Monthly Archives: February 2007
eMachines – E3042
The eMachines range is the budget brand from a newly reinvigorated Gateway and the E3042, while not a technology leader, certainly leads on price. You can buy this machine for £199 without a monitor or £299 with a 17-inch LCD. The mini-tower case is neatly styled in black and silver with a 16x dual-layer DVD…
Sapphire – Pure CrossFire 3200
Here’s a motherboard that deserves to be shown off in a case with a transparent side panel. Why? Because the Pure CrossFire 3200 Advantage (also known as the PC-AM2RD580) is built on a white PCB with contrasting red route tracing. Not only that, but it comes – as you might have gathered from the name…
Dell – 2007WFP
Usually products arrive at IT Reviews on a temporary loan from their manufacturers for us to test, write up and send back. But we do mix in quite a few ‘money-where-our-mouth-is’ reviews as well, where we buy the item in question ourselves to get a feel for the experience of dealing with the company. This…
TuneUp Software – TuneUp Utilities 2007
Computers are – let’s face facts – a complete arse to work with. They’ve got a mind of their own and sometimes it’s so completely illogical it would give Mister Spock a double coronary. Anything that helps in the battle to keep your PC under control is very welcome in our books, and TuneUp Utilities…
Scribus – Scribus 1.3.3.7
The open source world offers programs in most of the key application areas; for example, OpenOffice as an integrated office package and the Gimp as a bitmap editor. Now there’s a desktop publishing offering, too, called Scribus. It’s multi-platform with versions for Linux, Unix and MacOS, as well as Windows XP and 2000. Many of…
Real Time Worlds – Crackdown
It’s a crude way to describe a game, perhaps, but imagine a Grand Theft Auto-alike that was as freeform vertically as it was horizontally. That goes some way towards describing Microsoft’s latest salvo for the Xbox 360, which has been overseen by one Dave Jones, the daddy of both the Lemmings and – surprise! –…
Atari – Hits 2006
This compilation from Atari contains eight games from the company’s back catalogue. The title sort of gives you the impression that they’re the best of 2006′s line-up, but that isn’t the case. To be fair, the majority are pretty recent releases, but a quarter of the package is vintage by nature. As to the matter…
TerraTec – Noxon iRadio
TerraTec’s Noxon iRadio has a front face that doesn’t, at first glance, give too much of the game away. With a minimal number of front-mounted controls and a design that harks back to the look of the radios of yesteryear, it’d be fair to query just what it was hiding. A fair bit, as it…
T-Mobile – Sidekick 3
T-Mobile has updated its Sidekick II with the not-too-excitingly-named Sidekick 3 (we wonder if T-Mobile thinks we can’t cope with three Roman numerals?). If you are familiar with the former device then this update won’t surprise you much in terms of looks and functions. In the looks department the Sidekick 3 is, well, quirky. Less…
Chillblast – Fusion Tsunami 8800 C2D
Chillbast is well known for producing stunning systems, in terms of both performance and low noise – and also, it has to be said, price. Part of the Fusion range, the new Tsunami 8800 C2D is one of the cheaper models in the line-up but still costs over a grand including VAT and that doesn’t…