Stuart Turton spends the fourth day of his one week odyssey with Linux, hailing the ease of GIMP, before a graphics card meltdown destroys his desktop and forces him to rethink his next move.

Acer brings 3D to the masses with a 3D screen on a mainstream laptop

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The strange, the antique and the downright geeky – we chronicle the 10 best (and worst) vintage tech advertisements of all time

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

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Forget the corporate tie, BlackBerry has teamed up with Boost to aim the smartphone at celebrity-mad teens with a pre-paid offer

The Dell U2410f features breathtaking image quality, but the price is steeper than most are willing to pay for it.

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Power, strong build and an added splash of style make the Asus G60J a gaming laptop worth paying top dollar for.

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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

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