Not a stylish machine, but it’s good value, well built and boasts surprisingly impressive battery life

The squarish, brick-like appearance may look like an uninspired design to some, but just picking it up will reveal the superior build quality of the L365 over any other screen in the Labs.

Acer has taken a different tack to IBM with its version of Centrino. Whereas the ThinkPad focused on being small and portable, the TravelMate 800 is a better-featured notebook with a 1.6GHz processor, 15in display and a fast graphics chip

With all eyes converging on Sydney for the 2000 Olympics the technology to run it will be put to the test. David Hellaby investigates. It is 40 years since computers were used to analyse

Last week, in honour of the Windows 7 launch, we covered Microsoft's biggest successes in the computing field. This week, in the interest of balance, we're looking to the company's dark side..

Here's a monitor that would look at home on an executive desktop.

This monitor aced many of our image quality tests, handling fine colour transitions with ease and producing sharp images.

Network reporting tools are a necessary evil for the SME. We unravel the mysteries of Syslog

Though the IBM T541 features a plain specification and scored poorly at clarity, it did fairly well at colour, greyscale tests and real-world tasks

PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

What can a vendor-controlled comparison of notebook technology teach us? Plenty – but not in the way it was intended. Read on as we expose HP’s notebook ‘Reliability Challenge’.

Ever wondered what a particular acronym stands for? Find the answer in our comprehensive reference guide to computer industry acronyms. RTFM!

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

What happens when multiple-core processors are no longer sufficient for our demands? Stuart Andrews looks at the future of CPUs.

When it comes to design principles, the IBM embodies a completely different approach to the Toshiba

Can’t decide between an Eee and a Wind? A Mini note or an Aspire One? Believe it or not, there’s a bunch of old school smaller laptops that may do the job for less money. We took a look at 7 old school ultraportables.

While many ultraportable laptops, like the Toshiba R200 go all out to get size and weight to an absolute minimum, a great deal of usability is often sacrificed – the X505 is impractically small for constant daily usage while the R200 has limited battery sizes.

When it comes to desktop replacements, the Dell Inspiron 5000 is a case study in portable power.

IBMs IT infrastructure has a very public face in the form of the official Olympic Web site. By the end of the Games it will have received an estimated 1.4 billion page views or the equivalent of sever

From flying cars to hoverboards, and AI to lasers, we delve into 10 technologies from a list of iconic films and find out just how close we are to making each a reality