Monthly Archives: November 2003
Palm – Tungsten T2
No sharp executive or journalist about town is complete these days without a smooth PDA to slip into his or her top pocket, and Palm has been at the forefront of the computer-in-your-hand revolution. The aim here is crystal clear – to upgrade the earlier Tungsten T with a bit more of everything that was…
HP – Photosmart 230
HP’s small photo printer aims to be a neat solution for those specifically interested in digital photography and home printing. About the size – though not the weight – of a house brick, HP’s Photosmart 230 printer is a self-contained device, which can be used with or without a PC connected. A feed tray folds…
Jadetec – ClipDrive Bio
Jadetec specialises in miniature PCs and gadgets for them, like this memory drive. Memory drives have proved increasingly popular for storing medium-sized files and transferring them from machine to machine. This new ClipDrive is one such memory drive, but with a difference – it reads your fingerprints. Any recent PC – running Windows 98 or…
Fujitsu Siemens – Pocket LOOX 600
The introduction of Intel’s PXA250 XScale processor and Microsoft’s Pocket PC 2003 has seen a wave of new or updated PDAs hitting the market. Fujitsu Siemens’ Pocket LOOX 600 is one such new gadget. Built around a 400MHz version of the XScale chip, the Pocket LOOX 600 comes with 32MB of ROM and 64MB of…
Philips – 170S4FB
It’s a sign of the times that something which once – eighteen months or even a year ago – was seen as out of reach of a great many people, now comes bundled with some PC systems. So it is with flat panel monitors, even 17-inch ones such as the clumsily-named 170S4FB from Philips. As…
FujiFilm – CX-400 minilab
Printing colour images from a digital camera is usually the province of ink-jet printers. They’re certainly pretty good at it, but there are other options, such as the special coating technology used in this Fujifilm printer. It takes just one consumable – paper. About the size and shape of a small till, the CX-400 minilab…
HP – iPAQ H5500
Replacing the H5400 as top dog in the iPAQ line up, the H5500 offers better performance, more memory and Pocket PC 2003, but at a price only corporate users will be able to afford. The H5500 is powered by the fastest XScale processor currently offered by Intel – 400MHz – backed up by a whopping…
Palm – Zire 71
The original Palm Zire was aimed directly at the first time user, with just 2MB of memory and a monochrome screen. However, the Zire 71 is a completely different animal; fast, with an excellent colour screen and packed with features, it offers a good alternative to either the mid-range Sony Clié or a Pocket PC…
Buena Vista Games – Tron 2.0
A sign of the times, perhaps? When you open the box for Tron 2.0, you’re immediately faced with blatant ads for Nvidia and Intel, insinuating that to get the best of the game you need to invest in products from these two firms. Call us rebellious, but we tested the game on an Athlon XP…
Apple – 17-inch PowerBook G4
Not more than an inch in width and made of gleaming stain and scratch-resistant aluminium, the PowerBook G4 is all about sleekness and sexiness of design. What it isn’t, though, is a handy portable to take on trips and business meetings, as the 17-inch width is really too unwieldy to manoeuvre through aeroplane aisles and…