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Crave Talk: Pin-stripe rebel -- the PC at 25

Crave Even when it was new, it was middle-aged. The IBM PC (pictured) came to life in 1981, but its DNA was already four years old. Legend has it that IBM first decided to get into personal computing when a senior manager visited a company research lab...

Tags: ibm, gaming, computing, playstation

18 August 2006, 14:55

Cooler than Vanilla Ice: the 17-inch Apple MacBook Pro

Crave Notable inclusions in the new design are the 9-pin FireWire 800 and 4-pin FireWire 400 ports -- putting paid to any speculation that FireWire was being phased out. Hey Apple, quit beating Microsoft while it's down!

Tags: apple, resolution, windows vista, inch

25 April 2006, 10:38

Crave Talk: Should user interfaces cater for the intoxicated?

Crave Apparently Mesic was "really annoyed" because he "couldn't buy any more beer" after incorrectly entering his pin multiple times. In our unofficial poll, on a Saturday night in London 90 per cent of people using ATMs can barely stand, let alone...

Tags: cash, mac os, machines, london

6 February 2007, 12:24

Dell laptops in electric shock shocker

Crave It's caused by the two-pronged connection between the mains lead and the power adaptor, which isn't earthed properly because of its lack of a third pin. When our colleagues rang Dell to complain, they were told Dell is willing to replace all...

Tags: dell, laptops, risk, safety

17 January 2008, 15:03

Testing Windows Vista SP1

Crave PIN -- access to Smart Cards. Within Vista, SP1 creates a more secure PIN channel for authentication. Unlike the last Windows Service Pack release, Windows XP SP2 -- which offered users a new Windows Firewall, an improved Automatic Updates feature...

19 March 2008, 12:12

Photos: ISDA awards honour design innovation

Crave What do a MacBook Air and a submersible rolling pin have in common? Both are winners in this year's International Design Excellence Awards. The competition, run by the Industrial Designers Society of America and sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine...

23 July 2008, 11:14

Keep on rockin' and rollin' with the Oregon Scientific iBall

Crave Oregon Scientific has announced the iBall, a wireless speaker that's the size and shape of a bowling ball (think ten-pin bowling, not pensioners on manicured lawns). Plug your iPod into the transmitter dock, which also acts as a charging station...

Tags: oregon scientific, ball, house, hands

23 September 2005, 10:58

Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Zune for Windows Mobile

Crave Microsoft has indicated for some time that it sees a Zune future in the mobile phone arena, but the company has been hard to pin down on just what its plans there are. There would seem to be two main scenarios -- the rumoured ZunePhone, or just...

Tags: zune, hardware, zune software, moment

3 October 2008, 10:22

Gear4 Blustream RX: Hi-fi Bluetooth puck

Crave It's a very weighty unit, shaped like a hockey puck and roughly the size of a British three-pin plug. Gear4 popped by Crave yesterday to talk about a super-secret new product (which we're not allowed to talk about -- but you will be excited when we...

Tags: gear4, bluetooth, talk, fi

17 April 2008, 11:34

Crave Talk: Teachers demand stop to YouTube hate campaigns

Crave What used to amount to a drawing pin placed on a chair, or a whispered insult in the corridor, has now escalated to the point that teachers can wake up one morning to discover that they're starring in the front-page hate video on one of the world...

Tags: child, youtube, material, teacher

13 November 2006, 11:50

AMD Athlon FX60: Gunning for top spot

Crave The FX60 uses the familiar socket 939-pin layout, so it's compatible with a wide range of existing motherboards. The world of high-performance PC components never stands still. Hot on the heels of Nvidia's four-card Quad SLI graphics setup is the...

Tags: amd, core, cpu, processors

10 January 2006, 11:17

Evergreen CF-to-IDE adaptor: Boot like a banshee

Crave The adaptor attaches to the 40-pin IDE port on your PC's motherboard, normally used for attaching hard drives. Anyone who watched the memory test on their 1986 IBM XT click over at boot-up like a rusty odometer knows that kids these days have no...

Tags: ide, boot, adaptor, compact flash

11 October 2006, 12:00

Deals of the day: Cheap TVs

Crave Sony Bravia KDL-46W2000, £1,305 from BT Shop If you're after a mammoth screen that still offers pin-sharp pictures then the 46-inch KDL-46W2000 will do the trick, thanks to its native 1080p resolution and Bravia picture engine.

Tags: definition, christmas, shop, inch

27 December 2007, 8:10

LaCie Huby: The prettiest of USB hubs

Crave We'll confirm pricing and availability as soon as we can pin down a LaCie rep. USB hubs are normally as dull as mud. Not the shiny mud you get after a rainstorm, rather the dry mud you get at the bottom of a river bed after months of drought.

Tags: lacie, usb, hub, mud

27 October 2006, 9:00

AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 gaming CPU: tested

Crave It has the same physical dimensions and Socket 939 pin layout, so compatibility is almost guaranteed provided you've got a motherboard that works with with a Socket 939 Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket.

Tags: amd, core, processor, cpu

26 January 2006, 15:28