Small form factor PCs have been around for a while, and barebones PCs for even longer. Traditionally a barebones PC is a basic shell, including a case, power supply and motherboard at minimum, and occasionally tooled up with a few extras like RAM.

High-capacity desktop drives have never been so affordable. Darien Graham-Smith puts 23 to the test to find the best

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

The Labs team cuts through the jargon and tests next gen wireless products.

All the power of a desktop PC in a fraction of the space. We put a selection of desktop replacements to the test.

All the power of a desktop PC in a fraction of the space. We put a selection of desktop replacements to the test.

The graphics market is a cutthroat game, and we have seen many casualties recently. Not all of them have been fatal, like Matrox, which has recently backed out of the consumer race, or Rendition, whic

We test three of the latest ultra-portable laptops

Unlike many of our performance-based Labs, business workstations are a whole different world of PCs, focusing not on the maximum number of frames per second, or how many overall points they can churn out in any given benchmarking utility.

Buying a digital video camera is a tough task, but you’ll be well prepared with our comprehensive guide.

You don't have to settle for printer that just prints. PC Authority tests six of the latest all-in-one devices.

If your PC is less of a speed demon and more of a dinosaur then it's time to upgrade your CPU. We put the latest low, mid and high end processors to the test.

Sixteen notebooks under $2500, we've separated the winners with the goods from the less impressive performers.

Hard drives used to be the coolest thing - in the olden days, when all home PCs were slow, a hard drive was often a measure of how 'good' your computer was. For quite sometime, however, processor and graphics technology stole the limelight. Hard drives have been taken for granted - an ambient component that accompanies your sparkling graphics card and gi-normous heat sink.

Before widespread use of the Internet, computer viruses were not a common occurrence. Viruses could only be transferred via floppy disk, which meant that it was quite easy to guard against them

The audio component of the PC multimedia revolution has for many years been sorely neglected, with many new computers supplied with speakers that are quite simply terrible. Little plastic speakers can

We know you want to play games, so we've put 18 PCI Express graphics cards under the microscope to see who really does the job the best.

This month the Labs team cast a critical eye over the latest Intel Pentium 4-based desktop replacement notebooks. Traditionally, desktop replacement means fully-featured, premium notebooks with

From Celerons to Core i7s, Semprons to Phenom IIs, David Bayon tests Mainsteam desktop processors and finds the best budget, mid-range and enthusiast (gaming) choice for you.

Testing anti-virus software is a tricky endeavour at the best of times, due to the inherent nasty nature of the test subject. For this anti-virus roundup, we asked independent anti-virus testing lab, AV-Test.org (www.av-test.org) to conduct the testing for us in their controlled environments. AV-Test.org has access to thousands of viruses, and is a respected anti-virus testing lab.