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Asus N56VM – Review
The arrival of Intel’s third-gen Ivy Bridge CPUs means massive discounts are starting to appear on machines featuring the old Sandy Bridge generation of processors. But some people won’t be swayed from buying an Ivy Bridger anyhow. Such as the Asus N56VM , priced at $1200, a 15.6-inch desktop replacement. That means powerful. The Asus [...]
Acer Travelmate 6595 – Review
At first glance the Acer TravelMate 6595 is identifiable as a corporate machine; fingerprint reader, 34mm ExpressCard reader, SmartCard slot. Then there’s a ’3G’ sticker advertising the 6595′s internal 3G/UMTS module, which is tucked away in the battery compartment. The appearance of the TravelMate 6595 is sombre black and gray, and the brushed aluminum of [...]
HP dm4 beats Audio – Review
HP is ever keen to talk up its Dr. Dre Beats Audio sound systems, so it comes as no surprise that the company has now named a notebook after its Beats Audio credentials. The HP Pavilion dm4 is a multimedia laptop with especial emphasis on audio oomph. The DM4 notebook is configurable up to a [...]
Acer Aspire One D270 – Review
The Acer Aspire One D270 packs in the latest Intel Cedar Trail Atom CPU, and sells at just 300 euros. Driver issues mean the Cedar Trail processors only support DirectX 9, and not DirectX 10, yet since the integrated GMA3600 GPU lacks the power to run DirectX 10 games anyway, this shouldn’t matter. The new [...]
Acer AC700 Chromebook
The Chromebook has been re-launched in the form of the Acer AC700 Chromebook. Chromebooks are laptops that run the Chrome operating system, which is Google’s padded-out version of the Chrome browser. But the Chromebook is a cloud-based format – they don’t offer any onboard storage – users must store their data in the cloud, using [...]
Google Drive – Review
Google Drive has launched as a serious threat to the other cloud storage solutions on the market. It’s also pitched in opposition to Microsoft’s corporate MS Office software. Google will use its phenomenal reserves of information, gleaned from everyday searches, to attempt to predict what people will like and how they will behave. In so [...]
Adobe Illustrator – CS6 Preview
Adobe Illustrator is the industry standard professional vector drawing software from Adobe. It’s reached its 25th year, costing $599 or $249 for an upgrade from versions CS3 to CS5. Adobe Illustrator CS6 is an absolute must for graphics professionals, and all the more so since the scalable graphics it produces are essential for the seamless [...]
LG Launches LG Cloud
LG has just unveiled its own cloud storage service, LG CLoud, which will allow users to shunt content to and from between smartphones, tablets, PCs, and smart TVs. The LG CLoud utilises LG’s Real-time Streaming Transcoding technology to execute server-side media conversion to suit whatever device a user is currently using. So a full HD [...]
Firefox 13 Launches – One Small Step
Firefox 13 beta is out, offering ‘Tabs on Demand’ and search text auto-completion.’Tabs On Demand’ refers to the revision to the way Firefox restarts when a user has multiple tabs open – Frefox willhenceforth only restore the current tab – background tabs will not now reload until specifically clicked open. So restarting the Firefox 13 [...]
Data Vault – Private Data for Sale
Privacy protection has always been close to our hearts. What we do behind close doors should be but our business, right? Privacy protection should extend to our browsing habits, what we buy or sell, provided our actions are legal. In last few decades fishing for personal data and making use of it all has been [...]
