I feel that my opinion of laptops and portable devices has changed significantly over the past few months. Now that I’m actually selling them to customers, I have to see where the allure is for a particular notebook, and for what workloads it would be suitable for. Business laptops are always elegant, yet thick and [...]

As geeks, (well, true geeks) all technology fascinates us. We’re brand-loyal to an extent, but just about anything piques our interest no matter who makes it. A robot spider? Way cool. Nanomachines? Hideo explains the concept very well in MGS4, and makes us aware of the amazing things technology can do for us. Toilets that [...]

I’m not sure how to begin this column because lately my mind has been wandering off to distant lands where milk and cookies are aplenty. I’m not sure if the technology industry is going to offer up anything juicy for the next few months after the release of Fermi, so I decided to voice my [...]

I haven’t written much on Intel’s new processors. Those who know me on the forums would point to my owning an AMD chip as evidence of my fanboyism (and I wouldn’t deny it, either), but honestly… the Intel camp carries on with business as usual. It’s really a weird thought, isn’t it? “Business as usual.” [...]

With both NVIDIA’s Fermi and Apple’s iPad released recently, people are asking what techies think of these gizmos. I’ve read reviews, I’ve seen videos, and I’ve tried to formulate a sufficiently cynical reason as to why both these products are inferior/silly/completely out of place in today’s market. I can’t come up with one.

The answer to the above depends entirely on your idea of what uncapped is, but for the sake of transparency let’s all agree that uncapped (read: unlimited) means that a user has unlimited bandwidth, and can download as much as he/she wants. Are we on the same page here? Good. However, the current uncapped accounts [...]

We’re in the digital age, guys. Technology has developed so explosively over the last seventy years, right to the point where it allows us to be more than we are. Or, at the very least, it allows us luxuries we never thought possible. Consider Skype, a network that sought to change how people communicate. Webcams [...]

I have to admit, a lot of new tech that I read or hear about, or see, is enough to get me pretty excited. My internal hype engine is tuned only to technology and games these days — the newest Lamborghini only gets a yawn from me; it’s far too much like the Batmobile. But [...]

I work at Ibayi PC, one of the busiest IT solutions companies in Port Elizabeth. I’ve worked here long enough to start seeing patterns in the problems customers have, and with my previous personal experience fixing friends’ computers, I though I’d share a bit of my troubleshooting knowledge with you, in the hope that this [...]

We’ve had time to get to grips with the amazing performance of Intel’s Core i5 series: the latest addition to what Intel calls the “high mainstream” segment. Unfortunately, the new chips have been priced just out of reach, and a lot of potential buyers have turned to AMD and their value-centric Athlon II range. While [...]

I was born deaf. My mother, bless her, contracted German Measles while I was still sleeping my early life away in the womb, and as a result the hairs in my ear are irreparably damaged. Thankfully, this doesn’t have a knock-on effect as I have learned to live with it, but it does bring up [...]

One of the hardest things for most people to do is to draw up a Christmas wishlist. For those of you readers not yet working, the choice is especially difficult when it comes to technology, because there’s a lot of stuff out there that we simply can’t afford. The following nine items are products that [...]

Seacom is going to be one of the best things to happen to South Africa. We’ve now been stuck with Telkom’s ridiculous broadband prices for more than a decade, and it finally looks like things are shaping up. Lets have a look at a few companies that are now offering low-cost bandwidth direct from Seacom: [...]

Can anyone believe that the successful, and potent, LGA1366 is now one year old? Since 2008, we’ve seen five new chips for the LGA1366 platform, as well as the introduction of the i5 series of CPUs and the new LGA1156 socket. It seems as though Intel’s market research paid off: things are selling well and [...]

By now, I’m sure many readers know the joy of buying your own computer in separate parts, instead of buying a complete one from, say, Game or Incredible Connection. You also save some money. Do you want to save yourself more money, and teach yourself a few things in the process? Put it together yourself! [...]

In light of the recent announcement by Activision that they are going to mark up their retail price for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, a lot of gamers, both local and abroad, are wondering whether this will set a precedent for all other AAA PC titles released in the future, finally bringing the prices [...]