When you conjure up the image of a shiny-surfaced, smooth-cornered, sleek-looking computer, one brand instantly springs to mind… and it’s not Dell. With the announcement of the new Vostro All
If you have been following the sound economic advice on the purchase of Windows 7, as provided by Gaj-It.com, then you may have been lucky enough to pick up a copy for the bargain price of £50 for the Home Premium version, and £100 for the Professional version. A snip considering the price of the full retail versions. We won’t go into what it costs to buy Mac OS X. And of course you may have found that the bargain price copies are in short supply.
For those of you waiting for the release of Windows 7, we have come a step closer with the announcement of the pricing. The news is good though, and not what we are expecting, there have been price drops since Vista.
Back in January ViewSonic announced the first model in its new computing line, the VPC100 All-in-One PC. The VPC100 is designed for those who want a PC based multimedia center in their living room. It is just 35mm thick can plays your movies (including DVD, DivX and MP4), has a webcam and best of all it is now available in the UK.
Back in May, we reviewed the Edifier Luna 5 iPod speaker, and it got a jolly good score by all accounts. This time we are looking at the Edifier Luna 2 PC speakers.
The BBC reports that seven million of us are illegal file sharers according to a report from Government advisers. Going by the the number of people using one network on one day, the estimate is they have access to £12 billion worth ofillegal material.
A key deal between New Zealand’s State Services Commission, and Microsoft has fallen through, perhaps opening the door for open source software. Talks concerning a three year purchasing agreement ended with Microsoft coming away empty handed.
In an article I wrote about XP Mode, I said at the bottom that as soon as I could get my hands on the various bits of software, I would post. Slightly later than anticipated here we go. For the people out there who have yet to hear of the miracle that is XP Mode, you can think of it as an extension of Microsofts Virtual PC. As well as being an update to Virtual PC, it also has the added benefit of publishing apps installed on the virtual machine to the host. This means that if you have an application that is incompatible with Windows 7, you can still run it as if it were native. Still confused? Lets go through it.
