BEN MANSILL Is very excited about the PC right now. Let’s just take a moment, breathe in, try to relax, and look around at what’s happening in the world of the PC right now… AMD’s Ryzen 7000 CPUs. AMD’s AM5 motherboard platform. Intel 13th Gen (Alder

APC is Australia’s oldest consumer technology magazine – having been consistently in print for forty years, since our first issue way back in May 1980 – and we take that heritage and responsibility very seriously. While our focus is obviously on the

Intel has announced specs, pricing, benchmarks, and architectural details for its 13th-Gen Raptor Lake lineup, touting its flagship Core i9-13900K as the ‘world’s fastest desktop processor.’ The lineup includes three new processors with frequencies t

Jarrod Walton Jarrod can barely contain his excitement with all these big launches. During the GTC 2022 keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed the specifications for the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080, along with details of the Ada Lovelace architecture. M

Shaun is an Australian editor for PC Gamer, GamesRadar and PLAY, and writes for APC, TechRadar and more. In the lead up to the November 2019 launch of Google Stadia, the internet was awash in op eds declaring the arrival of the game streaming era. Tr

Chris has been elbow deep in PCs since before the turn of the millennium, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. Though you mightn’t have noticed in Australia, Intel has released its first Arc graphics cards. International reviews of the Arc A770 and

Jeremy Laird Six raw 4K panels forbreakfast, laced with extract of x86... Jeremy Laird eats and breathes PC technology. What happened to the end of Moore’s Law? Not long ago, it was game over for shrinking transistors and ever more powerful and cheap

I’m getting increasingly annoyed with spam email. I don’t mean the old-school nonsense telling me that some noble person has decided to leave me $10,000,000, and they need my help to get the money out of the country. No, I’m talking about the stuff y

You may not have realised it as you were doom-scrolling through news about pandemics and politics, but 2020 was the year of the quantum internet – all thanks to a pair of experiments that suggests this futuristic networking technology could indeed be

One media server to rule over them all. That’s the dream of anyone hosting a huge collection of media they would like easy access to. For years, that media server has been provided by Plex, a beautifully designed, slick, and powerful tool. While its

Google’s finally got a smartwatch with serious health tracking chops. $549 | store.google.com/au We’ve been waiting to see what kind of wearable Google would be able to produce since the company acquired Fitbit at the start of 2021. The New Pixel Wa

TWhile the Dell XPS 15 misses out on the developments you’ll see on the XPS Plus 13 (APC 510), by using the existing XPS chassis Dell is able to pack in even more premium components while keeping the price down. This is by no means a compromise eithe

It’s refreshing to have a new player in a tech space, since they will often bring new ideas that push different areas forward. LG’s Gram devices have been doing this in the Ultrabook space, but this year it’s also branching out into the convertible a

It’s difficult to stand out in the extremely competitive premium Ultrabook space these days, which is perhaps what’s driven Asus to design the Zenbook 14X OLED Space Edition. This new release has a somewhat inspired design with a few cosmetic nods to

Samsung has had great success with its ever growing range of ultrawide curved gaming monitors, so it’s perhaps not surprising that the company has decided to take a risk on a TV sized curved gaming monitor in a 16 by 9 format. This screen is basicall

Despite the hype around upcoming PCIe 5.0 SSDs, good quality PCIe 4.0 drives aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Much like a quality PCIe 3.0 drive is relevant today, so too will a PCIe 4.0 drive remain. Although it feels a little bit late to market,

Fing Desktop provides a simple way to monitor your home network and ensure that you’re getting a fast and reliable connection from your internet provider. Last time we looked at the program, we were rather underwhelmed, so we’re pleased to report tha

Dragonflies are glittering and gorgeous relics from another age. With a sheer size that distinguishes them from other less-dazzling insects, they zip, helicopter-like, in straight lines – defending their territory, and searching for food. Dragonfly i

A year ago, Parallels delivered the first virtualisation app to make full use of Apple silicon Macs, including Monterey virtual machines (VMs). Five new Mac models later, including the first M2 Macs, Parallels Desktop 18 remains the only commercial a

It’s upgrade season! Whether you’re after a new CPU or GPU, the rest of 2022 is packed full of exciting new hardware releases. The first of these big launches is AMD’s much hyped Ryzen 7000 CPUs. They’re accompanied by X670 motherboards with the new

Say hello to the flagship CPU of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 range, the Ryzen 9 7950X. It’s got the most cores, and the highest clocks and its aim is to deliver the both the best single threaded and multithreaded performance of any x86 CPU released to date. The

The Ryzen 7 7700X is poised to become the Zen 4 sweet spot CPU. With 8 cores and 16 threads, it looks like it should offer a good blend of performance, efficiency and value for money. At least that’s AMD’s hope! At $689 it’s a step up in price from t

When Asrock’s Taichi brand made its debut, it was welcomed as a solid mid-range alternative in an era of excessive RGB and ‘gamerification’. But these days, the Taichi has evolved into a flagship product, packed with premium tier features. The X670E

Asus’ ROG brand hardly needs an introduction. Since 2006, Asus ROG motherboards have rarely disappointed, and they continue to be popular with gamers and overclockers alike. But with premium hardware comes premium pricing, and at $1,189, the Crosshai

Who said X670 boards were overpriced? This X670 (importantly it’s the only non-E X670 in the roundup) is priced at a much more palatable $599. At half the price of the other reviewed models, does the Gigabyte Aorus X670 Elite AX have to sacrifice a l

If you thought the Asus Hero was on the pricey side, brace yourself. The MSI MEG X670E Ace is an eyebrow raising $1,399. Though you get a lot of motherboard, it’s tough to accept that as normal, even if it’s a monster of a board. The MSI MEG X670E Ac

So, there we have it! AMD kicks off a huge upgrade season with the very competitive Ryzen 7000 CPU series. Whether you’re a gamer, a content creator or multi-tasker, there’s a Zen 4 CPU to suit you. The competition never stands still though, and Inte

Whether you’re a gamer looking for the smoothest gameplay experience, or simply need your daily display to be easy on the eyes, one of the most important specifications is refresh rate. Referring to the speed at which a display’s screen is updated, t

BusyCal 3.8.3 (Mac version 2022.3.1) Calendars 5.2.22 Fantastical 3.3.6 Google CalendarMoleskine Timepage 3.7.4 (Mac version 1.0.6) Week Calendar 15.3.1 (Mac version 2.1) Apple’s Calendar app for Mac, iOS, iPadOS and watchOS has plenty going for it.

Each of the apps in our round-up has something to commend it and you won’t go far wrong if you choose any of them. The fact that Google Calendar is free and hooks into the rest of its services is a big plus, and BusyCal’s natural-language support and

• Install optional driver updates that Windows Update ignores • Download the latest drivers from device manufacturers • Update all your drivers with the best available versions • Manually add a driver to the Windows driver store • Avoid driver update

Mark Williams Mark is an IT professional with a strong interest in voiding warranties. Nvidia’s largest Add In Board (AIB) partner in the US, EVGA, made waves in the industry when it was announced that it would be ceasing its partnership with Nvidia

A perfect balance between price and peformance. Creating a budget build for under $2K may not result in a top-end machine, but it does force you to think about how to spend your money wisely. With new AMD and Intel chips coming towards the end of th

I have a question about driver updaters. AVG charged me for such a program recently. I wondered why I was being charged for this since I had a two-year subscription to its Ultimate package. Turns out AVG has a new software app that updates not only i

YOU’LL NEED WhoCrashed Home Edition (www.resplendence. com/whocrashed) Tweaking.comWindows Repair Tool (www.tweaking.com) Got a problem with your PC? The answers to your woes lie somewhere buried deep inside Windows itself, you just need to know whe

YOU’LL NEED GIMP 2.1 OS: Windows 7 or newer When using a photo manipulation application such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP, there are many more possibilities than you may initially realise. Plenty of these programs can be used in various ways to create

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IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to remotely control your Mac YOU’LL NEED You’ll need an iPad/iPhone and your Mac Picture the scene – you’re miles away from your Mac, and you need to access something on it that isn’t stored in iCloud o

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• Raspberry Pi Pico W • DHT11 temperature sensor • 3 x MtoM jumper wires • Half breadboard • Internet connection • A computer • Get the code from: https://github.com/lesp/ LXFPicoWDHT11/archive/refs/heads/main.zip The $10 Raspberry Pi Pico W has caus

$35.95 | PC, Mac, Switch | returntomonkeyisland.com The infamously bewildering ending to 1991’s Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge left players longing for resolution that subsequent Monkey Island games never delivered. Three decades later, and after

Release: September 12, 2013 Developer: Bohemia Interactive Publisher: In-house Link:arma3.com I don’t care much for military simulators. Arma 3’s brutal pursuit of realism can forge tense missions and swift deaths but it’s typically bogged down in a

A Japanese newspaper reported that a 65 year old woman from a province just outside of Kyoto was defrauded by 4.4 million yen (close to AUD$50K) by a man claiming to be a Russian Cosmonaut needing to pay for his return trip to Earth. Local Police did