Monthly Archives: December 2000
Pentax – EI-2000 digital SLR camera
The new Pentax EI-2000 is an ‘SLR’ (Single Lens Reflex), which means that you see through the optical viewfinder via the lens which takes the picture, instead of a separate viewfinder. This arrangement means you can see the true depth of field and focus of the picture before it is taken. Although the EI-2000 also…
Microsoft – Money 2001
For those new to Money, this is a complete personal finance manager, not just a bank account and cash flow organiser. Money organises your savings and investments, and tracks performance with a built-in portfolio manager. You can quickly see your top five best and worst performers, analyse performance and calculate risk and return. You can…
Focus Multimedia – The Hutchinson Encyclopedia 2001
The Hutchinson effort is acknowledged as one of the heavyweight contenders for the multimedia encyclopaedia top spot, and the year 2001 version brings with it the usual round of enhancements. It sings, it dances, it juggles flaming sticks and it even makes your tea if you ask it nicely. Okay, maybe not; we’ll have to…
PC steering wheels group test
Logitech’s WingMan Formula GP offering looks well made and sports snazzy, bright yellow, rubberised grip inserts in the rim of the steering wheel. It’s certainly comfortable to grip and the fingertip gearshift switches are in just the right place. There are also several other programmable buttons on the front of the steering wheel. Logitech does…
Activision – Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
If the IT Reviews hacks were given a Medorrian credit for every Star Trek licensed game released on the PC over the last few years, we’d be pretty rich, that’s for sure. If only the planet Medor existed we could go and spend them too. But we digress… It’s a fact much vaunted by cynical…
Kodak – DC3800
One of the latest models in the Kodak digital camera series is the DC3800. Weighing in at 165g without batteries and with dimensions of 95 x 33 x 61mm, it is so small that it can fit into the palm of your hand. It has a 2.1-megapixel resolution, 24-bit colour CCD array and supports two…
Intel – 1.5GHz Pentium 4
Intel claims a lot for the Pentium 4, its latest and probably last 32-bit processor. It’s intended as a revamp of the Pentium III, to tide the world’s largest chip producer over until its 64-bit design comes through at the end of 2001. The Pentium 4 uses the same manufacturing process as the latest Pentium…
Mesh – Matrix 1.2GT Pro
The Mesh Matrix is one of those PCs built for users who are going to push their machines hard. The emphasis is on speed, so the spec is full of big numbers, kicking off with the 1.2GHz AMD Athlon processor, chip of choice for the seriously power-mad. Intelligently, Mesh has been generous with the memory,…
IBM – Microdrive 1GB & PC Card adapter
The IBM Microdrive is a hard drive with a difference, boasting a footprint of less than one square inch and packaged as a Compact Flash Type II card. IBM has increased the capacity of the award-winning Microdrive to a phenomenal one gigabyte. This gives it far higher capacity and lower cost per megabyte than Compact…
Microsoft – SideWinder Game Voice
What do you give the game fanatic who has everything? A can of Red Bull and a SideWinder Game Voice. This communication unit has no direct bearing on a game itself but does, as they say, enhance the gaming experience. The small, circular, black box is covered with an unhealthy number of buttons on its…