 inches diagonal.