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A tiny player at a great price, with wizard performance, Noel Keywood finds. Read our COWON PLENUE D2 Review. Cowon’s Plenue D2 portable digital player is a tiny pocket wizard. It is small enough to be stashed anywhere, has a claimed 30 hour ...

Newcomer Cleer Audio makes an impressive UK debut with its 'ironless' headphone design. Read our Cleer Flow Review Founded in San Diego in 2012, Cleer Audio only recently branched out to the UK. The company has a good pedigree and is made up ...

It's small but potent. Jon Myles takes Cowon's iAudio digital audio player out on the road. Read our COWON IAUDIO Review. High-resolution digital audio players (DAPs) are shrinking in size nowadays. Take the new iAudio Hi-Fi, from Korean ...

Under new ownership, AKG's noise-cancelling headphone focuses on smartphone use. Read our AKG N700NCM2 Review. KG was swallowed up by Samsung some time ago, along with Harman Kardon and JBL. But while Harman and JBL have retained their own ...

I here are two components every modern PC needs: a CPU and a GPU. The central processing unit, which we normally just call the processor', is the brains of the operation, the big fat chip that runs Windows and all your favourite programs. Read our ...

Not to be confused with the completely different and much weirder-looking TS6350. this inkjet sits in the middle of Canon's current Pixma TS range, and while we haven’t been convinced by some of its stablemates, the TS6250 achieves a happy medium. ...

Xubuntu 19.10 is the latest release for this Ubuntu derivative that features the Xfce desktop. Just out on 17 October, 2019, it is the 28th version of Xubuntu and the last "standard" release before the next long term support (LTS) release, due ...

Suck it up gamers, this screen isn't for you. Read our Acer ProDesigner BM320 Review. The ACER prodesigner BM320 ain't exactly cutting edge. There's a reason for that though—it was originally released at the end of 2017. So, there's no HDR and ...

ACER’S POWERFUL, PREMIUM CHROMEBOOK COMES AT A SERIOUS PRICE. Read our Acer Chromebook 715 Review. JUSTIFYING A NEAR FOUR-FIGURE PRICE TAG IS A TOUGH ASK WITH ANY  CHROMEBOOK. AND WE'RE NOT CONVINCED ACER HAS ENTIRELY PULLED IT OFF. THE ...

ALL YOUR STREAMING SERVICES IN ONE PLACE. Read our Audials One 2020 Review. THE LATEST VERSION of multimedia streaming software Audials One makes some welcome improvements on previous releases, with just a few quirks remaining from ...

Acer ConceptD 500 Review Acer enters the fray with new designer hardware ACER recently came by to deliver us a presentation about its new line of products, the ConceptD range. Apparently, the D stands for “Design” not.... Well, who knew? Real ...

In a world of competing processors and operating systems, John Knight explores how the PC began. Read our Evolution of computer. THE PC. The personal computer. The IBM-compatible. Whatever you want to call it, somehow this machine has maintained ...