“Write a Review Campaign” We would like to share some more reviews!
admin2015-06-12T12:56:44+02:00We Asked You to Choose your product…Write a Review… And You Did Exactly That!
Syntech’s would like to take this opportunity of thanking you for submitting your reviews. What a fantastic response!
We would like to share a few reviews with you over the next couple of Newsletter issues. So as promised here are a few more:
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Dez-Luan Pieterses | BURO
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Raidmax Atomic Black Chassis
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The Raidmax Atomic Black Chassis is one good looking, sleek piece of hardware. Not only is it stylish and compact, it’s serves a very functional purpose. With the necessary ports, so easily reachable – right on top of the case. The placement of the 1x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0 and AUX ports, are ingenious and contributes to the functionality of the Raidmax Atomic Black Chassis.
Aesthetically, the one see-through perspex panel delivers a window into the workings of the PC. Wonderfully designed to round of the otherwise, near perfect design.
To conclude, the Raidmax Atomic is a great product – good looking, functional, small, sleek and impressive with a large enough fan to keep it cool for a long time. Definitely a must buy product.
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Marcel | PCI Computers
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Speedlink Medusa Headset
I was really excited to test this product from Speedlink. Me playing games almost everyday, and listening to various types of music, found this headset to be perfect for my scenario. Looking at the headset, I was quite surprised by the massive size of it. After having a closer look, I realized that there was a reason for the bulky size of the headset…
The Speedlink MEDUSA Headset featured an all 5.1 Surround Sound experience, complete with a total of 8 speakers onboard. The headset also featured an integrated microphone, which is a very good thing for us gamers.
The speakers in the headset performed pretty well, with nice bass output and crisp sound all round. When playing a game, the stereo of the headset sounded very well and kept the surround sound experience very real.
The headset isn’t heavy at all, so it is comfy around the ears and head. The padded headset also aid in comfort and feels very nice actually. The length of the cable is quite long, measuring in at 3.8 meters. Other notable features include:
- Flexible microphone
- Remote control for easy adjusting of volume
- Foldable Headset
- You also get an accompanying carry bag so that you can travel with your headset with ease.
This headset is very impressive. It delivers very good sound all round, whether you are gaming or just watching a DVD.
Two thumbs up! Thank you Syntech!
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Daniel Davson | Hybrid Computer Solutions
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WD MyPassport Wireless USB3.0
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To test the capabilities of this drive I took the opportunity to salvage my .mp3 collection from a disused PC. The drive was completely plug and play under Windows 7. I transferred about 20GB of music using USB 2.0, the transfer happened at about 7MB/s- not too speedy due to the limitations of USB 2.0. I then plugged it into my laptop using USB 3.0. The drive was responsive and quick – the benefits of USB 3.0 were very apparent! This was as expected, but nothing too exciting, what I was excited to try was the wireless functionality!
Connecting to the drive as a hotspot was simple and gave access to the config using an easy-to-use web-interface. This also allowed easily connecting the drive to my home network, which I wasn’t sure was possible (although is quite obviously useful!). Once I connected it to my home network, it bridged my internet connection while I was connected directly to the passport as a hotspot (which overcomes what I saw as the downfall of using a wireless drive!). With the device on my network, I connected the AC adapter, switched my laptops wireless connection back to my home network. I could now browse to \\MyPassport\ and access all my media. It indexes and exposes the media by category – Video/Music/Photo, and then by Artist/Album etc. In no time I had my music collection that had been sitting idle on my ageing, disused old desktop accessible to my laptop and phone throughout my house.
Another nifty feature of the drive is its ability to instantly dump the entire contents of an SD card (via its contained SD card slot) – allowing you to safely store photos/videos, erase the card and continue shooting. Very useful when on a long holiday without access to a PC. It wasn’t immediately apparent if its possible to use the SD card slot as a card-reader via USB (it didn’t show up as 2nd drive as I had expected).
Definitely a great solution to sharing content on an external hard drive! The drive is slightly bulkier than one is used to with a 2.5″ drive – this is because of its built in battery. The drive comes formatted as exfat – which gives great windows and mac support, but requires the installation of FUSE before you can use it with most Linux distros.
An impressive product all round!
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