tracks, and we did find that distracting. The graphic equalizer display is pretty but pointless; more useful is that fact that you can see all of the following on screen at a glance: artist, album, track name, clock, track time, battery status, EQ/SRS and shuffle/...

notebooks all bearing the Centrino brand, none of which can be easily distinguished from another on technical merits. On first blush, this may not appear to pose problems for notebook buyers, but it does put Intel on track to expand its market-leading position...

Setting Up The FIC MB02. notebook vendors seek . Niche PC vendors have of late found opportunities in applying the whitebox PC model to building and selling notebooks. These growing number of 'whitebook' vendors have managed to squeeze profits out of the pricing-intensive,...

Creative Labs MuVo Slim. creative. Vendors continue to seek creative ways to differentiate their MP3 players, in a commodity market that has attracted many new entrants. Samsung strives for small and skinny with its latest player, the Yepp YP-T5. Creative Labs'...

testing the hard drive. The "quick test" merely runs a mechanical check and records various access times such as average seek and track-to-track seek, while the complete test includes a comprehensive physical interface test. A hard-drive tester is also included....