Monthly Archives: January 2012
Toshiba Portege Z830 Ultrabook
Ultrabooks might be the products that change the face of computing in 2012. They are small, thin, light and powerful, with a lot of allure. Most ultrabooks are currently aimed at consumers, but Toshiba has added one to its Portégé range – and as you’d expect, it is aimed at the business user. You pays…
ViewSonic VP2765-LED
Buying a monitor for your PC is becoming an increasingly complicated affair, with an ever broadening range of screen technologies (TN, IPS, PVA, MVA) as well as vital factors such as contrast ratio, screen resolution, response time, screen size and of course, price. So, who will the ViewSonic VP2765-LED best appeal to – the full-on…
Toshiba Portege R830
Toshiba has built a good reputation for its Portege range of notebooks, with the R series doing very well in the thin and light market arena. The latest update to the R830 model includes modern specifications, while retaining a look and feel from older models. Familiar territory The Toshiba Portege R830 looks every inch like…
Brother MFC-J5910DW Printer
They say bigger isn’t necessarily better but when it comes to printers, the greater the range of paper you can feed into your machine, the more versatile and useful it should be for your office. While there are a significant number of compact size multifunction printers available for small businesses, the Brother MFC-J5910DW goes the…
Logitech Z906 Speaker System
Logitech’s Z906 is a 5.1 surround package that’s designed to be hooked up to either your PC or your TV, as a home cinema system. It boasts three digital inputs, two optical and one coaxial, along with a standard analogue RCA input, and a 6-channel direct input so that it can be connected to your…
Epson Stylus Photo PX730WD
Epson’s latest printer may be provisionally aimed at iDevice owners, but it’s D-SLR owners that are the real benefactors. The lab-quality photos is the carrot offered by Epson here. The mid-priced option from its Stylus Photo line-up does indeed deliver a convincing argument, for home printing. The promise of great quality prints is no longer…
Acer Aspire 5749
With all the current excitement about ultrabooks, it’s important to keep in mind that there’s a large market out there for people who need a good, honest, straight forward notebook that can meet most day-to-day needs without costing the earth. The Acer Aspire 5749 was designed to do just that, for around a remarkably friendly…
Ricoh CX6 Digital Camera
Previous versions of the CX made a name for themselves as solid, compact point-and-shoot cameras with just enough extra photographic oomph to attract the more serious travelling snapper – with a justification for the slighter higher than average price tag. The CX6 continues the progress, while offering the same basic features of the CX5. These…
Nokia 710 – initial impressions
The Nokia Lumia 710 is basically an entry level version of the Finnish Windows Phone 7 launching pad device – the Lumia 800, which incorporated the radical new user interface from Microsoft. This UI was designed to make Windows Phone 7 accessible to the masses, where the 710 is intent on providing users with a…
ViewSonic ViewPad 10e
Ever since Apple’s iPad 2 became the most desired (but most expensive) tablet on the market, all of its rivals have been hell bent on producing cheaper but similar Android and Windows versions, which would hopefully make a decent dent in Apple’s profits. ViewSonic was one of the quickest to get in on the act,…