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

Don't be confused; this XP has little to do with Microsoft. It's what happened when software developers pushed the best practices of programming to the edge, to the extreme.

Why bother buying a big screen that takes up part of your wall, when you can buy a cheap projector and take up the entire wall?

We used a range of tests on the wireless equipment to gauge their abilities to perform under duress, as well as provide empirical evaluations on the set-up, configuration, management and software capabilities.

It seems no-one can agree on a universal set of tests for anti-virus software, with Eugene Kaspersky the latest to weigh-in on the topic, criticising the well-known Virus Bulletin 100.

Print, scan, copy and fax with one single device. We put 10 all-in-ones through their paces.

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.

Could you really replace your home or business broadband with a mobile dongle? Our broadband buyer's guide names the best plans, the most attractive deals and the best value for money.

We put every current model from ATI and NVIDIA through its paces to find out which offers the best performance and value.

To test the TFTs in this month's Labs we relied on a few different methodologies. All TFTs were tested on the same test bench PC consisting of a Gigabyte 8GE667-PRO motherboard and 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with 512MB of DDR RAM, running Microsoft Windows XP Professional.

Print, scan and copy with one device; we round up six of the best all-in-ones.

Fast, high-quality printing is now an affordable option for every business - large or small. We put nine of the best personal colour lasres to the test.

AcerView 79g

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.

It’s one of the facts of the gaming hobbyist’s life: cutting edge games require cutting edge hardware. It’s as set in stone as Moore’s Law (which is itself now 40 years old). Every 12 to 18 months you need to upgrade or get left behind. Our contenders this month make a very good case for starting with a clean slate, and none more so than this month’s winner, the Modtech Civic-64FX.

We test nine devices, from the simplest printers to versatile multifunction devices that print, scan, copy and fax

Anti-prang technology battle hots up.

Where XFX rose early with the DirectX 8 tests and dropped off in the DirectX 9.0 tests, this card did the exact opposite - it jumped up five places to the middle of the pack in 3DMark05.