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We normally consider hot hardware to be a good thing, but as Paul explains, heat output often directly ties to energy input. He shows how to spot the greediest devices from p111. The easiest way to breathe life into an old laptop is to insert an SSD,

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Apple’s press events are arguably the biggest dates in the tech calendar each year. Over the course of an hour or two, the industry looks on as CEO Tim Cook reveals what’s new with the company’s latest hardware – and how the company is reshaping the

Stunning creative power from £1,899 from apple.com/uk Alongside its 16in sibling, this is simply the world’s best laptop for demanding users. The amount of power on tap via the M1 Pro or M1 Max processor is staggering, and it’s backed up by a terrifi

I read your article about Google Sheets/Docs (see issue 338, p42) having spent six months being forced to use Google over Microsoft. Where you want people to contribute to the same document and see the changes in real-time, then Google was great. Wha

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In most simple Ethernet setups, client devices plug directly into the router, or into a socket on a mesh station or extender. This is fine and dandy, until you run out of ports. However, it’s easy to add more physical connectors to your network with

Almost every consumer networking appliance comes with a little power brick. For businesses with a busy network infrastructure, all these power supplies add up to a lot of points of potential failure – and it’s not always convenient to deliver mains p

SCORE PRICE £274 (£329 inc VAT) from scan.co.uk The Ryzen 5 7600X is the cheapest option in the Zen 4 processor lineup, at £329 for a 6-core, 12-thread CPU with a boost frequency of 5.3GHz. It’s not the same on-paper dynamite as the 7950X, but it’s a

SCORE PRICE £1,025 (£1,230 inc VAT) from box.co.uk Dynabook pushes its Portégé X30L line with this promise: “Superlight laptop. Heavyweight performance.” It more than delivers on the first half, with this magnesium chassis weighing in at a feather or

SCORE PRICE As reviewed, £837 (£1,004 inc VAT) from dell.co.uk Dell is clearly battling demons when it comes to the XPS 13. It knows that tweaks to the formula are no longer enough in the face of brilliant competition, whether it’s the Huawei MateBoo

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SCORE PRICE 128GB, £791 (£949 inc VAT) from apple.com/uk The “Plus” is a newcomer to the iPhone lineup, supplanting the adorably small iPhone 13 mini. In many regards it’s the same phone as the regular iPhone 14 (see issue 338, p62), but scaled up wi

SCORE PRICE 1TB, £117 (£140 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs1 Designed for both PC and PS5 use, the Adata Legend 840 has some stiff competition. We’ve reviewed the 1TB model, although it’s also available as a 512GB drive. All drives ship with a heats

SCORE PRICE 1TB, £74 (£89 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs2 One of the cheapest SSDs you can buy, the Crucial P3 costs just 9p per gigabyte for the 1TB version we reviewed. Thanks to its QLC storage, it’s also available in 500GB, 2TB and 4TB formats.

SCORE PRICE 1TB, £83 (£100 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs3 Although it has a similar name to the Crucial P3, the P3 Plus is a slightly different beast. Here, the drive has been upgraded to a PCI-E Gen4 interface, up from the Gen 3 interface on the

SCORE PRICE 1TB, £97 (£116 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs4 At the top of Crucial’s SSD lineup is the P5 Plus. This is a thoroughly modern drive, with some of the fastest throughputs available. We’ve reviewed the 1TB drive, although 500GB and 2TB mo

SCORE PRICE 2TB, £169 (£203 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs5 One of the last companies to offer a PCI-E Gen4 M.2 SSD, Kingston certainly hasn’t messed about with the final product, delivering a fast and enduring piece of storage. We’ve reviewed the

SCORE PRICE 1TB, £113 (£136 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs6 Once the darling of PC builders everywhere, offering fantastic speeds at lower prices than the Pro range, the 970 Evo was the budget drive to buy. Unfortunately, it’s now relatively expens

SCORE PRICE 1TB, £119 (£143 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs7 It was one of the first PCI-E Gen4 drives and the fastest drive that you could buy for a while, but the Samsung 980 Pro no longer has that title. A shame, really, given that it’s still on

SCORE PRICE 1TB, £113 (£136 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs6 Seagate’s top-of-the-range offering, the FireCuda 530, is built to be a thoroughly modern drive, delivering the fastest read and write speeds via its PCI-E Gen4 interface. We’ve reviewed t

SCORE PRICE 1TB, £150 (£180 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs9 A special edition drive to tie in with The Mandalorian, the FireCuda Beskar Ingot is designed to look like the currency in which the titular character is paid. Seagate has done a great job

SCORE PRICE 1TB, £64 (£77 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs10 It’s incredible that the WD Black SN750 is still around. Launching back in 2019, this drive has been around for a long time in technology terms. The reason that it’s still available is that

SCORE PRICE 1TB, £78 (£94 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs11 A new drive, the Black SN770 is the spiritual successor to the ageing WD Black SN750. While they have similar names, the SN770 has more in common with the SN850 than the older drive. For st

SCORE PRICE 1TB, £101 (£121 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs12 It’s been around for quite a while now, but the WD Black SN850 runs at the current PCI-E Gen4 speeds, so it can still put in a shift. And it’s better value now than it was at launch thank

SCORE PRICE 1TB, £62 (£74 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs13 The previous generation of this drive, the WD Blue SN550, was something of a bargain: pretty fast, but great value. It’s a trick the WD Blue SN570 again manages to pull off, mostly outclass

SCORE PRICE 240GB, £20 (£24 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs14 At just £24 for a 240GB drive and £38 for a 480GB drive, the WD Green is certainly cheap for an SSD. Similarly cheap 1TB and 2TB drives can be picked up. There’s a reason for this: it doe

It’s almost impossible to find a new computer or laptop running a mechanical hard disk. The technology now seems to be relegated to hard disk TV recorders, such as Sky Q, and NAS drives. Everyone else has gone solid state, and that’s for good reason:

As a businesses expands, its IT environment tends to accumulate legacy endpoints and applications – prime targets for attackers. Security processes grow in complexity too, creating more potential for exploitable mistakes. Cut out legacy assets wherev

Network attached storage (NAS) devices are wonderful things. Back in the day, I used to run Windows Server on my network, and it did a good job. Then things got more complicated with Active Directory, which was fine for a large corporate but added a

It won’t have escaped your notice that the battle to grab money from your bank is growing ever more intense, and not just from legitimate sources: there are scammers out there who will syphon every penny you possess, if allowed. It’s a humiliating ex

This year we’ve seen three high-profile corporate scandals with larger-than-life CEOs in the dock facing serious allegations, and it’s tech companies that are at the centre of all the action: Theranos, Wirecard and Autonomy. All three CEOs have been

Back in September, two hacks involving huge organisations hit the headlines: Uber and Rockstar Games. By way of a memory refresher, Uber was the first to fall, and fall spectacularly. The taxi, food delivery and car rental company suffered what can o

How to summarise watching not just Bitcoin, but a large bucket of other cryptocurrencies, have a $9 billion crash in the late summer of 2022? I don’t like cryptocurrencies, as I think regular readers will have realised: safe to say that a frisson of

SCORE PRICE £50 from ebay.co.uk (deals may differ) Over the years I’ve used many word processors, from Protext on the Amstrad CPC and Pages on the Mac to iA Writer on the iPad and Word on a PC. I’ve inputted many paragraphs into Google Docs and enjoy

The switch to fibre doesn’t only mean faster upload and downloads. It’s also a chance to choose a specialist fibre provider that might be perfect for your needs and budget. Lee Grant gets down and dirty with old hardware to explain how to breathe new