IT Reviews - independent computer software, hardware and games reviews
Welcome. Here you'll find unbiased and accurate reviews of computer software, hardware and games, plus editorials, news and buyers guides, for consumers, small businesses and enterprise IT managers.
You can also compare prices to get the best price on hardware and software and games.
Below are the latest software reviews, hardware reviews and games reviews, most recent first.
Elonex - ONEt
tiny laptop with WiFi net access - 24/07/2008
Elonex's project to produce a £100 laptop has spawned a secondary Ultra Mobile Computer (UMC), rather confusingly called the ONEt. The name may only be slightly different from the company's ultra-budget handheld, but the design and ...
Penny Arcade Adventures - On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
stylish adventure with plenty of fighting - 24/07/2008
It isn't just the precipice that's slick in this combat oriented point-and-click adventure; it's the production values too. The game's comic book art style is beautifully realised, with smartly rendered 3D graphics blending seamlessly with 2D ...
Actinic - Business v9
e-commerce website design and management - 23/07/2008
Actinic has been around for a long time now and we've been impressed by every new release of this popular e-commerce application. However, as the years roll by, new features and enhancements have become a lot ...
2K Sports - Top Spin 3
the serious side of tennis hits the PlayStation 3 - 23/07/2008
A 47MB update greeted us as we loaded up Top Spin 3 for the first time. Add on the installation time and it was a fair while from inserting the disc before we were able to ...
Xerox - DocuMate 262i
duplex sheet feed scanner - 22/07/2008
There are scanners designed to transfer your photo prints to JPEGs, scanners designed to convert your transparencies to TIFFs and scanners whose sole purpose in life is to help create electronic records of paper documents. Xerox's ...
Acronis - Snap Deploy 3.0 for Workstation
networked disk imaging and deployment - 22/07/2008
As well as disaster recovery, disk imaging can be used to deploy new PCs without having to install an operating system and then configure application software and custom settings every time. Snap Deploy from Acronis takes ...
Aiptek - Z300HD-V
solid state digital camcorder - 21/07/2008
Video camcorder storage has been in a state of flux for a while, as technologies have vied to take the place of digital tapes, once the storage medium of preference. There have been camcorders with recordable ...
Mandriva - Linux 2008 Spring
Linux distro with good support for Asus Eee PC and PDAs - 21/07/2008
Amidst a deluge of recent Linux updates, you could be forgiven for overlooking the release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring. The latest in a long line of Mandriva distros, this features the usual upgrades to the ...
Origin Storage - Back2Normal
efficient disk backup and restore utility - 21/07/2008
It is the fear that every PC owner has lurking at the back of the mind: what if my computer crashes or a virus wipes out or corrupts all of my data? Since most of us ...
I-mate - Ultimate 9502
Windows Mobile device with video out capability - 17/07/2008
If you are a fan of the Sidekick format of devices, as sold by T-Mobile in the UK, but want something a bit less teenage and a bit more along the lines of a sophisticated smartphone, ...
Nokia - 1200
low cost, basic mobile phone - 16/07/2008
Nokia's high end mobiles get lots of press coverage, while the entry level phones tend to get short shrift. That means that phones like the Nokia 1200 tend not to get reviewed much. Because the 1200 ...
Saitek - Cyborg Mouse
over-the-top mouse that aims to improve your game - 16/07/2008
Gaming peripherals, for all their good intentions, tend to get a bit silly sometimes, and certainly from an aesthetics point of view they don't come much sillier than the Cyborg Mouse from Saitek. This rather imposing ...
Ricoh - Aficio GX7000
colour A3 gel-based inkjet printer - 15/07/2008
Inkjet printers are generally much cheaper than colour lasers. But because of the time needed for their ink to dry, few inkjets are able to match lasers when it comes to speed. Ricoh's GelSprinter technology employs ...
NEC - PowerMate ML470
high performance business desktop - 15/07/2008
It may not be the first name that springs to mind when shopping for a desktop PC, but the NEC PowerMate range has a lot to offer. Particularly the new ML470, a professional looking business desktop ...
Kodak - EasyShare V1273
12-megapixel digital camera with touch-screen - 14/07/2008
The world seems to have gone touch-screen mad. If you want to turn heads in the mobile phone market then it's essential that you add a touch-screen as one of the main features. As consumers start ...
Canon - HF10 HD
impressive flash-based camcorder - 14/07/2008
In its digital camcorder catalogue, Canon has now completed the quartet, following the release of the DVD-based HR10, the 'record straight to hard drive' HG10 and the MiniDV-centred HV30. Although Canon has taken its time to ...
Imation - Apollo 2.5-inch Portable Hard Drive
portable storage in a slimline case - 14/07/2008
Imation has been in the digital storage business for what seems like forever, and has a range of portable hard drives in different shapes and sizes. The Apollo range is available in capacities up to 320GB: ...
Brother - MFC-7840W
all-in-one mono laser printer - 11/07/2008
There seems to be a bit of a stampede at present amongst printer manufacturers to produce a new generation of mono laser printers. As Brother is very much at the forefront when it comes to quality ...
Asus - X51RL
impressive budget priced notebook - 10/07/2008
Serious price inflation has begun to stalk the land. Even government statisticians are having trouble glossing over that fact. But not everything has followed this upward trend, and luckily for us technology lovers, computers keep getting ...
Babies again
Humans versus machines, but not in the Terminator sense - 08/11/2007
In my previous editorial I compared my daughter's early behaviour to that of a simple computer program. A few people got in touch and called me a nerd. Can't think why. What quickly became apparent, though, ...
Buyers Guides
find out what to buy before you spend your money
Buying any new piece of IT equipment or software is a potential minefield. How do you decide exactly what you need? How do you get the right product at the best price? Our buyers guides explain it all.
Site search
Product Categories
- Hardware
- Group tests
- Desktop PCs
- Digital cameras
- Disk drives
- DVD & CD drives
- Games consoles
- Graphics cards
- Laptop PCs
- Monitors
- Motherboards
- MP3 players
- Multimedia players
- Networking
- PDAs & phones
- Peripherals
- Printers
- Processors
- Projectors
- Scanners
- Sound
- TV & video
- Misc. hardware
- Please read the legal/privacy statement for terms & conditions
- Validate