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

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Will splashing out on expensive RAM make a real difference to PC performance? And if so, how much should you buy? We supply the benchmarks and lay the details bare

The P45 chipset takes the stability of the P35 chipset and introduces support for PCI Express 2.0 - the latest standard for graphic cards. If you were waiting for the best choice of upgrade for an existing LGA775 system, or want a board for a budget system, this is definitely the chipset of choice. It's great time to bag an upgrade. What better gift for the DIY geek in your household?

NVidia has launched what it’s calling the most advanced integrated notebook graphics and chipset solution in history.

Since the release of the Eee PC 701, the 'Notebook' has dominated. Easy to use, cheap and able to be left on the coffee table next to the remote, Notebooks are true appliance computing. The choice of which one to buy comes down to personal preference, but it's hard not to prefer those with the best usability. Our rundown of your options covers their performance, battery life, and design.

In a world filled with gorgeous Sony, Apple and even Dell laptops, a sober, matte black machine aimed at consumers has to be truly special to turn heads. The IdeaPad Y430 is a well-built Centrino 2 machine that lacks nothing in the way of features, speed or value

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Samsung has started mass producing 256GB solid state drives, trumping all other high capacity SSDs currently found in the laptop segment of the market.

AMD is looking to expand its Stream project, which uses graphics chip processing cores to perform computing tasks normally sent to the CPU, a process known as General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU)..

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New numbers out today from market research outfit Jon Peddie (JPR) predict worldwide growth for PC gaming hardware shipments and regional market share to be “amazing”.

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Decent wireless printing, but the poor scanning, copying and speed let the Dell down

Finally, Microsoft comes clean about the failure of Vista and detail their plans for the new features to be released under Windows 7.