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Need for Speed: Nitro
Need for Speed: Nitro gets off to a fast start, but lacks enough variety to make it into the winner's circle.
Colin McRae: DiRT 2
If you have any interest whatsoever in off-road racing you'd do well to take this beautiful and thrilling game for a spin.
Reviews
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Cars Race-O-Rama
Cars Race-O-Rama is a terribly generic racer aimed at the younger crowd. It's neither great nor awful, just absolutely middle-of-the-road gaming.
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Asus SDRW-08D1S-U External DVD-RW Drive
External DVD writers are never going to be exciting, but at least Asus' effort looks pretty.
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Pure
Pure doesn't blaze many new trails, but this off-road racer still delivers an intense, tricked-out thrill ride.
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Corsair Flash Voyager 64GB
With more than enough space, some will be using Corsair's 64GB as a replacement for an external hard drive. Transferring this much data though will leave you wishing for more speed.
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli
Exciting for Ferrari fans, but take away the licence and you're left with a competent racer with only average looks, poor AI opponents, and not enough variety.
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Asphalt 3: Street Rules
Fans of classic racing games will want to check out Asphalt 3 on N-Gage. The racing is fast paced and can be thrilling, but the repetitive level design robs it of replay value.
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Mario Kart Wii
Mario Kart Wii offers varied multiplayer and thoroughly integrated online modes that will keep you coming back for more.
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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue may be only a practice lap for the real thing, but it's a beautiful joyride while it lasts.
Features
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Desktop shopping checklist
Home PCs still have their place in the sun, thanks to falling prices and ease of upgradeability.
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How to upgrade your PlayStation 3 Hard Drive
Find out how to upgrade the hard drive on your PlayStation 3.
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MP3 players with great battery life
Check out these MP3 players to find out which one puts the Energizer Bunny to shame.
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Best burning combos: speedy CD/DVD drives and great software packages
Getting a great CD/DVD burner is only half the battle when it comes to having a winning disc-creation package.
News
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Iomega announces Home Media Network Drive
This year's CES saw the release of Iomega's Home Media Network Drive, a new addition to its line of external storage devices with a few simple changes.
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Samsung unveils 'world's smallest' 256GB SSD drive
Samsung Electronics has unveiled a 256GB SSD solid state drive that is less than 10mm thick.
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One in four SSD-based laptops fail
Notebooks with solid state drives (flash-based) cost more than traditional hard drives, are "an order of magnitude" less reliable and do not perform as well when using Microsoft Outlook.
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Sony introduces US$200 Blu-ray player
Sony has dropped a Blu-ray player for US$200, as the format approaches the affordable point.
DIYs and How-to
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Wipe your hard drive clean
Get out your virtual scrub brush and let's get busy.
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Notebook shopping checklist
Processors, memory, hard drives, screens, graphics cards, optical drives, connectivity. What should you be looking out for?
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DIY: Grab music from another computer with your iPod
Remember: Your iPod is a hard drive as well as an MP3 player. If you need to, say, move your music from one computer to another, simply use your iPod. Here's how.
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Planning makes perfect -- know your PC components
Your new PC will only be as good as the sum of its parts. Here's a quick guide to the main PC components you'll find available in 2006, so you can match your performance requirements and budget realities.
Downloads
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Burning Tires 3D Lite
Race against other opponents or your buddies.
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Soundbase
Organize and manage your sound files.
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DiskState
Organize, analyze, and optimize your disk space usage.
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Disk Drive Security
Hide, lock, disable autorun feature of your local, network, USB, and Floppy drives.
The Explain Series
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Get (laptop) smart before you buy
Win the numbers game and get the laptop that's perfect your needs as well as your budget!
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Microsoft Windows® 7. Your PC, simplified.
Windows® 7 has been designed to be more reliable, more responsive, and to make the things you do every day easier.
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Whereis® maps
If you’d like to get to know more of Australia, and do it safely, then check out Whereis® maps.
Videos
| Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB | 34 plans |  2% |
| Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB | 34 plans | 1% |
| Nokia N97 | 41 plans |  2% |
| Sony Ericsson Satio | 12 plans | 1% |
| Nokia 5800 XpressMusic | 34 plans | 1% |
| Apple mobile phones | 2% |
| Nokia mobile phones | 3% |
| Sony Ericsson mobile phones | 1% |
| Blackberry mobile phones | 3% |
| Samsung mobile phones | 1% |
