Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sifts through the marketing hyperbole and casts his critical eye over the latest technological innovations to find out which products make the grade and which don't.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology.
There’s a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) surrounding the system requirements that will be needed to run Windows Vista. Partly, I put the blame for a lot of this confusion at Microsoft's doorstep - The fact that there are different requirements for the Windows Aero interface is confusing and Microsoft hasn't done a good job of explaining that Aero is an interface enhancement for Vista.
What is it about the iPod that's made is such a dominant brand? Is it the design? Functionality? Brand? Fashion? Price? Marketing? I'm stumped as to why, so I'm handing the question over to you.
It seems that AMD might be in for a rough ride. A very rough ride. The overclocked pre-production Conroe CPUs are producing insane results - over 4.0GHz!
A finalized 802.11n standard is, despite what vendors might claim, a long way off.
When Microsoft released the Xbox 360 they were quite open that it wouldn't support every Xbox title, but they promised that in time compatibility would be added. Gamers who sold their Xbox console so they could buy an Xbox 360 took the gamble that Microsoft would hold true to their word. However, signs are that Microsoft could now be back-pedalling on that promise.
Yesterday AMD announced a completely new architecture aimed at PC gamers that allows two dual-core CPUs and two dual-GPU graphics cards to be combined. But is it a sign that they are playing catch up with Intel or is dual-core dual-processor the way forward?
Here I look at how much would it cost me to build a system that’s functionally similar to the XPS 700.