Monthly Archives: December 2005
Lexmark – P450
We’ve had photo printers, photo printers that don’t need a PC, and now, thanks to Lexmark, we have a photo printer which not only doesn’t need a PC, it also has a built-in CD burner. The P450 is a compact (15.3 x 27.6 x 23.5cm), single-cartridge, 4,800 x 1,200dpi resolution, three colour (cyan, magenta and…
MSI – 915GM Speedster
There is a growing band of people who can see the benefits of taking a CPU originally aimed for use in laptops and putting it to work in desktop PCs. This results in less power, less heat, less cooling therefore less fan noise. Until now there have been just two companies championing the cause of…
Electronic Arts – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
We’ve got the secret of the kids’ book market sussed. The subject matter is irrelevant: whether it’s an author writing about talking rabbits, or a main character who’s an acne-ridden adolescent wizard, the key is the name. Potter. Beatrix Potter. Harry Potter. Both of them sold millions. Coincidence? We think not. Look out for our…
Shuttle – XPC M1000 Media Centre
Shuttle, the company that has kept the Cube PC concept alive and kicking for many years, has now produced one of the best ‘Media Center’ PCs currently available, the stunning looking XPC M1000 Media Centre, based around Intel’s Pentium M processor. While many manufacturers claim their Media PCs wouldn’t look out of the place in…
Sony – NW-E205
You probably expect that a Sony MP3 player will be small, sleek and silver in colour, and perhaps it will have a Memory Stick slot tucked away somewhere. So it may come as a surprise to find that the Sony NW-E205 looks like a black plastic kidney bean and there’s no Memory Stick in sight….
Ricoh – Caplio GR Digital
If you take your digital photography seriously, but don’t want to have to carry around a bulky SLR, your main choice is a high quality, 35mm compact equivalent. This semi-pro market is where Ricoh is aiming its Caplio GR Digital. It’s a slim and fairly lightweight compact, which looks conventional enough but packs a number…
Deep Silver – X3: Reunion
Reunions. Pah. We… well, we can’t print what we’d do to ‘em, given half a chance, but here’s a clue: it involves yards of digestive tract and a toilet. They’re always a bad idea. You’ll inevitably find out that all those undeserving people you’ve not seen in years are now much more successful than you….
Symantec – Norton SystemWorks 2006
The goal of SystemWorks is to provide a comprehensive suite of maintenance and security tools, all wrapped up in one neat package. There are four main programs: Norton Antivirus, GoBack, Utilities and Cleanup. As we’ve come to expect from Symantec products, SystemWorks is very user-friendly. After installation the suite will run through some diagnostics automatically,…
Monitor Audio – i-deck
Oh woe is you. You have such great tunes and playlists on your iPod MP3 player, but you can’t share your sounds with other people in a group-listening session. Well, there are actually plenty of ways you can do that. Including, if you are prepared to spend £249, via the i-deck. This is a system…
DFI – LAN Party UT RDX200 CF-DR
The DFI LAN Party UT RDX200 CF-DR is the first Socket 939 CrossFire motherboard that we have ever seen, outside of reference hardware that came directly from ATi. This means that it has a pair of PCI Express 8x slots which will accept a pair of Radeon X850XT graphics cards, and in the future it…