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I love it when we do a feature story on old computers. This issue’s look at how computers began to find use in the post-war era is a good one, and I hope you enjoy it. The history of computers is relatively short, and has moved quickly. We’ve all lived through periods of rapid evolution, not matter how long you’ve been into it all. Heck, if you’ve only just started to find these machines fascinating in the last couple of years there’s still rich history there. Going way back, it’s nice to see the very early days popularised in the movies, as we did with The Imitation Game not too long ago. Sure, the producers played it a little safe by injecting some vaguely extraneous drama, mostly centered around those…

Has AMD woken the sleeping Intel HEDT dragon? A confusing Titan, and a pointless Polaris. Mark Williams looks at the latest in chip news RYZEN FORCES INTEL’S HAND With Ryzen still making waves in the CPU market with its four, six and eight core options at half the price of Intel’s equivalent o­ erings, it’s been odd that Intel hasn’t dropped prices to match the relative performance of its parts. Well it seems Intel is standing firm because it has an ace up its sleeve, one that’s release is being brought forward by a couple of months. Intel’s latest HEDT line-up refresh is now said to officially be unveiled at Computex which starts this year on May 30th with availability in stores due around a month later. Skylake-X will succeed…

7-Zip 7-zip.org 7-Zip is the internet’s premier file-compression tool. You might not think you need it, since Windows can create and extract ZIP files natively, but 7-Zip has many advantages. It supports a huge range of file formats: it will open almost anything you find online, including RAR files that remain popular in some corners of the web. It also lets you browse and extract files from ISO, VDI, VHD and WIM disc images, CAB and MSI installers, and even macOS DMG files. Another strength of 7-Zip is ease of use. On installation, it adds a sub-menu to the Windows Explorer right-click menu, meaning you can compress and extract files and folders with a single click. For power users, there’s also a complete command-line interface. Best of all, 7-Zip offers…

Medicine Dr Homer Warner was the first to use computers in the operating room to track real-time blood pressure and heart-rate data – not bad for Utah in the 1950s. Working with hospital engineers to build the data-collecting circuit, he later said of what they built: “I didn’t even know it was a computer.” Two decades later, he created one of the first computerised health-records systems, which not only held patient data digitally in one place, but helped physicians interpret it for treatment. It was dubbed Health Evaluation through Logical Processing, or HELP, so doctors would feel less threatened, noted Michael Millenson, the author of Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age, in Forbes. Car racing Formula 1 is now a computer arms race, but when the championship started in…

You won’t find better reviews anywhere in Australia! As much as we love seeing AMD bounce back and shake up the CPU market with Ryzen, we can’t help but wonder if the company is prepared for its success. In our review of the 1800X in PCTA 234 we talked about how only the X-series Ryzens had the XFR boost feature, and that the ‘X’ suffix referred to XFR. Because that’s what it said in the reviewer’s guide that was supplied to us. And because we only had the 1800X we couldn’t then see if non-X CPUs had, or didn’t have, XFR. There was no reason not to take that as gospel anyway, it all sounded sensible and logical, and we assumed AMD knew its products well so there was no…

At just twenty bucks, this extender might appear to be amazing value for money. It’s tiny, take approximately one minute to set up, and looks like it has a decent feature set. There’s just one problem – performance is absolutely atrocious. The biggest issue is that this unit only supports the 2.4GHz spectrum; there’s no compatibility with 5GHz networks. It maxes out at 300Mbps in theory, but as you can see from our tests, it didn’t even come close. If you’ve got a router that o ers a 5GHz network, this is definitely not the extender for you. As our benchmarks show, it was considerably slower than simply connecting to the router, as it couldn’t make use of the highspeed 5GHz network. It’s a shame, as in every other way…

And here we have the brute of the pack. This may be the most expensive extender in the roundup – though not by a huge margin – but it’s also the best performer, and it looks like it. TP-Link has gone for a very aggressive look with this beast, with its four-massive protruding antenna making it look like some kind of robotic insect. Rated as an AC2600, or 2600MHz total combined bandwidth, makes this the fastest of the lot… on paper at least. Thankfully our benchmarks back up these numbers. It offers 800Mbps on the 2.4GHz spectrum, with another 1733MHz on the 5GHz spectrum. Like the Netgear, this is one of the very few extenders to offer the latest in MU-MIMO technology, and doesn’t require a firmware update to enable…

$149 • www.alteclansing.com This speaker is built tough and its aggressive styling wants you to know it’s up for a fight. Water resistant you say? Try water proof! Dunk it under the water, it won’t skip a beat. It has a ruggedness rating of IP67 meaning it’s fully submersible and can handle dirt, dust, sand and other annoying particle based minutiae. The sound quality is decent for the most part and on par with similarly priced Bluetooth speakers, it does struggle with anything too bass heavy and distorts at higher volumes. It connects easily via Bluetooth and can also be connected via a 3.5mm audio jack, it can pump tunes for 16 hours straight and you can charge a separate device from the unit using the included USB connection. An…

Quantum computers have been proven in theory— now it’s time to get building. That’s the idea behind the University of Sussex’s e? orts to lay out a blueprint to create a machine. By taking advantage of quantum states, these computers will be many orders of magnitude more powerful than existing binary machines when solving certain problems. However, such a general-purpose quantum computer has yet to be built. Winfried Hensinger, professor of quantum technologies at the university, hopes to change that, revealing a blueprint that could be created using existing components, o? ering a practical approach to an academic problem. We spoke to Hensinger to find out why it’s time to get practical with quantum computing and when to expect the first machine. WHY IS A BLUEPRINT A BREAKTHROUGH? Quantum computing…

SMARTPHONE OnePlus3 PRICE $432 SUPPLIER www.oneplus.net Quick, beautiful, long-lasting and an incredible price; you won’t find a better phone for the money. SPECIFICATIONS Quad-core 2.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor • Adreno 530 graphics • 6GB RAM • 5.5in 1,080 x 1,920 AMOLED display • 64GB storage • dual SIM • 16MP/8MP rear/front camera • 802.11ac Wi-Fi TABLET Apple iPad Pro 9.7in PRICE $849 (32GB, Wi-Fi) SUPPLIER www.apple.com/au This is a tablet you’ll want to use all the time, and there’s no higher praise for any piece of technology than that. SPECIFICATIONS 64-bit Apple A9X custom processor with M9motion coprocessor • 2GB RAM • 32/128/256GB storage • 9.7in 2,048 x 1,536 IPS display EBOOK READER Kindle Paperwhite PRICE $119 SUPPLIER www.amazon.com The premium Kindle goes the extra mile, with a more…

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Microsoft says it will address complaints over the inopportune timing of updates and reboots in Windows 10. Updates are a necessity for adding features and fixing security holes, but machines suddenly rebooting remains a problem despite past efforts to solve the irritation. “We heard back most explicitly that you want more control over when Windows 10 installs updates,” explained John Cable, director of program management at Microsoft. “We also heard that unexpected reboots are disruptive.” According to Microsoft, the Creators Update will allow users to schedule when the updates take place, make changes if the time is no longer convenient, and to pause updates. “The ‘snooze’ capability allows you to pause the update process completely for three days when you need uninterrupted time on your device,” Cable said. “In addition,…

John, TI Computers: “Yes, we do believe new technology like 3D XPoint will definitely take over the high end portion of the NAND market like in servers, workstations, and perhaps high performance gaming rigs over time. However, like how it is with the NAND and the spindle magnetic storage, we do not see it to take over the market completely until the price can drop down to that of NAND for space per dollar. Optane on the other hand, comes in a little too late to the party, as the investment into an Optane is so close to a 120GB SATA SSD that people will actually receive more raw performance from investing into a SSD than Optane. We will alternatively suggest our customers to make use of useful software bundles…

Duolingo Windows Store, duolingo.com If you want to stretch your French vocabulary beyond a simple “une bière, s’il vous plaît”, or take your German further than “eine Bratwurst bitte”, Duolingo is here to help. Available from the Windows Store, it’s a brilliant piece of free languagelearning software. For English speakers, the choice of languages is extensive: Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Irish, Welsh, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, Russian and even Esperanto. Duolingo’s content is crowdsourced, meaning that certain classes – including Vietnamese and Hebrew – are still in beta, but the languages listed above are finished and fully functional. Embarrassingly, PC & Tech Authority’s collective knowledge of Irish began and ended at “sláinte”, so we decided to give the Duolingo course a go. The app’s attractive interface relies on images,…

Adobe Fill & Sign iOS and Android – Free Fill & Sign allows you to complete forms and add a signature on your mobile device. It has many of the same features offered in Acrobat: autocomplete of commonly used fields (name, address etc), the option to add an electronic signature and graphics for ticks and crosses to be inserted in boxes. Its party trick is the option to take a snap of a paper form and fill that out electronically, although the photo has to be snapped with precision to avoid the printed text looking as if it’s sitting on a different plane to the form itself. Still, handy for filling out forms that have to be returned in a hurry. Adobe Capture CC iOS and Android – Free An…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed that governments around the world are keen to see what their citizens get up to on the Internet. You’ve probably also noticed that large multinational media companies try to extract more cash from our wallets by restricting the range of movies and TV shows delivered over the Internet, simply because we live in different countries. ANTHONY AGIUS EXPLAINS THE BENEFITS OF USING A VPN TO SECURE YOUR ONLINE PRIVACY Luckily there’s a way us regular people can fight back against mass surveillance and extortionist corporations – by using a VPN. With VPN, you can pretend to be accessing the Internet anywhere in the world and watch all the streaming media you want. A VPN, if configured correctly, you can keep…

2D TESTS Desktop PCs and laptops are tested using our own custom bench testing suite, which has been carefully designed to test all aspects of a system and rate them in a way that’s useful to you. Our benchtesting cover three main tests: a typical video editing test, a demanding 4K video editing test and a multitasking test that stresses all aspects of the system. We look at the time it takes for each test to run, which is then compared to our reference PC to produce a normalised result. This score is shown on a graph, and to help you understand just where the PC we’re reviewing sits in the grand scheme of things, we will often include other system’s scores. The median score of 100 is based on…

At half the price of a decent router, you’re paying rather high premium to extend your home network with this extender. However, as our results show, it almost doubled the performance at range compared to our base router, showing that in some cases, extenders can be worth their weight in gold. This unit is considerably larger than most extenders, so if you plug it into a twin power outlet, expect to lose the use of your other outlet. We wish the manufacturers of these devices would put the extender on a small power cable to stop this from happening, but not one of them has chosen to do so. A large antenna is located on each side of the unit, and they can be rotated through 180 degrees. There’s full…

The new G6 from LG marks a new design era for smartphones, and for LG, an important return to fundamentals. Gone are the gimmicks of old. There’s no leather back, curved screen or modular components. The G6 is a pure design, yet manages to take the old black rectangle format into beautiful new territory. There are many things to admire about the G6, but without doubt the first thing you notice, and will then continue to appreciate more and more, is the ratio of screen to body. It’s 80%, and in a design and engineering world where fractions of millimeters are critical this is a big jump. The screen extends to within 1cm of the bottom of the G6, and to 7mm of the top. The bezel on the sides…

$59 • www.asus.com/au The original Asus AC53 from a few years ago was a full sized USB Wi-Fi adaptor, now it’s tiny, and has MU-MIMO technology packed in. There are a great many USB Wi-Fi choices and the pros and cons of this one are readily apparent. Because it’s so very small, poking a mere 8mm of itself out, once inserted, the antennas are also very small. Performance in the same room as the router was excellent and well within 802.11ac expectations, but fell away as it was moved around the house and walls started to get in the way. So, use it within its limitations and it will do its job. The other plus is MU-MIMO, which allows for greater overall performance in Wi-Fi zones serving more than one…

WIRELESS ROUTER Synology RT2600ac Wi-Fi Router SUPPLIER www.synology.com This router really does do it all, and at a great price point. We’d go so far as to say it’s the best 2600AC router on the market, with blazing speeds, a rich feature set and that oh-so-amazing interface. Highly recommended for both novices and network engineers alike. SPECIFICATIONS dual channel (2.4GHz – 800Mbps; 5GHz – 1.73Gbps); EEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ ac; twin USB ports (1 x 2.0, 1 x 3.0); MU-MIMO compatible; beamforming NAS Synology Diskstation DS216+ SUPPLIER www.synology.com For most people the Synology DS216+ is all the NAS they’ll ever need. SPECIFICATIONS 2x SATA 3 2.5”/3.5” drive bays • Intel Celeron Dual Core 1.6GHz CPU • 1GB DDR3 RAM • eSata, 2x USB 3.0 & 3x USB 2.0 • 1x Gigabit Ethernet…

SECURITY Kaspersky Total Security SUPPLIER www.kaspersky.com Kaspersky Total Security is the only security package on test that achieved both perfect protection and falsepositives scores. BACK UP Acronis True Image 2015 SUPPLIER www.acronis.com.au The 2015 version adds full-system backup and dual backup. OFFICE SUITE Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium SUPPLIER www.microsoft.com.au The easiest to use Office to date. WEB DEV Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 SUPPLIER www.adobe.com.au This edition makes PHP and CMS its core focus. AUDIO Cubase 7.5 SUPPLIER www.steinberg.net The addition of better filters solidifies this program’s continued place on the A-List. VIDEO Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 SUPPLIER www.sony.com.au May not have the bells and whistles of other consumer editing packages, but its tools are efficient. PHOTO Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6 SUPPLIER www.adobe.com.au Lightroom 6 doesn’t add up…

It’s easy to dismiss “research” and “threat reports” by security vendors. Look at the Wikipedia definition of MRDA (Mandy Rice-Davies Applies) and you’ll find a reference from this very column back in 2005 as well as another by our very own Paul Ockenden (“well, she would say that, wouldn’t she?”). I always slap a virtual MRDA sticker on the front of any such report that comes my way, but that doesn’t mean they’re all to be ignored. Take, for example, the 2016 SonicWall Global Response Intelligence Defense (GRID) Threat Network report, which analyses input from over one million security sensors across nearly 200 countries. This was intriguing for several reasons, not least because it bucks the usual knell-of-doom overtones by detailing how collected unique malware samples went down to 64…

Nobody has any idea of the expected life of a network cable. On the one hand, they tend to lie in the dark, perfectly still, for years on end; on the other, suppliers and amateurs alike have been tempted to use solidconductor wires where stranded-conductor is the proper solution, because the former is cheaper. This inevitably leads to cracked conductors somewhere in the middle of the cable – a problem made worse when the amateur reaches for a crimp tool to put his own ends on a drawn-through cable. The variety of misfortunes that Ethernet cables are prone to aren’t much different between DIY and professionally installed or machine-made leads. The problem is that Ethernet is tolerant; it will battle on to get a signal through, no matter the state…

UPDATE DRAMAS Like Jon Honeyball I am also frustrated with Windows Update. When its checking for updates it is actually downloading data. When downloading updates it downloads and also installs them at the same time. While there might be no data downloading it is not “Contemplating its Navel” but installing the updates. I have also noticed that when preparing updates it is actually installing updates that don’t require a restart. Some Windows updates have an annoying habit of disabling audio half way through the update and audio is only restored after restarting the computer. Some updates stop the launching of apps during update. Open apps continue to operate but if closed cannot be restarted until after restart. This happens on several di. erent PCs both 64 bit and 32 bit…

Portagame Mwave Respawn Ninja ‘Shuriken $999 – http://tinyurl.com/jwnwazp This screams LAN box! So small yet reasonably capable. Mwave calls this an eSports PC, and it’s easy to see why. Easy to cart around to eSport events but lacking the oomph to run more demanding gaming titles. The CPU is just a dual core but is clocked quite high at 3.9GHz, paired with a GTX 1050 you’ll only want to be playing titles that have light and breezy rendering engines like CS:GO, Overwatch, LoL, Rocket League and the like. Interestingly they’re including an NVMe SSD as the sole storage for this PC, super zippy and sizable enough for the job at hand. It is quite the star of this system. KEY SPECS CPU: Intel Core i3 7100 • Cooler: OEM •…

Wunderlist Windows Store, wunderlist.com Unlike some to-do list apps, Wunderlist favours simplicity – there are options to set deadlines, create sub-tasks and append notes and attachments to tasks, but its strength is quickly noting that you need to do something. It’s also simple to share lists with other people. Lists can be broken down into different topics, helping to keep work and personal tasks separate, although the default Inbox view shows all tasks in deadline order. There are Wunderlist apps for almost any OS you can think of, but given this app is now owned by Microsoft, there’s one unforgivable omission. Why on earth doesn’t it have a Live Tile in Windows 10? Evernote Windows Store, evernote.com While not as feature-rich as Microsoft’s OneNote (see opposite), Evernote Basic is a…

As one of the more expensive devices in the roundup, we expected this extender to deliver top-tier performance. So you can imagine our surprise when it turned out to o er some of the worst performance of the lot. D-Link rates this as an AC1200 product, which means it o ers a combined throughput of 1200Mbps over both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks. It’s one of the smaller extenders in the roundup, so won’t cover both sockets in a dualpower outlet. At the top of the unit are twin antennas which can be rotated through around 160 degrees. Setting it up was rather simple – just plug it in, hit the WPS button on the unit and your router, and you’re good to go. There’s also a mobile app for…

The test router we used in this roundup costs a mere $370 or so, while this extender costs two thirds of that, at a whopping $222. However, it’s aimed more at small o? ce environments spread over a larger area than your general home environment, as witnessed by its exceptional benchmark speeds. Netgear claims it has the power to cover an area of 930 square metres, which is more than enough for most home users. It also has some of the most advanced networking features of the lot, so is really aimed at those who know what they’re doing. Having said that, even at default settings we doubled the speed of our Wi-Fi network at range, so you don’t need to be a pro to figure out how to set…

Solid state drives are great, but if you need huge amounts of storage and don’t want to spend the equivalent of a small car, spinning pieces of metal still reign supreme. Lacie has taken six Seagate Enterprise NAS 3.5-inch hard drives, slapped them in a Thunderbolt 3/ USB 3.1 enclosure, added RAID support and called it the 6big - because there’s six drives inside and it is big. There’s a big12 too, which, you guessed it, has twelve drives inside and is also big. This review unit was provided with 6x 8TB drives, for a raw capacity of 48TB that’ll set you back a hefty $8,199, but there is a 24TB (6x 4TB) model for $4,899 and a 36TB (6x 6TB) unit for $6,499. Considering the cost for six 8TB…

$119 • www.asus.com/au This evolution of the excellent Gladius 1 adds RGB and some nice usability features, so depending on which of those appeals, it represents a good bit of refinement to a top mouse. The RGBs pulse and colour cycle through the logo under your palm, around the scroll wheel, and circle the base. I have to admit it looks pretty cool, and adjustments to the patterns and colours can be made via the software. On the side under your right thumb is a new button not seen on the Gladius 1, and tweaks have been made to the ‘Mayan’ texture on the grippy bits so the channels in the pattern aren’t as deep so trap less grime, but the rubberized material still offers top grip. Overall the feel…

$479 • www.gskill.com Coming in at around $100 more than a regular Trident Z DDR4-3200 pack, the RGB option doesn’t seem like the most cost effective of memory solutions, and it’s not, but thanks to some great drivers and excellent performance, the Trident Z RGB line still has some serious appeal. Large LED strips replace the plastic caps that sit on standard Trident Z sticks. Without drivers, the sticks cycle through the colour gamut in a regular pattern, but with drivers (that appear to be licensed from the Asus Aura RGB drivers), users can control the colour, intensity and pattern of the lighting effects to a minute degree. If the appeal of coloured lights is lost on you, the Trident Z RGB 32Gb DDR4-3200 pack still offers excellent, fast and…

P C games uniquely offer a huge amount of control over how they look when we play them. From adjusting the resolution to enabling postprocess effects, we can adjust our playing experience to suit our rig perfectly, down to the finest detail. What’s more, new options are being introduced all the time, with types of lighting, more advanced ambient occlusion and all sorts of post-processing effects constantly changing how games look. But what do all the different graphics settings in your games actually do? If you’ve looked at your settings and had no idea which type of ambient occlusion setting you should use, or whether or not you should enable motion blur then we’re here to help you tune your playing experience to your PC. This month, we’ve compiled a…

Visit www.pcauthority.com.au/UpgradeAustralia IN WIN’S LATEST AT UPGRADE AUSTRALIA Join In Win at Upgrade 5.0 as it launches the beautiful and innovative new signature case tòu 2.0, along with the new range RGB power supplies, and the new RGB AURORA fans. tòu 2.0 is a full tower PC case with an integrated 1065W PSU. Its 5mm geometric tempered glass panels cover most of the exterior with a perfect mirror finish. As the interior LED lights dim and brighten, the glass become transparent showing off the interior components. The light brightness is controlled through a unique touch slider switch built into the top of the front panel. tòu 2.0 • RRP: $2699 The new 301 has similar design to the classic 303, but with micro-ATX dimensions. The In Win 301 comes with…

VALUE Asus T100HA PRICE $399 SUPPLIER www.asus.com.au Performance that delivers everything typical day to day computing demands short of intense gaming, combined with a fantastic screen and a solid and we think, rugged design makes this the value king. SPECIFICATIONS 10.1in IPS panel • Intel Quad-Core x5- Z8500 processor • 64GB eMMC SSD • 2GB LPDDR3 memory GAMING Asus GL502VS PRICE $2,995 SUPPLIER www.asus.com.au Asus has built a very solid machine around an incredible new GPU. This has totally revolutionised the performance we can expect from a laptop, putting many regular desktops to shame. SPECIFICATIONS GeForce GTX 1070 GPU • Intel i7-6700HQ CPU • 8GB DDR4 • 15.6-inch IPS display • 1TB HDD • 256GB SSD PROFESSIONAL Microsoft Surface Book PRICE $2,299 – $4,206 SUPPLIER www.microsoft.com.au Truly beautiful, undeniably powerful…

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You know you’re getting old when things that were fashionable when you were young come back into the media limelight. It almost defines you as being unhip to note “it was better last time around”. It doesn’t matter if it’s clothing styles, something I’ve never understood, or hip technology. So the rise of interest in vinyl LPs is a fascinating thing to watch. For starters, for those of us interested in hi-fiand music, vinyl never went away. Firms such as Linn Products and Rega have held the torch for the highest levels of engineering quality. Unfortunately, much of the vinyl revolution has happened due to those hip creatures with well-groomed beards and topknots. It has become a trendy thing to have, a sign that you are “sophisticated”. I wouldn’t know,…