Performance per watt has taken a backward step, but it’s very fast with the right apps.

This first of a new generation is only a little faster than the old, but its potential is clearly huge

In the tradition of the Dummies series, spends the first part of the book familiarising readers with hardware terminology

The Next Big Thing is Really Small, by Uldrich and Newberry, is a strange beast. Hyping the upcoming "nanotechnology age" and how businesses should prepare, the book is part nanotechnology primer, part prophetic tome, part educational text and 100% nanotech hype. Suffering from more than a bit of 'isn't nanotechnology great!' which particularly pervades the early chapters, the authors have their work cut out for them as nanotech has yet to really manifest.

The Web is an important tool that many of us use to communicate, access our bank accounts...

Part laptop and part nettop, the Gigabyte Booktop M1022M is the first netbook we’ve seen that overcomes the ‘3 USB problem'.

This high-performance RC buggy can open up a whole new world of entertainment. If you want to be part of that world, don’t hesitate

A wireless music player that performs audio magic through its LCD enabled remote control. It’s easy to use, quick to setup but lacks video functionality. But we still really liked it.

This is not the first 'desknote' that we've reviewed (see Protac DeskNote, June 2002, page 37) but in our estimation the Aspire 1703SC is the first system that truly expounds the virtues of true desknote-ism.

The best value heatsink we’ve tested for all sockets and systems.

Dragging your notebook around to watch movies? The alternative low tech approach is to throw away the notebook bit with a portable DVD player, and this one has DivX playback. Simple, yet somehow we like it.

Navman or TomTom? We tested the best selling units in a head to head battle to see which would get us home faster and with less hassle.

What makes PDF (Portable Document Format) unique is that it can provide an exact electronic replica of any document from any application on all major platforms, including all text, graphics and fonts. It’s an amazingly flexible format with a myriad of uses ranging from electronic manuals and e-books, through secure document exchange and archiving, to multimedia presentation and high-end commercial print.

Intel has promised that Hyper-Threading (HT) will deliver increased efficiency and decrease the amount of time taken to accomplish multiple processes. But is it really all that it’s cracked up to be?

The booming interest in genealogy created by the Internet has provided a lucrative market for programs that help the home user research and create their family tree...

Getting your PC to meaningfully accept voice commands or dictation has been a benchmark for futuristic computing since time immemorial. Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS for short) has been a leader in the field for some time now, and is rapidly becoming devoid of competition.

Part 1 of our VoIP product and services roundup includes: MyNetFone, Broadbandphone, Skype, Firefly, BBP Global and Chat-Cord.

Part 2 of our VoIP products and services roundup includes: MailVoice, LetsChat, Netgear TA612V, Netcomm V40 and Octtel gateway.

For the best part of a decade PC sound boffins have been trying to convince us that we need to hook our desktops up to surround speakers to make the most of games and PC video.

A notebook fortress to equip your workforce with confidence, but sub-par performance.