Category: Computers
20inch iMacs
If you haven't been too impressed by the latest range of iMacs, its latest incarnation, which hits the stores this week, might just be the model to change your mind. It sports a fabulous 20inch screen, as opposed to…
Scanners get sexy – kind of
Admittedly we very rarely get excited about scanners – but we like the look of this one. It is the HP Scanjet 4670, which has just gone on sale in the UK. Its USP, apart from a design that's…
A monitor that's twice as good
This would be top of our Xmas shopping list were it on sale in the UK. It's an innovative monitor from a start-up called Doublesight called the DS1500 that consists of a pair of 15inch LCD monitor stitched together….
Apple's 'world's fastest PC' ad banned
The British TV watchdog has banned Apple's PowerMac G5 TV commercial because its 'world's fastest personal computer' claim could not be fully supported. Though the ad was initially given the green light, the Independent Television Commission (ITC) decided to…
Apple to ignore media centre market
Rather odd news from Apple. In an interview last week CEO Steve Jobs told the press that the company wasn't interested in producing a media centre type product (which includes a TV and video recording software) as he saw the…
World's hardest PCs
You can drop them from 30 feet, play football with them and even spray them with water, yet Panasonic's new range of Toughbook range of computers keep soldiering on. The two newest models, the CF-W2 and CF-T2 both feature…
Palm fights back
Palm is once again gunning for the PDA high ground with its latest version of its Tungsten T PDA. The appropriately named Tungsten T3 breaks new ground for the company in several key areas – most notably in a…
Media Center PCs arrive
A year after their US launch microsoft Media Center PCs have finally reached the UK. This version of the Windows XP operating system features an interface that enables user to control all the entertainment features on their PC via…
Rewriter's format frenzy
Do we still care that there are three competing rewritable formats? Not a great deal, for most of the time write-once discs are more than adequate and besides Blu-ray technology is just over the horizon, which hopefully will make…
microsoft takes on consumer electronics giants
microsoft's new – and seemingly much more cuddly – operating platform is finally coming to the UK and Europe. Set to launch at the end of September and demonstrated to Tech Digest at microsoft's Soho offices, Media Center 2004's…