Last week Telkom started upgrading its 4Mb/s customers to 8 and 10Mb/s respectively. Those in areas that had ADSL2+ exchanges that had been upgraded or built on Vodacom’s metro Ethernet network woke up on Monday happily surprised at their new speedtest results. We assume that Telkom will eventually upgrade it’s 384 and 512 subscribers. Those [...]

After reading the title of this review, I have no doubt many of you are drooling in anticipation; it’s not every day we get a high-end Alienware laptop in South Africa. For those that aren’t drooling, this is probably because you’ve never heard of Alienware before now, so a quick history lesson is in order. [...]

Man, I’ve been having so much fun on this project. The more I think about it, the more excited I get. I bought some 1.2mm thick aluminium yesterday for use in the mod. There are four pieces lying there. [...]

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 [...]

Please excuse my lack of updates, guys. I’ve been waiting patiently for some goodies to arrive from all over the world for this project, furthermore, I’ve been studying like a machine for a paper that I was supposed to write on Friday (it got pushed up to this week Wednesday). Anyway, I’ve got some amazing goodies to show you.

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’ve got a pretty sweet update for you guys regarding the rAge mod! Let me start with the full set of epic photos from the photoshoot we did with the Lian-Li PC-A77F case and the Corsair HX1000W PSU.

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.” [...]

So, now that you guys know who I am, let me tell you in more detail why I’m here and what I’m doing with NAG this year. This year at RAGE, alongside the Dream Machine that NAG gives away every year, they’ll be giving away yet another MONSTER of a PC. That machine will be [...]

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.

Hi guys! I’m Ettienne Venter, but I’m more commonly known on the internet as DAE_JA_VOO. I’m a case modder – I build and customise PCs and consoles as a hobby. The reason I’m here is that I’ll be working for NAG this year on a project they’ve asked me to do. More on that at a later date.

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 [...]

My first PC ran on an AMD AthlonXP 1700+. It had a Palomino core running at 1.43Ghz, a 266MHz front side bus, and 256KB of  L2 cache. But that wasn’t what started my infatuation with technology. That was due to my friend’s Pentium 1 133mhz and Voodoo graphics card. Back then, playing StarCraft, Theme Hospital, [...]