Desktops

By Kane Fulton While laptops, tablets and other devices become thinner and lighter, monitors are having some trouble shedding the pounds. But despite recent trends such as 4K laptops and tablets with larger displays, dual-monitor setups remain as popular as ever. If you’re after a second screen to lend your laptop extra screen real-estate on…

By Mary Branscombe and Dan Grabham Introduction and installation Windows 8.1 has now been out for a few months and is a freely downloadable update. Microsoft has already released what is the equivalent of a first Service Pack for it, Windows 8.1 Update 1. The latter should already have landed automatically on Windows 8 systems…

By Mary Branscombe and Dan Grabham Introduction and installation Windows 8.1 has now been out for a few months and is a freely downloadable update. Microsoft has already released what is the equivalent of a first Service Pack for it, Windows 8.1 Update 1. The latter should already have landed automatically on Windows 8 systems…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction Aimed at both business and home users in need of gigantic amounts of storage, the DS1815+ is an eight-bay NAS from Synology, powered by a quad-core CPU and up to 6GB of memory. This places it at the very opposite end of the performance scale from the single-bay DS115J that came…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction Aimed at both business and home users in need of gigantic amounts of storage, the DS1815+ is an eight-bay NAS from Synology, powered by a quad-core CPU and up to 6GB of memory. This places it at the very opposite end of the performance scale from the single-bay DS115J that came…

By Kane Fulton The Satellite Click Mini could’ve turned out very differently. Toshiba lifted the lid on its titular convertible tablet at CES 2015, but instead of emerging as a miniature version of the – quite frankly, ugly – Click 2 it’s a surprisingly attractive and portable budget package. Toshiba’s £250 (around US$384, or AUS$492)…

By Kane Fulton The Satellite Click Mini could’ve turned out very differently. Toshiba lifted the lid on its titular convertible tablet at CES 2015, but instead of emerging as a miniature version of the – quite frankly, ugly – Click 2 it’s a surprisingly attractive and portable budget package. Toshiba’s £250 (around US$384, or AUS$492)…

By Kane Fulton Introduction The HP Sprout is an innovative, quirky and exciting all-in-one PC aimed at content creators, designers and anyone looking for an excuse to ditch their mouse and keyboard. Available now in the US and UK for $1,899 (£1,899), Sprout’s price tag alone hints that it may offer something more than your…

By Kane Fulton Introduction The HP Sprout is an innovative, quirky and exciting all-in-one PC aimed at content creators, designers and anyone looking for an excuse to ditch their mouse and keyboard. Available now in the US and UK for $1,899 (£1,899), Sprout’s price tag alone hints that it may offer something more than your…

By Chuong Nguyen Dell is taking the success of the business-centric $700 (£437 or AU$800) Venue 11 Pro to the educational market in the form of the $299 (£197 or AU$390) Android-powered Dell Venue 10 and the $329 (£216 or AU$430) Windows-based Venue 10 Pro. Like the Venue 11 Pro, both Venue 10 tablets can…

By Chuong Nguyen Dell is taking the success of the business-centric $700 (£437 or AU$800) Venue 11 Pro to the educational market in the form of the $299 (£197 or AU$390) Android-powered Dell Venue 10 and the $329 (£216 or AU$430) Windows-based Venue 10 Pro. Like the Venue 11 Pro, both Venue 10 tablets can…

By Chuong Nguyen With the same purpose-built for education design, Dell is iterating on the success of the Latitude 13 for Education Series that debuted last year. The 2015 Latitude 11 model boasts the same durable design, affordable $299 (£194 or AU$386) entry price, and education-centric features as last year’s model, but in a smaller…

By Chuong Nguyen With the same purpose-built for education design, Dell is iterating on the success of the Latitude 13 for Education Series that debuted last year. The 2015 Latitude 11 model boasts the same durable design, affordable $299 (£194 or AU$386) entry price, and education-centric features as last year’s model, but in a smaller…

By Henry Casey Introduction The inherent give and take of choosing a new laptop, especially when constrained by a budget, is no fun. With the notebook market increasingly centering around the 13-inch mark, those who need or want a larger display are increasingly getting hung out to dry. With that in mind, the latest entry…

By Henry Casey Introduction The inherent give and take of choosing a new laptop, especially when constrained by a budget, is no fun. With the notebook market increasingly centering around the 13-inch mark, those who need or want a larger display are increasingly getting hung out to dry. With that in mind, the latest entry…