A gel-based alternative to an inkjet or laser printer The Ricoh Aficio SG 2100N is an unusual colour printer. Instead of using ink or toner cartridges like an inkjet or laser, it uses blocks of soy-based gel. Ricoh claims this technology allows the printer to match a cheap mono laser for speed and ainning costs, … Read more

This compact inkjet pretty much prints everything, including A3 paper Brother’s MFC-J5620DW is a versatile inkjet multifunction printer (MFP). It prints, scans, photocopies and faxes. It also supports duplex printing, has a 35-page ADF to take the strain out of copying and faxing multiple pages, and has a reader for memory cards and USB sticks. … Read more

Solid performance and battery life make this Chromebook a very solid choice for mobile mavens. There’s a party going on and its name is Chromebook. Acer’s newest entry comes via the Chromebook 13 – a 13-inch portable that ticks a lot of boxes and won’t leave standing on the wall, idly by, at the Chromebook … Read more

Lenovo basically defines the two-in-one category with its Yoga line.  Just look at the convertible-hybrid laptops coming out of competing  companies like Dell, HP, and Toshiba, which all use some variation on  the basic multimode design introduced with the first Yoga laptop back  in 2012. Now, with the Yoga 3 Pro, Lenovo has come out … Read more

Sometimes the audio capabilities of your motherboard simply aren’t enough for the task you have at hand. Perhaps you want a better home theatre setup or better quality audio when gaming? Maybe you just want to savour every instrument in the band? Either way, a discrete sound card is the way to go. David Hayward … Read more

Wargaming.net’s armoured fist punches the Android OS. Previously I was a keen fan of World Of Tanks, until I realised that at a certain level it became an exceptionally tedious grind. But when the developer launched World of Tanks BHtz on Android, I was curious enough to load the title up and see how the … Read more

Mark looks at a couple of mobile rack solutions from Enermax. Having external drive bays can be exceptionally useful. It allows you to use bare disks as portable storage and also enables you to quickly swap out drives for testing and cloning. As a reviewer, I used these things daily, but the requirement isn’t anything … Read more

A SOHO essential NAS with plenty of extras. Synology has just about perfected the NAS solution for small businesses and ‘prosumers’. Its DiskStation 412+ range was hailed as being one of the best examples of a NAS unit around for the pro user and business workgroup. It’s since stepped up a gear, though, and has … Read more

A monitor that lays the foundations for new an interesting technologies. AOC has adopted a number of technologies over the years to better improve its already impressive range of monitors and to offer that little something different from the competition. It’s a gamble but one that more often than not pays off -partly due to … Read more

Can Synology’s new four-bay drive for SMBs safely serve your entire office’s backup and storage needs? Huge increase in RAM. CPU and number of users, shared folders and groups over DS412+. Fast, even with encryption. 2GB RAM is not upgradeable without voiding your warranty. 1080p video transcoding not officially supported either. Directly replacing the now … Read more