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The article evaluates several network-attached storage (NAS) devices including Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 Cloud Edition 2TB, Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 12TB and Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 4.

The article evaluates several network-attached storage devices including Buffalo LinkStation Pro 1TB, D-Link ShareCenter Pulse and Netgear Stora 1TB.

The article evaluates several motherboards, including ASRock P67 Fatal1ty from ASRock Inc., Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3R-B3 from Gigabyte Corp. and Intel DP67BGB3 from Intel Corp.

The article evaluates several computer printers including the Canon Pixma iP100 from Cannon Inc., the HP Envy 100 from Hewlett-Packard Co., and the Lexmark Platinum Pro 905 from Lexmark International Inc.

The article evaluates several computer monitors including G245H from Acer Inc., Designo LS246H from Asus and EW2420 from BenQ Corp.

The article evaluates several central processing units of i5 series from Intelcore Technologies Inc. including the Intel Core i5-750, the Intel Core i7-860 and the Intel Core i7-870.

The article evaluates several computer cases from Altech Computers Corp., Actiontec, and Rectron.

The article evaluates several personal computer speakers including Z-10 from Logitech Inc., aluminium stereo speakers from Bose Corp. and BXR1120 speakers from Altec Lansing Inc.

The article evaluates several motherboards including MSI P35 Diamond from Micro Star International, the Abit IN9 32X-MAX Wi-Fi from Gigabyte, and the ASUS P5K3 Premium from ASUSTek Computer Inc.

The article evaluates several electronic equipment including Enspire Vitesse XP2 desktop from Enspire Digital, Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H motherboard from Foxconn Corp. and Nikonn D80 digital camera from Nikon Inc.

The article evaluates several desktop PCs including Aspire L320 from Acer Computers, iMac 17in from Apple Inc and CMP-Ariel from Altech.

The article evaluates several technological products, including Enspire Digital Vitesse XP2 computer from Enspire Digital, Pioneer DVR-212D disc drive from Pioneer, and SanDisk Cruzer Micro universal serial bus connector and ships from SanDisk.

The article evaluates several best technology products, including Toshiba Qosmio G30 laptop computer from Toshiba Corp., Panasonic AG-HVX202EN digital video camera from Panasonic Co., and Canon PIXMA iP5300 Bubble Jet printer from Canon Inc.

The article presents information on LCD wide-screen computer monitors, which are becoming popular in the computer industry. It is stated that LCD monitors have a bigger screen size, and enhance productivity. It is mentioned that the price of LCD monitors has dropped over the past twelve months, which is largely due to new LCD fabrication plants coming up in Taiwan and South Korea. While manufacturing the LCD monitors, each monitor was connected to a test bench computer running an Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS 320MB video card from MSI. The visual quality tests were performed using Nokia Corp.'s NTest utility for color and light uniformity and moire effects.

The article evaluates several top-selling high technology products including Enspire Digital Vitesse XP2 desktop personal computer from Enspire Digital, Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H motherboard from Foxconn, and Nokia E61 smartphone from Nokia Corp.

The article evaluates several technological devices, including Enspire Digital's Vitesse XP2 personal computer, Dell's Optiplex 745 mini tower personal computer, and Nvidia's GeForce 8800 GTX video card.

The article evaluates several electronic apparatuses and appliances including Dell OptiPlex 745 mini tower computer from Dell Computer Corp., PC Quest M2 Core computer from computer manufacturer PC Quest, and EVGA Nvidia 680i motherboard from Shadow Entertainment Group.

The article evaluates several computer input-output equipment including products Enspire Digital, PC Quest and Dell Computer Corp.

The article evaluates several personal computers and motherboards including products from Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp. and Foxconn Electronics Inc.

The article evaluates several electronic products such as Desktop PCs, Motherboards and Video cards from Plus Corp., Synnex Inc. and Nvidia Corp.

The article presents information about several low price laser printers. The Lexmark C500N from Lexmark International Inc. is a very low-cost model. The printer prints colour at 8 pages per minute (ppm) and black and white at 31 ppm. The printer HL-2700CN from Brother Industries Ltd. is a 600dpi laser system. It has a top speed of 31 ppm in black and white. The OKI c3400 printer from OKI is unique as it is a light emitting diode based laser system. It's top speed of color is 16ppm. LBP5000 from Canon Inc. does not have an Ethernet network adaptor.

The article presents a comparison of different computer notebooks from different companies including Dell Computer Corp. and BenQ Corp., and offers information on their features.

The article presents a comparison of media center personal computers including products from Pioneer Computers, Altech Computers Corp. and Toshiba Corp. and offers information on differences, compatibility with Windows, model and price.

The article presents a comparison of top-selling electronic products including products from Dell Computer Corp., Lenovo, and Hewlett-Packard Co. and offers application tips.

The article presents a comparison of liquid crystal display monitors including products from Dell Computer Corp., LG Electronics Inc., and Samsung Co. Ltd. and offers information on their look, performance and cost.

The article evaluates several computer peripherals including the A8n32-SLI Deluxe motherboard from ASOS, the Altera FX-60 Ultra 2 processor from Plus Corp., and Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI motherboard from Synnex Inc.

The article evaluates several computer storage devices including the StorCenter Ethernet storage box from Lomega Corp., the OneTouch III storage device from Maxtor, and the NetCenter 320GB Network Drive from Western Digital Corp.

The article presents a comparison of Core Duo notebooks including products from Intel Corp., LG Electronics Inc. and AMD Corp. and offers application tips along with various characteristics.

The article presents information on the recently introduced multifunction printers for the home and small office. These products were considered for purchasing for the Australian Personal Computer (APC) Lab of Australia. They are replacements for printers, scanners, fax machines and more. For a long time, good quality printing needed a standalone photo printer, while faxing and basic copy functionality could be had on a thermal or plain paper fax. Infrequent scanners needed a separate scanner, meaning more cost and more desktop space sacrificed to peripherals. While this evolution was a huge breakthrough, it was not uncommon to find one piece of equipment top notch and the others feeling more like tacked-on extras with results barely comparable to their standalone brethren. The Lexmark X7170, one of the printers has graced the hallowed benches of the APC Labs before. Its color printing and high-speed faxing, scanning and copying results were extremely similar to their last test of this low cost, high-performance unit. The X7170's ADF is also a useful inclusion. The new Dell Computer Corp.'s Photo All-ln-One 964 was a surprise, which was looking more like a mutated iPod than a printer.

This article focuses on notebook computers tested by laboratories of the periodical "Australian Personal Computer (APC)." APC Labs team noticed the amount of extras some vendors provided. Instead of just a notebook in a cardboard box, some systems were shipped with carry bags, mice and generous software packages. The Pioneer Dreambook 805 was unique with its use of an NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200. This is an entry-level, low-power graphics adaptor with Pixel Shader 3.0 support. Technically, it meets all the requirements for playing the latest games, but in reality, its 3D capability is there to make it compatible with Windows Vista when it's eventually released. There was a disparity in the size of hard drives fitted in the models. The Optima KN1 and the Acer Travelmate 4152LMi were the only two units with 80GB drives. Interestingly, Dell Computer Corp.'s Inspiron 6000 came with a standard 15.4in wide display, but its native resolution was an astounding 1,680 x 1,050. The side effect of this is that icons and text become tiny, and it's probably just a little too high-resolution for comfortable long-term desktop use. However, the build quality of the Samsung, Lenovo, Dell, Optima, Toshiba and Twinhead were excellent.

The article compares the central processing units (CPUs) manufactured by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and Intel Corp. The journal "APC" pitched the best of AMD against Intel to discover which brand's CPUs are the best for multimedia content creation, business computing and gaming. AMD has alleged that Intel has used its market share to force its customers from buying AMD processors. While the case had not started at the time of writing, it will be the focus of the information technology world when it eventually hits court. AMD has four types of CPUs available for the desktop. At the budget end is the Sempron--a socket 754 Athlon 64-based part that differs from its faster brethren through smaller cache sizes and a slower 1,600 megahertz HyperTransport bus connection with the personal computer. AMD's architecture includes a memory controller within the processor, which makes memory access a lot faster than using a Northbridge-based memory controller, even with the now ageing DDR400 as the standard memory type.

This article focuses on suggestions for small businesses to install own servers. The first option is to stick with the existing peer-to-peer networking arrangement, relying on third parties or Internet service providers to host email. Only problem is, if a desktop machine stops working, the business risks losing data and suffering through uncontrollable delays. The second and wiser option is to move to a central server network plan. Having users put files in a central location is preferable to spreading them around, especially if they are regularly used by different people. This is the server/client setup, a popular arrangement which makes data easier to manage. Hosting own email or web server decreases the risk of security breaches as networks and clients are easier to manage when running a server-based operating system. Running a DHCP server for IP allocation, an SMS server for updates, and restricting access to potentially harmful or dangerous technologies from a central location provides better security and virus cleanup.

This article presents information on digital printing. If people own a digital camera, chances are they figured they would save on printing costs by never again paying for that shot of a row of headless colleagues you took at last year's work party. According to image industry research group Lyra, only about 18 billion of the 80 billion digital photos taken in 2004 were printed, with the rest stashed away on hard disks or digitally published on the Web. Aware that they are about to be caught up in a price war with online printing services and mini labs, photo printer manufacturers are adopting different approaches in an attempt to keep their customer base. A recent lawsuit filed against Hewlett-Packard Co. in California's Santa Clara Superior Court may well see compensation paid to anyone who purchased an HP inkjet printer after February 2001. Henry Wilhelm, co-founder, president and director of research at Wilhelm Imaging Research, tests the longevity of vendor inks by literally cooking the photos in an effort to "fast track" years of light exposure.

The article presents some of the common personal computers and programming problems and provides solutions to it. A PC user in a server environment loses his password; the administrator can always reset it. But how do one reset or retrieve a lost password on a local machine. In reply to these problem the article provides solution. One can reset passwords in local machines and administrative passwords in domains by following certain steps. There is even a way of retrieving lost passwords. Another question is about resetting passwords on a local machine.

This article presents information on several liquid crystal display computer monitors. IBM Corp.'s ThinkVision C190 monitor sits in the middle of the pack in this Labs Challenge, both in terms of price and performance, and is aimed at corporate and home users rather than graphics or design professionals. The C190 supports resolutions up to 1,600 x 1,200 at 75Hz, and screen geometry is accurate at 1,600 x 1,200 and 1,280 x 1,024. Ideally suited to high-end graphics applications, LaCie Ltd.'s electron19blue IV offers a maximum resolution of 1,920 x 1,440 at a refresh rate of 75Hz. This monitor produces excellent results in screen geometry tests at 1,600 x 1,200. The unit is very accurate at outputting the higher resolutions, and only a slight inward distortion in all four corners is detectable during testing. LG Electronics Inc.'s Flatron T901B pushes shadow mask technology to its limits — and is noticeably brighter than its competitors — but is let down by poor focus. The T901B performs adequately at a resolution of 1,280 x 1,024, but at the higher resolution of 1,600 x 1,200 blurring at the edges of the screen makes text unreadable.

The author reveals tools and techniques for converting a digital video disc (DVD) movie disc into DivX video recording equipment. If one has shot a home movie or office training video on digital video to view on a DVD player, everyone who wants to see the video does not have a DVD player. Squeezing the DVD content into a DivX video file involves three key steps: copying the video and audio data from the DVD, turning it into the personal computer-friendly AVI format and then resizing and re-encoding the footage using the DivX codec. One will have to use other programs for copying the DVD content to the hard disk drive which includes converting the native DVD video object files to AVI format and encoding the clips into DivX. INSETS: Options a plenty;DivX definitions.

The article evaluates several A-Series notebook and desktop APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) models from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) including A8-3530MX, A8-3510MX and A8-3850.

The article evaluates the Green personal computer (PC) from EDsys Computers.

The article evaluates several projectors including VPL-AW15 from Sony Corp., EMP-DM1 from Epson Inc. and VT-595G from NEC Corp.

The article evaluates several electronic appliances, including the GigabyteP35T-DQ6 motherboard from Gigabyte Technology, the Blackberry 8707G smart phone, and the HP w1907 computeer monitor from Hewlett-Packard Co.

This article presents information about water-cooling kits. Water-cooling is the ultimate way to eliminate heat from a machine. Nick Race installs and tests seven kits designed to help your PC chill out. Traditionally, the integration of water-cooling into computer systems was restricted to the overclocker market. The faster a fan spins, the louder and more high-pitched it becomes. Space is limited in the areas of a PC where most of the heat is generated, so fans are driven at higher speeds to keep the temperature down. Water-cooling avoids this problem by transferring heat to an area where it can be cooled with larger and quieter fans. Typically, a water-cooling kit consists of a pump, radiator, reservoir, and a water block that attaches to the CPU. Flexible PVC or silicon piping is also included to connect the components. Most include fans to aid heat exchange at the radiator. Corsair's HydroCool 200ex is a stunning performer that works by cooling water using an aluminium radiator and a huge 150mm high-speed fan.

This article presents information on several PC cards, and adding Wi-Fi support to computers. The ASUS WL-100G WLAN CardBus adaptor excels under benchmark tests, managing a solid 16Mbit/s in the medium-range test. The unit also leads the results under long-range testing, scoring 13.5Mbit/s and just beating the Micronica W54-CB to the mark. It isn't the fastest in the short-range test, but it still posts an excellent benchmark speed of 21.6Mbit/s. This level of bandwidth is more than adequate for standard office use and Internet access, as well as being suitable for most uses in a home network. DrayTek's Vigor560 is a solid but uninspiring performer, posting a short-range benchmark result of 19.6Mbit/s, 13Mbit/s at medium-range and 9.5Mbit/s at long-range. Although it doesn't break any speed records, this is fast enough for general office duties, Internet access and most home uses. Level One Communications Inc.'s WPC-0301 is a quality piece of hardware with excellent performance but no support for channel bonding or any other bells and whistles.

If one is thinking of setting up a wireless network and need to swap the adaptor between several different computers, USB is the simplest way to go. While the USB 1.1 interface doesn't provide for enough throughput to adequately handle 802.11g data transfer rates, USB 2.0 offers more than enough bandwidth to connect 54Mbit Wi-Fi adaptors without suffering any speed loss. Measuring 10.5 x 8.5 x 2cm, the Netgear WG121 adaptor, from Netgear Inc., is one of the largest units in this roundup. However, its relative thinness means it should slip comfortably into a notebook bag without adding too much bulk, and at 83g it's hardly a back-breaker. The performance of the device in testing is excellent. The WG121 averages 14.6Mbit/s at close-range, the highest result of all the USB products. The 3Com OfficeConnect's unique fold-up design attempts to address one of the inherent problems of USB keys, as it enables the user to align the antenna vertically. However, this can be problematic — users with side-mounted USB ports may find the adaptor gets in the way when typing.

The article evaluates the Sony Vaio Z laptop from Sony Corp.

The article evaluates the SF-2281 high-speed SSD controller from Sandforce.

The article evaluates the Apple Macbook Air notebook computer from Apple Computer Inc.

The article offers suggestions for setting up Windows Home Server. As advised, the memory should be just as big as possible, a reliable brand and inexpensive. As mentioned, putting a low capacity hard disk drive when the serial advanced technology attachment port space is very limited is not going to work for everyone. As suggested, depending on the setup at home, one may need an optical drive to install the server, but one may install a universal serial bus and do away with the extra expense.

The article evaluates Z68 Express motherboards from Intel Corp.

The article evaluates the Gigabyte G1-Killer Assassin motherboard from Gigabyte Corp.

The article reviews the Internet video game Shogun 2: Total War from the company Creative Assembly.