operating system

Creative Zen Portable Media Center review

Reviews The Creative Zen Portable Media Center is the first device of many to employ Microsoft's Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Center operating system; competing devices from Samsung and iRiver aren't far behind.

Editor's rating   7.7

Tags: creative, battery life, media center, windows media player

14 May 2005, 16:25

MWg Atom Life review

Reviews Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform is certainly impressive when it comes to features, but it can also be a demanding operating system that can cause cheaper phones to grind to halt under its weight. The built-in speakers do impress, despite their...

Editor's rating   7.8

Tags: mwg, processor, windows mobile, storage

27 March 2008, 13:10

Nokia 5300 XpressMusic review

Reviews The phone runs on the Series 40 operating system, so it features the Active Standby screen. The Nokia 5300 XpressMusic looks almost identical to the 5200 from the outside, but under the bonnet it's a significantly different beast with a much...

Editor's rating   5.5

Tags: nokia, dedicated, battery life, headphones

15 November 2007, 14:52

Asus W5Fe review

Reviews It has 1GB of flash memory and runs a slimmed-down version of the Windows operating system, which runs mini-applications known as 'gadgets'. There's a four-way cursor button for scrolling through the menu system and self-explanatory menu, on/off...

Editor's rating   8.3

Tags: asus, gadgets, emails, ports

3 April 2007, 16:42

Apple MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.4GHz) review

Reviews Operating system The minimalist layout -- you'll find only a power button, a full-size keyboard, stereo speakers, a sizable touch pad with a single mouse button and a built-in iSight camera -- remains a standard other laptop designers should...

Editor's rating   8.2

Tags: apple, speakers, battery life, encoding

17 October 2007, 13:30

Dell Dimension XPS Gen 5

Reviews As the first system to be announced with both Intel's new dual-core Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 840 CPUs and Microsoft's Windows Media Centre Edition 2005 operating system, Dell is banking on the new CPU's multithreaded processor giving...

Editor's rating   6

Tags: dell, cpu, express, intel

4 April 2005, 15:00

LG 42LT75 review

Reviews Realising that the 42LT75 is likely to appeal to relatively un-technical people -- after all, tech-heads will doubtless already have at least Sky+ and probably a Sky HD box by now -- LG has clearly put enormous effort into designing the set's...

Editor's rating   8

Tags: lg electronics, feed, sky, channel

21 January 2008, 14:41

Dell XPS M1710 (GeForce Go 7950 GTX) review

Reviews The advantage is that you can use MediaDirect without booting up the PC's operating system, saving time and battery life. The system earns gaming credibility for being the first laptop to carry Nvidia's latest mobile GPU -- the GeForce Go 7950 GTX.

Editor's rating   8.3

Tags: dell, hard drive, ultra, gaming

13 November 2006, 14:44

Alienware Area-51 X58 review

Reviews Each vendor installed the operating system on fast, silent solid-state storage. We can't speak to the Samsung versus the Intel drives in side-by-side competition, but as our system-level performance charts show, the Area-51 X58 competes very well...

Editor's rating   8.3

Tags: alienware, capacity, premium, bars

3 December 2008, 17:18

Cheap laptops for £400 and under

Reviews It's hardly the most potent machine but its Linux-flavoured operating system isn't as demanding as Windows, so it runs just fine. Prices have fallen so dramatically that you can pick up a new system while shopping for spuds in your local Tesco...

20 March 2008, 12:43

Toshiba Portege R200 review

Reviews FeaturesThe Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system kicks off the Portege R200's software package. In addition, Toshiba bundles several utilities for managing important system functions, such as locating available wireless networks...

Editor's rating   6.7

Tags: toshiba, hard drive, rom, battery life

27 July 2005, 10:59

Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW review

Reviews The user guide CD-ROM has detailed information about which graphics cards are best for rotating the operating system and what to do with other graphics cards, and it points users to the Dell's Web site for updated drivers.

Editor's rating   7.2

Tags: dell, rom, base, panel

7 February 2005, 23:00

Nokia 5310 XpressMusic review

Reviews The 5310 runs on the Series 40 operating system, so unfortunately it won't be able to take advantage of Nokia's new Ovi music and game download store when it launches later this year. The menu system is very easy to find your way around and like...

Editor's rating   7

Tags: nokia, handy, profile, ericsson

14 November 2007, 15:05

Toshiba Tecra A5 review

Reviews FeaturesDue to its business bent, the Tecra A5 ships with the Windows XP Professional operating system. Otherwise, the Tecra A5 includes the usual software suspects: Sonic RecordNow and DLA (Drive Letter Access) to help with disc-burning tasks...

Editor's rating   5

Tags: toshiba, wi fi, pixel, rom

16 September 2005, 14:21

Dell Latitude D520 review

Reviews In terms of software, the Latitude D520 comes with the typically limited bundle of the average business system: Windows XP Professional operating system (Home edition is not an option on Dell's site), plus a handful of utilities and disc-burning...

Editor's rating   6.2

Tags: dell, toshiba, battery life, aspect

10 May 2006, 16:02