Hi-Val Ritestore Gold

Advantages: Very customizeable, Very comfortable, Fast response, Overkill?
Disadvantages: Lightweight - might be prone to moving.

...the joystick if you want) and a nice facelift. Differences between this and the non-gold version (Saitek Cyborg 3D) are limited, so if you already have the non-gold you may not wish to fork out for this as a replacement as the added benefit for the new software will be marginal, and the facelift, while nice, isn't going to assist in your gaming. The stick has a lot going for it as far as joysticks go, and not just in sheer button count! The stick itself is completely digital, leading to an excellent position detection, and no interferance from analog sources (unshielded cables). Responsiveness is good, as you would expect from a stick in this price bracket. The base has a lovely rubberised rest to place your wrist on, helping those long gaming sessions take less of a toll on your hand and arm joints. In hours of gaming you'll barely notice... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Increase in FPS on games and an overall improvement in daily applications
Disadvantages: None

...With dual-channel ram quickly becoming the norm in all desktop PC's today it is now common for manufactures to market dual-channel memory kits. Having recently purchased the OCZ Gold twin kit and being a big gamer I did notice an increase in FPS "Frames Per Second" and an overall improvement in most of my daily applications like Office, Adobe Photoshop, and also Dreamweaver. I also like the overall design of the ram the XTC or "Xtreme Thermal Convection" the honey combed heat spreader is supposed to increase air flow to the ram chips and allow better heat dissipation when running memory intensive programs. The only hiccup I had with the ram was that after I installed it it was showing as single channel instead of dual channel this was easily solved by reading the motherboard manual and locating the right ram slots ont he... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Should have been an easy connectivity solution
Disadvantages: It doesn't work !

...This review relates entirely to the GSM Upgrade for this modem card / phone combination. As a connection to land line the modem card works very reliably. The IR on my laptop is too slow to connect to my Nokia 6210 so following an e-mail from Psion to Orange I purchased the GSM Upgrade, not cheap at nearly £100 but I wanted connectivity. I installed, or tried to install the upgrade but it failed. A call to Psion reveals they have a problem with their marketing (8/11/2001). Even though the GSM Upgrade box is labelled for a Nokia 6210 and the picture on the glossy instructions clearly show the Gold Card V34+Fax on the front Psion admit that this modem card will NOT work with the GSM Upgrade. Psion are now working hard to rectify their marketing material and after an intial delay dealt with my complaint to my complete satisfaction... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful