David Court thinks Samsung’s latest phone is brilliant, if you can ignore a few foibles and the eye-watering price Samsung has always been the Android phone manufacturer to watch, taking Apple on at the most expensive end of the scale and offering the pinnacle of smartphone technology. The S8 is beautiful and fast, has a … Read more
Searching for a better phone? Google may have the answer Google has produced some excellent and affordable phones under the Nexus brand. Now, it’s extending the Pixel range – which previously included a very expensive tablet and a very expensive laptop – to a pair of very expensive smartphones. Is that a good move? We … Read more
LGA 2066 MOTHERBOARD 4/5 VERDICT The ROG Strix X299-E Gaming is a versatile and reasonably priced X299 motherboard, though it’s best served with Skylake-X ONCE AGAIN, WE have a new collection of CPUs that also demand a new motherboard. This time it’s Intel with its simultaneously released Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors, the shared LGA … Read more
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM DICTATES that the ideal PC storage setup – the sweet spot between performance and affordability – is an SSD master drive with a mechanical hard disk providing extra capacity. It makes perfect sense: you get a few hundred gigabytes of solid-state storage to keep Windows and some choice applications nice and responsive, while … Read more
Why did only two of this month’s workstations opt fa a Xeon instead of a Core i7, and what does the future hold for Xeon? All but two of this month’s workstations came with an Intel Core i7 rather than a Xeon processor. Even the entry from Lenovo – a company that’s much more conservative … Read more
LibreOffice 6 vs Microsoft Office – The latest version of our favourite free office suite introduces loads of new features, Jonathan Parkyn compares them to Microsoft Office’s equivalents See also: Best New 50 PC & Web Shortcuts LibreOffice vs Microsoft Office: Better file compatibility Compatibility is always a concern when using a non-Microsoft office suite, so it’s great … Read more
Don’t sit around waiting for Windows 10 — Cat Ellis has some tips for making it boot more quickly. Over time, you might notice that the delay between you pressing your PC’s power button and having a responsive desktop is getting longer and longer. It can be enormously frustrating, particularly when you need to get … Read more
Keeping Yourself Safe. Read our ESET Smart Security Premium Review. The Eset advantage – Stay safe online with confidence The Internet can be a dangerous place, full of malicious hackers trying to take advantage of honest and innocent users. Hackers constantly pretend to be companies or websites they aren’t, attempting to fool you into clicking their deceiving links and … Read more
Apple HomePod review – WE’LL PREFACE THIS review by saying the Apple HomePod isn’t for everyone. As good as it is at playing music, and as cool as it is at being able to perform a variety of functions using voice commands — both of which we’ll cover in more detail later — its various limitations … Read more
WHILE THE PIXEL 2 shares important features with the Pixel 2 XL (SoC, IP67 rating and camera), it has enough differences to set it apart from its big brother, which is why we’re looking at here. The most obvious difference is its smaller size (146x70x7.8mm, 143g) and smaller display (5in). As the Pixel 2 uses … Read more
IF SUB smartphones are on your agenda, Huawei’s P9 Lite is worth a look, but we’ve been more taken with the 2017 remake of the P8 Lite – it has a slightly better processor (a Kirin 655 to the P9 Lite’s 650) and, while it originally came with a higher price, we’ve actually found the … Read more
Alexa the voice-controlled PA for just 50 quid, and you can plug in your own speaker It happens to us all, I suppose, but the older I get the more things slip my mind. I was intrigued by the possibilities when I saw my son’s Amazon Echo in action, so I bought one for myself … Read more