Canon Pixma MP970
The MP970 is Canon's latest top-end inkjet multifunction. It has a higher price point than its competitors, but has a number of well-designed functions in order justify this.
The MP970 is Canon's latest top-end inkjet multifunction. It has a higher price point than its competitors, but has a number of well-designed functions in order justify this.
Occupying a very small space on a desk, the Lenovo ThinkCentre A57 will suit any corporate or small business environment that requires inconspicuous yet powerful and easy to manage desktops. It has the necessary grunt to run most office applications with ease and it won't consume too much power.
The AP-7131 is a tri-radio 802.11n access point (AP) featuring Motorola's adaptive AP architecture. It simultaneously supports high-speed client access, mesh backhaul and dedicated dual-band intrusion protection.
NetComm's new wireless router offers multiple users 3G connectivity simultaneously by sharing one PC-MCIA 3G card.
The Phaser 8560MFP is Fuji Xerox's latest top-end addition to its range of colour laser printers. Designed as the multifunction iteration of the Phaser 8560, this new model adds the ability to scan, copy and fax. With adequate colour reproduction and an easy-to-use network interface, the Phaser 8560MFP will prove useful in a small to medium office environment.
Fuji Xerox's latest offering is the environmentally friendly DocuPrint C1110, a colour laser printer targeted at small office users. For a relatively low price point, the C1110 offers surprising quality in colour printing for graphics documents, as well as a fast printing speed that is sure to enhance the work productivity in many small and home offices.
Samsung's 305T joins the small but select group of huge 30in widescreen monitors
Offering a host of calibration options and a few nifty features LG's entry-level 22in unit is a fairly attractive all-purpose monitor. It does have a few image quality issues but they are far from serious and overall it performed well across a variety of tests.
For speed, reliability and low cost of ownership, it's hard to beat a monochrome laser printer. OKI's most recent, the B6500N, is for all types of office environments, from an accountants' small office to a mid-size workgroup. And for $1754, while it might seem expensive for a one-colour printer, you do get a blindingly fast unit that's very easy to maintain, and which has a high paper handling capacity.
Acer's tiny Veriton L460 business PC is one of the best options for businesses with cramped working environments, or those looking for a PC with lower power consumption and will run quietly, too.
Ruggedised notebooks were once the domain of just a handful of specialised manufacturers, but recently they've become more popular. Today it's not uncommon for long-time manufacturers of business and consumer-style notebooks to produce toughened notebook models, as well as other devices and peripherals.
Fujitsu has released yet another ultraportable business notebook, this time it's the LifeBook P8010, a small, stylish ultraportable weighing just 1.35kg. Although it launched together with the tiny Fujitsu LifeBook U1010 (see the video review here), it's a slightly larger product that competes with notebooks like the Toshiba Portege R500 and to a lesser extent the MacBook Air.
Design and hardware-wise the Sony VAIO VGC-M18G is a stone's throw from the Sony VAIO VGO-LA38G, but there are a few significant differences. Although it aims to be a desktop PC, the VAIO LM18G hints at its notebooks roots, making for a stylish and functional PC with a unique form-factor named the "Panel PC".
The HP Pavilion Elite m9090a PC is the second PC we've tested that includes a combination HD-DVD and Blu-ray drive, allowing users to play movies from either format.
Based on AMD's new 790FX chipset, this Gigabyte platform is ripe for use with any of AMD's AM2 and AM2+ based CPUs, including Phenom. The 790FX is a highend chip, yet this board isn't Gigabyte's top-of-the-range product.
It's rare to come across a product so well thought out and so perfectly integrated with both Mac and Windows PC that you wonder how you lived without it. HP has done just that with the HP Photosmart Pro B9180, a high-end photo inkjet printer that brings the feature set and print quality of a $2000+ printer to the desktop of any serious digital photographer or graphic artist.
The latest Notebook products are reviewed for the week commencing September 26, 2007.
We've seen plenty of notebooks based on Intel's latest Centrino Duo platform (codenamed Santa Rosa), but the Zepto Znote 6625WD is one of the first of these high-end notebooks to fully utilise the potential of the 800MHz front side bus (FSB), which is offered by the 965 Express chipset in Santa Rosa. It performed well in our tests and has a stylish design that doesn't compromise build quality.
What's New: <i>ARN</i> looks at the latest products for the week commencing July 18.
<i>ARN</i> looks at the latest servers for the week commencing July 4, 2007.