Most people can’t afford to spend £1000 on a laptop. Workhorse budget laptops that make up that bulk of what you’ll find on high street shelves rarely get much attention, though. Today we’re here to ask: what does £280 get you in 2016? Here's our Asus X553SA review. See also: Best budget laptops 2016.
The Asus X553SA is a cheap laptop, with a good great of entry-level features across the board in a ‘proper’ laptop frame. Asus would readily admit there are compromises at this point, but should they put you off a buy?
Having spend a good while the laptop, there’s only one major issue here: performance. Intel has made amazing progress with its Core M series processors over the last 18 months, but the Celeron chipset used here is slow. Matched with a slow hard drive, you’ll need patience to get on with the Asus X553SA.
Also see: Best laptops 2016 UK

ASUS X553SA REVIEW: PRICE
At £279, the Asus X553SA is not too far off as little as you can spend on a new, full-size 15.6-inch laptop that has a large hard drive rather than a tiny Chromebook-style wedge of solid state memory.
It’s also available cut-price at £249 at the time of writing, clearly with its eye on the bargain hunter

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MESH ELITE SKYLAKE PCA SKYLAKE GAMING PC REVIEW
It may not resemble a gaming PC at first glance, but the Mesh Elite Skylake PCA exudes quality. Its tower case comes with a matt black finished that’s soft to the touch, giving it an expensive feel, while at the top an illuminated display shows the current CPU temperature in a variety of colours which can be altered at the push of a button. Also see: Best gaming PCs 2015/2016.
Unlike most of the gaming PCs we review, the case has no transparent side panel. It’s a real shame in this case, because the Mesh Skylake PCA is by far the most impressive-looking inside. The case is spacious, with plenty of available drive bays and the Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 3 motherboard features attractive red and black details. Most impressive though is the Raijintek Triton 250mm high performance all-in-one CPU cooler, its two transparent pipes fat and filled with striking blue coolant. There’s also a blue downlight which illuminates the desk surface from the bottom of the case. We’d say the build quality of this case is considerably higher than most, certainly a tier above those from Cyberpower and Chillblast.
Under that fancy cooler lurks an Intel Core-i5 6600K Skylake processor, overclocked from 3.5GHz to 4.4GHz. This yields a decent boost in performance without pushing components to the absolute limit. It’s coupled with 16GB of 2400MHz DDR4 RAM – a little faster than the base 2133MHz stuff found in lower-end systems and comes with a 250GB Samsung SSD backed by a 1TB Seagate hard drive. Although the SSD uses one of the two M.2 ports on the motherboard, it’s using the SATA interface, rather than PCI-E so it can’t match the raw performance of the Samsung 128GB SM951 used by Chillblast. However it does perform very well and its extra capacity may well prove more beneficial than extra speed. See all PC reviews.
Mesh has opted for the ever-popular Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 graphics card in the Elite Skylake PCA, and in this case it’s a Palit-branded model running at standard clock speeds, rather than the boosted speeds found in some competitors’ systems.

Mesh’s chosen motherboard doesn’t just look good, it’s also designed specifically for gaming and comes with a selection of features not found on lesser models. Not only does it support USB 3.1, but it also supports USB 3.1 Gen 2 which allows for speeds of up to 10Gb/s and up to a claimed 16 Gb/s using Intel’s USB 3.1 controller. It also supports both USB Type-C and Type-A connectors.
Audio quality has also been boosted, claiming 115dB signal to noise ratio and featuring support for the Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 audio suite. The OP-Amp chips have also been made user-upgradable, so if you want the very best sound quality, you can swap them out for higher-fidelity alternatives of your choice. See all gaming

Powerful gaming PCs commonly come with big, beefy graphics cards requiring correspondingly cumbersome and unwieldy system cases which really don’t look good in a typical living room. If you want something closer to the size and convenience of a console system, you will usually have to make large sacrifices when it comes to graphics power - which would probably negate one of the main reasons to go with a PC system in the first place.
Chillblast’s Nano PCs have for a long time offered a good balance of size and performance, by making use of small form factor Mini ITX components: The system case, motherboard and graphics card are all considerably smaller in size than in a desktop PC, making them easier to transport to LAN parties, or to tuck away next your living room TV.
What you gain in compactness, you often lose in terms of reduced internal expansion room, fewer motherboard slots, and crucially for a gaming system, a limit on the size of the graphics card you can fit in the case. Previous high-end models have used the popular GeForce GTX 970 from Nvidia (see last year's Chillblast Fusion Nano review), which optionally comes in a Mini ITX format, but the GTX 970 is a few steps down from the top of the ladder when it comes to performance.

The gaming scene is growing at a rapid pace and in Counter-Strike a new association has been formed, the World Esports Association (WESA). In this article we explore what WESA is, the implications and benefits it brings to all stakeholders and the outlook of eSports.

WESA in eSports: what is WESA?
WESA stands for the World Esports Association and was announced to the world on 13 May 2016 and currently only covers teams which play professionally in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The association aims to help professional players have more of a stance in their respective teams and ensure there's a better revenue split among teams - at least that's the aim.
The WESA brings together some of the biggest teams in Europe:

Fnatic
Natus Vincere
EnVyUs
Virtus.pro
G2 Esports
FaZe
Mousesports
Ninjas in Pyjamas
However, some big teams have been omitted from the initial announcement, such as Astralis from Denmark and all the other major teams which reside outside of Europe, such as Luminosity Gaming, Tempo Storm, Liquid to name just three out of the many non-European teams.
The omission of key teams has a lot of people baffled and somewhat angry at the way the WESA has been set up.

Obrum, the Polish defense company is currently developing an invisible battle tank. Straight out of Tron universe, the concept is known as the PL-01. Vehicle futuristic fight can go unnoticed by changing the temperature at its surface.
The goal is to avoid visual detection, infrared or radar based on deception. To do so, the fictional battle tank is equipped with temperature controllers panels. With this system, the vehicle can adapt its shielded depending on the temperature environment, thereby making the invisible thermal imaging analysis.
Kind of vehicle chameleon, it can also use its panels to reproduce a camouflage pattern, allowing it to blend naturally in nature. With camera mounted on top, an operator can steer enjoying a 360 degree view.
The production of PL-01 is expected to begin later in 2018 and whose assembly is scheduled for 2022.

With the Xplore XC6 there is now a Windows Tablet for rough terrain. Even at a height of over 15,000 meters in 60 degree heat and sandstorms can the tablet with Windows 8.1 still use. The target groups are the military and all sorts of outdoor use.
The XC6 Xplore tablet is IP67 certified, which means that it is absolutely dustproof and also about 30 minutes against submersion protected.Xplore is claims to be the only manufacturer that offers IP67 certified tablets. The XC6 is also the  outdoor tablet to be available on the market. A battery life of up to eight and a half hours to guarantee that outdoor use is never silence too fast. The operating system acts Windows 8.1 Pro or Windows 7 Pro.
Readable even in bright sunlight

The Xplore XC6 is a DMSR-Tablet (Abbr: dual mode sunlight readable).The maximum brightness of 1,300 cd / m² will allow a good read even in bright sunlight. The touch screen should be capable of operation even with wet fingers or gloves. The tablet produced for extreme conditions to temperatures of minus 34 to plus 60 degrees withstand and can be used both in ice and snow as well as in the desert. Also, over 64 km / h Wind speed can not hurt the tablet, and it can be even in height 15.240 meters to keep.
High storage capacity

Inside the Outdoor Tablets an Intel Core i5 processor potters. The storage capacity of the Windows tablets will have quadrupled compared to its predecessor. In addition, a micro SD slot is available. The RAM is 4 GB, on request Xplore equips the XC6 DMSR with up to 16 GB DDR3L-1600 from. Who wants to ensure the ultimate outdoor tablet, must for at least $ 5,299 shell.
Video: Xplore XC6 Tablet with Windows 8.1