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Toshiba Satellite Pro R850-143
The Satellite Pro R850 is a Windows 7 Professional notebook aimed at business users, and decked out in functional black with a grooved texture running across the lid. That lid itself is thin and feels a little plasticky, but the overall build quality is sturdy, particularly the chunky chrome hinges that open and close the…
Dell Latitude E6420 ATG
There are laptops and there are rugged laptops. And somewhere in between are ‘business rugged’ laptops. These are tough and solid, with some extra protective features – but not up to being taken into warzones. That’s the category into which Dell’s Latitude E6420 ATG slots. It has a non-rugged cousin, the plain old Latitude E6420….
Xerox DocuMate 4440
Not all scanners are big flatbed machines. Office scanners, designed primarily for archiving and turning paper documents into editable text files using optical character recognition (OCR), are usually sheet-feed devices, which scan more quickly and are easier to load and use. Xerox’s DocuMate 4440 is of this second type and offers fully duplex scanning, in…
Brother HL-2130
Brother’s mono laser printers have built up a steady fan base amongst customers who want consistently reliable and cost-effective mono text printing with a decent turn of speed. If you’re on a very tight budget but are thinking of dipping into this market at the entry level, then you can do a lot worse than…
Fujitsu Stylistic Q550
Tablets are all the rage at the moment, but there’s a big difference between a tablet for the everyday consumer such as the Apple iPad 2, and one that’s aimed at the business community. Presently, Windows is the operating system of choice for business-focused tablets, and the Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 offers just that. With a…
Samsung SyncMaster BX2231
Samsung has a knack for putting together attractive-looking displays, and it’s fair to say that the SyncMaster BX2231 does nothing to dent that reputation. What’s it like?Samsung’s 22in, 1,920×1,080 resolution monitor is enclosed in a TV-like glossy black plastic bezel with soft edges, with a stand that has a tapered neck that flows nicely out…
Anomaly: Warzone Earth by 11 bit studios
Tower defence games are beyond stale. If they were bread, you wouldn’t feed them to the ducks for fear of causing concussion with an errantly thrown hunk. But while Anomaly: Warzone Earth is built like a tower defence game, it avoids the wrath of the Royal Society for the Protection of Computer Gaming by turning…
Xara 3D Maker 7
Introducing 3D effects to your designs – whether on the web or paper – helps add a sense of depth and solidity to your creative efforts. At its simplest, this means adding drop shadows, frames and curls to various elements on the page – but when it comes to text, you need something like Xara…
Samsung FX2490HD
The Samsung FX2490HD very definitely wants to be the display that makes the most of all that high-def content out there. From the front, it looks like a conventional 24-inch display – albeit one that sits on four shiny chromed feet that might have been borrowed from an office chair. The stand offers the usual…