I've recently spent a couple of weeks on site at a client running a Linux training course and dabbling with the popular and powerful Web-caching package, Squid.

We've put AMD and Intel’s new processors to the test, and there's one clear winner.

The Nehalem-based xeons are a landmark release, with exceptional performance married to great power.

The entire industry is moving towards dual-core technology, but why? Tim Dean looks at some of the reasons for the shift.

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Underneath all the speculation and marketing hype, the Cell processor might actually herald a revolution in computing. Tim Dean investigates.

Sandisk has announced its new Vaulter Disk system accelerator, which provides a special system cache in the form of Flash memory.

Currently only available to OEMs, although it should be released later to the consumer market, Seagate’s Momentus hard drive upgrade kit is designed to boost the common bottleneck issue of hard drive performance in notebooks, tablet PCs, digital audio players and blade servers.

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

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While Intel is rolling out new designs, AMD's focus is on getting the most out of its existing Phenom II process. The AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black edition is just what the doctor ordered.

In its day, it held the speed crown, but today’s dual-core CPUs leave it trailing for power, efficiency and value.

AM2 power at this price is a boon. But 3D performance is average and it’s very noisy.

Relatively quick and cheap, but not quite up there with the best

Larger hard drives, multitouch and nVidia 8600M GT graphics and loads of ports - here's your machine if you don't like the Air.

Competing quad-core processor does not worry Intel.

Specification promises to benefit Java apps.

Integrated networking and closing the gap on floating point performance.

Integrated networking and closing the gap on floating point performance.