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By Kevin Lee The introduction of Max-Q gaming laptops fulfilled the promise of uncompromised graphics performance with thin designs and quiet noise profiles, but we wouldn’t call them cheap. Thankfully, the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming laptop is shaping up to be the most affordable Max-Q machine starting at $999 (about £770, AU$1,250). For your…

By Alex Cox Mobile gaming is a serious business, and one which commands some serious hardware, and you’re spoiled for choice if you want an angular, brutish gaming laptop, with the likes of the Alienware 15 and the HP Omen X serving the mass market well with their pointy edges. Meanwhile, niche manufacturers like MSI…

By Kevin Lee The Dell Inspiron laptop line has been a longtime favorite for college students, however, this latest rendition might also entice those looking for an affordable Ultrabook. This year’s latest redesign of the 13-inch Inspiron 7000 is strikingly thinner than ever and better equipped with Intel’s recently announced 8th generation processors. What’s more,…

By Mike Williams MetaCDN is an Australian company which combines the CDN networks of Amazon Cloudfront, Fastly and Verizon’s EdgeCast into a single service. The package looks like any other CDN, and there’s no extra setup work involved. You sign up once, point MetaCDN at your files or origin server, and it’s ready to accelerate…

By Sean Cameron Though high-end Android tablet options have all but died off, at the budget end there is still a niche for svelte slates. Enter Acer, one of the most enthusiastic manufacturers of these cut-price options, with its Iconia One 10 (2017). It has a 10.1-inch 1,200 x 1,920 screen, front-firing speakers and a…

By Kevin Lee The Logitech G900 has reigned as the undisputed king of wireless gaming mice since it was introduced last year. Now, a successor has already been named with the Logitech G903. To many, this peripheral might seem like a premature sequel. However, its ability to constantly draw power from Logitech’s new PowerPlay mouse…

By Cat Ellis You don’t need dedicated hardware to enjoy ebooks from the Kindle store – there’s also an excellent free client for Windows that lets you catch up on your reading on your desktop. Versions are also available for macOS, Android and iOS, all of which offer very similar features. There are other free…

By Jason Cipriani As Microsoft continues to push forward with developing premium computers, there’s still room in the market for copy cat-like devices that aren’t nearly expensive, yet are nearly as capable as Microsoft’s own laptops, tablets and desktops. Take the Asus Transformer Pro T304 as an example. For a lot less than the entry…

By Mike Williams Founded in 2003, Krystal is a UK web hosting company which owns and manages its own server network. The company also offers an OnApp CDN-based content delivery network that can be used to accelerate any site, whether it’s hosted by them or not. Krystal targets the service at first-time users and low-bandwidth…

By Mike Williams Choosing a CDN is usually all about making compromises. One company has the ideal network locations for you, maybe another delivers the best response times, and you’re forced to choose between them – a tricky situation. Warpcache simplifies your life by combining multiple CDNs into a single product. By default you get…

By Mike Williams Universal CDN (UCDN) is a premium content delivery network owned by XBT Holdings, a group which includes companies like Webzilla, Root and Servers.com. The service caches all the usual static file types, and enables quality video playback with support for HTTP Live Streaming and MPEG-DASH (‘Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP’). HTTP/2 support…

By Mark Wycislik-Wilson With so much attention focused on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, it would be easy to forget that Opera even exists. But it does, and the fact that it has been somewhat overshadowed by three big rivals is no reason to think it’s not worth checking out. Opera is based on Chromium, but…

By Alex Cox The latest Microsoft Surface Pro is among the best tablet PCs ever made. Some might say it is the best tablet, full stop. But its price, at £800 for even the lowest model, puts it out of reach for many people, particularly as a proper laptop is often a more attractive and…

By Lindsay Handmer The Essential Review This is TechRadar’s review summary that gives you all the key information you need if you’re looking for quick buying advice in 60 seconds – our usual full, in-depth review follows. These days, a network just isn’t complete without a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device and the Synology DS1517+…

By Mike Williams It may be a small CDN, but the CDNlion website makes some big claims, suggesting the company offers “unlimited performance and coverage” for the “industry’s lowest price”. CDNlion certainly has one of the largest networks we’ve seen: 124 locations in total including 39 in North America, 53 in Europe, 23 in Asia,…