Performance And Power

COMPAQ's newest and most powerful PC is packing a 1.4Ghz Pentium 4 chip backed up by a whopping 75Gb hard drive. Specs like that pretty much make the Presario 7000 the PC equivalent of a Ferrari ? it's even available with a snap-on red faceplate, although that will be in ruby, not Maranello. T

Car Sound That Sings

PIONEER has released a new CD player-tuner with multi-CD control head unit which it says is designed for the sophisticated car audiophile. The DEX-P1 showcases a host of the latest in-car technologies, including a detachable faceplate and a sentry regime that triggers an alarm through the system sp

Fiddle-de-dum, Twiddle-de-dee

A VIDEO cassette recorder for the compulsive knob twiddler? Behold the new model NV-G25A from National Panasonic Australia, which appears to fit that bill. The VCR is dominated by a knob at the right hand end of the faceplate. The knob operates a system called Dial Search, which has previo