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Review: Ridings Slimplug power lead

Marc Delehanty — 2006-08-03T00:00:00.000Z

Marc Delehanty, Personal Computer World, Thursday 3 August 2006 at 00:00:00

Save space in your laptop bag with this folding-prong power cable

If you’re always carrying a laptop bag around you’ll appreciate the compact head of this power lead. The three prongs fold away, saving 2.2cm and making it thinner than most...

Buffalo Ministation HD-PHS40U2/UC

Anthony Dhanendran — 2006-01-18T00:00:00.000Z

Anthony Dhanendran, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 18 January 2006 at 00:00:00

Shock-resistant portable hard drive to keep your data safe and secure

Portable hard drives are growing in popularity, but they carry with them concerns of losing the data due to the notoriously fragile nature of hard disks....

3Ware Escalade 8500

Alan Stevens — 2003-11-13T12:26:58.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Thursday 13 November 2003 at 12:26:58

Storage performance gets a boost.

To fully exploit the 150Mbytes/sec capabilities of Serial ATA (SATA) disks you have to stripe data across multiple drives using a specialised Raid controller, such as those in the Escalade...

Benq AWL400

Alan Stevens — 2003-07-07T15:07:03.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Monday 7 July 2003 at 15:07:03

Swivelling wireless USB adaptor.

On most notebooks, wireless networking is easy - pop in a suitable PC Card and go. However, if you've used up your PC Card slots, or want wireless on a...

Adaptec SCSI Raid 2200S

Alan Stevens — 2003-06-23T15:59:57.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Monday 23 June 2003 at 15:59:57

A tiny Raid controller for rackmount servers.

Rackmount servers cram a lot into a little space, but don't leave much room for extras such as plug-in adaptors, especially Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (Raid) controllers, most of...

MPI Tech Bluetooth Printer Adaptor

Lars-Goran Nilsson — 2002-05-30T11:47:49.000Z

Lars-Goran Nilsson, Personal Computer World, Thursday 30 May 2002 at 11:47:49

A Bluetooth wireless printer connection.

The Bluetooth revolution hasn't quite taken off as yet, mainly due to the lack of products appearing on the market, but also to the functionality of early products coming nowhere...

Abit Arcadia AU10

David Nathan, Personal Computer World — 2001-05-23T23:00:00.000Z

David Nathan, Personal Computer World, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 23 May 2001 at 23:00:00

While best known for its increasingly lauded motherboard range, Abit has other strings to its corporate bow, including speaker systems and sound cards....

Pinnacle DV500

Gordon Laing — 2000-04-30T23:00:00.000Z

Gordon Laing, Personal Computer World, Sunday 30 April 2000 at 23:00:00

The DV500 has everything you need to capture and edit your digital video films.

Pinnacle offers a wide variety of video-editing packages, from the cheap and cheerful to the highly professional. The mid-range DV500 boasts real-time native digital video (DV) editing with 3D effects...