Monthly Archives: April 2005
Olympus – C-70 Zoom
In the crowded digital camera market, the products that are likely to get the edge are the ones aiming at superior quality of image allied to flexibility for the serious camera enthusiast and as many ‘extras’ as you can cram under the hood. The C-70 Zoom goes squarely for photo superiority with 7.1 megapixels of…
Intel – Pentium Extreme Edition 840 and Pentium D Dual Core
The Hyper-Threading technology that Intel uses in its Pentium 4 and Xeon processors makes a single processor work as two virtual processors, so the Pentium 4 in your PC appears to have two CPUs while a dual Xeon workstation has four virtual processors. The technology works very well, providing plenty of processing power relatively cheaply,…
LucasArts – Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
There’s a bewildering galaxy full of Star Wars games out there, but let’s face it, who’s counting? As soon as that golden text starts scrolling into the distance and the familiar music stirs into life, the anticipation mounts and your blaster trigger finger starts to itch. At least ours does. This is one licence that…
Twinhan – DTV MagicBox
Although the slow take-up of digital TV in the UK has taken many by surprise, not least of which the current government, things are slowly improving, aided by free-to-air digital services from the likes of Freeview. There may be many more set-top boxes around now than there were six months ago, but the fastest growth…
Print Audit Europe – Print Audit 4
You can do a lot more with Print Audit 4 than the product name would imply. In addition to finding out who’s printing what, when and where, the software can also be used to limit and direct print output. Added to which it lets you charge for printing with facilities to allocate costs to custom…
Saitek – Backlit PC Gaming Keyboard
To many people, the keyboard is one of the most subjective PC-related purchases to be made, so Saitek’s latest unit is a strong product. Aiming – as you’d expect from the name – at the serious gaming audience, it is nonetheless hardly likely to alienate those simply looking for a comfortable input device to work…
Phoenix Global Software – SuperSeller for eBay
You’d have thought that putting anything ‘Harry Potter’-related on eBay would be a blatant licence to print money. Sadly, for this reviewer, that’s not the case. A lavishly-styled Harry Potter ornament, which admittedly looks as if it was made from the porcelain that Armitage Shanks turned down, has three times failed to sell on the…
Lexmark – P6250 Photo All-In-One
You’d be hard pressed to claim that Lexmark is always top of the tree when it comes to making astounding quality printing products. Yet the company’s canny focus on targeting products at specific users continues to pay dividends, and the new P6250 all-in-one device follows that hard and fast rule. There are several factors that…
FujiFilm – FinePix S5500 Zoom
Mention the phrase ‘digital camera’ and too often the immediate image that comes to mind is of a lightweight, flat, rectangular piece of hardware that carries an uncanny resemblance to those throwaway instant cameras picked up at airport terminals. Yet if you’re serious about your photography and want all the advantages of the digital revolution…
Epson – Stylus Photo RX620
Epson’s Stylus Photo range has consistently been at the forefront of the photo reproduction market and this latest model follows the same precedent with an all-in-one photo centre that is stuffed with features for the camera enthusiast. The first impression is of a unit that’s both compact and solid, one that means business and is…