Apple’s ads may be funny, but they’re woefully inaccurate. Here we reveal dozens of reasons why the PC outclasses the Mac.

Creative finally delivers a portable media player that trumps them all.

Whether you're after something small, portable and cheap - such as the Creative Zen Mozaic - or something more fully featured, we've got the latest and greatest in portable music on test. The benchmark they all try to meet is the iPod Classic, which at $300 for 80GB of storage and 45 hours of audio battery life is still the clear leader.

Enjoy your music on the move: we try out five of the best flash-based MP3 players on the market.

For the last few years Creative has played catchup to the likes of iRiver, Rio and Apple.

Nick Ross ponders a future where 'Apple' doesn't mean 'music'.

The Nomad Jukebox Zen is Creative-s go at aping the Apple iPod (November 2002, page 40), an MP3 player built around a notebook hard drive, and has done a remarkable job of it.

As far as many people are concerned there's only one MP3 player. Love it or hate it, the iPod has entered the public consciousness and become an icon. So it's no surprise that everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon.

One-off patent licence payment helps keep media player firm afloat.

Dirty secrets revealed in emails.

There are more iPod nano challengers on the market than we’d care to mention, but not many put up too much of a fight, except this one.

The Vision M is something of an iPod imitator, but it doesn’t quite match its inspiration

Millions of songs offered in MP3 format.

From watching iView on your mobile to live Australian TV while overseas, to Freeview, Foxtel IQ2 and TiVo, Stuart Andrews and Zara Baxter perfect the menu for takeaway TV.