ports

Top ten obsolete ports

Crave Who chooses which ports make it, and which are shuffled off to the retirement home for the permanently disconnected? All of the ports are on our list because we love them, or love to hate them. Here we've rounded up ten of tech evolution's most...

25 March 2008, 11:02

Photos: Coolermaster Cosmos S 'sport' PC chassis

Crave The two aren't that different, but the S edition brings some funky design touches that'll appeal to the boy racer in everyone: it has a gunmetal aluminium finish, a top-mounted mesh panel, a touch-sensitive power button, dedicated watercooling...

31 March 2008, 14:33

Photos: Sling Media unveil Slingbox Pro and Solo

Crave On the rear, you'll find component and S-Video input/output ports, but be warned -- you can only use one of these at a time. The rear of the Slingbox Pro is festooned with input/output ports. If you're hungry for even more ports, the Slingbox Pro...

27 September 2007, 15:16

You don't know Jack PC? You should

Crave It's versatile enough to fit into an ordinary Ethernet port, has a front-facing DVI monitor output, four USB ports and a couple of audio ports, so it could be perfect as a low-power Internet kiosk for the home.

Tags: usb, technologies, wi fi, power

25 September 2006, 12:25

Asus Nova Lite: Bringing sexy back to Media Centers

Crave However, it's quick enough to play HD movies over its HDMI and DVI ports without stuttering and you can easily add more storage via one of the four USB ports at the rear. All the USB ports are at the rear, which is a shame, but you get HDMI as well...

26 June 2008, 12:53

Photos: Samsung R410 £499 all-round laptop

Crave One of the few things we'd complain about is it having only three USB ports (even an Eee has three), and the analogue-only D-Sub video output. Once you attach a USB mouse to the USB port on the right, you'll need to keep reaching round the back of...

23 June 2008, 11:40

Shuttle KPC K45: £180 Linux desktop

Crave Other bits include 6-channel audio, one PCI slot, Gigabit LAN, four USB ports, two SATA2 ports, and a 100W power supply unit. Shuttle piqued our interest recently when it announced the KPC -- a low-cost Linux desktop PC you'll be able to buy for a...

Tags: cpu, intel, linux, hard drive

25 March 2008, 11:25

Sony PFR-V1 headphones: Sound great, look 'special'

Crave The two prongs that prop the speakers in this way are actually hollow bass ports, letting bass travel naturally from inside the speaker enclosure, and out of a small hole into your ear. And here's one of the hollow bass ports.

7 April 2008, 13:17

Acer Aspire iDea: Viiv la revolution

Crave There are DVI, HDMI, component, composite, dual Scart, aerial, S-Video and digital and optical SPDIF sound output ports -- more ports than you can shake a stick at. Back in April we brought you news of what we thought was the sexiest Media Center...

Tags: acer, ports, intel, output

23 June 2006, 12:22

MSI Wind: Hands-on, with exclusive photos

Crave The Wind will also sport 1GB of RAM, an 80GB mechanical hard drive, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, three (count 'em) USB ports, a D-Sub video output, a 4-in-1 memory card reader, and a 3-cell battery with a claimed life of 3-4 hours.

29 May 2008, 11:51

Jamo A 402 HCS: 5.1 speakers with bonus marital harmony

Crave The satellite speakers are tiny, and easy to fit to the wall -- a simple bracket is included for mounting and the speaker ports are concealed beneath a lift-off flap. Our only concern with these dinky speakers is that there isn't much scope to use...

Tags: jamo, speaker, speakers, ports

30 July 2008, 12:00

Photos: Asus N50V laptop takes leaf from HP's book

Crave Other things worth noting include three USB ports, a front-facing e-SATA port, HDMI and D-Sub video outputs, a memory card reader, and the lack of a confirmed price or release date -- although that last point's not a particularly good thing.

28 August 2008, 14:42

Photos: Hands-on with the Dell Inspiron Mini 9

Crave It has three USB ports, headphone and mic jacks, a VGA out, SD card slot and an Ethernet jack -- a fairly standard set of connections in the netbook world. The Mini has three USB ports, headphone and mic jacks, a VGA out, SD card slot and an...

4 September 2008, 16:53

HP Media Smart Server: Servin' up a storm

Crave You can add up to five external hard drives to the various ports scattered around the device. There are four USB ports and one e-SATA port to choose from. We played with the new HP MediaSmart Server this morning, and amazingly we didn't have to...

26 November 2007, 12:50

Photos: Sony's Vaio RM1N quad-core video-editing monster

Crave There are four front-facing USB ports, with up to eight more at the rear. The Access Unit connects to the base unit via the white ports on each of the boxes. Most people think two heads are better than one.

20 July 2007, 12:36