Monthly Archives: June 2005
Fujitsu – HandyDrive
The Fujitsu HandyDrive is an external, pocket-sized hard drive designed to easily expand the storage capacity of your computer, or to backup files or transfer large quantities of data between computers. It is powered from the USB bus on most systems, so does not need an external power supply, and comes in a range of…
Abit – Fatal1ty AN8
When a company like Abit, known for producing overclockable motherboards, gets together with one of the world’s top gamers, then you can guess that the end result should be something pretty special. The company’s new flagship Socket 939 board, the Fatal1ty AN8, is just that. Well engineered, it’s a stable board with enough LEDs to…
HP – dvd640i
The latest DVD writer from HP, model dvd640i, is a naughty little minx. It teases us with its specification, which has the key headline figure of DVD+R 16x. Naturally it supports both plus and minus formats, as well as dual layer, and there’s no escaping the fact that the HP brand is a good name…
Canon – CanoScan 4200F
Buying an efficient and good quality scanner when you’re on a tight budget is always a bit of a juggling act, depending upon whether your priority is speed or detail of reproduction. The CanoScan 4200F was designed to meet this specific demand and on the whole manages to rise to the challenge. It has a…
Microsoft – Forza Motorsport
If you took all the sports cars out of Jay Kay’s and David Beckham’s respective garages, and got them to mate (assuming a universe where cars could indeed go forth and multiply), and then left them for many, many decades, the resulting automotive family would no doubt be massive, but still not as large as…
Sapphire – Radeon X800XL Ultimate
Sapphire and Korean cooling specialists Zalman have a relationship that spans a number of years, which resulted in Sapphire’s Ultimate range of silent graphic cards. More recently, with the launch of its X800 series of cards, Sapphire switched to Artic Cooling for its range of Toxic over-clockable performance cards, but with the launch of the…
iRiver – H10
In the scramble to find viable marketing rivals to the mighty iPod, iRiver is one of the few companies to have tried to go head-to-head with as much innovation or extra features as possible, even if it means upping the price. The company’s H320 jukebox came in 20GB and 40GB versions with a colour screen…
Pinnacle – ShowCenter 200
Digital media is becoming an increasingly important format for entertainment. Everything from video and music to digital photos and Internet radio are rapidly moving into the mainstream, but there’s still a reluctance to put an extra PC in the living room to play them, even if it has a small form-factor. Enter the Digital Media…
Elonex – Lumina
All-in-One PCs have been around for while, but while the ideal is sound enough the execution has more often than not been a let-down, and none (with the exception of Apple’s iMac) ever seems to have that ‘wow’ factor. That is, until now. With the Lumina, Elonex has produced a stunning all-in-one which won’t look…
Sibelius – Sibelius 3
Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny didn’t compose his latest album ‘The Way Up’ using paper and pen but instead, like so many composers, he did the job with Sibelius 3 on his Apple Mac. Sibelius is chuffed to bits that it has won the Queen’s Award for Innovation, but as there are only two companies scrapping…