Amazon Kindle 3 - Read All About It

Amazon Kindle 3 - Read All About It

Kindle is our #1 bestselling item for two years running. It’s also the most-wished-for, most-gifted, and has the most 5-star reviews of any product on Amazon.

Amazon rejuvenates its eReader

Still toying witn the idea of buying an eReader? Then Amazon's new Kindle 3 could
push you into making the digitai switchover to electronic books, The lalesl edition
of !he Kindle comes in two versions : one Ihal lels you download eBooks aver WiFi,
and another Ihal can also connect wirelessly through 3G mobile networks. There's no
monlhly ct1arges for 3G - once you've paid for The Kindle, that's all. On the downside,
any websiles you visi! will be in monochrome. 80th models are smaller than previous
Kindles on the outside, buI bigger on the inside, with room for up to 3500 eBooks,
They also have an improved battery, which provides power for an entire month of
reading, allhough using The wireless features will drain power more quickly.

ACER Aspire TimelineX 4820TG - Power-packed portable

Acer says the 4820TG was created ‘in the pursuit of the extreme'. Is it really everything that Acer claims? Design-wise the Acer isn’t the thinnest laptop we’ve tested but considering its components, its slim size is quite impressive. On the looks front the TimelineX while not stunning is a decent looker but people won’t think ‘that’s a lot of money’ when they see it.

Thankfully, in terms of performance the 4820TG doesn’t pull any punches. With a 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 M520 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 with 1GB of discreet memory, the Acer returned some impressive benchmark results. With scores of 75.51fps and 27fps in Street Fighter IV and World in Conflict the notebook certainly has gaming credentials and moving on to applications, its PCMark Vantage numbers were also quite healthy. Across the board this slim Aspire was much faster than Acer’s own Aspire 8943G desktop replacement machine.

rEviEw - APPLE IPAD - A tablet PC to rule them all

Going on the mass of press coverage leading up to the launch of Apple's iPad in the United States and Europe, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the plans for Apple's - at the time latest - device had come into the hands of Steve Jobs through some kind of divine intervention.

Sure, it’s shiny, and pretty, and well… shiny. That huge 9.7-inch touch screen, finished with a glossy black border and a silver metallic back is simply gorgeous. It all screams buy me but should you? Well if you’re looking at the iPad based on its internal and external hardware, then you’re looking at it the wrong way. Don’t worry; this is an Apple product, and as you’d (usually) expect, the build quality is top-notch but the real star of the show is the operating system.

iOS – and the applications that run on it – is what makes the iPad so special. Freed from the confines of the iPhone’s small screen and bolstered by the 1GHz A4 chip at the heart of the device, iOS really shows what it is capable of. The device deals effortlessly with any swipe, twist and turn you throw at it.