More details about the product groups on IT Reviews, with descriptions of each category. These should give you a general idea of what each product type is all about. We're adding new ones on a (fairly) regular basis.
Choice is, as many consumers will ultimately admit, a double-edged sword. Many of us crave it, but we also want our purchasing decisions to be relatively straightforward. The PC market, particularly in recent years, has splintered ...
Storage has never been cheaper. At the time of writing, just �30 secures you a hard disk drive that adds 40GB of storage to your PC, and if you're willing to spend a little more, then ...
As little as six or seven years ago, scanners were genuine luxury items for computer users. With entry level prices kicking off around the �300 mark (and that really didn't get you a fat lot, either), ...
Printers occupy one of those areas of computing in which figures are all important. Splashed over magazine ads for the latest inkjet printer you'll see things like "2,400dpi!" or "10ppm!". The situation is more complex ...
If you're in the market for a new graphics card, here are a few things worth knowing first. Even if you went back just a few years, the graphics card market was so divided by pricing ...
Fed up with that big fat monitor sitting on your desk? Then welcome to the wide world of display options, where your choices have rarely been so broad and affordable. We'll deal with monitors first, and ...
If there's an underlying theme to most of the buyers' guides you'll find here at IT Reviews, it's that whatever you're in the market to buy, the breadth of prices you'll see is really quite startling. ...
Some would have you believe, it seems, that the PDA (personal digital assistant) has peaked, and that its days are numbered. Don't you believe a word. For just as in most other walks of the IT ...
There's as broad a choice as there's ever been for those in the market for a motherboard. It's for that reason that, in this brief guide, we'll sort your processor out first to help narrow down ...
It's now many years since the first MP3 player arrived on the market, and we're increasingly seeing video and photo viewing features on what used to be simple portable music players. This convergence seems likely to ...
It's taken a while for digital cameras to 'arrive'. Over the past few years we've had little more than excuses for cameras, devices that might have been praiseworthy if only they'd had higher resolution or if ...
The last time we sat down to write a guide to audio-related purchases for your PC, the world was a very different place. Back then, it was still quite common for a PC to have an ...
If you're new to networking, then here are two pieces of good news to get you started. Networks are fairly easy to put together, at least in the home and small office environment, and they're also ...
It's a booming time for the laptop market at the moment, with sales going through the roof off the back of advancing technology and rapidly falling prices. Portable machines now start at under �500, and while ...
DVD-ROM drives in PCs have long since overtaken their CD-ROM equivalents in popularity. It's rare to find a new PC that doesn't ship with some form of DVD drive in it. Should you be stuck with ...
Although the office applications category contains such gems as accounts packages, OCR tools and speech recognition software, these are dwarfed by the big three - there simply wouldn't be PCs as we know them if it ...
Without an operating system your PC is useless. With an operating system it's arguably still useless but crashes more. Few people ever need to buy a new operating system (they often still do - witness the ...
Listening to some so-called experts talking on television, you'd suspect the Internet was a floating vapour that somehow allowed people to communicate - a little like telepathy crossed with ectoplasm. The reality is that the Internet ...
Computer journalism is responsible for many clich�s. One of these is that a computer is similar to a car. Look at the cover of any computer magazine: 'Supercharge your PC!' it will say, offering 'performance tweaks ...
Picture the scene: it's the year 2000 and computers have taken over the world. Humans are grey and lifeless beings, robbed of their creativity and individuality. Computers are everywhere in a Big Brother kind of way. ...
There's no getting away from it; reference software is a necessary, yet uncomfortably broad term. Encompassing the likes of astronomy, encyclopaedias, route planning and various other multimedia works, it covers an area of software that's been ...
Anyone running a computer that's connected to the Internet should be well aware by now of the growing number of threats to security and privacy that pollute the online world. It's still not safe to browse ...
Action. The world revolves around it. People thrive on it. Everybody wants a piece of the action, 'cos it's fast, it's furious, and if it's in man form in all likelihood it will have an eagle ...
The distinction between adventure games and role-playing games or RPGs is an easy one to make. Your average adventure game will cast you as one character, and you have to solve puzzles by using a simple ...
When the phrase 'Strategy games' is mentioned, some people feel an almost irrepressible desire to yawn, maybe even quite rudely right in the face of the person doing the mentioning. They're not everyone's cup of Darjeeling, ...
You watch the Top Gear repeats religiously every weekend, you've got a steering-wheel get up with mock papier-mach� F1 cockpit sitting on the front of your computer desk in place of the keyboard, you don't breathe, ...
Consider the average professional athlete. If they're not up at five o'clock in the morning, going for long runs in a miserable, raining, foggy dawn, they're drinking raw eggs or stuffing themselves full of 'performance' pills, ...
What's the difference between a flight sim and a space sim? Approximately several thousand vertical miles, and while these genres are similar, enigmatically enough they're also very different. You don't get trolly dollies and sick bags ...
A pretty broad category this; the miscellany, the Twilight Zone of the gaming world. Anything that doesn't fit into our other categories gets unceremoniously lumped in here. It's a mixed-up bag, rather like Ruby Wax. Sorry... ...
