Laptops/PCs/Apple

When thinking about media centre options, you need to consider a choice of analogue and digital television plus radio reception. All three can be obtained from one card from Hauppauge.

A bag is a bag but your laptop deserves some consideration when you choose what will house it on your travels.

Moving into a new office offered me the challenge (opportunity) to do things a little differently and reduce desktop clutter

Acer continues its assault on the laptop market with yet another addition to its TravelMate range.

Designed to work with a laptop, APC’s latest mouse could grow on you.

White seems to be in the new in-colour choice for computer devices. Take, for example, a router modem designed to enhance a home network.

If WAN and LAN are words that fill you with apprehension then this router from Belkin and the software supplied may make its implementation somewhat less painful.

Digital television offers more choice with regards to channels, so why not add this capability to your computer

Acer do seem to refresh their notebook range rather frequently, this of course means they always seem to be able to present new features before almost all of the competition.

Recent PC’s and notebooks tend to have a 10/100 port but those trying to get that little extra bit of life out of slightly older kit could find this Belkin device of use.

Laptops are now being considered suitable as a desktop replacement. The Acer Aspire 5010 certainly falls into this category.

Remembering the days when a floppy disc (a real floppy) were more than enough for data and an operating system make this device seem more than huge in capacity.

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.