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

Find out how fast your broadband connection really is – and how to get the most from it – with these essential tools.

A game is played out whenever we do a Labs feature with a price point: the vendors cobble together a magic formula that determines what is the appropriate mix of components for the balance in performa

A game is played out whenever we do a Labs feature with a price point: the vendors cobble together a magic formula that determines what is the appropriate mix of components for the balance in performa

The paperless office may have been a myth, but the portable office is becoming more and more a reality every year. Only a couple of years ago, a mobile computer user had to make significant compromise

Back in 1997 Intel CEO Andy Grove made it clear that in order to boost personal computer sales and usage, Intel was specifically targeting the television as its direct competition in the home. To quot

We test three of the latest ultra-portable laptops

How much notebook will $2500 actually buy you? The PC Authority Labs team investigates.

The PC Authority Labs team runs about a million benchmarks and looks under the hood of the latest generation of GPUs to find which one's the best.

The Labs team cuts through the jargon and tests next gen wireless products.

This Labs featured in the February 2000 issue, any pricing seen in these reviews were correct at the time of printing. Reality has often not matched the hype of mobile compu

Testing anti-virus software is a tricky endeavour at the best of times, due to the inherent nasty nature of the test subject. For this anti-virus roundup, we asked independent anti-virus testing lab, AV-Test.org (www.av-test.org) to conduct the testing for us in their controlled environments. AV-Test.org has access to thousands of viruses, and is a respected anti-virus testing lab.

Evaluating barebones systems is quite different from performance-based testing using benchmarks. As such, we opted to do a feature-based roundup, covering all aspects of the hardware, including but not limited to: build quality, ease of install, and included feature sets.

With so many factors to consider, choosing a motherboard can be a bewildering exercise. We put 11 models through their pace to find the ultimate in performance, flexibility and value