The HP v115w USB Flash Drive is a tiny storage device that measures 30x12x6mm. Its size is excellent, but its read and write speeds and its compatibility with certain operating systems let it down.Inserting the v115w into an Acer Aspire 5610 laptop (Windows Vista Home Premium, 2.5GB RAM and 1.86GHz Intel Core Duo), the USB took 44.51 seconds to open. On an Acer Aspire 5735 laptop (Windows Vista...

The Acer Aspire 5735-642G25Mn incorporates a powerful Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 2.0GHz CPU processor, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, a 250GB hard drive and Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 to make it a perfect home-use computer. The Windows Experience Index rating has a base score of 3.1. The computer has an impressive battery life of 3 hours, but when Vista's appearance is switched to Windows Classic, the bat...

The Acer Aspire 5613AWLMi incorporates an old Intel Core Duo T2350 CPU with a measly 1GB of RAM, along with some unexpectedly amazing features such as 128MB nVidia graphics and Windows Vista Home Premium, all for a tiny $838.60 AUD. The CPU is outdated, from 2006. Considering that this notebook was from 2007, this is not such a big issue, but now there have been two generations of Intel CPUs re...

You are racing in an import tuner race car in the early hours of the morning. You drive along the main road, deserted at night. Suddenly, as you speed down a quiet street, you hear a loud, ear-splitting siren blaring in the distance. The sun rises slowly into the horizon. It gradually gets louder, and as you start to drive away, a police car rams your vehicle, sending you and your ride crashing...

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language is widely used by amateur programmers. Microsoft has developed the new version of Visual Basic .NET 2008, which makes programming a lot simpler.The installation of just Visual Basic from the Visual Studio suite was disappointing. If you wanted to install Visual Basic on more than one computer, you would have to either download the 100MB file on ...

Imagine you're at the wheel of a bus. Your job is to transport passengers around the city, driving to a timetable on a planned route, whilst obeying traffic rules, and taking care not to upset or injure your passengers. This makes Bus Driver completely different to all those other racing games: Bus Driver stresses legality on the roads. Bus Driver offers twelve different buses to drive, an...

The Huawei E220 USB Modem is a soap-on-rope wireless broadband internet modem for Optus, Vodafone and 3 networks in Australia.I bought a Huawei E220 Modem on the Optus network, allowing 5GB traffic per month for 24 months on a $40 plan. The drivers are easy to install on Windows XP computers, but it is a pain on Vista. When the modem was inserted to a USB port, the program failed to detect the ...