Archive for May, 2008
It seems it’s now the law. Once, a keyboard was a simple tool acting as the interface between you and your computer. That was deemed simply not enough.
Now, from the humble computer keyboard, you need one-touch buttons to control much of your computer’s talents. Music? Check. Web access? Yup. There’s even a thing called F-Lock [...]
May 10th, 2008 | Posted in Group Test | No Comments | Tags : Desksets, Keyboard, Logitech, Microsoft, Mouse, Trust, Wireless
In the home it’s common to install separate printer and scanner units, but that can be a real pain in the office. For one thing there’s usually not much space and for another you want to keep IT equipment out of the way.
If you add a fax and a photocopier to the equation then the [...]
May 10th, 2008 | Posted in Group Test | No Comments | Tags : Brother, Canon, Devices, Epson, HP, Inkjet, Lexmark
Although AGP isn’t yet a dead technology for graphics cards, it’s rapidly moving on to the endangered list as PCI Express grows in popularity. Motherboards that support PCI Express have a large chunk of data bandwidth assigned to this new bus which is usually divided up into 20 lanes.
Of these 20 lanes, 16 are dedicated [...]
May 10th, 2008 | Posted in Group Test | No Comments | Tags : AOpen, Asus, Express, Graphics Cards, Leadtek, PCI, Sapphire, XFX
Want to join the Voice over IP (VoIP) revolution and make free phone calls via the Internet? Then you’ve a number of choices, including software to run on your PC and custom IP phones to plug into your network. Alternatively you can opt for an ADSL router with a VoIP adapter built in, which is [...]
May 10th, 2008 | Posted in Group Test | No Comments | Tags : ADSL, Billion, Draytek, Intertex, Routers, VoIP, Zoom, Zyxel
Hardened gamers who want to use a gamepad with their PC will happily tell you that the best route is to get an adapter that allows a PlayStation 2 pad to be used in a USB port. Still, that would perhaps be unfair on the nicely evolving range of Logitech pads, which do offer a [...]
May 10th, 2008 | Posted in Group Test | No Comments | Tags : Gamepads, Logitech