Monthly Archives: August 2003
UbiSoft – PlanetSide
As soon as it became clear that gamers were willing to pay a tenner a month to play in a persistent online world, there has been rather a glut of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). Fair enough, these are expensive projects and they’re constantly updated, but there are definitely dollars, euros and pounds in them…
Trust – 770Z
With an initially quite impressive-looking specification for the price, Trust’s compact and sleek 770Z digital camera arrived with a reasonable degree of promise. The manufacturer behind it, while not likely to rival the likes of Sony or Kodak, has been steadily growing in confidence with its digital camera range after a bumpy start. The 770Z?…
ATTO – iPBridge 2500C
ATTO has been developing bridge solutions for several years and is well known for its fibre channel (FC) to SCSI bridge solutions. Its latest product, the 2500C, enables a direct bridge between Gigabit Ethernet and SCSI devices. Using intelligent bridging architecture, the ATTO bridge enables you to connect the latest Ethernet technology with existing SCSI…
IBM – Thinkpad G40
Manufacturers have been putting desktop processors inside notebooks for years, so in a sense the presence of a 2.4GHz desktop Pentium 4 inside IBM’s new Thinkpad G40 is hardly ground-breaking. What is interesting is the way in which the reasons behind the choice of a desktop CPU for a notebook have changed. Back in the…
DVICO – Momobay CX-2
If you’re looking for fast external storage, to supplement existing internal drives, to provide quick and reliable backup or to transfer large amounts of data from one PC to another, you should look at a plug-in, external hard drive. There are two main ways of connecting these, by USB 2 or FireWire (the original USB…
Iridium – Starbook 750
One of the laptop manufacturers to adopt Intel’s Centrino technology is Iridium, and the company’s Starbook 750 notebook is a satisfying marriage of the work of both firms. Yet the first major point of note is just how quiet the machine is. When working, it’s quite possible that you won’t hear any audible clues that…