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Vivitek H1080
Vivitek burst onto the UK projector scene a couple of years ago with its H9080FD Home Theatre model, which offers a mighty 800 lumens of LED lighting. Its launch price was £11,000 – and while that figure has fallen to £9,000 it’s still hardly a snip. So imagine our surprise when Vivitek came up with…
Western Digital WD TV Live Hub Media Center 1TB
Media player clients that sit beneath your television and pick up content from network devices such as NAS drives are nothing new. But with its WD TV Live Hub Media Center, Western Digital has pushed things a little further. It’s a smaller piece of kit than you may be used to that comes with a…
Zotac Zbox AD03BR Plus U
Zotac is well known for its Zbox range of compact, feature-packed nettop machines – but until now, most of them been based around Intel’s low-power Atom CPU. The latest addition to the range, the Zbox AD03BR Plus U is based instead around AMD’s Fusion platform. With an AMD Zacate E350 APU clocked at 1.6GHz and…
VistaQuest VQ15
Most people have seen a disposable, single-use film camera: a simple lens and film spools housed in a plastic case. The whole camera goes to the developer when you’ve taken your shots and the film’s developed. VistaQuest’s VQ15 is a similar idea, only it’s digital disposable. What’s it like?The VQ15 is a 35mm-sized plastic camera…
Solwise 3G-183n portable 3G router
3G mobile broadband dongles are popular, but they have their limitations. You can’t share your connection with other devices, and even if you buy a router with 3G capabilities, you still need a mains power supply. Unless, that is, you buy the Solwise 3G-183n. Self-containedThe Solwise 3G-183n is a battery-powered 802.11n Wi-Fi router with a…
Epson AcuLaser M2300D
The Epson AcuLaser M2300 series of mono laser printers is aimed at small businesses with modest printing needs. The entry-level M2300D is stripped to its bare essentials. It’s compact but efficient: a squat, grey and cream square-shaped box measuring a discreet 378x390x255mm (wdh) that still manages to weigh a reassuringly chunky 11.5kg out of the…
Acer Aspire AS5750G
Wallet-friendly. That’s one way to describe Acer’s new 2.3GHz Intel Sandy Bridge-powered laptop. Because the company has certainly pulled off something special in the value for money stakes with the price-to-specification ratio of its AS5750G-2414G50. Impressive specThe notebook comes loaded with an Intel i5-2410M dual-core processor running at 2.3GHz (with turbo-boost to 2.9GHz) and an…
Hauppauge PCTV nanoStick T2
PC digital tuners for terrestrial TV services are two-a-penny, but what make’s PCTV nanoStick T2 USB tuner standout from the crowd is support for ‘DVB-T2′, or Freeview HD to you and me. Built into a wee USB 2.0 stick, the single-channel tuner is the first that supports both DVB-T and DVB-T2. Small but perfectly formedThe…
Acer Veriton Z411G
If you run a business from a small office where space is at a premium, you need a PC that packs a fair amount of power, is good for presentations and will react to the pace of a lively and creative mind. Step into the spotlight the Acer Veriton Z411G multi-touch all-in-one PC. Dispensing with…
Xerox ColorQube 8570/ADN
The Xerox ColorQube is unlike most colour printers. It’s neither a laser, nor a true inkjet. It’s a big office device with plenty of expansion potential, particularly in terms of the amount of paper it can handle. It’s designed for general office duties – but with colour quality that’s considerably higher than your average laser,…