Hardware reviews
Dual core shoot-out: Intel versus AMD
Tech Guide AMD's Athlon 64 X2 3800+ is an affordable entry-level dual core processor. But how does it match up to Intel's equivalent Pentium D? We have the benchmarks.
Photos: OLPC, Classmate and Eee
Photos How do the three leading education-orientated ultraportable notebooks stack up? Take our visual tour to find out.
Give public biometrics the finger
Tech Guide Like it or not, fingerprint scanners are becoming ever more widespread. Are they more secure? No.
BlackBerry Pearl: a first look
Preview With the BlackBerry Pearl 8100, RIM has attempted to square the circle. The aim was to make a device small enough to be a covetable phone, that operates as a smartphone, and is still a real BlackBerry.
HTC Touch: the iPhone spoiler?
Preview HTC has launched a new Windows Mobile 6 smartphone with an iPhone-like touch-driven add-on user interface. But will it steal Apple's thunder? Check out our launch-day preview.
Photos: HTC Touch Diamond
Photos HTC's latest Touch device is the iPhone-like Diamond. See how this Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone shapes up here.
Apple MacBook Pro: a first look
Preview The Intel Core Duo-based MacBook Pro may give Apple bragging rights to the prettiest and most powerful notebook on the planet.
Samsung Q1: a first look
Preview CeBIT: Samsung's first-generation Ultra Mobile PC is an intriguing device, but currently you don't get enough functionality or battery life for your money.
Photos: mobile phone with built-in DLP projector
Photos Texas Instruments has demonstrated a 'pico-projector' that fits into a mobile phone. Check out our photos.
Benchmarks: the unofficial eight-core Apple Mac Pro
Tech Guide Unless you normally work on high-end workstations, perform massively multitasking workloads or just want the bragging rights, eight cores is definitely overkill -- at least for now.
Medion UMPC RIM 1000: a first look
Preview Medion has launched a second-generation Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) featuring a neat slide-out keyboard.
Low-power computing: a tech guide
Tech Guide We examine a number of low-power desktops, thin clients and notebooks to find out which platforms are most suitable for deployment in developing countries.
Dual-core AMD Turion: slow out of the gate
Tech Guide Preliminary benchmark results for AMD's new dual-core mobile processor suggest that Intel has little to fear.
Inside Intel's Core architecture
Tech Guide Intel's Core architecture now underlies mobile, desktop and server chips, and is a major departure from the Pentium 4's NetBurst design.
Benchmarks: Intel's first 45nm Penryn chip
Tech Guide The 3GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9650, Intel's first 45nm processor, has a total of 12MB of Level 2 cache at its disposal. This benchmark test shows what else the new chip has to offer.
