More Desktop PCs Opinion

  • 13 March 2010

  • Opinion: How not to shut down your PC

    Imagine my horror the other day, when I saw an otherwise sharp friend shut down his laptop by holding down the power button until the system switched off. "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" I cried. "Why did you do that?"

  • 12 March 2010

  • Opinion: When four cores aren't enough: Intel i7-980X

    Intel has announced its latest Extreme Edition processor, the Core i7-980X. The i7-980X (previously code-named Gulftown) brings Intel's turbo boost and hyperthreading technologies to the 32nm process, and is also Intel's first processor with six physical cores.

  • 09 March 2010

  • Opinion: Four reasons to beware fake Intel chips

    Reports are circulating that online retailer Newegg sold 300 counterfeit Intel Core i7 processors. The inferior packaging, blatant spelling errors and blank product manual were red flags for observant customers in this case, but the issue highlights the fact that fake CPUs are out there. You might think your computer is 'Intel Inside', but is it?

  • 05 March 2010

  • Opinion: Why Google's wrong: desktop PCs are still relevant

    Google ad sales boss John Herlihy has claimed that smartphones will replace desktop computers in just three years' time. He's wrong.

  • 22 February 2010

  • Opinion: USB 3.0, DirectX 11.0 and more...

    Have we got reviews for you this month. With the startling collection of hardware and software products that have rolled through our Test Centre this month, it's difficult to know where to begin.

  • 25 January 2010

  • Opinion: The price of free

    On Wednesday Apple will unveil its mysterious new iProduct, likely to be some form of e-book reader and multitouch multimedia tablet. The result could be a minor consumer tech revolution. But that's Wednesday. Right now, the personal computer exists in three main formats: the desktop PC; the laptop (including the netbook); and the mobile phone.

  • 13 January 2010

  • Opinion: nVidia's hot new Fermi chips to appear in March

    Although nVidia didn't say much about its upcoming Fermi chips at CES 2010 last week, rumours have been circulating that these GPUs will be available in mid-March in "low quantities".

  • 21 December 2009

  • Opinion: Assault on batteries

    PC Advisor aims to bring you an eclectic mix of interesting new hardware and useful software. Every so often we come across a product that falls below an acceptable standard of quality or value, but it's no less deserving of review. It can be as important to know what not to buy as it is to know what you should be placing high on your wish list.

  • 18 December 2009

  • Opinion: PC Advisor Awards 2010

    Hundreds of products pass through PC Advisor's Test Centre each year. Whether you're looking for a new PC or laptop, a wireless router, a monitor, graphics card or digital camera, our rigorous tests separate the best buys from the also-rans. To help you with your buying decision, we hand out Recommended and Gold awards to the hardware and software that stands out from the crowd. But what we've never done before is pick out the one product that leads the rest in its category over the course of a year - until now.

  • 10 December 2009

  • Opinion: Lessons from the past

    'Micro Men', the recent BBC drama about the 1980s home-computing boom, was a wonderful reminder of how far technology has come in a short space of time.

  • 07 December 2009

  • Opinion: 3 rules for fixing a PC problem

    Some days I feel like technology is conspiring against me. In the past couple weeks I've been through the wringer with my media-center PC, my iPhone and my Nintendo Wii. Aaaarrrgghhh!

  • 30 November 2009

  • Opinion: Relaxing the netbook laws

    It looks like a netbook, smells like a netbook, even tastes like a netbook. So it must be a netbook, right? Nope, says Microsoft and Intel. Not if its screen is bigger than 10.2in.

  • 16 September 2009

  • Opinion: HP Pavilion DM3 ultra-slim laptop

    Riddle me this: what's less than an inch thick, weighs 1.9kg and starts at around £470? If you read the headline, you might have already figured this one out - it's HP's new Pavilion DM3.

  • 28 August 2009

  • Opinion: nVidia Ion boosts netbook and nettop graphics power

    A picture can tell a thousand words. And if you display enough pictures every second, you get a good illusion of 2D reality. That's how we all enjoy film and TV, and it's increasingly how we find ourselves interacting with our PCs.

  • 16 July 2009

  • Opinion: Two thirds of PC Advisor readers still use Windows XP

    In the final months of Windows Vista's reign as the top dog at Microsoft, around 64 percent of PC Advisor users are still running Windows XP on their PCs.

  • 04 June 2009

  • Opinion: AMD finally answers Intels netbook monopoly

    There may still be a deal of indecision about what to call them - netbook, nettop, mini laptop - but small, cheap computers are certainly in vogue at the moment. And almost to a man, they use Intel's Atom processor. So far.

  • 20 April 2009

  • Opinion: Choice computing: embracing Linux

    Choice is a wonderful thing. Not everyone wants the same thing, after all. Freedom of choice means the most accessible, best-suited or cheapest products tend to thrive, while the unsuitable or unsupportably expensive simply fade away.

  • 16 April 2009

  • Opinion: Will nettops and netbooks kill the desktop PC?

    Laptops have beaten desktop PCs, but it may be the nettop that pushes the traditional system into an early grave.

  • 23 March 2009

  • Opinion: Quad-core laptops: a gamer's dream?

    Trying to squeeze a heap of high-power components into something slim enough to earn the name ‘laptop' is always a challenge, and portables have traditionally been the slow-witted cousins of the PC family.

  • 26 February 2009

  • Opinion: Is this the UK's cheapest laptop?

    There I was trawling the web for a suitably credit crunch-friendly cycle helmet, when my eyes were assailed by a huge ad in the middle of the CyclesDirect website advertising the country's cheapest laptop.

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