Laptops/PCs/Apple

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.

I reviewed the sibling to this (iP2000) last year, although this came out at the same time the media recommended to work with it’s CD/DVD printing capabilities has only just arrived.

Colour lasers used to be very expensive, now they can cost less than some not that complex mono lasers. The HP 2550 is certainly an entry level product.

120GB of external storage in a slim vertical case that also has two USB2 ports and even a couple of card drives built in.

It is slim, sleek and has a sexy look. However according to recent reports it could have an adverse effect on male fertility but let’s not think about such things instead look on this device as a mobile entertainment centre.

This unit will read and write 17 different card types, yes I said 17 and I must admit I did not even know there were 17 different card types.

Laserjets first arrived over twenty years ago, my first was a ‘2P’ with the P standing for personal. It’s strange how you remember your first laser printer.

A flat panels display is always the measurement stated, a monitor is normally at least an inch less than stated, also a flat panel will alway take up far less space.

Watching television programs on your computer monitor has never been easier.

The HP Laser first appeared over 20 years ago, how those who purchased an early offering would have loved what is inside this small box.