Monthly Archives: August 2000
CTX – PR960F
The price of 19-inch monitors is now comparable with that of 17-inch units about 18 months ago, making them realistic choices for anyone buying a new system. This latest monitor from CTX uses Sony’s FD (Flat Display) Trinitron tube, and is one of the best displays we’ve come across at any price. A full range…
Adaptec – Go Back
Ooops, you’ve accidentally deleted a file and emptied the recycle bin. How clumsy. Expert use of complicated disk tools might enable you to recover the file, but wouldn’t it be nicer to be able to turn the clock back to just before you made that silly mistake? That’s precisely what Adaptec Go Back is designed…
Dell – Inspiron 3800 G700GT
The Inspiron 3800 is Dell’s most affordable power notebook, and as such is aimed at the small business or home buyer who wants a laptop rather than a desktop cluttering up the place. It comes with a software bundle to match its targeting in the form of Works Suite 2000, and a Psion Dacom GoldCard…
Palmtops group test
Things are hotting up for anyone who fancies buying a pocket-sized palmtop ‘personal digital assistant’ (PDA) thanks to three recent developments. First, Palm Computing has licensed its award-winning Palm operating system (Palm OS) to recent startup HandSpring, so expanding the Palm platform to new and unusual machines. Second, Microsoft has learnt many lessons from its…
Focus Multimedia – The Hutchinson Directory of Web Sites
Search engines. They’re great things, at least in theory, but how many times have you typed something in and then sighed at the results? It’s either 4,000 possible matches which you then have to trawl through, or two matches which both sound about as relevant as the following word does to this ending of this…
Take 2 Interactive – Flying Heroes
While the subject matter of Flying Heroes might not be original – and that’s putting it mildly; it’s a deathmatch game – the implementation definitely is. Imagine your Quake marine, not dressed in his laser-scarred battle armour, but rather in flowing silk, complete with turban and wielding a wickedly curved, razor-sharp scimitar, possibly with a…
Elsa – MicroLink 56k Fun
If you’re wondering about the ‘Fun’ in the name of this modem, in this case it seems to mean ‘Transparent Green’. Or it might refer to the picture on the box, of a young woman roller-blading in what seems to be her underwear. Perhaps this is a reminder of some of the ‘Fun’ sites you…
Mitsubishi – Diamond Plus 73
Mitsubishi obtained the rights to manufacture its own version of Sony’s Trinitron tube years ago in a technology-sharing agreement between the two companies. Mitsubishi Diamondtron screens have since become more widely used by monitor builders than even the Sony variety, but Mitsubishi continued to develop the design and eventually came up with the Diamondtron NF…
Symantec – Norton Anti-Virus 2000
The recent spate of scripting viruses, including the notorious ILOVEYOU virus, has been a stark reminder of the importance of protecting your PC from external attack. Symantec’s Norton Anti-Virus is one of the most well-known anti-virus packages, and with the newly released NAV 2000 version 6, it now covers all flavours of Windows from 3.1…
Budget PCs group test
NEC has been selling PCs direct for a couple of years now and its buying power has a big effect on the value it can build into its systems. The most obvious sign of this on the outside is the 100MB Iomega Zip drive, sitting between the CD and the floppy. It’s useful to have…