Jon L. Jacobi - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jon L. Jacobi

Article | 14/05/2005 ASUS A8V-E Deluxe

The A8V-E Deluxe uses VIA's K8T890 chipset, which turned out to be an adequate performer, producing WorldBench 5 and gaming scores right in line with ...

Article | 3/08/2005 Flash memory to speed up hard drives

No more long waits for your PC to wake up. Longer laptop battery life. Data that survives a drop. These are the promises of solid-state-memory disks (...

Article | 19/07/2005 Even better backups: novabackup professional 7.2, backup mypc deluxe

We tested the latest shipping versions of two popular backup packages: NovaStor's NovaBACKUP Professional 7.2 and Roxio's Backup MyPC Deluxe. Both hav...

Article | 21/03/2005 Dantz Retrospect Professional 7

I've been using Dantz's Retrospect backup software for years, and while I've always prized the app's wonderfully powerful backup capabilities, the pro...

Article | 23/02/2005 Intel joins the 64-bit desktop fray

Intel on Sunday announced the availability of Pentium 4 Extreme Edition and Pentium 4 processors featuring the company's EMT64 64-bit extensions. With...

Article | 1/12/2004 Pioneer DVR-520H-S

The more you archive video from this unit's 80GB hard drive to DVD-R, the happier you'll be that you bought it. With an 8X DVD recorder built-in, the ...

Article | 20/08/2004 Roxio’s friendly new look: Easy Media Creator 7

Roxio’s Easy Media Creator (for-merly Easy CD/DVD Creator), a set of programs that assist you in burning digital files to discs, has undergone an impr...

Article | 30/12/2003 All-in-one burning Nero 6 Ultra Edition

Think you need more than one software package to take full advantage of your CD/DVD burner? Think again: Ahead’s Nero 6 Ultra Edition can handle all o...

Article | 13/12/2002 LG GMA-4020B, Sony DRU-500A Multi-format DVD Writers

One of the most exciting DVD drive newcomers is Sony’s groundbreaking $899 DRU-500A. Not only does this suber-burner write DVD+RW and +R at 2.4x, it ...

Article | 12/11/2002 WinDVD pushes PC DVD boundaries

Intervideo Inc. has embraced the cutting edge of DVD and audio technologies with new versions of its video recording and DVD movie playback programs, ...

Article | 20/06/2002 Sonic MyDVD 3.1, DVD Workshop Authorware

If you purchase a DVD recorder these days, the movie-authoring application bundled with it is likely to be Sonic MyDVD.

Article | 14/03/2002 Hewlett-Packard DVD100i

After years of promises, HP has finally shipped a DVD+RW drive. The good news? It stores up to 4.7GB of data per disc, and rewrites discs more than tw...

Article | 7/01/2002 PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7

A worthwhile - if not must-have - upgrade of an already well-done partitioning software package.

Article | 7/01/2002 Compaq: Preliminary Q4 estimates show profit

A worthwhile - if not must-have - upgrade of an already well-done partitioning software package.

Article | 30/10/2001 Roxio GoBack Deluxe 3

This software is a great safety net for everyday computing tasks, but it degrades "the performance of slower systems.