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PC Pro

Nov 01 2023
Magazine

The UK’s biggest selling PC monthly magazine, and your source of professional IT news, reviews and tests. Combining in–depth industry comment and analysis with rigorous product testing.

Why is it so hard to be an eco-friendly tech shopper?

PC Pro

Government orders 5,000 GPUs for ‘BritGPT’ • Downing Street intervenes in British AI building project

Amazon pivots to video shopping • TikTok threat prompts ecommerce giant to act

The slow road to self-driving cars • Drivers were meant to be redundant by now. But as James O’Malley discovers, self-driving technology is quietly improving

The A-List • The best products on the market, as picked by our editors

Entertainment is a hard sell • To everyone’s chagrin, Dick refuses to don false eyelashes and a sunny disposition simply to make money online

Fix the basics first, then let’s get to the future • Facebook and Google should clean up their own houses before trying to get into mine

Time to end this stupid game • We either need a universal way to benchmark the performance of PCs… or for people to stop asking Barry what they should buy

Readers’ comments • Your views and feedback from email and the web

Readers’ poll • Is Windows 10 Microsoft’s best OS of all time?

Windows 10 Stick, upgrade or switch? • With hundreds of millions of computers still stuck on Windows 10, due to go end of life in 2025, we investigate your options

Linux Mint • Nik Rawlinson is already a Linux convert. Here, he offers a few good reasons to switch

Tiny11 • We asked Nik Rawlinson to move out of his comfort zone and give this stripped-down version of Windows 11 a try

Windows 11 in the cloud • There is a novel, if painfully expensive, option: stream a Windows desktop instead. Jon Honeyball delivers his verdict

Windows 10 end-of-life security reality check • Davey Winder explains how vulnerable you’ll be if you decide to carry on using Windows 10 past its sell-by date

The Honeyball verdict • We asked Jon Honeyball to share the advice he would give to someone down his local if they were still running Windows 10 for personal or business use

Supercharge Chrome & Edge with these 10 BRILLIANT EXTENSIONS • Last month we investigated browsers that could speed up your work. This month, Nik Rawlinson finds ten extensions for Chrome holdouts

BEST OF IFA 2023 • WHAT WERE THE BIGGEST RELEASES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THIS YEAR’S EUROPEAN SHOWCASE OF ALL THINGS TECH?

Fairphone5 • The best Fairphone yet is also the most repairable, but don’t expect the pinnacles of speed or image quality

Geekom Mini IT 13 • A beefy specification for a mini PC, if you’re willing to gamble on the comparatively unknown company

Dell Inspiron 24 All-in-One • By no means powerful or luxurious, but this simple work machine produces the goods for a competitive price

AcerPredator Orion7000 (2023) • Killer gaming performance at 4K thanks to an RTX 4090, but that power comes at the expense of fan noise

Dell XPS 13 Plus (2023) • An elegant design and lovely 3.5K OLED display are let down by a frustrating keyboard and bad battery life

Linksys Velop Pro 6E • Not the fastest 6E mesh we’ve seen, but in terms of bang per buck it’s a compelling contender

SPECIALBUNDLE Parallels Desktop for Mac 19 + Windows 11 Pro • Claim this bundle for £129.99 – including the full Windows 11 Pro OS and a one-year licence to Parallels – and save 58% on the full price

Asus RT-AX59U • A very reasonably priced Wi-Fi 6 router that provides good performance and excellent firmware features

Canon Maxify GX6550 • A compact design, high-quality output and efficient page yields make this ink tank printer...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 132 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: Nov 01 2023

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: October 5, 2023

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OverDrive Magazine

subjects

Tech & Gaming

Languages

English

The UK’s biggest selling PC monthly magazine, and your source of professional IT news, reviews and tests. Combining in–depth industry comment and analysis with rigorous product testing.

Why is it so hard to be an eco-friendly tech shopper?

PC Pro

Government orders 5,000 GPUs for ‘BritGPT’ • Downing Street intervenes in British AI building project

Amazon pivots to video shopping • TikTok threat prompts ecommerce giant to act

The slow road to self-driving cars • Drivers were meant to be redundant by now. But as James O’Malley discovers, self-driving technology is quietly improving

The A-List • The best products on the market, as picked by our editors

Entertainment is a hard sell • To everyone’s chagrin, Dick refuses to don false eyelashes and a sunny disposition simply to make money online

Fix the basics first, then let’s get to the future • Facebook and Google should clean up their own houses before trying to get into mine

Time to end this stupid game • We either need a universal way to benchmark the performance of PCs… or for people to stop asking Barry what they should buy

Readers’ comments • Your views and feedback from email and the web

Readers’ poll • Is Windows 10 Microsoft’s best OS of all time?

Windows 10 Stick, upgrade or switch? • With hundreds of millions of computers still stuck on Windows 10, due to go end of life in 2025, we investigate your options

Linux Mint • Nik Rawlinson is already a Linux convert. Here, he offers a few good reasons to switch

Tiny11 • We asked Nik Rawlinson to move out of his comfort zone and give this stripped-down version of Windows 11 a try

Windows 11 in the cloud • There is a novel, if painfully expensive, option: stream a Windows desktop instead. Jon Honeyball delivers his verdict

Windows 10 end-of-life security reality check • Davey Winder explains how vulnerable you’ll be if you decide to carry on using Windows 10 past its sell-by date

The Honeyball verdict • We asked Jon Honeyball to share the advice he would give to someone down his local if they were still running Windows 10 for personal or business use

Supercharge Chrome & Edge with these 10 BRILLIANT EXTENSIONS • Last month we investigated browsers that could speed up your work. This month, Nik Rawlinson finds ten extensions for Chrome holdouts

BEST OF IFA 2023 • WHAT WERE THE BIGGEST RELEASES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THIS YEAR’S EUROPEAN SHOWCASE OF ALL THINGS TECH?

Fairphone5 • The best Fairphone yet is also the most repairable, but don’t expect the pinnacles of speed or image quality

Geekom Mini IT 13 • A beefy specification for a mini PC, if you’re willing to gamble on the comparatively unknown company

Dell Inspiron 24 All-in-One • By no means powerful or luxurious, but this simple work machine produces the goods for a competitive price

AcerPredator Orion7000 (2023) • Killer gaming performance at 4K thanks to an RTX 4090, but that power comes at the expense of fan noise

Dell XPS 13 Plus (2023) • An elegant design and lovely 3.5K OLED display are let down by a frustrating keyboard and bad battery life

Linksys Velop Pro 6E • Not the fastest 6E mesh we’ve seen, but in terms of bang per buck it’s a compelling contender

SPECIALBUNDLE Parallels Desktop for Mac 19 + Windows 11 Pro • Claim this bundle for £129.99 – including the full Windows 11 Pro OS and a one-year licence to Parallels – and save 58% on the full price

Asus RT-AX59U • A very reasonably priced Wi-Fi 6 router that provides good performance and excellent firmware features

Canon Maxify GX6550 • A compact design, high-quality output and efficient page yields make this ink tank printer...


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