Technology and Innovation

You’ve been able to take digital pictures with some Panasonic camcorders for quite some time, but now the company’s gone the full ten yards and has launched four dedicated stills cameras.
The best by far are the two 4-megapixel models, the DMC-LC5B and DMC-LC40B. Both offer Leica 3x optical zoom lenses, with images stored on tiny Secure Digital (SD) memory cards. Each camera in the range also enables you to shoot short Motion JPEG movies or take rapid-fire still images using the Burst mode.

This handset, with its swish swivel-cover action and white on black LCD screen, is a poser’s dream. Admittedly, it’s awkward to use, but who cares when it looks that stylish? Well, not to be outdone, Nokia has rolled up with an adversary, the tri-band 7210. Unmistakably Nokia, this handset may not eschew the phone blueprint as much as the V70, but it still stands out from the mobile hoi polloi.

Our after sales support services are designed to make your John Lewis experience even more positive. For example, the availability of installation professionals to help you set up your Apple and the free delivery service that saves you the hassle of carrying your purchases home yourself. Apple trained

Regular customers know that they can talk to knowledgeable, helpful staff at John Lewis.
That is why we ensure that our sales staff are fully trained by Apple on an ongoing basis, so you can rest assured that you will get the best product to suit your needs.

John Lewis department stores not only stock the award-winning Apple iBook, iMac and G4 series, but in fact you can buy any Apple product in our shops, including a wide range of monitors, printers, scanners and other accessories. As well as the John Lewis reputation for quality and value to give you peace of mind, we offer a free 2-year guarantee with every Apple computer as standard!

The new iMac is designed around a stunning, adjustable 15-inch LCD flat screen that’s bright, sharp, easy on the eyes and can be effortlessly controlled at the touch of a finger. You have a choice of three new iMac models: the 8OOMH2 iMac with DVD-R/CD-RW SuperDrive, the 700MHz iMac with DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo drive or the 700MHz iMac with CD-RW drive. All models ship with the fearsomely-fast NVIDIA GeForce2 MX graphics processing unit for photorealistic games and spectacular 3D graphics.

According to the companies involved, the format had been agreed to avoid the debacle we’re seeing with recordable DVD formats. Sadly nothing’s as simple as it seems, and when you scratch beneath the surface you discover not everyone buys into the format. Complicating matters further, the DVD Forum (which oversees the recordable DVD format) is also looking into developing red laser for the next-generation replacement for DVD - not blue laser.

Welcome to our blue laser issue. Scientists have been trying to create blue laser disc players for years, but the first prototype wasn’t demoed until 2000 at a Japanese trade show.
Westerners caught first glimpse of blue laser at CES in 2001.Then in January 2002, as reported in our February issue, prototype players were demonstrated from five leading manufacturers.
So what’s new? Well, blue laser hit the headlines in the press in February when the Blu-ray Disc consortium announced a replacement for DVD and agreed a format.This was the first time the public was introduced to blue laser and its consequences for traditional DVD.

Manfrotto invites you to discover the new 503 HDV video head. A head with revolutionary technical mechanisms, including the new Counterbalance System that gives controlled balance in 4 positions and an illuminated bubble level for low light situations. Finally, a head designed to work the way you do. The 530HDV is perfection just waiting to be experienced.

While platform choices have definitely gotten a bit more cut and dried over the course of the past year and a half, it’s still not an easy decision to make. You still have to consider how much the machine conforms to your concept of “ideal” when you purchase it.  such as how easy it is to perform any upgrades you might want down the road (particularly hard drives, disc burners and memory), whether all the ports you need are present, and so on.

The second issue is that Apple World would rather sell you their hardware to run their software. Apple enforces this with a somewhat controversial technology called TPM, or Trusted Platform Module. This is a chip on the Macs logic board that must be present in order to use Mac OS X.