Monthly Archives: March 2006
Fujitsu Siemens – LifeBook S2110
The key feature of the Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook S2110 is the AMD Turion processor, because this is the first professional Fujitsu-Siemens laptop to use AMD hardware. That may sound like a significant breakthrough for AMD, but the Amilo A series has used Turion for some time now, and you could buy an S2110 under the Fujitsu…
EVGA – e-GeForce 7800GS CO SuperClocked
Reading the latest product releases from Nvidia and ATI, you may think that everyone now owns a PCI-Express graphics card and AGP is a long defunct interface from the past. The truth is rather different: the majority of PC owners still use AGP-based graphics cards and will continue to do so, thank you very much,…
Namco – We Love Katamari
Here’s the thing. On the day that We Love Katamari was released, IT Reviews did an experiment. We went around four or five high profile video game high street retailers to look for the game. It’s really quite worrying what we found. Half of them didn’t stock it at all, and of those who did,…
Belkin – Wireless G Ethernet Adapter F5D7330uk
This is how wireless networking is supposed to be. Belkin’s Wireless G adapter converts just about any networkable piece of IT equipment to a similar piece, but working wirelessly via 802.11g. This small box of tricks, about half the size of a typical four-port wireless router, has just two connections; a power connection for the…
Nokia – N90
Nokia has come up with some kooky designs for handsets in the past, but the three-piece N90 must be in the running for the prize for the kookiest of all. It is also probably the closest a handset has come to being a digital camera first and a handset second. Let us explain. The key…
Namco – Dead Or Alive 4
“Aren’t girls great? Aside from the gnashing of teeth, comical efforts at reverse parking and an unhealthy interest in the film catalogue of Hugh Grant, at their finest they’re a sight to behold.” That’s the most sexist intro to an IT Reviews review you’ve seen to date. But not without reason, for Dead Or Alive…
Toshiba – Satellite Pro M70
Toshiba’s Satellite Pro M70 is part of the company’s Business Value range of notebooks and, to quote Toshiba; “Combining great design and cutting edge performance the Satellite Pro M70 series is ideal for power hungry computing.” Well, you wouldn’t argue with the first point, as it is a very well made notebook, but far from…
TerraTec – Cinergy 2400i DT
Terratec has added a new model to its extensive range of TV tuner cards. The Cinergy 2400i DT is unusual in two respects; in part because it carries dual digital tuners but mainly because it uses a PCI Express interface. That’s right, someone has finally come up with a use for the PCI Express 1x…
ECS – KA1 MVP Extreme
ATI’s CrossFire dual graphics technology has had a protracted and painful birth, but now more products are becoming available that support the technology. One of the latest motherboards to appear is the KA1 MVP Extreme from ECS; the company’s first AMD CrossFire platform. Built around AMD’s Socket 939, the board uses ATI’s RD480 Northbridge and…
Cakewalk – Kinetic
What’s so easy about food? We’re talking about those famous sayings such as “easy as pie” or “a piece of cake.” Have the engineers of these foolish utterances ever tried to produce a delicate short-crust pastry, or a light and fluffy sponge? Obviously not, because if they had they’d know it’s about as easy as…