Chillblast Fusion Drone

Is it an unmanned aerial vehicle? Is it a fish tank? No...

Everyone knows the ‘Intel Inside’ jingle. It sounds like a particularly annoying doorbell. You’d probably imagine someone got paid millions of dollars to spend weeks honing the five-note chime for maximum chip-selling effect. You’d be roughly correct. It was an Austrian musician called Walter Werzowa, who also had a number five UK hit in 1988 with the techno-pop band Edelweiss.

Acer Aspire V3-574G (Core i5)

All the PC you need, in an affordable laptop

Let’s assume for a moment that you’re not made of money. Put down your lead crystal flute of Krug, tell the jazz pianist to hold the tinkling, and hand those models some bathrobes. Now picture yourself sitting on an ordinary chair in an ordinary room, reading a well-known computer magazine and planning to buy a new PC. You have an ordinary person’s cash to spend – say, £650.

Bring back tools Windows 10 dumped

Love Windows 10 but hate that it killed your favourite bits of Windows 7 and 8? Jane Hoskyn reveals how to replace and restore Microsoft’s retired tools

It’s out with the old and in with the new in Windows 10 – and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Tools that you know and perhaps love from Windows XP, 7 and 8/8.1 have been consigned to history’s big Recycle Bin to make way for new stuff.

Amazon Fire TV (4K)

A sharper way to watch online video

Do we really need 4K? Short answer: no. Now, here’s the science. Digital displays are made up of pixels, or colour dots. If the grid of pixels is fine enough, you don’t see the dots, just the picture. What’s enough? That doesn’t just depend on the pixels, it also depends on you. Specifically, how sharp your eyesight is and how far from the screen you are.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ330

All the camera you’ll ever need

The best camera, they say, is the one you have with you. Smartphones have cracked that, but they can’t match the flexibility of a full-size camera.

‘Bridge’ cameras like this one sit between basic compacts (including phones) and professional cameras for people who don’t mind hauling a bag of stuff around that cost more than their car. With a 24x zoom lens built in, the FZ330 can capture almost anything you point it at. And its optical image stabilisation (OIS) can compensate for small accidental movements in any direction, so if you wobble while taking a picture it’ll still come out sharp.