machines

Photos: The wizardry of pinball machines

Crave Located on the island city of Alameda in the San Francisco Bay, Lucky Ju Ju is a place where magic, karma, zeitgeist and skill are infused into a collection of vintage pinball machines for all to enjoy.

26 June 2008, 12:33

Dangerous bytes: the Venomised Holly computer

Crave Extreme gaming machines don’t get any more violently garish than this. As with Holly's other gaming machines, the Venomised PC is watercooled -- with two separate cooling systems. This PC has clearly swallowed Hunter S Thompson's adrenal gland.

Tags: holly computers, gaming, machines, paint

31 May 2005, 11:35

Dell takes aim at gamers in deal with HMV

Crave Dell's XPS-branded machines will take centre-stage in dedicated gaming areas operated by Gamerbase, in a deal that aims to "redefine the multiplayer gaming culture within a retail environment". The public is free to try these machines with the...

Tags: machines, gaming, store, pcs

11 December 2007, 10:38

Netbook showdown: The top 10 mini laptops rated

Crave The EasyNote XS is good, but there are other machines that are cheaper, faster and easier to use. It all seemed so clear in the beginning -- you had your mind set on an Eee PC 701 or 900, but then half the laptop manufacturers in the world suddenly...

6 June 2008, 17:48

HP EdgeLine CM8060: Super-fast printing

Crave Crave witnessed the official unveiling of two EdgeLine-equipped machines, the CM8060 and CM8050, at an event in Paris yesterday (get us! Crave doubts we, or any of you lot, will ever buy any of today's EdgeLine machines -- the CM8060/CM8050 will...

Tags: hp, printing, printers, paper

12 April 2007, 9:29

Photos: Dell's Latitude E series claims 19-hour battery life

Crave There's the 12.1-inch ultraportable E4200, which is our favourite, alongside the 13.3-inch E4300, the 14- and 15.4-inch E6400 and E6500 mainstream models, 14- and 15.4-inch E5400 and E5500 entry-level machines, and the E6400 ATG -- a semi-rugged...

13 August 2008, 15:32

Crave Talk: Should user interfaces cater for the intoxicated?

Crave It's easy to blame the drink, but some would argue that cash machines should be designed to cater for intoxicated fingers. While fruit machines cater for them with bold buttons, flashing lights, colour and sound, the humble ATM remains sombre and...

Tags: cash, mac os, machines, london

6 February 2007, 12:24

Deals of the day: Cheap laptops

Crave HP Pavilion Notebook DV9385ea, £675 from Micro Direct You can often pick up some real bargains by looking out for machines that are about to go out of production. Asus X51RL-AP999, £440 from Ebuyer Asus has a reputation for building machines that...

Tags: ram, processor, hard drive, laptop

28 December 2007, 8:00

Photos: More gadget goodies from Pioneer's UK headquarters

Crave The same is true of the machines themselves. Whether side by side or stacked on top of each other, Pioneer machines should provide plenty of eye candy. We got a first look at Pioneer's LCD TVs on Friday, but that wasn't enough.

21 July 2008, 13:01

Mini laptops: Dell Mini Inspiron, Acer Aspire One, Wizbook, Via OpenBook, RazorBook 400

Crave UK dwellers are unlikely to get their hands on the latter, but the former will probably show up in a variety of machines -- albeit under varying names. Once you've done that, read our WannabEees feature to see a host of similar machines, then go...

30 May 2008, 16:21

An obituary for the floppy: RIP the 3.5 incher

Crave Apple phased out floppy drives in all its machines almost ten years ago. Dell no longer ships machines with floppy drives as standard -- you have to pay £15 extra. Floppy disks were pocket-sized time-bombs in the 80s and 90s.

Tags: disks, machines, floppy, floppy disk

31 January 2007, 11:21

CES comes but once a year

Crave Around 140,000 people will visit the show, a number spookily equal to the number of slot machines in Las Vegas' Clark County. In 2006 the attendees drank 100,000 cups of Starbucks coffee (the beverage consumption of the slot machines were not...

Tags: slot, machines, disc, consumer

8 December 2006, 7:25

Top ten nerds and geeks

Crave Robinson's elaborate cartoon drawings of magnificent machines and contraptions have made his name synonymous with gadgets. His machines are gorgeous sprawling monsters of impossibility and madness that rival any modern design team's efforts.

16 November 2006, 16:11

Why do Apple laptop upgrades cost 200% more than Dell's?

Crave Taking this into account, any price difference between the two machines should be all down to the CPU, which basically puts Apple on level-pegging with Dell at £30. ConclusionApple is generally more expensive than Dell for components that are, in...

26 June 2008, 13:17

What's the best beta? IE 8 vs Opera 9.5 vs Safari vs Firefox 3

Crave It worked perfectly for us across two machines. We do like the lower memory and CPU overheads though -- IE 8 was less resource-intensive than Firefox in our tests, so new computer users or those with less capable machines may be perfect candidates...

17 March 2008, 10:47