The Microsoft’s Digital pro Keyboard is the cheapest keyboard that you may well find in Microsoft’s line of keyboards. Regardless of it being the cheapest, it has one of the best ‘feels’ when typing giving you the confidence not to make mistakes and become a better touch typist. If you’re wanting to learn how to touch type this would be a brilliant keyboard to learn from.
The keyboard also offers a lot of extra buttons such as the play/pause button, the volume button, five other programmable buttons and many others. One of the handiest buttons on the keyboard is the Calculator button which situated next to the numeric pad and the multimedia buttons are great for listening to music while you are working because you don’t have to stop the flow of typing and reaching for the mouse.
One of the great things about this keyboard, apart from its price of course, is the programmable buttons which are configurable through the software provided on the CD, although the Keyboard was first made available in 2004 so it would be an idea to check the website for the updated divers.
If you’re a Mac user, good news as unbelievably Microsoft has allowed you to use it on a Mac with everything working perfectly. The drivers given are fully compatible with Mac and work the same as in a Windows-powered PC. The only difference of course is the buttons that are different on a Mac keyboard, such as the Windows key but that isn’t anything to worry about.
As with any product there are of course draw backs, although they are quite small problems. One that stands out straight away is the position of the cable, it’s on the far left of the keyboard. Depending on how far away your tower is this could cause problems if your computer tower is on the right of you as it will stretch and twist the cable.
If you use notebooks a lot then you might find it hard going back to regular keyboards where you have to press the keys in much further for them to activate. The Kensington 64365 slim type keyboard addresses this problem, needing only light touches to press the keys. This is because the keyboard is incredibly thin standing at 1inch when they stands are up.
The Asus Striker II is one of the more expensive and feature packed motherboards on the market, primarily aimed at gamers it has the nVidia 780i Northbridge chipset, one of the better chipsets out there. Its simple and easy to overclock and has three PCI Express x16 slots using the nForce 200 chipset which means that its ready for triple SLI which you can use with the latest nVidia cards the Geforce9800.
Today’s we are looking at the Nvidia9800 GTX by eVGA. Taking a look at these graphic cards you might think that they’re a tad on the big size, but these sizes are now common amongst the high-end graphic cards. Some consider the 9800GTX to be on par with the 8800GTX. However, the greatest difference between the two cards is that the 8800GTX is equipped with 768MB of memory while the 9800 GTX has a memory of 512MB and both cards are DDR3. What makes the 9800GTX different is that the market price of the card being cheaper than the 8800GTX
The Logitech G11 gaming keyboard is virtually the same as the old G15. The only difference between the two is that the G15 version had an LCD which some people considered useless. Other than that, the Logitech G11 gaming keyboard is exactly the same as the old G15. It also has programmable keys and could definitely be a lifesaver especially while gaming.
After reviewing a few External Hard Drives over the last few weeks I thought it would be a good idea to review something that would give some protection to the things I’ve been recommending. So today’s review will be on the CaseLogic Small External Hard Drive Case.
Amazon have gone down in my expectations today, I’m a huge fan of Amazon for their great prices and wide product portfolio. Some of you may already know that Amazon has Meters to show how one product is out selling others.
” showing that Apple Macs are out selling Windows PC’s. They have gotten the results by measuring the sales of 5 Macs to 5 Windows machines. There are two major flaws that I can see in this though. First one being that they are only comparing notebooks, yes Amazon sell a lot more Notebooks than actually desktop machines but it never stated this in its poll and Windows easily sells more desktops than Apple.
Today, we will be reviewing Canon’s sleek-looking CanoScan 4400F scanner. I would classify this scanner as a budget scanner and has an optical resolution of 4800×9600 dpi. The scanner also has a capability of scanning an image or document up to 48 bit depth. Though the number may seem to be large, it is however, common amongst all the scanners within this price range. That should be enough technicalities and now on with the review of the CanoScan 4400F.
Today I’m looking at another external hard drive specifically designed for notebooks and people on the go. Although slightly larger and heavier than the Western Digital Passport that I have already reviewed this SimpleTech disk is one of the smaller external hard drives I’ve come across.
The Epson Stylus Photo RX595 is an All-in-One photo printer manufactured by Epson. It has optical resolution at 1200dpi and has the capability to scan at up to 48-bit color depth. The printer features six normal sized ink cartridges, a small lcd screen, memory card slots and is also compatible with any Pictbridge cameras. It also comes with a sample of 8.5×11” glossy photo paper and a Memorex printable CD-R. Now that I got the boring stats out the way I can get on with the review.