Monthly Archives: March 2001
Electronic Arts – American McGee’s Alice
If you’re not familiar with the name American McGee then you weren’t a Quake fanatic back in the ‘good old days’, for he was responsible for many of the cool level designs prevalent in the id Software classic. This is his own project though, and a bit of a departure from the old first person…
Maris – Redshift 4
The words “Red Dwarf” probably make you think of a comedy programme, and “White Dwarf” a role playing game magazine (depending on how mis-spent your youth was). However, if your mind immediately leaps to images of dwindling stars instead, you’ll probably be pretty familiar with Maris’ RedShift series. It’s the consummate astronomy reference guide for…
Xircom – CreditCard Wireless Ethernet Adapter
Interest in wireless networking seems to be gathering pace, hanging on the coat-tails of Bluetooth’s (deserved or undeserved) hype. Xircom’s CreditCard Wireless Ethernet Adapter supports 11Mbps wireless connectivity, conforming to the IEEE 802.11b standard. This means that it can communicate with other 802.11b adapters and LAN access points, either as part of an existing network…
Samsung – Yepp Digital Audio Player
Digital Audio and MP3 players are still mainly youth products and player manufacturers feel they have to attract buyers as much by appearance as by the technology itself. Samsung has just introduced the typographically-challenged Yepp (they call it yepp’), a miniature player around 60mm by 80mm by 25mm thick, though its heavily curved lines make…
ViewSonic – ViewPanel VG175
Flat panel monitors are great things to have, but they remain depressingly expensive. Big, high resolution flat panels are even nicer to own, and correspondingly painful to finance, but there’s some light at the end of the tunnel thanks to ViewSonic. £1,299 before VAT isn’t exactly cheap, granted, but when you consider the following fact,…
IBM – NetVista A40
IBM’s NetVista range of PCs is available in a variety of flavours, with different displays, processors, software and other components. The one we looked at, the A40, is aimed at the SME (small- to medium-sized enterprise) market. Inside the unique, black, mini-tower case is an Intel Pentium III 866MHz processor, socket-mounted on one of Intel’s…
NEC – Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2045u
Not everyone wants a 30kg behemoth squatting on their desk, but for some users a quality high resolution display isn’t a luxury, it’s an essential tool for doing the job. These are the kind of people Mitsubishi is after with its new 22-inch Diamondtron NF tube, which is – no surprise – what you will…