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Introduction The 2013 refresh comes less than a year after 2012's radical redesign. But while last year's iMacs brought us a new, ultra-slim form factor, this year's upgrades are all internal. The Ivy Bridge processors are upgraded to Intel's new Haswell chips, the graphics chips have been upgraded to Nvidia 7-series GPUs and wireless connectivity has been boosted from Wi-Fi 802.11n to 802.11ac. But on the outside, they remain exactly the same as last year's iMacs. Not that this is a bad thing. The 2012 redesign brought us a second Thunderbolt port and a redesigned screen that's fully laminated, losing the 2mm gab between the screen and its covering and an anti-reflective coating added using a new plasma deposition process, allowing it to be applied very thinly, for greatly reduced reflections without affecting color reproduction. OS X Mavericks review Apple Mac mini review 21-inch iMac review 11-inch MacBook Air review 13-inch MacBook Air review 13-inch M acBo...

Ouya was arguably the thing that put Android games consoles in our collective minds, causing a frenzy that resulted in the likes of Mad Catz M.O.J.O , Nvidia Shield and the GameStick here. All these consoles have their own little variations of the theme, and the GameStick's party trick is that it's a stick that plays games. Well, there's nothing wrong with a descriptive name. The GameStick consists of a wireless controller, with a slot in the top that holds a removable HDMI dongle – that's the game console part. Like Google's Chromecast , it's just an HDMI port sticking out of a small plastic rectangle. Pop it in the back of your TV and it's connected, or take it out and slot it into the controller to take away with you. Well, sort of. You'll find this becomes a running theme with the GameStick, but it's not quite as smart as it looks. The dongle still needs power other than that the HDMI port provides, so you also need the USB cable and possibly t...

The ND 200 name might be rather uninspiring, but it certainly makes a change from some of the more overly bombastic titles you normally associate with gaming desktop manufacturers. To be honest, we don't give a wet slap what a machine is called if its overall build quality and performance make a statement. However, this machine from Computer Planet seems to be making a bit of a garbled one. It certainly looks the part, with that stylish, modern Fractal Design chassis. It's modest, clean and beautifully made, with the controls and USB 3.0 ports tucked away around the side, leaving the front free of clutter. Sadly though, those USB 3.0 ports were the first sign of trouble - they simply don't work. We were planning to install our rather hefty test suite on the 500GB HDD using a speedy USB 3.0 connection to ease the transfer. It was only when we finally checked for the tell-tale blue USB ports on the back panel that we realised how elderly this budget motherboard really was. T...