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Wednesday, November 8, 2006
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You've probably got a vague sensation already that something about this review just doesn't quite add up. But if you can't quite put your finger on what it is, let us help you: it's the appearance of a £900 price tag alongside a TV model number that appears to describe a 37in LCD. Surely 32in not 37in is the biggest LCD TV you can get for this far south of a grand, right? Wrong
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Monday, October 9, 2006
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As anyone who's ever looked into getting their hands on a truly enormous flat TV knows only too well, such home cinema dream machines don't come cheap. In fact, stepping above 50in in the flat TV world will usually set you back upwards of seven grand. Yet today we find ourselves confronted by a 55in plasma TV, Hitachi's 55PD9700, that?s yours for just £2,800. Surely such an extreme-value proposition can't actually be any good, can it?
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Tuesday, October 3, 2006
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With Maxtor DiamondMax relegated to the value line, hardware enthusiast and gamers are basically left with only three options when they're shopping for a new hard drive: Seagate, Western Digital and Hitachi GST. We've recently spent some quality time with two Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 drives, a SATA II drive from Hitachi GST. Needless to say, we put it to the rounds to see whether or not new hard drives offer improvements for the demanding gamers.
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
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In case you're wondering, no, we haven't made a typing error. Hitachi's 42PD6600 really is a 42in plasma TV that can be yours for as little as £1,200. In other words, it costs the same as most 32in LCDs, but delivers a massive 10in more of flat-panel picture loveliness. Crikey. To say this Hitachi has got our attention would be something of an understatement...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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The Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 achieved sequential read and write speeds that were very similar to the Seagate but which were significantly slower than the Raptor. Of course the Raptor uses 2.5inch platters and has a rotational speed of 10,000rpm so you'd expect it to be fast, but even so the Hitachi wasn't as quick as we would expect for such a new design. It's very quiet in operation but it gets fairly hot and runs five to ten degrees hotter than a drive with fewer platters...
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Saturday, May 28, 2005
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The T7K250 held its own against the competition. With a strong WorldBench performance, quick load and boot times, and the lowest noise levels of the pack, the Deskstar seems best suited for desktop and perhaps media center applications. Unfortunately, our IOMeter results suggest that the T7K250 isn't as well-suited for database, workstation, or file server use, although its performance with the web server test pattern is quite impressive.
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