Monthly Archives: June 2002
Olympia – SoundBug
Loudspeakers are bulky boxes you leave in your living room. Headphones are trim transducers you stick in your ears. These are the two options you have for playing music, computer sounds and radio broadcasts. Well, not quite. There’s now the Olympia SoundBug too. Although it doesn’t describe itself as such, the SoundBug is a radically…
PowerQuest – Drive Image 2002
One of the most useful disk utility tools ever made has been tweaked and updated this year. Drive Image 2002 has the same core disk partition management abilities of previous versions, but there are some user-friendly additions too. As you’ll see from our review of a previous version of Drive Image, this piece of software…
Epson – EMP-71 Projector
Odd though it may sound, ‘portable’ LCD projectors come in a range of sizes and shapes. The Epson EMP-71, described as ultra-portable, is one of the bigger, bulkier devices to bear the description. It has a similar footprint to a notebook PC, but is around three times as thick and weighs in at 3.1kg. The…
Athlon motherboards group test
Built around the VIA KT333 Northbridge and the VIA VT8233A Southbridge, AOpen’s AK77-333 uses the now familiar AOpen “Black Beauty” PCB and can support ATA/133 as well as DDR333. The AK77-333 is a jumperless design with all the system adjustments being made in the BIOS. This leaves the board well laid out, with plenty of…
Eizo – FlexScan L365
LCD monitor prices have been fluctuating in recent months as demand continues to outstrip supply. As a result, the market for smaller screens is stronger than that for the big, 18-inch plus sizes. This 15-inch display hits the sweet spot for desktop monitors, because its viewable area is only a little smaller than that of…
MicroSeconds – EasyDesktop 7.0
Slightly more (ahem) mature readers may remember the vast number of DOS shell programs that used to be available. One of these was EasyDOS, very similar to Quikmenu. EasyDOS is still going strong in the days of Windows ubiquity, and is now known as EasyDesktop. As any power user will know, the installation of a…
VMWare – Workstation 3.1
It sometimes seems that rate of change of operating systems is much much higher than the applications that run under them. This applies as much to Linux as it does to Windows, though there is considerably less financial pain involved there than in attempting to keep up with Microsoft. If you have to support an…
Microtek – ScanMaker 5600
Unlike the majority of scanner manufacturers’ products, which are heading towards ever slimmer and sleeker designs, this USB-connected ScanMaker 5600 is more chunky than most scanners of its type. That’s partly because it’s not aimed at the entry level, style-conscious buyer. Instead, this device is intended for use by people solely concerned with image quality….
Konami – International Superstar Soccer 2
Over the years, we gamers have longed to play the perfect football simulation. We want a game which will let us play a classy, weighted through ball from midfield directly into the path of our star forward, who will crash it into the top left of the net under our near-divine joypad-powered guidance. We want…
Asus – L3C
The Mobile version of Intel’s Pentium 4 chip hasn’t been around for long, but Asus has already packaged it into this 1.7GHz notebook. That’s not as high a clock speed as the desktop Pentium 4 found in some notebooks, but the theory is that the Mobile chip should better match the rest of the notebook’s…