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GUEST OPINION: Three years ago, we talked about the renaissance of the PC. While the PC has always helped us connect and collaborate, in 2020, at the height of work-from-home and virtual learning, we saw just how critical the PC is to all aspects of our lives. It was at that time we laid out our vision for the future, outlined where our investments were going and predicted how the PC-human experience would evolve.

COMPANY NEWS: Intel Game On Drivers deliver the best experience for gamers playing on Intel Graphics with optimised launch-day patches and performance updates as new games release.

Although iPhones, iPads, Xboxes, Androids and PS5s are all well known gaming devices, so too are PCs, which are easily updatable with more memory, better graphics cards and more, with ASUS and ROG one of the well known brands in the gaming space and which can be seen at a special one-day pop-up stand in Sydney's Pitt St Mall.

Huawei's share of smartphone sales has fallen since former President Trump banned the company from using Google's services, but that hasn't stopped Huawei from continuing to produce phones, tablets and computers, with a suite of new products arriving at MWC Barcelona 2022.

Samsung's February 2022 Unpacked keynote is its most impressive yet, and as I type, I have in streaming for the second time, live on YouTube, and Samsung's presentation and its next-level tech is epic, and throws down the gauntlet to Apple and everyone else for consumer cyber supremacy.

From a new, COVID-test device that gives instant results just with your breath, to a colour-changing electric BMW to autonomous, electric farm robots that can hoe, weed, seed and more, through to ever-smarter smart home tech, including wireless energy at a distance to robots with ever more realistic facial expressions, and whether it is the latest GPUs, CPUs, start-ups, smartphones, TVs, flying cars, accessibility-friendly tech, fintech, wellness, wearables and much, much more - CES 2022 was definitely smaller, but it still succeeded in launching tons of terrific tech.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

Microsoft has released Windows 11, with the company's chief product officer for Windows + Devices, Panos Panay, describing it as the start of a new era for the PC.

Shipments of PCs to India in the second quarter of 2021 grew by 43% year-on-year to 4.1 million units, marking a five-year high, the technology analyst company Canalys says.

Designer and manufacturer of interactive equipment and gaming accessory Thrustmaster launches the optimised T248 Hybrid Drive system, a racing wheel designed to master all types of tracks.

For the second year running, PAX Aus has had to be cancelled, but like a great game player with several lives up their sleeve, PAX is dusting itself off and restoring to an online spawn point.

TCL's NXTWEAR G wearable display glasses have finally arrived in store, replicating a 140-inch screen on a pair of lightweight glasses that connect via cable to anything with USB-C video out for $899 from Harvey Norman, with 6 months free Optus Sport subscription.

A Canalys report shows that the PC market in the United States grew 73% year on year in Q1 2021, with total shipments of desktops, notebooks, tablets and workstations exceeding 34 million units.

The latest data from Canalys shows continued strength in the worldwide PC market in the first quarter of 2021, with shipments of desktops and notebooks, including workstations, up 55% year on year.

Promising the same great tools, in a new, easier-to-use interface, Parallels' suite of excellent tools for PCs and Macs has received the user-interface change it needed to make things simpler and easier.

The Australian PC market — desktops, notebooks and workstations — grew by 11.8% year-on-year in 2020 to reach a total of 4.87 million units, the technology analyst firm IDC says, adding that this trend will reverse in 2021 with a fall of 4.4%.

The global PC market is forecast to grow by 8% in 2021, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, adding that this will be after a stellar year in 2020.

Cybersecurity company Sophos has announced its plans to provide Sophos Intercept X endpoint protection for 5G PCs powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon compute platforms from Qualcomm.

DVD ripping is the process of extracting entire or selected contents from a DVD onto another storage drive.