Monthly Archives: June 2001
Gateway – Performance 1400SS
The Performance is a power desktop with enough leisure-orientated features to qualify it as an all-rounder, suitable for spreadsheets and shoot -’em-ups alike. It’s based on a 1.4GHz Pentium 4, teamed up with Intel’s 850 motherboard chipset, which brings all the appropriate bells and whistles like AGP 4x, Rambus support and an onboard UltraATA/100 hard…
Elsa – MicroLink ISDN USB Connect
Despite the lure of high-speed, always-on, cable modems and ADSL, a lot of people continue to use ISDN, or its BT Highway variant. Part of this reason is because you get a guaranteed data speed per channel of 64 kilobits per second. In theory (and, in our experience, in practice), ADSL or cable modem connections…
Roxio – Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum
Adaptec has recently spun off some of its titles under the Roxio banner, among them Easy CD Creator. For years now this has been one of the two leading CD creation packages (the other being Nero Burning ROM) thanks to its inclusion in various forms with a great many new CD-R and CD-RW drives. You…
Elsa – Gladiac 920
Things have been pretty quiet in the world of graphics card technical development of late, but now that’s all about to change thanks to Nvidia and its new GPU – the GeForce3. Designed for DirectX 8 and supporting hardware acceleration of such effects as volumetric fog, particle effects, reflective bump mapping and animated water surfaces,…