Danny Allen - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Danny Allen

Article | 1/06/2006 Canon Pixma MP830

As its name might suggest, the Pixma MP830 sits between the MP500 and the MP950 in Canon's Pixma multifunction printer product line. However, the MP83...

Article | 21/05/2006 Brother MFC-640CW

In addition to the usual print, scan, and copy functions, the Brother MFC-640CW can also send and receive colour faxes, print photos directly from mos...

Article | 6/05/2006 iRiver U10

If small, ultralight media players are your cup of tea, iRiver's U10 could be just what you need. This flash-based device weighs just 70g and is appro...

Article | 9/03/2006 Kenwood VRS-N8100

With computer vendors targeting the lounge room, it wasn't going to be too long until home theatre vendors hit back with their own products addressing...

Article | 5/12/2005 ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition

Nearly a year since NVIDIA won over graphics enthusiasts with its SLI dual-graphics card technology, ATI is finally rolling out its own dual-card plat...

Article | 2/12/2005 HP Compaq TC4200

Have you noticed the surge in new Tablet PC products in recent months? They're just like normal notebooks, but with screens that can swivel around and...

Article | 1/04/2005 Pioneer DreamBook Power 870P

The 870P's features include (big breath here): a 3.4GHz P4 processor, two 60GB 7200rpm hard disks in RAID configuration, 256MB Mobility Radeon 9700 gr...

Article | 14/09/2005 AOpen Mini XC Cube MZ855-II

AOpen's newest barebones (motherboard and case) small form factor PC is the first we've seen to use an Intel Pentium M (notebook) processor--perfect f...

Article | 14/05/2005 Hallmark Viewmaster Portiva 5z70

The powerful 5z70 may use the now older, original Centrino platform, but that doesn't stop it being good value for money. The Portiva is originally ma...

Article | 14/08/2005 Twinhead Efio 14B

This value-orientated model from Twinhead would be ideal for students and mobile professionals alike.

Article | 14/08/2005 Toshiba Satellite M40

Toshiba has packed quite a bit of performance into the Centrino-equipped Satellite M40's stylish silver chassis. However, our 3kg test model (PSM40A-0...

Article | 14/03/2005 Pioneer CentriNote 805

The CentriNote 805 is a Centrino-branded notebook model. Its core specifications include Intel's new Dothan Pentium M CPU (with 2MB L2 cache and a 400...

Article | 14/01/2005 Optima Centoris G595

The Optima Centoris G595 has a multiformat (-/+) DVD writer, 802.11b/g wireless networking, four-in-one card reader and a great worst-case scenario ba...

Article | 14/08/2005 ModTech CIVIC Panoramic

This is an interesting model from ModTech--a power notebook with a value price.

Article | 14/04/2005 ModTech CIVIC Diamond 1615.R

This Diamond 1615.R has great performance and great features, such as single format (-) DVD writer, 802.11b/gwireless networking and a 128MB ATI Mobil...