Monthly Archives: September 2003
Dell – Latitude D600
As with all its notebook lines, Dell has recently re-vamped the corporate Latitude range, giving these laptops a smarter look as well as the latest Intel mobile technology. The Latitude D series is the top of the range, with the D600 positioned by Dell as offering a balance between mobility and performance. The new range…
Electronics Arts – F1 Challenge ’99-’02
Riddle us this – what’s the difference between “F1 Career Challenge” and “F1 Challenge”. Not much of a riddle we know, no doubt a certain fictional green-suited fop is spinning ‘neath his enigmatic epitaph, but it’s a pertinent one for this review. Stumped? Well in actual fact they’re the same EA game, but the added…
Toshiba – Satellite Pro M10
There are seven notebooks in Toshiba’s Satellite Pro M10 series, and they all use an Intel Centrino chip. If we’re being strictly accurate, Centrino is actually four chips as there is the processor, the chipset units and the wireless networking chip, but let’s gloss over that technicality. We’re looking at one of the more well…
Eidos – Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
Oft delayed. Beset by secrecy. Over two years in development. But has the latest adventure for Lara Croft been worth the wait? No, frankly. Falling well short of what fans of the franchise had the right to expect, as well as barely endearing itself to new Lara-ites, The Angel of Darkness is the equivalent of…
Sharp – PGM-25X
The Sharp PGM-25X DLP projector is a sleek unit that is finished in silver and dark grey. On the top are a dozen navigation buttons, neatly recessed, but at first sight there are no ports to connect up your notebook or PC. These are hidden away under a rubber bung on the side, which pops…
Sony Ericsson – P800
Cast your mind back a year or two and you may recall that there was a time when telephones were used to make telephone calls. These days we expect far, far more from a phone than the mere ability to carry a conversation, and that’s particularly true of the latest generation of Smart phone. Where…
Creative – 3D Blaster 5 FX 5600 Ultra
There is no doubt that the arrival of the first Nvidia GeForce graphics card was a landmark for serious PC gamers who wanted to make the most of the lavish backgrounds in their first-person shoot-’em-ups. Having pushed the first four generations of this brand as far as it could, Nvidia’s latest GPU – the GeForce…
Sub-£100 inkjet printers group test
Unfortunately, the myth of the paperless office is just that – a myth. We all seem to print more pages now than we ever did. Make a purchase over the Internet and you’ll want to print off your order acknowledgement. See an interesting Web site and you might print off a couple of pages for…
Lexmark – X1150
The X1150 is one of a new breed of all-in-one devices from Lexmark. It’s much lower to the desk than previous machines of its type and looks like a squat, personal photocopier. With just four buttons and a power switch on its control panel, it’s very easy to use, relying heavily on the Windows or…
Samsung – Digimax V4
Samsung may not be one of the first names to spring to mind when you think of digital cameras, but the company has a good name for quality compact conventional cameras and now offers a wide range of mid-range digital devices. The Digimax V4 is the company’s new top-of-the-range camera and, although styled like a…