ASRock Z97 Pro3 ASRock Z97 Pro3 – by Binh Phan Duc 84/ 100stars A basic, affordable board that covers most bases with surprising performance The ASRock Z97 Pro3 is the cheapest board to appear in this Labs, being less than a quarter of the price of this month’s top-end contender. The lower price means its feature set … Read more
iOS 8 under the microscope. A HOST OF FEATURES TO GET EXCITED ABOUT. If you remember anything much about last year’s launch of iOS 7, it will surely be the fact that it consigned Apple’s previous love affair with skeuomorphism – the practice of making certain software functions physically resemble their real life equivalents – … Read more
Quality web-creation program adds better support for mobile websites. Xara Web Designer is a drag-and-drop web-design program that works rather like desktop-publishing software. You choose a template, pick a colour scheme and then set about replacing the placeholder content with your own text, pictures, links and so on. Then, you can add more interactive elements, … Read more
HP Pavilion x360 3 out of 5 A cheap and colourful Windows 8 laptop-tablet hybrid Cheap laptops often look plain, or even very ugly, but the HP Pavilion x360 is better looking than most. Its red, silver and black design is very distinctive, but if that’s too flashy for you there is a more sedate … Read more
From file wrangling to housecleaning, these tips will help you get the most out of your supercharged storage. IF YOU’RE STILL using a mechanical hard drive, you might consider upgrading to a solid-state drive—it will give your PC a speed boost on everything from boot times to game loading screens. SSDs aren’t the perfect replacement … Read more
LENOVO CREATES SOME SURFACE TENSION. Most 8-inch windows tablets are aiming for the $200-300 price range, so Lenovo might seem a little out of touch when it crowds in with a $500 unit. The ThinkPad 8 is the nicest looking of the lot, at Least. It’s the only one with a metal back, which helps … Read more
A top-notch budget monitor. AOC’s I2360PHU 23 in budget monitor may be unassuming because of its plain black appearance, but it has a lot going for it. For starters, it’s far more adjustable than other similarly priced displays. You can tilt it, rotate it to work on portrait photos and documents and even adjust its … Read more
Tech and trends that will affect you today and beyond. Microsoft rocked Build 2014 with an abundance of announcements. Best Build ever? » The keynote address that kicked off Microsoft’s Build 2014 developers conference may have lasted a punishing three hours, but the event was packed with product reveals aimed at consumers. The latest Windows … Read more
This wireless headset gives you your money’s worth. since its first entry into the headset market about four years ago, we’ve been reliably impressed with Corsair’s gaming headphones. Corsair has consistently focused on build, comfort and audio quality, without tacking on needless features that send the price sky-high. The Vengeance 2100—the company’s new top-of-the-line set, … Read more
YOU’LL NEED THIS SOFTPERFECT RAM DISK. Get the free download from http://bit.ly/MPC_RamDisk. The concept of taking unused memory and turning it into a lightning-fast virtual drive that also reduces the wear and tear on your hard disk is nothing new, but using RAM has traditionally had one major drawback: its volatile nature means all data … Read more
Few things evolve more quickly than the desktop PC, but there is one constant: the process of getting smaller. The first computers took up entire rooms (and required a college degree to operate]. But these days, you can get a gaming PC the size of briefcase delivered to your front door. But if you prefer … Read more
Manufactmn Samsung Website: goo.gl/DsOobz Required spec Windows XP+, Mac OS X10.4.6+, 1.6GHl+,2GB RAM, USB port. W ith so many laptops and such now being sold without an optical drive there’s surely an opening in the portable market for those users who still require content to be delivered on a disk. The optical disk may well … Read more