The Register - Personal: ReviewsBiting the hand that feeds ITApple iPod Nano- September 14, 2005 Apple's master-stroke Review Unless you were hiding in a cave last week, you'll have heard about the latest changes made to Apple's iPod range. Out went the iPod Mini, which on the surface seemed like a strange decision. The Mini enjoyed a fanatical reception from the millions of style-conscious consumers who realised that they'd never fill a 20GB iPod no matter how hard they tried, while its smaller dimensions made it even cooler than the original white icon. However, when it comes to...http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/14/review_ipod_nano/ RealBasic 2005 for Mac, Windows and Linux- September 13, 2005 Cross-platform development nirvana Review Since its arrival in the mid-1990s, RealBasic has been helping amateur and professional software developers create applications quickly by side-stepping most of the complexities other languages and programming environments throw at them.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/13/review_realbasic_2005/ Sapphire Radeon X550 low-cost graphics card- September 12, 2005 Cheap as chips Review If you aren't a gamer, integrated graphics may seem the best imaging option to choose for your next PC. Integrated graphics engines may be cheaper than add-in cards, but they can hit system memory performance hard, and since on-board graphics are usually only available on budget chipsets and motherboards, you may also miss out on key features such as RAID storage or dual-monitor support, writes Andrew Miller.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/12/review_sapphire_x550/ Orange Mobile Office Card 3G PC Card- September 7, 2005 Orange gets it right, second time around Review Just under a year ago I reviewed the original 3G Orange Mobile Office Card and was decidedly unimpressed. Sub-standard hardware and poorly considered software added up to a package that, quite simply, wasn't up to the job at hand. This situation was made worse for Orange by the fact that only a few weeks earlier I had reviewed the Vodafone Mobile Connect 3G data card, and it had performed flawlessly, writes Riyad Emeran.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/07/review_orange_3g_datacard/ |