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• Seven great all-in-one desktop PCs

  By Nate Ralph and Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 28 March, 2012 00:51

  Traditional tower desktops have had a good run. All-in-one PCs--expensive upstarts just two or three years ago--have all but usurped the throne.

• Android: Coming soon to a desktop near you?

  By Katherine Noyes | 25 February, 2012 05:16

  If ever there was a week to make plain the writing on the proverbial wall of the personal computing world, this week has been it.

• PCs are selling just fine, thank you

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 26 January, 2012 12:23

  With tablets and smartphones generating so much buzz these days, it's easy to write off the good old personal computer as a dying platform. However, the latest numbers from the NPD Group show that the PC market is doing "pretty well."

• Desktop PC killers: Past, present, and future

  By Ian Paul | 25 January, 2012 02:04

  The desktop PC is dead; the era of the gleaming beige tower is over. The age of smartphones, laptops, and tablets is here--or so say numerous pundits and critics.

• Eight easy ways to green your business

  By Angela West | 31 December, 2011 10:00

  Greening your business has short-term effects that will save you money, let employees breathe better, and maybe even help land you a few more customers. These tips, sites, and kits can help your business go green for 2012.

• Build Your Own Network-Attached Storage System

  By Nate Ralph | 18 October, 2011 00:35

  With cheap storage readily available, the temptation to build vast libraries of music, movies, photos, and documents is ever present. But when each PC in your home is packed to its aluminum gills with gigabytes upon gigabytes of digital goods, managing all of that data can be a hassle.

• AMD's Bulldozer Packs Plenty Of Cores, But Not Enough Power

  By Nate Ralph | 14 October, 2011 01:01

  Earlier this year Intel made waves with its Sandy Bridge processors, which served up impressive performance gains over their predecessors while improving energy efficiency. AMD’s return salvo is finally here in the form of the AMD FX platform, previously codenamed Bulldozer.

• Google releases Chrome desktop-sharing feature

  By Christina DesMarais | 10 October, 2011 02:53

  Google isn’t reinventing the wheel with a new feature it is testing that allows any two computers using its Chrome browser to connect with each other.

• The greatest PC mysteries - solved!

  By PCWorld Staff | 30 April, 2012 23:40

  PC owners know that every computer has a unique assortment of components, applications and peripherals. Nevertheless, certain things - including a host of common PC problems and mysteries - are part of the shared experience of computer ownership.

• How desktop PCs got their groove back

  By Nate Ralph | 09 January, 2011 04:44

  Is the desktop PC dead? Far from it.

• CES 2011: Lenovo announces IdeaCentre all-in-ones

  By Nate Ralph | 05 January, 2011 12:49

  Lenovo's IdeaCentre All-in-One desktops have been revamped for 2011, offering up a host of new features, and functionality. There's something for everyone here, with 3D displays, multitouch, TV tuners and new processors from AMD and Intel.