April 1st, 2009
How comfortable it is to use is another matter. It’s designed to be held with one hand thanks to the harness attached to the back, but it’s not a light device. Nor is typing on the keyboard easy — despite the keys being as prominently and evenly spaced as they can be — or easy to see what you’re doing on the 5.6 inch screen.
May 9th, 2006
The ExpressCard slot fits the remote control that can theoretically drive everything on the computer, from watching a DVD to playing slideshows or music. What’s more, the audio out port is S/PDIF enabled.
May 21st, 2007
The latest entry into the field is the Toshiba Portege R400, one of the first tablet PCs built especially for Windows Vista, and one that makes good use of Vista features including the new Journal software that recognises handwriting when the device is in tablet mode.
March 1st, 2008
It is possible to use only your finger if you mostly restrict yourself to phone functions through the TouchFlo system. Touch the logo at the bottom of the screen and sweep your finger up the screen and TouchFlo swings up onto the display.
March 25th, 2008
Some gadgets have some practical use but make you feel like a villain in a James Bond film sporting all the coolest gear, and the MX Air is one. It’s a wireless mouse that works the normal way (ie on a desktop) via a small USB transceiver. But pick it up and wave it in the air and the gyroscope in the body of the device transmits your movements to the tranceiver.
October 1st, 2007
The hard disk is 160Gb. In practical terms we ran two heavy-use user accounts — both of them crammed with settings, utilities and software for creative pros — and stored about 20 full movie files before we managed to fill it up.