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Reviews Roundup: Best games for Mac

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

With all the focus on console gaming these days, the poor old Mac often seems to be totally ignored. But fear not, Apple fans, for some of the greatest PC games are also available for your Mac. We’ve gathered some of the best.

Reviews Roundup: Back to school 2011: the best laptops

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

The 2011 school year rolls around once more, and we’re sure people will be looking for budget laptops. Here are our choices for the new year, servicing netbooks through to full-featured laptops.

Reviews Roundup: Tablets in Australia: the state of play

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

The era of the tablet is finally upon us, thanks to Apple’s iPad. While the selection is still limited in Australia, we expect it to expand in the coming months.

Reviews Roundup: Best games for Mac

Monday, November 15th, 2010

With all the focus on console gaming these days, the poor old Mac often seems to be totally ignored. But fear not, Apple fans, for some of the greatest PC games are also available for your Mac. We’ve gathered some of the best.

Reviews Roundup: Netbooks: mini laptops, max portability

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Netbooks are excellent secondary laptops, or if you’re always on the road and need portability but not necessarily performance. We round-up the best we’ve seen so far.

Reviews Roundup: Laptops with backlit keyboards

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Backlit keyboards are fast becoming a top requested feature list. We check out some notebooks that make typing in the dark a cinch.

Reviews Roundup: Top 10 wireless modem/routers

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Need an ADSL2+ modem/router with wireless built in? Here’s our top 10 picks out of the units we’ve seen so far.

Reviews Roundup: Laptops for Father’s Day

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

No idea about what to get dad? Got a huge budget just kicking around? Well you could buy a laptop…

Reviews Roundup: Best laptops for your tax return

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Got a fat tax return just burning a hole in your pocket? Need a new laptop? Here are our favourites on the market.

Reviews Roundup: Most beautiful monitors

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Monitors have a tendency to be fairly plain objects, but every now and then a vendor goes out of its way to bring design to the fore.

Reviews Roundup: Best monitors 23 inches and under

Monday, March 8th, 2010

The sweet spot for monitors is now between 21.5 and 23 inches - we round up some of our favourites.

Reviews Roundup: Security suites for 2010

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Most vendors have updated their software solutions for 2010. We round-up what’s on offer.

Reviews Roundup: The sound of silence: Noise-cancelling headphones

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

If you’re a frequent flyer or even a heavy user of public transport then you need to get yourself one of these sets of noise-cancelling headphones.

Microsoft Surface launch

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Years after Microsoft demoed its touchscreen table, Surface has finally had its Australian release.

Reviews Roundup: Best 13-inch laptops

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

13-inch laptops are the new 15-inch. With decent resolution screens, excellent portability, good performance and in some cases stellar battery life, this segment is set to explode in 2010.

Reviews Roundup: Our favourite laptops of 2009

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

2009 was reasonably quiet for laptop evolution - the GFC hampered things a little, but there was still some great laptops. We sound off our favourites for the year that was.

Do you support a mandatory internet filter?

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy announced a plan yesterday to introduce mandatory internet filtering legislation in the middle of year. Industry has welcomed the policy and Twitter has exploded in fury, but what do you think?

Reviews Roundup: Most beautiful monitors

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Monitors have a tendency to be fairly plain objects, but every now and then a vendor goes out of its way to bring design to the fore.

Reviews Roundup: Most beautiful monitors

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Monitors have a tendency to be fairly plain objects, but every now and then a vendor goes out of its way to bring design to the fore.

Reviews Roundup: Best gaming mice

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

From macros to on-the-fly-dpi to storing configurations on the device itself, the mouse is arguably the most important tool in a PC gamer’s arsenal. Here we have a list of our five favourite gaming mice.