Laptops/PCs/Apple

As the developer of LightScribe Technology, you would expect HP to include this capability with its new DVD burner. And such is the case.

Laptops might be getting lighter but can still weigh you down. How about letting the floor take the strain?

Fed up with your laptop dying at the wrong time, then maybe a second battery is the answer.

After recently looking at some panels specifically designed for viewing DVD and TV looking at a conventional shaped panel takes a bit of getting used to.

Over the next couple of weeks this will be mentioned several times. As not only does this rate a review of it’s own it has also featured in at least two others.

Locking up your data is only half the solution. What about the laptop that holds the data?

When it comes to laptops, Acer believes it can satisfy your every need. The TravelMate 4650 is one example

Sounds exciting, in fact if it does what it should, it will enable you to have a quiet and peaceful life with your PC as it should deal with all the Spy Ware that tries to infiltrate your PC.

With a 15.4 inch display and numerous connectivity options, Acer Aspire 1690 series comes under the microscope

This 20inch LCD Wide Screen Monitor would have cost an arm and two legs not that long ago, now they cost about the same as a good 17inch CRT monitor cost a few years ago and they only gave you a maximum of a 16inch viewable screen.

This multi function unit (MFU), scans via sheet feed or flatbed, copies, prints and can be used as a fax. However these days it does other things as well, but still, will not make the tea.

Taking your laptop on your travels has never been easier with an APC carry case.

This seems a simple idea – the best often are – but then you wonder why no one has designed one before, maybe they have and I have just never heard about it.

A rose by any other name would be bliss when it comes to saving on work-desk space.

Music, photographs and video clips are ideal candidates for burning to optical media. If you are looking for an economic way to achieve this then maybe Record Now! Deluxe could be the answer.

Notebooks continue to evolve and now there are such things as entertainment notebooks, here HP put a Linux front end for 12 second booting into DVD or CD play.

As programs get bigger, downloads take longer. So why not try to speed up this process with an appropriate utility.

Christmas could be coming early this year if the latest product announcements from Acer are anything to go by.

This is listed as a notebook, however I think 'Desktop Replacement' would be a better description for several reasons.

Not as you may think some ‘X’ rated offering, but a KVM switch at a bargain price, a simple and efficient way of controlling two PC’s with a single keyboard, video and mouse.

Focus have been a republisher of many years standing. Here they link two products from the same publisher, both have been around for a long time, however at £9.99 they are certainly worth considering.

Chessmaster has been around in one form or other for a long time it is actually a UBISOFT product but this version is republished by Focus at £9.99 and for that you get quite a lot.

Carrying over 2000 five mega-pixel images in your pocket might seem like a pipe-dream but Seagate has a solution.

This is powerful top of the range PC with all the bells and whistles, it is also one of the first PC’s on the market built with a LightScribe DVD drive.

Watching television on your computer does have some attractions if the hardware can handle the performance.

Following my earlier report on LightScribe, let’s take a look at the technology in action.

Certainly a lightweight and small printer, however given the small ink cartridge size this portable printer may also need to be used sparingly.

This is the unit hinted at in my three recent articles on Windows XP MCE 2005 edition and the large HP Panel. Members have asked about MCE here I give my views.

Without - hopefully - giving to much away, this to me is an "object of desire" I first saw a pre production unit last summer and I am told I have looked at the first one in the UK. You can see it for yourself during the next three weeks or so on the Abrocour stand at the Ideal Home Show.

There are a number of CD/DVD writing packages around but only two can claim to be the major players, Nero and CD Creator, Nero has just got even better.