Monthly Archives: August 2007
VCOM – System Suite 7 Pro
The first thing System Suite 7 Pro insists on is having your PC to itself. One of the select band of titles that asks you to close everything down before they’ll install, it does give you an option to ignore its pleas, but that’ll only lead to a required restart before the program is fully…
i-mate – JAMA
If you are looking for a handheld device and want Windows Mobile, then the choice between Windows Mobile Smartphone and Windows Mobile Pocket PC can be a difficult one to make. While the line dividing the two is a little blurred, in general it is fair to say that the former is built into smaller…
JoWood – Spaceforce: Rogue Universe
The universe is a harsh and uncaring place at times. Its deepest parts are bleak, vast expanses of cold vacuum where emptiness chills the very soul. Well, if there were anyone around it would. But compared to the Spaceforce: Rogue Universe, even the most remote corner of our existential plane is pretty darned cheery and…
Lenovo – V200 3000
Lenovo’s activity in the laptop market tends to be oriented more towards practicality than power. Its latest range expands on the business and home user sectors, the latter of which includes the new 3000 model from its V-series of machines. This is the top end of that particular range, attempting to combine a selection of…
Foxconn – P35A
One of the first motherboards to hit the shelves using Intel’s new Series 3 chipsets came not from one of the usual suspects – Asus, MSI or Gigabyte – but from Foxconn. You may not have heard the name before, but it is one of the largest companies in the IT industry. How big? Well,…
Positech Games – Kudos Rock Legend
A quick bit of history. Kudos was a game from Positech Games, or more to the point, from the brain of Cliff Harris. It was a fascinating, if slightly flawed, pseudo-strategy version of The Sims, where your aim was to go through life and try to be happy in whatever you do. It’s a swine…
Samsung – Q45
Samsung’s popular Q series of notebooks has had a recent addition to the family line-up – the Q45 – which continues the family trait of highly portable, well-featured business laptops and adds in the latest Intel Santa Rosa technology and a really strong price tag. In the spirit of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix…
Asus – P5K3 Deluxe Wi-Fi AP Edition
The P5K3 Deluxe Wi-Fi AP Edition is Asus’s take on a high-end gaming motherboard that uses the Intel P35 chipset. Naturally it supports the new 1,333MHz FSB and, as you might have guessed from the P5K3 name, Asus has chosen to support DDR3 memory instead of the DDR2 to which we are all accustomed. First…
Artificial Studios – Monster Madness: Battle For Suburbia
If games were made on paper, then Monster Madness would work. A kind of old-school shoot-’em-up with new generation production values, it should have been the very drink that Xbox 360 and PC gamers would be ordering in the midst of a fairly barren gaming summer. But it was not to be. Viewed from a…
ECS – N8500GT-256DY
In the event that you took a wild guess about the position of GeForce 8500GT in Nvidia’s 8000 series of graphics chips, you’d probably guess it lies in the middle – and you’d be correct, but only up to a point. At the top of this particular tree are the superb 8800 GTX and 8800…