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• 23 April 2013

• News: Microsoft to bring back Start button

  Microsoft is planning to resurrect the iconic Start button which users are sorely missing from its Windows 8 operating system.

• 22 April 2013

• How-Tos: Fact or fiction: Eight Mac energy-saving techniques tested

  We're all interested in saving energy. Maybe you conserve to be a better global citizen or to save money on your utility bills. Maybe you use your laptop on the go and want to squeeze every possible minute of battery life out of it. But what if the daily computing practices you follow to save energy end up wasting it instead? What if your assumptions about Mac power usage are wrong? To investigate this possibility, Macworld's lab compiled a list of eight widely held opinions about energy conservation, grabbed our trusty power meters, and started logging power usage.

• How-Tos: How to remove HomeGroup icon from the Windows 8 desktop

  If you like to keep your Windows desktop neat and tidy, you may not want the HomeGroup networking icon to be shown on your Windows 8 desktop. Here's how to remove it.

• News: The best Windows 8 machines you can buy today

  We've had about six months to play with Windows 8 (like it or not) and with the first generation of hardware designed for the new OS. So now, with PCs based on Intel's Haswell CPU poised on the horizon, it's time to take stock of the best Windows 8 hardware available today. You may be able to snap one up for a bargain-basement price as the industry clears out inventory in anticipation of second-gen machines.

• News: Laptop makers turn to Android after Windows 8 woes

  With Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system struggling to boost laptop and PC sales, vendors are reportedly turning to Android.

• 19 April 2013

• How-Tos: How to refresh and reset Windows 8: give your PC a free speed boost

  If your Windows 8 PC isn't running well you can try the new Refresh feature which cleans up Windows without touching your documents, music, photos and videos. For a proper cleanout and format, you can use the Reset option. Here's how to use Windows 8 Refresh & Reset

• News: Razer honours unauthorised 90 percent discount code

  Razer has confirmed that it will go ahead with orders placed with an unauthorised 90 percent discount code.

• 17 April 2013

• News: Windows 8 touch laptop prices to hit $200 by the holidays, Intel CEO says

  Intel held its first quarter earnings call for 2013 on Tuesday, and the Q&A with analysts afterwards was full of bold declarations about how cheap touch-enabled PCs and other Intel-loaded touchable gadgets were going to get.

• News: Toshiba's 'Retina-like' Kirabook limited to 1080p video output

  Toshiba is launching a new luxury Ultrabook that's housed in a magnesium alloy case and boasts a 13.3-inch display with native resolution of 2560-by-1440 pixels. In a briefing with PCWorld earlier this month, Toshiba's group product marketing manager, Young Bae, described the Kirabook as having a "MacBook Pro screen on an Ultrabook that's lighter than a MacBook Air."

• News: Slideshow: When the PC is obsolete, how will you do this, and this, and this?

  Last week, the PC industry was rocked by news that Q1 computer shipments had declined by as much as 14 percent, year on year. Analysts cite various factors, but they put most of the blame on a consumer shift toward tablets and other mobile devices.

• News: Move over, Apple: Toshiba Kirabook gives Windows its first Retina rival

  Thanks to Toshiba, Windows finally has a laptop with a high-resolution display to rival Apple's vaunted Retina-sporting MacBooks.

• 15 April 2013

• How-Tos: How to delete or remove Windows 8 apps for PC, laptop and tablet

  If you're running Windows 8 then you'll have no doubt tried out a few Modern UI apps. Not all of them are worth keeping so here's how to delete Windows 8 apps you don't like.

• 12 April 2013

• News: As PC shipments drop, budget machines may offer relief

  The bad news keeps rolling in for Microsoft and PC manufacturers with market research firms Gartner and IDC Wednesday reporting record declines in global PC shipments for the first three months of 2013. Gartner said PC shipments saw an 11.2 percent decline compared to the prior year, while IDC said it was closer to 14 percent.

• 11 April 2013

• News: Wall Street Beat: Weak PC sales rain on tech stocks' parade

  Just as tech stocks were starting to rise this week, dismal PC sales reports for the first quarter burst the very short-lived bubble, causing shares of IT companies to fall back to earth Thursday.

• News: Products with faster USB speeds to reach market in 2014

  Products based on a USB specification that will double the data transfer rates between host devices and peripherals will reach the market in late 2014, the standards-setting organization said on Thursday.

• News: End is in sight for Intel's Atom netbook-specific processors

  Intel's Atom processors designed for netbooks could be on their last leg, with analysts saying that the chip maker could be tweaking its product road map as PC sales tumble and tablet adoption widens.

• News: HP smartphone still a while away: Mesaros

  Hewlett-Packard (HP) print and personal systems (PPS) Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) boss, Robert Mesaros, has confirmed that a HP smartphone is not on the cards just yet.

• 10 April 2013

• News: Struggling PC makers and Windows 8 push PC market into free fall

  A "perfect storm" of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8 and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC market into a free fall during the first quarter this year, IDC said.

• 06 April 2013

• News: Windows 8 laptops can't command Windows 7 prices

  Tepid enthusiasm for Windows 8 is bad news for Microsoft, but it's good news for laptop shoppers.

• 05 April 2013

• How-Tos: Give computer mouse the correct level of accuracy; laser mouse or optical mouse?

  Our Helproom Editor explains how to ensure your PC or laptop's mouse has the correct level of accuracy.

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