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Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180 Review

The Lenovo Q180 nettop stays out of your way with a quiet, compact design, but its anemic Atom processor prevents it from living up to its media-center aspirations.

HP Omni 27 Review

The massive HP Omni 27 reaches the limits of all-in-one size with its 27-inch display, but leaves resolution and power stagnant, to its detriment.
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Alienware X51 Review

The Alienware X51 crunches the power of a full-size gaming rig into the size of a console, providing top-notch graphics in a living-room-friendly package.
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Maingear Shift Super Stock X79 Review

We find out if Maingear's extreme configuration of the Shift, the Super Stock X79, can outdo its predecessor.
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HP TouchSmart 520-1070 Review

The HP TouchSmart 520 offers a smart, touch-friendly design that would look at home in any living room, but gets expensive fast with upgrades.
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HP Phoenix HPE h9 Review

The HP Phoenix h9 gaming desktop balances performance with small size and everyday liveability.
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Acer Aspire M3970 Review

The Acer M3970 desktop pleases with its solid design, plethora of ports, and quiet fans, but ultimately fails to impress with an underwhelming graphics card.
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Maingear Vybe Review

The Maingear Vybe Super Stock lays down serious processing power without breaking a sweat, or your budget.
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Falcon Northwest Mach V Review

Review: The Falcon Northwest Mach V combines top-shelf components with an innovative tilted design for a nearly unbeatable – if expensive – gaming rig.
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HP TouchSmart 610 Review

Review: The HP TouchSmart 610 reclines with a unique hinged design, making the brawny touchscreen all-in-one as versatile as it is powerful.
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Lenovo ThinkCentre M90z Review

Review: The Lenovo ThinkCentre M90z all-in-one desktop offers a practical down-to-business build, but last-generation hardware condemns it to poor performance for the price.
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Falcon Northwest FragBox Review

Review: The Falcon Northwest FragBox caters to LAN-party lovers with a portable form factor and blazing performance, but blasts blazing heat, too.
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Origin Genesis Review

The Origin Genesis achieves the outlandish overclocked performance of a DIY buuld with the quality, customer service and good looks of a professional build.
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iBuyPower Erebus Review

iBuyPower’s flagship Erebus Gaming PC delivers the bang if you’ve got the bucks. Ridiculous gaming performance outshines some minor design oddities.
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Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 Review

Review: Lenovo's affordable nettop, the IdeaCentre Q150, delivers as a media player but lacks the power to perform more complex tasks.
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Maingear Shift Review

Review: Maingears's Shift pumps out enough gaming performance to go along with a beautiful, innovative design to justify its high starting price.

Dell’s new Inspiron computers focus on family entertainment

Yesterday, Dell released the new Inspiron One and Inspiron Zino HD desktops. The Inspiron One offers Stage, a new Dell-designed interface which, delivers one-touch access to music, photos, videos and more.
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Apple iMac 27-inch (Core i5) Review

We review the latest addition to Apple's iMac line, which features a 27-inch display, Intel Core i5 processor and pixel-pushing ATI Radeon HD 5750.
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Asus EeeBox EB1501 Review

We review Asus' EeeBox EB1501, a mini-desktop PC the size of a paperback novel that's capable of surfing the net, writing papers, and playing back full HD 1080p content.

Acer AspireRevo Review

We review the Acer AspireRevo, a small form PC that makes a compelling case to be part of your living room setup.
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HP Pavilion MS225 Review

We learn in our review that HP's latest Pavilion MS225 all-in-one makes just the right compromises, delivering solid value at a very low price point.

HP TouchSmart 600 Review

We review HP's TouchSmart 600-1055 all-in-one touchscreen PC and we think its performance warrants its price.

Asus Eee Top ET2203 Review

We review Asus' swing at Apple's iMac with its powerful-yet-affordable ET2203 Eee Top.

Gateway One ZX Series Review

As we found out in our review, the Gateway One ZX offers excellent performance in an attractive package and at a reasonable price, outshining its novel premise as a touch-based machine.

HP TouchSmart 300 Review

The HP TouchSmart 300 gets an Editor's Choice Award in our review for ease of use and value.

ViewSonic VPC100 Review

The Viewsonic VPC100 is slim and affordable, but it's only capable of performing the most basic of computing tasks.

HP Pavilion Slimline s5160f Review

Don't let the size fool you: HP's inexpensive Pavilion Slimline s5160f tears through multimedia.

HP Pavilion Elite m9600t Review

Despite the bland styling, this desktop packs plenty of power for non-enthusiast users.

MSI Wind Top AE1900 Review

Most buyers will wish they had shelled out a little bit more for the polish lacking in this machine.

Asus Eee Top ET1602 Review

We found it hard to get over the missing DVD drive on this otherwise well-rounded machine.

Alienware Area-51 X58 Review

Alienware's super machine will dominate every game you can throw at it, and your wallet, too.

HP Firebird 802 Review

Price, style and efficiency put this PC in its own category, even if others can outrun it.

Dell XPS 625 Review

Dell's new entry-level gaming rig performs well, looks like it means business, and won't put you in hock.

HP TouchSmart IQ506 Review

The HP TouchSmart IQ506 is a cool concept, but there just isn't enough power under the hood.
Senior Editor, Computing

Luke Larsen is a Senior Editor at Digital Trends and manages all content covering laptops, Macs, monitors, PC hardware, and peripherals. Around here we call it “computing,” but here’s a good rule of thumb: If it’s a computer or something that plugs into a computer, you found your guy. Oh, and these days, AI too. So much AI.

After getting a degree in music from the University of Oregon, Luke started his career in media hoping to get into music journalism. But when the opportunity arose, he landed in tech and hasn’t looked back since. He has over a decade of tech journalism experience, first joining Digital Trends in 2017 as a native Portlander, happy to join a tech media company that called his city home. Before working at DT, he worked as Tech Editor at Paste Magazine for over four years and has bylines at publications such as IGN, TouchArcade (RIP), and The Oregonian.

In his years at Digital Trends so far, Luke has covered high-profile industry events such as CES, IFA, and Microsoft Build, delivering on-the-ground coverage, breaking news, and first-hand reporting. He’s hosted countless YouTube videos, made podcast appearances, and written over 600 articles.

Some of his earliest tech memories include learning HTML through his MySpace account and trying to play Baldur’s Gate II on his parents’ dusty old beige box. These days, his obsession with technology is in telling stories with tech — in finding the narratives that ebb and flow through both technological advancement and product design, trickling right on down to our day-to-day experience of it. He is convinced that we all spend too much of our time using technology and not enough time thinking about it — cue a healthy dose of navel-gazing and philosophizing.

When he’s not endlessly debating what the best laptop is, Luke spends his days being a dad and a husband. Oh, and when there’s time (which there isn’t), he’s an avid fiction writer, player of designer board games, and still occasionally makes some music.