driver

device driver

Reviews A program that enables peripheral devices to communicate with an operating system. Windows comes with devices drivers for thousands of peripherals. Some device drivers for standard peripherals, such as keyboards or monitors, come with the computer.

21 December 2006, 8:27

Razer DeathAdder review

Reviews We were surprised that the DeathAdder didn't come with a Windows Vista driver though. If you're happy with the mouse's default settings, you can probably just put the driver CD away entirely. Razer's new DeathAdder comes very close to usurping the...

Editor's rating   8

Tags: razer, windows vista, dedicated, adjust

6 March 2007, 15:01

Polk Audio RM95 review

Reviews Faced with that challenge, the engineers developed a dual-driver design that significantly increases the satellites' dispersion to create a room-filling sound. It's also worth noting that we found the dual-driver design gambit worked well...

Editor's rating   6.8

Tags: polk audio, speaker, mix, blu

21 November 2008, 16:31

Tangent Cinque review

Reviews A single 76mm (3-inch) 5W driver sits in the roof of the enclosure, backed with a reflex port to the rear. The performance of the single speaker driver was certainly good. For such a small, monaural system, it produces a full sound, but it's...

Editor's rating   7.6

Tags: tangent, alarm, stations, driver

23 April 2008, 15:50

Logitech Z-4 review

Reviews The two satellite speakers measure 72 by 228 by 72mm and each delivers 17W of power via one active concave dome driver and two pressure drivers (all 50mm in diameter). The subwoofer meanwhile delivers 23 watts of power via a 203mm pressure driver.

Editor's rating   7.3

Tags: logitech, drivers, watching, mix

4 October 2005, 17:37

Griffin Evolve review

Reviews Inside is a single woofer, so everything from booming bass to crystalline highs need to be concurrently conveyed by a single driver. There's also no reflex port to rear, so air backfired by the driver has no way of escaping.

Editor's rating   7.7

Tags: griffin, speaker, sound quality, base

14 February 2008, 11:32

Freecom Network Media Player 350 WLAN review

Reviews To get the Freecom working over your wired or wireless network you need to install an NDAS driver on your PC and pair it with the 350 WLAN. When the NDAS driver is installed, although you're accessing the drive over the LAN, it shows up as a...

Editor's rating   6.6

Tags: freecom, material, hard drive, streaming

25 September 2007, 13:58

Denon AH-C700 earphones review

Reviews A 5mm central shaft secures the delicate but strong silicon tips and houses an 11mm diaphragm driver. These £330 monsters won't give you the divinely crystalline clarity the C700s give, but the no-holds-barred power produced by this triple-driver...

Editor's rating   8.3

Tags: denon, error, body, fans

24 July 2007, 16:45

Sony MDR-EX700 sound-isolating earphones review

Reviews Though many, many variables -- such as driver abilities, the seal in the ear canal and quality of recording -- make these figures purely promotional material unless proved to us otherwise. Jenny Owen Youngs' upbeat Drinking Song lacked the...

Editor's rating   7.2

Tags: sony, response, bass, high end

23 May 2008, 15:36

Sennheiser IE 7 sound-isolating earphones review

Reviews The IE 7s use a single dynamic driver, which Sennheiser chose in order to eliminate distortion it claims occurs in multi-driver models. Each driver is backed by a neodymium magnet, as seen in many high-end headphones.

Editor's rating   8.5

Tags: sennheiser, cable, spanish, metal

2 December 2008, 16:21

Canon Selphy CP710 review

Reviews Software and driver installation for printing from a computer take another few minutes. The Canon Selphy CP710's printer driver is as basic as the printer itself, with three tabs for paper size, orientation, number of copies and border/borderless...

Editor's rating   6.9

Tags: canon, colours, paper, prints

22 December 2005, 14:41

Samsung SPP-2040 photo printer review

Reviews It was a piece of cake to load the cartridge, pop paper into the tray and install the Windows printer driver (the SPP-2040 also includes drivers for Mac OS X), the Photo Thru editing software and a status-monitor program.

Editor's rating   6.8

Tags: samsung, tray, paper, colour

3 October 2005, 16:55

Eclipse TD307PAII review

Reviews Each driver is balanced in its output, with good degrees of separation between instruments. The speakers themselves utilise a single full-range driver, meaning no dedicated woofer and tweeter for lows and highs.

Editor's rating   8.7

Tags: eclipse, speaker, air, speakers

13 February 2008, 13:07

Canon Pixma iP5000 review

Reviews Like that of other Pixmas, this printer's operation is driver-centric. Front-panel LEDs illuminate to show which paper tray has been selected, but the printer switches automatically from one source to the other, and the switch setting can be...

Editor's rating   7.8

Tags: canon, tab, loaded, sheet

21 July 2005, 12:09

Canon Pixma iP8500 review

Reviews You can override the paper-source setting in the driver and use the other tray any time you like, so it's easy to keep two different-size paper stocks loaded and to alternate between them. Given the dearth of controls on the printer itself, you'll...

Editor's rating   8

Tags: canon, colours, tab, loaded

9 May 2005, 20:19