Nathan Taylor has spent way too much of his life poring over technology white papers, chip diagrams and benchmark results. How can we tell? He once had in-depth discussion about the Itanium's extreme instruction-level parallelism and how it ultimately turned out that developers really wanted thread-level parallelism.

Adam Turner is gripped by Silicon Lust - that burning desire to caress all things digital (and that's in his words). A freelance technology journalist with a passion for the cutting edge, Adam is on a quest to attain oneness with technology. Whether he's in the lounge room or the board room, he craves the latest gadgetry the tech world has to offer.

William Maher is PC Authority's Online Editor. His current tech wishlist includes wireless broadband, an ultraportable notebook under 1.5Kg, and a 3G phone that doesn't require firmware upgrades to stop it crashing.

He may sound innocent, but Leigh Dyer has attempted to get Linux working on an iPod, which means help desk workers everywhere view him as "difficult". He also knows his stuff. Leigh is a software developer and systems administrator with more than 10 years Linux and Windows experience. He's been using Ubuntu since before its official announcement in 2004, although he's not afraid to admit he's also quite a fan of Mac OS X.

You can find Daniel writing about weird, wacky and cool technologies across a wide range of genres including games, films, science and broadband.

Alex Kidman has used (and often broken) just about every technology going, from using an Apple II floppy drive as a doorstop, to giving an Apple rep a near heart attack by throwing a Macbook Air up into the air to see if it would fly. He likes Apple gear because they make machines with personality, operating systems that work (mostly), and because Apple doesn't believe in product activation. Well, at least not yet.

They live CPUs and graphics cards (well, not literally), and have bathed motherboards in enough cooling solution to sink a ship. They are the Atomic magazine crew, and are gracious enough to grace our site with their pooled wisdom on all things PC.