This is the kind of workstation that budding 3D artists have wet dreams over. It packs two Hyper-Threaded 3.06GHz Xeon processors – currently the best workstation processors on offer from Intel – a gigabyte of RAM and a 10,000rpm SCSI hard drive. In short, you'll be hard pressed to find a faster workstation without forking out the $15,000 or so for a blazing Silicon Graphics machine.

Every once in a while, we receive a PC for review thats an absolute pleasure to use, offering stunning quality and bucketloads of performance. XENONs Atomic 625 is all this and more.

It's inside that you find a HyperThreaded Pentium 4 3GHz processor with an 800MHz FSB, plus a gig of DDR400 RAM in dual-channel configuration.

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A huge, underground abandoned former gold mine has been painstakingly emptied to give scientists a 5,000 feet deep lab to research dark matter

The core of SATOs SS51G is an incredibly tiny Shuttle XPC. These bare-bones boxes have been on the market for close to six months now, and have proven effective (if not over-whelming) performers and a very popular choice for building a lounge-room PC for playing music and DVD movies.

Ultimate data recovery challenge.

This month the Labs team decided to take a snapshot of the high-end visual and 3D workstation state of play.When you think workstations, a few things immediately spring to mind: dual processors, loads

Nokia dusts off another classic, giving the GPS phone a makeover and a 5 megapixel camera.

Boffins engaged in fusion energy research are creating extremely thin plasma beams that could be useful for nanolithography to make future computer chips.

A real do-it-all device, but Nokia needs to do better to compete with the iPhone.

View the complete table listing the phone handsets available on Telstra Next G, including the new Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1.

A feature-rich SLR at a good price. If you can live with the weight and design quirks, that is

The pics are the best we've ever seen from a camera phone. Nokia's N82 springs to the top of our "phones that will replace your camera" list.

Computer scientists use Google Labs widget in object recognition software.

This isn’t the phone that you buy for the menial task of calling people.

Nokia turns out a camera phone we'd be happy to ditch our digital camera for. Check out the pics, and our first impressions.

Head into any mobile phone shop and it's easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer range of choices. This guide breaks down what you need to look for - and what you can safely overlook.

The best source of knowledge or “broken beyond repair”? PC Authority uncovers how the net’s highly controversial encyclopedia really works.