Monthly Archives: August 1999
JVC – HC-E100 PocketMail
If you just want to check your e-mails from a remote location, and don’t particularly like carrying all the associated paraphernalia – notebook, modem, cables, international phone socket adapters, and so on – around with you, you’re usually restricted to relying on the facilities available in your destination hotel. But now, it seems, there’s an…
Oregon Scientific – Osaris
Psion recently launched an updated version of its Series 5 palmtop computer, but although Psion’s Epoc operating system is not as widespread as Windows CE, it is licensed to one or two other manufacturers. Oregon Scientific would appear to be one such manufacturer, because the Osaris not only runs Epoc, but it also looks very…
ATI – All-In-Wonder 128
ATI display cards have tended to lag behind some rivals in terms of ultimate 3D game performance, but they have always been leaders in streaming video performance for playing digital video movies. This reputation is further enhanced by the ATI All in Wonder 128, which is a good 3D performer, though not in the top…
Elonex – Piranha
Sub-notebooks are where computing is most sexy, and the Piranha is one of the more desirable examples we’ve seen. Its design is effectively that of a miniature notebook, with a smaller screen and external CDROM and floppy, as opposed to the esoteric designs favoured by Sony or Toshiba whose compacted keyboards and half-sized screens can…
Kodak – DC280
Kodak’s range of digital cameras has grown over the past year or so into a very competent selection of products. As technology has advanced, which it’s prone to do in this fast-developing marketplace, Kodak has kept pace and the company’s latest camera utilises what the box refers to as ’2.0 Megapixel’ CCD technology. This effectively…
Elsa – Winner II 3D
Judging the abilities of Elsa’s Winner II 3D graphics card with only the evidence of its price would be a serious injustice. With a recommended price of £79.99 for the 16MB version we tested and the knowledge that it is discounted widely, there are few other 3D cards which can match the Winner II’s bang…
Philips – FreeSpeech 2000
There has been a large number of major obstacles faced by the PC speech recognition and dictation industry, including price, accuracy, installation training time, ease of use and the quality of the microphone you speak into. Philips FreeSpeech 2000 is the closest yet to conquering all of these obstacles. FreeSpeech 2000 is competitive with the…
Western Digital – Expert 18GB
Hard drives continue to get bigger and faster. Western Digital’s new EIDE drive offers nothing particularly new in terms of capacity, since there are other desktop hard drives available with capacities of more than 18GB. But what it does offer is speed. This is one of very few desktop drives with a spindle speed of…
Cybergeddon – Cybergeddon 2000
With just over four months to go until the beginning of a new millennium, there are still plenty of non-compliant PCs out there. PCs which may either fail to correctly ‘roll over’ from 31st December 1999 to 1st January 2000, or which may take anything from a tenth of a second to several hours for…
Adaptec – Easy CD Creator 4 Deluxe
Is it really only a year since the last incarnation of Adaptec’s comprehensive CD copier/creator was launched? You’d have thought it would be far too soon to launch a successor, but in Easy CD Creator 4 Deluxe, Adaptec has come up with a winner. Apart from a slicker interface, step-by-step guides and a daft Microsoft-Office-paperclip-style…