Monthly Archives: August 2005
Xerox – DocuMate 262
With flatbed scanners starting at around £50, a first reaction to Xerox’s DocuMate 262 is to ask how the company can charge £599 + VAT for it. This is a different breed of machine from your average flatbed, though, and intended for a different purpose. It’s a sheet-feed scanner, so it’s ideal for sheets of…
Samsung – SyncMaster SM910MP
Doubling up as both an LCD screen for your PC and an LCD TV, Samsung’s SyncMaster SM910MP instantly appears to be good value for money. And that’s because it is. But it’s also got a few tricks up its sleeve that are well worth further exploration. Let’s start with the TV side of things. The…
Epox – EP-5NVA+ SLI
Epox has used the Nvidia nForce 4 SLI chipset to produce a powerhouse of a motherboard for the Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 processor. NForce 4 for Intel has a number of similarities to the Athlon 64 version of the chipset, except that Pentium 4 doesn’t have a memory controller built into the processor core so…
Acer – n35 GPS Pocket Chauffeur
Acer’s Pocket Chauffeur package is a product of two parts. First, there’s the firm’s n35 Pocket PC PDA, a mid-range palmtop with a few tricks up its sleeve. This has been paired with the increasingly popular Destinator GPS software package, with the end result billed as a GPS solution at a price that’s a fair…
United Nations – Food Force
Believe it or not the United Nations World Food Programme has become a games publisher. Head to its Web site and you can download this game, Food Force, free of charge, although please note that it’s 227MB for the PC version or 198MB for the Mac fraternity, so you’ll need a Broadband connection. Food Force…
Dell – Inspiron XPS Gen 2
Dell is good at watching a segment of the market mature before launching its own killer response. In the recent past it was the Axim series of PDAs. Now the company has launched a fast notebook cousin of the desktop XPS system, aimed squarely at taking the top spot in the gaming laptop market. Just…
Flexion – ePhotomaker
The eBay phenomenon, where people around the world sell whatever they want to seemingly endless queues of eager online buyers, has become an industry in itself. One of the latest products to service online auction sellers is the ePhotomaker. The concept is simple: a kit to help you improve the photos you provide of the…
Samsung – SPP-2020
Although dye-sublimation as a printer technology has been around for many years, it’s still emerging as a viable option. Earlier this year, Canon introduced a small photo printer using dye-sub and now Samsung has gone the same way with the SPP-2020. This printer comes in at around £120 and is aimed specifically at people wanting…
Aopen – Aeolus PCX6600-DV128LP
Sales of Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs show no sign of slowing down, with the originators of the concept, Shuttle, being joined in the marketplace by more and more players. While many OEMs offer pre-built SFF’s in their product line-up, the majority are sold as barebone cases, where you get to choose the CPU, graphics…
InterVideo – WinDVD 7 Platinum
Considering that your bog standard Windows XP or Linux installation already has something in it that can play back DVD movies, it’s fair to say that there need to be some compelling reasons to fork out for a specialist playback package. After all, for the majority of users, all they’re interested in is pressing ‘play’…