Your Mac is in all probability one of your more prized possessions. Perhaps you even have more than one – a desktop and a portable, and an iPod touch or an iPhone to complete the line-up. What’s easy to forget though is that the kit itself is only part of the story. It’s actually your data that’s really valuable. If your Mac breaks down, it can be repaired. But if a hard drive croaks or something is accidentally deleted and it hasn’t been backed up, there’s no way to ever recover it. For most people, their Mac stores all their data, from bank account information [...]

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Asus is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer currently best known for helping to launch the netbook market a few years ago with its Eee PC brand. It also makes full-sized laptops and the X5DAB-SX028V is a powerful machine that will especially suit those after multimedia functionality on a budget. This is because it boasts a powerful graphics card, and also an impressive 512MB of video memory solely for the use of the GPU, ensuring it, and therefore your media, runs very smoothly. As a result, if you want to edit photos, movies, or even enjoy some light gaming, this machine is a very good choice. [...]

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The Acer Aspire 5738PG-644G32Mn is a laptop that boasts touchscreen capabilities designed to enhance the user experience. We were initially sceptical at how intuitive the screen would prove, but were quickly won over. Elsewhere, this machine is well built, comfortable to use and provides good all round performance for the price. The 15.6-inch screen features touch functionality and is designed to make using the laptop as intuitive as possible. Acer has succeeded admirably in implementing this with the Windows 7 operating system and, while it’s obviously early days for the technology on [...]

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