Acer Aspire Ethos 8951G Laptop Review
Of all the laptops available at the moment, the two categories that interest me most are ultraportables and full desktop replacements.
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USB Big Mouse
When it comes to using a computer mouse, I like mine as plain and simple as possible.
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Curry's cut PlayBook Price by £150 in UK, but why?
British electronics retailer has today slashed the price of the RIM Playbook from £399.
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Dell drops to Third-Place Worldwide PC Maker
Figures released for the last quarter by IDC and Gartner show that, despite rumblings at HP that included rumours about dropping their entire PC division, the t
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Apacer AC430 External Hard Drive
A few years back, buying an external hard drive meant buying an overpriced, loud, clunky housing, and then having to spring for a hard drive separately.
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MSI N550GTX-Ti Graphics Card Review
A video card is not just a video card, as any enthusiast will tell you.
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Parrot AR Drone
Remember when you were a kid and there was something that was just so cool that you absolutely had to have it? Even going so far as risking the ire of your [&he
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Samsung Smart TV D5500 40†LED TV
When it comes to TVs, we are really getting spoiled these days.
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Is the Amazon Kindle Tablet Coming September 28?
Amazon have today issued invitations to a "special press conference" on September 28 and the tech community is expecting the online retailer to formally announc
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Dell Precision M6600 Workstation Laptop Review
Laptops come in all shapes and sizes these days from tiny netbooks to sexy ultraportables and everyday value machines.
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HP TouchPad Review
The HP TouchPad is dead, long live the HP TouchPad! It feels very odd reviewing a product that you can't buy any more.
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The HP TouchPad Fire Sale... Was it Worth it?
Last week when HP announced both that it was going to sell off its PC division, but also that it was dropping its WebOS devices, the tech community went into sh
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The Benefits of Raid 5
If you’ve every suffered a hard drive failure, you’ll know how it feels to lose data.
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Extend your Wireless Network with a Repeater
If you have a wireless network at home, and your house has many rooms, or if you want to surf the internet while sitting outside on your patio, you may need to
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HP kills WebOS, PC Business up for Sale!
This can hardly be believed but it's actually true and not some cruel joke.
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Is the era of the PC over?
PCs are going the way of typewriters according to an engineer who worked on the original IBM PC.
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Lenovo U1 Convertible Tablet finally goes to the FCC
This was the convertible tablet that started it all back in January 2010.
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Logitech G930 Wireless PC Gaming Headset Review
Up until a few days ago I worked with wired PC headset exclusively.
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Samsung ML-1865W Laser Printer Review
Have you ever wanted a laser printer at home, or even a wireless laser printer, but not had the money to be able to afford one? Well things have ch
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Cleaning the Inside of a Computer
The insides of computers get dusty and grubby, it's just a fact of life.
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Memory Microchip: No Longer Science Fiction
Since the days of Star Wars and Star Trek, we’ve dreamed of technological advances that would make us faster, stronger and capable of doing m
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Why can we still not print from Smartphones and Tablets?
When mankind first started using computers one of the very first peripherals anybody would buy was a printer.
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How the Samsung Series 9 made me fall in love with laptops
Last week I reviewed the Samsung Series 9 laptop and you can read Part 1 and Part 2 of my reviews here.
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Samsung Series 9 Ultraportable Review… Part 2
This week I've been testing Samsung's new Ultraportable laptop, their Macbook Air equivalent.
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Samsung Series 9 Ultraportable Review... Part 1
In the race to beat the Macbook Air for size and portability, there have been precious few Windows laptops.
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Building A Custom PC 2011 Part 2: First Draft
In Building A Custom PC 2011 Part 1: The Assessment I mentioned what I'd needed in a new Pc that I was about to build.
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Why Smaller Really Is Getting Better
There have been two recent advancements in technology that will make it easier for manufacturers to put a lot more punch in smaller packages.
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Toshiba Self-Encrypting Hard Drives With Host Authorization
The best way to protect data on one of your storage devices is to encrypt it.
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Building A Custom PC 2011 Part 1: The Assessment
I'm building a new PC every 18 months or so and post the progress of selecting the right PC components here on this blog.
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Logitech Illuminated Keyboards Review
As people are using PCs for many more things at home and the computer itself has become, in a few cases, an objet d'art in the case of some all-in-one dev
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NetGear NeoTV 550 HD Set-Top Box Review
Those of you who follow me on Twitter or through other social networks may know that for the last month I've been testing NetGear's new, top of the range Neo TV
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How Spill-Proof is Your Expensive New Keyboard?
In the last few years the world of computer peripherals has changed with many high-end products coming to market.
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Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse Review
I was pretty excited when I read for the first time about Microsoft's Arc Touch mouse.
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ZX Spectrum to be Reborn as Bluetooth Keyboard
The inimitable Sinclair ZX Spectrum is to be reborn for its 30th birthday with an interesting twist.
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Intel Recalls all Sandy Bridge PCs
In a move that's reminiscent of the famous Pentium floating point bug, Intel has issued a recall of all new Sandy Bridge PCs and laptops that run its latest gen
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Windows 7 and SSDs
Ed Bott has published a very interesting article today about the benefits of running Windows 7 on a solid state hard disk (SSD).
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nVidia Prepping 3D Graphics Processors
3D is the next big thing on computers, certainly for gaming and it will be interesting to see how it translates to the desktop.
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Microsoft Touch Mouse
Microsoft Hardware has designed a new computer mouse called Microsoft Touch Mouse which adds touch features on top of the usual mouse functionality.
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What's The AMD Catalyst Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) Technology Edition?
I regularly check the AMD Catalyst driver download page to see if a new driver version has been released by AMD.
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China claims Supercomputing Crown
This is a title that bounces back and forwards between countries, but now China has claimed the top spot for the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputer.
