In the wider world, as the country slips from the summer heatwave, the world of technology continues to heat up – and both are on offer in our Computing Anywhere feature. When you can take your machine anywhere, why sit in a baking hot office instead of outside on the lawn, with a drink in one hand and a trackball in the other? We show you that the dream could be closer than you think – and, in our next feature, how reinventing an old technology can sometimes be the best way to look to the future. Hardware Virtualisation proves just one good example. Could your next PC be virtual?

In Reviews, as well as that Core 2 Duo processor, we have a media centre that outdoes Media Center, plus a spread of hardware and software to take you from Google Earth, to the land of Apple MacBooks. On the SuperDVD, you’ll find a full beta copy of Office 2007, yours to use for the next seven months, complete with a set of in-depth articles showing you how to get the most out of the new features, get to grips with the new interface, and demonstrate once and for all how a few simple changes can revolutionise the way you work.

Web accessibility guru Jakob Nielsen is in the hot-seat this month, talking about site design, and the importance of the eye when building your own site. And if building’s what you want to do, this month’s Hands On provides plenty of sample projects, in Linux, online, Office 2003 and 2007, Mac, C# and more.

And that’s just the start of our features, reviews, previews, and top-quality SuperDVD products. PC Plus 245 is available now in all good newsagents.