The Dell Inspiron i545s-3055NBK is slim but it comes at the cost of performance. This budget desktop is not for your advanced user or high end gamers. The computer is powered by 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 which is pretty fast but not on par with other fast systems that are available on the market. The RAM in the computer is 6 GB DDR2 RAM of 800 MHz, we would have liked a DDR3 rated RAM. A better quality RAM would have given better performance. There is no discrete graphic card in the computer and all you get is 256MB (shared) Intel GMA 3100 integrated graphics chip. Any high end game or graphic demanding application will bring this system to its heels. This computer was made with the budget user in mind who needs a computer only for basic purposes and not for gaming or any high end applications. An absence of a discreet card also means you cannot watch movies in all their glory. But there is plenty of memory space for you store all your files with the 750 GB, 7200 RPM disk.  [...]

We were wondering about what Samsung could possibly mean when they said Dualview on the camera name. We gave up, after thinking for a lot of time and we finally opened the product to find out for ourselves. What followed really blew us of our feet. Yes! It has a screen right next to the lens of the camera. The screen is used for self portrait and a few other functions that we will discuss later. But a presence of a dual screen would add to the cost and it does take up the price of the product a little. The screen of the Samsung DualView TL220 is about three inches and it is a touch screen interface. Most of the physical buttons have been sacrificed for the LCD interface. The LCD has lots of functions you may get confused with the features of the camera if you are a newbie. This camera has a lot of expert features and has been made for shutter bug freaks. It will get a while for you to get used to this camera if you have never handled one before. The LCD display of the touch screen  [...]

Logitech makes one of the best mice in the market, no doubt about that. We have hardly had any complaints with Logitech mice and keyboards. They don’t do anything extravagant, they have great ergonomics and all this is done keeping price in mind. This mouse is a bit expensive at $50 but we think that with the single receiver feature it is worth spending the extra buck. But let’s start with the basics; the Logitech Wireless M505 doesn’t have a thumb button that we are used to in Logitech mice. It has just two buttons with a middle scrolling wheel. The scrolling wheel is notched rather than smooth that most mice posses. We are more comfortable with the notched wheel rather than smooth one. The right click and the left click buttons on the Logitech Wireless M505 are fine and we had no problems with them. It was easy to click and comfortable. The Logitech Wireless M505 has a symmetrical design which makes it comfortable to use it with both hands. Left handed as well as  [...]

LG 42LH20 is a product from LG which is for people for stiff budgets and still want a HDTV for their homes. The TV is one of the least expensive panels that you will ever come up against and we found it good for the features that it offers. This same panel comes in sizes of 37, 42 and 26 and other than the size of the screen nothing is different. The TV swivels on the stand; something that we were glad was accommodated in an entry level TV. But swiveling will come at the cost of touching the TV and getting your finger prints all over the exteriors. We were looking forward to checking out the USB input of the TV. Yes! The TV, at this price range has a USB port in it so you can put music and pictures on a thumb drive and play it on the screen. Once we heard of this feature we wished there was video support too, but that is not possible at the moment. You get a preview for the pictures on the screen and further see them on a full screen mode. Watching full size pictures on this screen  [...]

Skullcandy is not a new name in the head phone market they have been around for a while and are making good sets of earphones. The head phones as mentioned earlier come in variety of colors and there are indeed lots of colors to choose from. The cables are covered with cloth so you don’t need to fear that they will suffer from wear and tear as times passes by. We are used to using headphones which have plastic exteriors and we have suffered a lot using them. Headphones of products such as iPod touch wound around the device when they are not in use. This reduces the life of the wire and there have been complaints that the wire tears on the end of the plug which goes into the iPod. Not only this, when the wire is wound around the iPod touch, the wire gets stretched and hence sometimes one ear piece stops functioning or the sound quality of the head phone drops. You won’t face any problems with these sets though as they are cloth covered and give you no problems when you stretch  [...]

Touch screen printers are rare and not many manufactures make it mainly because people don’t need a touch screen interface for a printer since it is not used as often as a phone or MP3 player. The other reason is that a touch screen interface increases the price of the printer and hence manufacturers are coy over making touch screen MFDs. HP and Lexmark are the two big players in the touch screen printer market and we got a HP Photosmart Premium TouchSmart Web in our offices for review. Now as the name suggests, this is a premium printer and not for light use. The printer can be connected wirelessly to internet and you can surf the web on the tiny LCD which is on the printer and print documents through them. The LCD on the printer looks quite similar to iPhone kept in landscape mode. But it is a little smaller than 4.5. The LCD looks very cute with an arm from the printer holding out the device.  [...]

Let’s get straight down to the main attraction point of this laptop, the inclusion of Blu-Ray drive. Yes! This computer has one, so you can watch HD content on this computer. We watched a few blu ray movies on this computer and the display was quite crisp. But a bigger screen would have done more justice to the clear video quality. The screen of the computer is 15.5 big which means this is a portable laptop. The screen gives you a native resolution of 1,366X768 pixels, gives 16:9 aspect ratio, which makes it good for 720p HD video. The display is not a full HD one, which will disappoint movie bluffs. Also the resolution is quite good and tiling two windows one next to the other won’t be a problem and there will be plenty of work space for you. Below the display is the keyboard, now Sony doesn’t go with what other notebook players do in the market, Sony has its own unique keyboard and we say it rocks! The keys are not close to each other but there is adequate space in between  [...]

LG 22LH20 is an attempt by LG to make a LCD panel for people who are on stiff budgets. You can use it for watching TV or you can pair it up with a computer to watch HD movies. But watching HD movies on this screen isn’t that great because it doesn’t support full HD. The maximum resolution that you get is 1366X768 which is 720p. We were happy with the LG’s remote control, it seemed better than remote controls of other LCDs that we have tested. On some the buttons were cramped.  But you won’t have much to complain about the structure of this remote control. There is no dedicated aspect ratio button on the handset which was a disappointment. The menu key is placed and the lower left of the big cursor control which is bad ergonomics. There is an energy saving button and it is highlighted by the ‘e’ letter and picture of a leaf. The button is green in color which pretty much gives you the idea. The buttons are great to touch and you get a feel of a click when you press them.  [...]

Asus Essentio CM5570-AP003 isn’t among the best desktops that we have received in the test center. In fact it is the same CM5570-AP006 but it has inferior hard ware, which means it is a stripped down version of Asus’ previous product. The computer is fast and you won’t have any problems running high end applications that are speed crazy. The processor used is Intel Pentium E5300 / 2.6 GHz, a Quad Core processor. It has L2 cache with 2 MB for each processor and the processor has data bus speed for 800 MHz. The desktop is good for high end applications but cannot take gamming because it doesn’t have a discrete graphic card. Intel GMA X4500 is what you get on the motherboard which is integrated graphics and the size is 1759 MB. If you want to play games on this computer you can always add a graphic card as this mother board gives you an empty 16x PCI Express graphics card slot. Along with this there are  [...]

We had got Acer Aspire Revo net top for review before this and there are lots of similarity between the two when it comes to hardware. This means that the Averatec All-In-One D1130 is not meant for your gadget freak but for the basic user who needs the computer just for typing on a word processor or internet activities like web surfing and email. The computer has 1.6 GHZ Atom processor which is pretty slow. We don’t know why such slow processors are still manufactured. They cannot take the power hungry soft wares that are manufactured these days, let alone high end games. The display is the prettiest part of the device and the 18.4 inch display will give you a resolution of 1600X900 which is a little less than what a display of this size is capable of. Averatec's display of 18.4-inch is capable of 1,680x945 resolution. The display is good, we played a couple of DVDs on this device and really enjoyed watching on the display. The sound quality is good but it is really low and  [...]