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Australia's premier computer magazine, PC Authority gives you the facts, opinions and insight to make informed PC and tech purchasing decisions.
Issue: 134 | January, 2009
What's in this issue
I’m not fixated on size, I swear. It just happens to be a theme in the January issue. It’s not like we planned it. Well, except for the huge Reliability and Service Awards. And the external hard drives test, and the Windows 7 preview, and the nine-page review of CS4....
20,000 people filled in our Reliability and Survey Awards, now in their third year, and well over 100,000 votes were cast among the 16 categories included. We’re confident that these represent the largest consumer technology survey in Australia. You’ll find it an indispensible guide to the good, the bad and the ugly of products and services.
Also huge is our external hard drives test, which covers 15 models, both portable and desktop. External hard drives keep getting cheaper and cheaper – we just received a massive 1.5TB drive to test in the labs for next issue (unplanned enormity!). External storage is great for backup, and thanks to gadgets like the WDTV featured in this issue, it’s also great for multimedia libraries.
To keep with the theme, Windows 7 is the next big thing in the OS world, and a pre-beta is finally here. We got a private viewing of some of its features from Windows Evangelist Tim Sneath. We’ll show you why it’s going to be worth waiting for in the pages of this issue. If you can’t wait, we’ve got a stack of tips for turning your current OS into something more 7-like.
The nice folks at Dell let us steal away their Precision Workstation M6400 for a brief look over and test, and we’re heartily impressed. It’s a massive Quad Core laptop with DDR3 and a Quadro graphics card – only in the pages of this issue!
We’ve got Australia’s biggest guide to Adobe Creative Suite 4. If you’re a designer or web developer, this nine page review is a one-stop shop of information about Adobe’s flagship product.
• Paragon Partition Manager SE
• Ashampoo Photo Commander 6
• O & O Disk Image Express
• Alpinesoft VinylStudio LE
• LEGO Batman Demo
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