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InFocus has been producing business projectors for a long time now, and is known for high-quality and occasionally innovative products. Although the LP650's optical specification is respectable, it's not amazing. However, in line with the company's business focus, this is a network-connected, controllable and manageable projector that's designed primarily for the corporate meeting room. It's just a shame that it requires some proprietary software to achieve this.
21 years ago
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Hardware
Dell Latitude D600
The thin-and-light Latitude D600 series, based on the new Pentium M processor, marks the start of an ambitious new corporate look for Dell. Not only has the company redesigned all of its popular Latitude laptops, it has also reworked its docking stations, port replicators, and media modules. The notebooks carry the very latest components, including Pentium M processors and Intel's new 855 chipset. The D600 series isn't always a true-blue Centrino, but it can be. The company offers either the Centrino-completing Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Mini-PCI card, known as Calexico, or Dell Computer's own TrueMobile Wi-Fi Mini-PCI cards, supporting 802.11b/g or a/b/g. If your corporate budget includes money for a new notebook line, the Latitude D series is a wise way to spend it.
21 years ago
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Sony VAIO PCG-Z1SP
Thin, light and stylish, Sony's VAIO PCG-Z1SP, which will be available on 17 March, has all the designer chic that a fashion-conscious user could wish for. But beneath the surface gloss, does this 1.5GHz Pentium M/Centrino system deliver the goods in terms of performance and battery life? Our testing of this pre-production unit suggests that although performance is very good, you may need to buy the optional extended-life battery to put this system's mains-free longevity on a par with competing Pentium M/Centrino systems.
21 years ago
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Charles McLellan
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Acer TravelMate 800
Intel's new integrated mobile solution, which is called Centrino, comprises the Pentium M processor (formerly codenamed Banias), the 855 chipset and Intel's PRO/Wireless 2100 Mini-PCI card (the latter providing built-in 802.11b connectivity). The Pentium M chip is a brand-new design aimed at optimising the mix of performance and battery life for mobile computing, while the Centrino brand covers the combination of Pentium M, 855 chipset and Intel's wireless networking solution.
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OneNote 2003 Beta 2
Remember those personal organisers that were all the rage before Palms and Pocket PCs took over -- the leather-bound affairs in which you could write with a real pen, organise your notes into sections separated with dividers and move pages between sections? Microsoft's new OneNote application does a similar job for the PC, although it sticks to being a notebook and doesn't try to compete with Outlook's calendars and task schedulers. OneNote, which will form part of the Office 2003 family, provides a single place for creating and organising all your notes, lists, doodles, sketches and diagrams -- the sort of material that's always difficult to find and organise.
21 years ago
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Geoff Einon
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Office Professional 2003 Beta 2
Perhaps to assuage the clamouring public, or to work out some development kinks, Microsoft has released a public beta of its popular office suite. Our initial assessment? As in Office XP, the suite's most prominent changes target the professional market. True, Microsoft has enhanced some of Office 2003's applications, adding small improvements such as Outlook's better email handling and spam filtering. But most of Office 2003’s enhancements benefit large-scale setups. Corporate intranets will get a lot out of the suite's new XML integration, which facilitates moving information from one program to another, and its beefed-up collaboration features. Corporate buyers may want to give this beta a run. But, if nothing much changes with the final release, consumers won't find much reason to upgrade.
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As monochrome laser printers go, the 1,200dpi Xerox Phaser 4400 is a heavy-duty, networkable printing machine. It churns out professional-quality text and graphics at lightning speeds, and it requires little or no knowledge to use -- its high-capacity toner cartridge is particularly easy to replace. Also, ample drivers and clear documentation allow companies, with or without IT support, to set up and operate this printer across a multitude of PC and network platforms. This printer can handle large, busy corporate environments, yet it doesn't take a network administrator to master its simple menu-driven user controls. This simplicity makes it ideal for small, networked businesses -- as long as they can swing the expense.
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FreeHand 10.0 didn't impress us, but things are looking up for this professional illustration application now that the latest version, called MX, is here. FreeHand MX includes a range of impressive new tools, and its capabilities range from enhanced traditional functions to cutting-edge Web features. FreeHand is equally at home with print, PDF and Flash output. However, we had to deduct points for an interface that remains awkward and is far less intuitive than that of CorelDraw 11. Adobe users should stick with Illustrator, and CorelDraw remains our overall top pick. But designers who need Macromedia MX integration will love FreeHand MX.
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Panasonic Toughbook CF-R1
We should say at the outset that the Toughbook CF-R1 bears virtually no resemblance to the original Panasonic Toughbook. That was a ruggedised brute built to withstand real abuse in the field, including wetting and severe shock, and it looked the part. The armoured exterior also made the first Toughbook a hefty beast: drop it on your foot and you, not the notebook, would be needing repairs. This was fine. The Toughbook was an industrial tool engineered to withstand hostile environments, not for messing about in the office. People who actually needed one were unlikely to worry if it was big and rather ugly.
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Dominic Bucknall
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Mitac Mio 338
The battle of the low-cost Pocket PCs has taken a significant step forward with the arrival of the Mitac Mio 338. The price is low, the device is compact, and the product is being sold and marketed by established PC makers such as Evesham and AJP. Could this be the watershed moment when the Pocket PC becomes a serious proposition for budget buyers who would hitherto only consider a low-cost Palm OS device?
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Dell Inspiron 5100
Dell's first model in its revamped consumer notebook range, the mainstream Inspiron 5100, is different both inside and out. Gone is the buttoned-down grey case, to be replaced by a two-tone 'Venice blue and moonlight silver' design -- no, we're not making this up. Things are different under the lid as well, with a new keyboard and touchpad configuration. Inside, you'll find cutting-edge, dual-band wireless antennae, a fast Pentium 4 processor, and an enormous battery. These specifications made for excellent performance and reasonable battery life in our performance tests. Must cost a pretty penny, right? Wrong. The Inspiron 5100 range starts at £801 (ex. VAT). For the home user, the Inspiron 5100 is faster, longer lasting, and lower priced (in some configurations) than other mainstream notebooks, making it an Editors' Choices in this category.
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WinTasks Professional 4.0
We call our Windows work environments desktops because we view them as empty spaces where we carry out our PC tasks. But even when there's nothing on your desktop, there's a lot happening behind the scenes. WinTasks Professional exposes Windows' many tasks, allowing you to see everything that's running inside your computer. It also lets you change the priority of each task, effectively speeding up jobs or slowing them down, allowing you to tweak your system performance. It provides an easy interface, several task-specific windows and the ability to save and reload user-configured presets for all of your programs. If you're looking for a true Windows performance-enhancement utility, consider WinTasks Professional, which is in a class by itself.
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Barry Brenesal
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Orange Wearaphone
If you're an active kind of person, but don't want to lose touch with the world while you're biking, skiing or just out and about, the Wearaphone from Orange is a more robust alternative to standard hands-free kits. This entirely self-contained item of apparel is an active hands-free kit with an interface that consists entirely of bits of fabric.
21 years ago
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Jonathan Bennett
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Sony VAIO PCG-GRX616SP
Whenever you are handed a notebook with a price tag of two-and-a-half grand (and that's excluding VAT, by the way), you have a right to expect something pretty special. After all, you can get a fairly decent portable for £1,000 (ex. VAT) nowadays, so you could argue that Sony's £2,554 VAIO PCG-GRX616SP should be 2.5 times as good as a 'fairly decent' notebook to justify its price. Obviously, it's going to have its work cut out.
21 years ago
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Dominic Bucknall
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