Monthly Archives: May 2006
Epson – Stylus Photo RX640
Epson’s latest MFD (Multi-Function Device), the RX640, is a step up from its smaller sibling, the RX520, offering six-colour printing, fast scanning, CD/DVD printing, photocopying and the ability to upload and print from a variety of flash media. But on the downside it suffers from slow print speeds. As you might expect with a top…
Aopen – i975Xa-YDG
With Intel’s introduction of the Core Duo mobile processor, desktop motherboards that use mobile CPUs have suddenly become a lot more interesting, but unfortunately they are still seen as niche products and so carry niche product price tags. AOpen’s latest mobile board, the i975Xa-YDG, certainly doesn’t go against this grain, costing over £200. One of…
Focus Multimedia – Driving Test Success Practical
Did you know that only 40 percent of people pass their car driving test? Another interesting statistic is that 100 percent of people who fail the first attempt certainly won’t fail to inform you that the best drivers are those who don’t pass first time. At any rate, if you need help with your driving…
Chillblast – Atlantis Fusion Crossfire
So there you are, sitting around with three and a half grand in your back pocket, and you want a fast PC. Not just any old fast PC, mind you, but a scorching, frame-busting, games machine. Who do you turn to? Well, if you head over to Chillblast it will relieve you of that wad…
Sony – Vaio VGN-SZ1M/B
Core Duo notebooks are coming thick and fast, one of the latest being the Vaio VGN-SZ1M/B from Sony. The Vaio SZ series sits neatly between the tiny TX series and the larger FJ series and is ideal for those people who think the TX series laptops are just too small for them. Weighing in at…
EA Sports – 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany
This time around, even EA Sports seems to know that the game might be up. Slapping a price tag of a far more modest £19.99 on it, 2006 FIFA World Cup arrives just six months after FIFA 06, and if anything takes away more than it adds. Let’s look at the taking away first. Whatever…
Canon – iP6220D
The Canon iP6220D is a twin cartridge inkjet printer that offers an enormous number of ways to print your photos. You can use the USB 2.0 port to connect the printer to your Windows PC or OS X Mac, or you can use the PictBridge USB port to directly connect your camera to the printer….
Acronis – Disk Director Suite 10
You may never need to repartition your hard drive. But if you do, you’d be well advised not to rely on Windows’ rather crude tools. Disk Director Suite 10 may only address one task (actually a set of related tasks), but it knows what it’s doing, does it pretty quickly and does it without disturbing…
2K Sports – Top Spin 2
It can’t be much of a coincidence that within days of Top Spin 2 going on sale, Sega had let slip that Virtua Tennis 3 was within a year of appearing on next generation consoles. After all, the tennis game market – hardly the most competitive of genres – is mostly a two franchise race….
Plextor – PX-SP08U
There are three effective ways of carrying data around with you: for small amounts, say up to a couple of gigabytes, you can use flash drives, and for up to five gigabytes there are rewritable DVDs, but for higher capacities you need a portable hard drive. These can be physically small and with capacities into…