There's no denying that the desktop PC is facing an uncertain future. Its market share is being eroded by tablet PCs, laptops and even smartphones as more of our computing tasks are going mobile.

Time for a spot of word association. We say workstation, you think big, black monolith. Right? What to make, then, of HP's new Z1 all-in-one workstation?

While Chromebooks struggle in the mobile market, how will the desktop-based Chromebox Series 3 XE300M22 fare against traditional PCs?

Chillblast's Fusion Cosmos ticks all the performance boxes and the awesome chassis makes it one hell of an imposing rig too.

Dell's gaming-centric Alienware brand has gone down the console form factor route with its Alienware X51 PCs.

The CyberPower Infinity Achilles is the most affordable of the Ivy Bridge PCs we've seen, but at just under a grand you'd struggle to actually call it cheap. Though there are most definitely compromises in this sub-£1,000 build.

It's never going to be any gaming beast, but as a bedroom PC or even a decent little home theatre machine, it's absolutely ideal.

The powerful combo of Nvidia GTX 680 and Intel Core i7 3770K makes for one speedy little machine with a specs list to die for.

This PC is the perfect example of a modern, future-proof, gaming PC - replete with Intel 3rd Generation Core goodness.

With a GTX 680 humming away inside this rig has been 100% designed with a focus on gaming. We can't help but applaud that.

Rapidly becoming as well-known for its mini PCs as it is for its Nvidia-based graphics cards, Zotac has released yet another version of the ZBox.

When Sapphire launched the first Edge-HD mini PC back in early 2011, it claimed it was the world's smallest PC - and at under half a litre in volume, it was hard to disagree.

Chillblast has decided that one nutsy component is enough for this gaming rig - lucky, since the AMD HD 7970 puts it over £1,000.

Can the new Packard Bell OneTwo L combine the power of a desktop computer with a slim form, to win us over to all-in-one PCs?

What we have here is a good ol' fashioned straight Sandy Bridge machine with the perfect PC gaming chip thrumming away inside: the Core i7 2700K. Oh, and two Radeon HD 7970s.

CyberPower has dropped the lower-end Sandy Bridge E chip, the Core i7 3930K, into this machine and paired it up with the best single-GPU card currently available, the Nvidia GTX 580.

Can this all-in-one desktop PC entertain everyone?

This all-in-one touchscreen PC provides real power

With the XDNA Platinum sat on your desktop, purring away quietly as it does, with its cold-cathode tubes illuminating the clean lines of the immaculate interior, even £2,500 worth of buyer's remorse will have a hard job up against such an impressive machine.

An all-in-one PC you won't be able to keep your hands off

As teenie tiny as the reason for its existence

This PC holds more performance in its tower than we've seen of any commercial PC

Are we closer to finding the perfect gear combination?

Does the Dino PC MediaJoy 3850 succeed where other HTPCs have failed?

Like a scary robot polar bear, this beast has fearsome power