Despite the tightening purse strings of the new Credit Crunch Austerity Britain, the Ferry family coffers were recently opened to purchase a new PC. Despite regular complaints from cost centre no.1, investment in mobile phones, MP3 players and other such essential paraphernalia of modern life is a rare...

Increasingly people complain of hot laptops. My colleague James regularly scorches his fingers on his power supply. Indeed, your lap is a dangerous place to put the average Pentium M 2GHZ based notebook these days, with the trend to larger memory, more powerful graphics subsystem and hotter running...

Wondering why you should bother to upgrade your laptop to Windows Vista? Perhaps you could do without the danger of a beta OS limiting your productivity, or are just thinking "why bother"? The team in Microsoft Scotland do not have the luxury of hanging around. A colleague James Henderson has committed...