MSI’s Wind Top AE1900 takes on the touchscreen nettop competition, but singularly fails to excite.

Apple’s MacBook Pro is a design masterpiece, even if its brilliance is marred by a few annoying niggles.

From Betamax to Amiga, here's a list of those IT innovations that fell under the bulldozer. Some were cruelly robbed of their advantage, others threw it away with bad management

Jam-packed with features, but it struggles to compete with the best.

Intel has released a short animated video illustrating the process by which sand is turned into silicon and a CPU. But the over-simplicity has us leaning towards AMD's older and more interesting video

A gorgeous new controller makes this the best Sonos system ever – just take note of that high price.

More digital Swiss Army knife software, including Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them

Vendor details editions for Office 2010 along with application virtualisation for testing.

Free portable anti-virus tool

Sync remote files to & from your computer

A stunning piece of design matched with excellent battery life, but with an Atom inside the price is surely too high

If you haven't set up your desktop with two LCD monitors, then now's the time. We've picked this LG Flatron as the winning 24in LCD in our latest group test

Give your PC additional protection with this free security suite

Take an FTP client on the road

The world's first universal programmable quantum computer has been unveiled in Colarado by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Sync your Firefox 3.5 bookmarks, passwords & preferences

Optimise, tweak & defrag your system

Since we saw the HP Mini for our huge netbook roundup in October, a new 6-cell battery has been released.

Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.

We've scoured the latest technology for a list of the most desirable tech toys and gadgets for Christmas this year