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Article | 23/11/2012 Christmas round-up: the best new hybrid Ultrabooks and Windows tablets

With the gift-buying season well and truly in full swing, it's a great time to buy a new computer and, in particular, a new hybrid-type Ultrabook that...

Article | 24/08/2012 Father's Day gift guide

Don't know what to buy your dad this Father's Day? Let PC World Australia help find you the best Father's Day gift. From Google's excellent Nexus 7 ta...

Article | 16/01/2012 Back to school: Budget Intel Core i7 laptops

If you want a powerful laptop so that you can breeze through your school work, then one equipped with an Intel Core i7 CPU, lots of RAM, a discrete gr...

Article | 16/01/2012 Back to school: Ultrabooks

The Ultrabook has been hatched in an effort to make thin and light computers more prominent in the marketplace. It's an initiative by Intel that chall...

Article | 19/12/2011 Ultrabooks in Australia

Ultrabooks are the new netbooks in terms of products that vendors are now trying to push. Barely any new netbooks were released in 2011 and it seems m...

Article | 16/12/2011 The best laptops of 2011

We reviewed 78 laptops in 2011 (and there is a handful more still in the editorial pipeline at the time of writing). They ranged from small and smart ...

Article | 1/09/2011 Top rated desktop replacement notebooks: August 2011

Ditching your bulky and space-hogging PC for a notebook doesn't have to mean that you also give up on fast performance.

Article | 1/09/2011 Top rated 15in laptops: August 2011

While thin-and-light computing may be getting more mainstream, especially with the success of laptops such as the MacBook Air, the most popular laptop...

Article | 25/08/2011 Top rated business laptops: August 2011

Our top rated this month is headed by the Toshiba Tecra R850, which has a wonderful combination of design, performance, battery life and price. It's o...

Article | 24/08/2011 Top rated ultraportable laptops: August 2011

There's no doubt that Apple's MacBook Air is the ultraportable laptop of choice for many people. However, at the top of our top rated list is its main...

Article | 15/06/2011 Best ultraportable laptops - June 2011

There's no doubt that 2001 has been the year of the ultraportable. We've seen some excellent models from Samsung, Lenovo and Toshiba to date; these re...

Article | 10/06/2011 Best business laptops - June 2011

For many people, a business laptop can be practically any laptop as long as its reasonably fast and has enough ports. However, bona fide business lapt...

Article | 10/06/2011 Top 10 best value laptops of 2011 so far

With Intel's Second Generation Core CPUs starting to get a foothold in the Australian market, and AMD's Fusion offering some very interesting low-cost...

Article | 13/04/2011 Top AMD Fusion netbooks in Australia

AMD Fusion netbooks are a step up from traditional netbooks, which are based on Intel Atom CPUs. The AMD Fusion APU (accelerated processing unit) supp...

Article | 8/04/2011 Lenovo laptop reviews

Read our reviews of the latest Lenovo laptops, from the humble IdeaPad S10 netbook to the Intel Sandy Bridge-equipped ThinkPad T420.

Article | 8/04/2011 Best Lenovo laptops

We've reviewed a lot of great laptops over the last year, many of them Lenovo. In this round-up we've included some of the best that the company has t...

Article | 7/04/2011 Top rated Lenovo laptops

Lenovo has the distinction of being the only vendor to receive a rating of five stars from the PC World Australia Test Centre for one of its laptops, ...

Article | 31/03/2011 The best Sandy Bridge notebooks in Australia

While only a few vendors have sent us laptops based on Intel's 2nd Generation Intel Core CPUs (codenamed Sandy Bridge), one thing is clear: They are t...

Article | 24/03/2011 Editor's choice: The best notebooks and netbooks in Australia

We're barely through the first quarter of the year, but already we've had a lot of great notebooks come through our test centre. The best ones have be...

Article | 8/03/2011 Top 10 notebooks 2011

It has been a relatively slow start to the year for notebook makers. Despite all the hoopla surrounding the launch of Intel's 2nd Generation Core CPUs...