Monthly Archives: September 2005
Belkin – F5D7230uk4
Belkin is perhaps best known for its series of Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS), but it makes and sells a wide range of computer peripherals, including many wireless network devices, in both pre-802.11n and 802.11g varieties. It’s the 802.11g version we’re looking at here, running at up to 54Mbps, but also fully compatible with the earlier…
GSP – Family Tree Maker 2005 Collector’s Edition
Sooner or later, most people think about tracing their family tree back through the generations to see if they’re related to William the Conqueror or Vincent van Gogh. The problem is, who has the time, energy and dedication to go chasing through old church records and censuses? Enter Family Tree Maker, which is designed to…
Logitech – Z-5500 Digital
If you’ve never turned up your speakers while watching the latest Hollywood action blockbuster and felt the thump of an explosion come up through the sofa and reverberate around your ribcage, with the front windows rattling in their single-glazed sockets, you’ve never lived. Or at least, you’ve never lived audiophile-style. Naturally, you need a decent…
Canon – Laser Shot LBP-3000
Canon’s entry-level mono laser printer is the Laser Shot LBP-3000. It retails for about £95, so it sneaks under the all-important £100 price point in the UK. It is quite definitely a personal laser printer as it has a USB 2.0 port but no parallel port (so it’s for Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP only) and neither does…
Toshiba – SD-R5472
And so the latest speed race in optical drives gathers pace. It all kicked off in the mid-1990s with read speeds of CD drives, moving onto CD burning, DVD reading and DVD burning. The current race surrounds dual layer burning, and Toshiba’s new SD-R5472 is one of the quickest. It claims to burn DVD+R dual…
HP – Photosmart 335
The quality of office-based computer printers has reached such an advanced stage now that it’s not difficult to find equipment that’s tailor-made to your requirements and produces impressive results. But what about when you go off on holiday or to a party or weekend break and would like to see immediate prints of the snaps…
In2Games – GameTrak: Real World Golf
The past few years have been rife with innovation as far as games controllers are concerned. We’ve had microphones you sing into, mats you dance on, maracas you shake, and a web-cam you perform in front of, to name but a few. Frankly, we’re all for titles that are willing to play around with the…
O2 – XDA Exec
The XDA Exec is the latest in a long line of XDAs from O2, and it is real state of the art stuff. It isn’t small and it isn’t all that pretty, but if you are looking for a PDA that does just about everything a PDA can at the moment, and you don’t mind…
MSI – NX7800GTX
When nVidia launched its new graphics core, the G70, at a huge shindig in Paris complete with motorbikes and go-go dancers, everybody settled down for a long wait for the cards. After all, that’s what usually happens when either of the big two graphics companies launches a high-end card. But no. Nvidia promised that cards…
GData – AntiVirus Kit Internet Security 2005
At first we were impressed with GData’s AntiVirus Kit Internet Security 2005. It installed with minimum fuss, went about its business pretty much straight away and gave us little in the way of headaches. But that’s why it’s important to test products over a more prolonged period of time. For after three weeks in the…