Stories by: Spiro Hionis

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    Crossing over: LM729 and SDMX53 LCD monitors 29/12/2003 07:55:45

    If you’ve dabbled with PCs over the last two decades you will be very familiar with the AOC brand name in monitors. It has traditionally championed the budget end of the CRT monitor market with low-priced products. Sony is another veteran of the monitor market and its tradition has been to provide cutting-edge monitor technology (think Trinitron), usually at a price — although this premium price has generally been worth it.
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    Canopus Imaginate software 21/02/2003 07:07:35

    Imaginate is a hardware-independent software package designed to allow high-level manipulation and animation of still images for video production. It comes on a single CD, is installed within minutes, and supports Windows Me, 2000 and XP Home and Professional.
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    Sweet Spot: March 2003 12/02/2003 07:47:59

    Prices continue to drop, but the Sweet Spot for graphics cards remains with the Radeon 9000 and GeForce4 Ti 4200, still priced between $200 and $500 depending on the bundle and memory configuration.
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    Cornea MP704, Hercules ProphetView 920 DVI, Samsung SyncMaster 181T Flat Planel Displays 18/11/2002 09:05:44

    Anyone looking to up­-grade a monitor would surely want to consider the latest Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) monitors available on the market. LCD monitors still use less power, weigh less, don’t flicker and give off less radiation than a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) monitor. We looked at three SXGA TFT screens, scaling in features and price from $1499 to $2699.
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    mStation Car Jukebox 23/07/2002 08:58:00

    You can get 10 CDs' worth of music in MP3 format onto one CD and many car stereo manufacturers have started producing stereos that will recognise and play MP3s. At the moment, most people with car CD sound systems either have a CD stacker or they carry their CD collection around in their cars. Now there is a better way.
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    MSI 845E Max2 Motherboard 28/06/2002 09:08:00

    MSI is one of the quickest vendors to market with new technologies and has wasted no time with this motherboard based on the Intel 845E chipset.
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    Leadtek WinFast A250 Ultra TD 24/04/2002 09:25:00

    The WinFast A250 Ultra TD is the first card we've tested to crack the 10,000 point mark in the latest 3DMark 2001 3D graphics benchmark.
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    Creative Labs Extigy 05/04/2002 09:30:00

    The arrival of Creative Lab's stylish, external Dolby Digital 5.1 SoundBlaster audio solution answers the prayers of many notebook users who have put up with inferior sound.
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    Panasonic DMR-E20 03/04/2002 09:54:30

    PC technology takes another step farther into the living room with the arrival Panasonic's latest DVD recorder, the DMR-E20. Many home entertainment enthusiasts have been waiting for a device such as the DMR-E20, which provides video recorder features using a DVD disc instead of standard videotape.
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    Guillemot Hercules XPS210 05/03/2002 11:12:28

    In this era of digital sound, multiple speaker sound systems, decoders and multi-jack sound cards, there is still some joy to be found in the simpler audio things. One such example is the Hercules XPS210 speaker system designed for multimedia sound entertainment.
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    HiTi Photo Printer 630PL 04/03/2002 11:02:55

    The 630PL is a dedicated USB photo printer that uses special media stock in conjunction with dye diffusion thermal transfer print technology to produce standard 6x4in photos. This makes it an ideal companion for digital cameras, especially since it is capable of producing a decent shot even from a 1-megapixel camera.
 
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