Monthly Archives: May 2002
Intel – Wireless Gateway
Wireless networking can make a lot of sense in certain environments, such as private homes and open-plan offices, as you avoid the cost, inconvenience and unsightliness of cables. Wireless adapters and hubs are more expensive than cabled ones, but overall the cost difference isn’t that great. Intel’s Wireless Gateway is designed to do two things….
Canon – PowerShot G2
One of the best-selling digital cameras of the past year was Canon’s PowerShot G1, a popular camera with professionals and amateurs alike. Now Canon has made some significant enhancements, not least a 4 megapixel CCD, to produce its latest model, the PowerShot G2. Very similar in design to the G1, the plastic and magnesium body…
Cardmedia – Easydisk
Strictly speaking, this isn’t actually a disk drive, but it behaves like one. It’s a very small device that plugs into your PC’s USB port and can be used to store data. Like other devices of its type (we’ve reviewed another one here), it’s based on flash memory, which stores data even when its external…
Ricoh – MP5120A DVD+RW drive
At present there are three incompatible formats for recording data on DVD discs: DVD-RAM offered by Matsushita, DVD-RW developed by Pioneer, which is the most popular recording standard, and DVD+RW, the youngest format which has some advantages over DVD-RW but is still not widespread among disc drive makers. One advantage of DVD+R/RW discs is that…