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WELCOME | EDITORIAL There are many good and valid reasons why one would choose to continue using Windows 10, rather than upgrade to Windows 11. For starters there’s the issues with some older hardware not sporting a TPM chip (though these modules are super cheap on Amazon and easy to add), which prevents Win 11 from being installed in the first place. Then there’s a general distaste for the ever-increasing appearance of ads in Windows 11. There’s Start menu repositioning rage (also easily fixed, but still, we recognise why there’s unhappiness here). And more… But the biggie, which I think most readers here still using Windows 10 relate to most strongly, is that it just works. Everything is set up beautifully, probably after years of fine tuning you may have…

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Download these APC exclusives free from: www.apcmag.com/exclusives ASCOMP TEXT-R 2.0 SIMPLE OPTICAL TEXT RECOGNITION (OCR) FOR WINDOWS. The problem: PDF files and images from a scanned paper document contain text that cannot be copied or edited. However, manual typing is not possible due to the size of the document and the high time involved. The solution: Text-R! The software also recognises text in PDF files and images that immediately convert it into an editable document for any user level. The text can be saved in a new editable PDF or RTF document (Word). Formatting stays close to the original, so in most cases no post-processing is required. AUDIALS VISION 2024 SE TRANSFORM BLURRY FOOTAGE INTO CRYSTAL-CLEAR, HIGH-QUALITY MASTERPIECES. The future of video editing is AI-driven, resulting in videos that stand…

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Windows 11’s Weather app shoves in yet more ads

Everything you need to know from the month in tech As Microsoft continues rolling out updates to Windows 11 and its included software that most people didn’t ask for, alarm bells have rung with the redesign of the Windows 11 Weather app – an app that now appears to be not only less functional but seems to have been made worse just to place yet more advertisements. This was most thoroughly observed by user @ChangeWindows in their X thread. Microsoft has already received much criticism for adding egregious ads to nearly every facet of Windows 11, a paid operating system – the most egregious of them all being Start Menu Ads. The advertisements in an already-paid operating system have received plenty of backlash, and now Microsoft seems to be doing…

Windows 11’s Weather app shoves in yet more ads

Recall rush backfires on Microsoft

TECH BRIEF Microsoft’s rush to embed an all-seeing AI assistant into Windows resulted in the company shipping a product to beta testers that contained huge security flaws, forcing the company to delay the launch of the flagship feature for the new Copilot+ PCs. Recall was the big announcement from Microsoft’s Build conference in late May, with the company keen to further its AI advantage over Apple, which subsequently announced “Apple Intelligence” at WWDC a fortnight later. Recall was hawked as an AI assistant that would allow you to “retrace your steps” on your PC, with the AI remembering everything you’ve done on the system. It does this by screenshotting the whole screen every few seconds, with the information transcribed into a plain text SQLite database. But as security researchers quickly…

Recall rush backfires on Microsoft

AI’s energy demands is causing problems for big tech

OPINION | END USER If you’ve come within spitting distance of a piece of technology in 2024 you’ll have noticed that no interface is safe from the puzzling incursion of AI “helpers”. Microsoft’s Windows 11 Copilot probably comes to mind first, but Google’s new AI search feature – which has yet to roll out in Australia – has won the most infamy thanks to its sometimes bizarre answers (yes: you should use glue to secure cheese to a pizza base). Meanwhile, Apple’s Siri will have ChatGPT weaved into it later this year. Meanwhile, browse Facebook and it’s clear that very many scammers and propagandists have conscripted AI image generation towards their wily ends, resulting in an onslaught of uncanny slop. AI video tools are used to colour in the edges…

AI’s energy demands is causing problems for big tech

The speed of obsolescence

OPINION | TECH TALK If there’s one thing we know about PC hardware, it’s that it becomes outdated. The Cheyenne supercomputer is testament to the rapid improvements over the past decade in the world of extreme scalability, coupled with a warning about things not always going as planned. Apparently, ongoing reliability, repair, and maintenance issues reached the point where the best option was to pull the plug and start afresh. Deployed in 2016, Cheyenne was the year’s 21st fastest supercomputer, with a score of 4.79 petaflops. Today, it’s number 160 on the Top500 list – or was prior to being decommissioned. While it’s not clear how much it cost, it replaced one that was around US$25–$30 million, and its Derecho replacement is an HP-built setup that cost US$35–$40 million. It…

The speed of obsolescence

Meet CAMM2 memory: The memory standard of the future

OPINION | TWO BITS If you read my Computex report in this issue, you’ll have seen that the big four motherboard manufacturers showed off motherboards with support for an interesting new memory standard. But beyond that, vendors including Kingston, Teamgroup, G.Skill and Micron also revealed new modules. It’s called CAMM2, which stands for Compression Attached Memory Module. Should it see widespread adoption – and there’s little reason to doubt that it will – it would represent the biggest fundamental change to the PC and laptop memory form factors in decades. What is CAMM2, and how does it differ from existing memory? The original CAMM standard was developed by Dell to replace SO-DIMM memory in its laptops. CAMM2 improves on the original Dell design, and it’s now been adopted by JEDEC,…

Meet CAMM2 memory: The memory standard of the future

OPINION | TRADE CHAT Last month, I touched on the fact that the first official Microsoft AI PCs would be running a Qualcomm Arm-based CPU. This begs one obvious question: what about old software? Arm chips tend to be more efficient, but what good is that if you can’t use your favourite apps? The CPU cores in Apple’s new M4 chip are scary fast. Seriously. The M4 cranks out about 3,800 points in Geekbench 6 single core. That compares with roughly 3,300 points for an Intel Core i9-14900K. Remember, that’s an M4 running in a tablet. It’s only in the iPad Pro for now, not in any Mac computer. The point is that you can forget about assuming that Arm chips are efficient but feeble. They can be competitive and…

Control your computer with your face and head – it’s the future!

We explore the trends and technologies that are set to shape the future Forget typing and mousing. We’ve been trying for years to come up with new ways to interface with computers, be it eye-trackers, mind-reading tech or VR-powered immersive systems. And among APC staff (past and present), it’s become a joke. Yet here I am, typing into a laptop and staring into a monitor, just like a chump from the 1980s. But perhaps not for much longer if Apple and Google have their way, with announcements on eye-tracking plus head and face movement recognition. Such technologies were created for people with accessibility challenges, and that’s also the origin of eye trackers and brain-computer interfaces (BCI). Hopefully, by integrating such accessibility tools into mainstream tech, iPads and other computing devices…

Control your computer with your face and head – it’s the future!

Rabbit R1 vs Humane AI Pin

“Let’s just admire the things that Humane and Rabbit did right, cringe at its shortcomings (like awful battery life), and wait to see how this new class of hardware evolves” RABBIT R1 MAJOR TECH SPECS • 2.3-GHz MediaTek P35 MT6765 eight-core SoC• 2.88-inch touchscreen• 4GB RAM, 128GB storage• 8MP stills camera (3,264 x 2,448) with 1080p 24fps video• Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi with 2.4 GHz + 5 GHz, 4G LTE, GPS• 1,000mAh battery• 115g KEY FINDINGS • The battery is lithium-polymer, clocking 1,000mAh. A bigger one is needed, given how fast it goes through a charge. • The main housing contains a large motor and gear combo that powers the swivel mechanism on the R1’s camera. Attached is the camera sensor and Hall Effect sensor. • The camera, LCD panel, and…

Rabbit R1 vs Humane AI Pin

Find the best deals on new gear at getprice.com/au Premium laptops Apple MacBook Pro 16in (M3) STUNNING CREATIVE POWER A reasonable processor upgrade to device with an impressive screen and unparalleled battery life. The new M3 3nm processors is more efficient, so you’ll be able to run the same tasks as the M1 using half the power draw, which helps battery life. From $4,299, apple.com/au THE ALTERNATIVES DELL XPS 16 9640 An up-sizing for the iconic XPS. The XPS 16 9640 is quite expensive, and despite a few niggles, it offers great performance and battery life in a minimalistic package. $4,498, dell.com APPLE MACBOOK AIR The MacBook Air M3 replaces the M2 model previously listed here. It’s a powerful and quiet ultraportable with an unbeatable battery life and screen. From…

ARC PRICE Free WEB arc.net GOOGLE CHROME PRICE Free WEB google.com/chrome Things have been relatively quiet in the world of web browsers for a while, if you overlook Microsoft’s constant pressure on Windows users to switch to Edge. The MS browser has greatly improved since the switch to Google’s rendering engine, Blink, itself a fork of Apple’s older Webkit engine used in Safari. Microsoft also has Trident (Internet Explorer) and EdgeHTML (older versions of Edge), while Firefox runs on Gecko. There are others, too. These engines affect the way websites, which exist as lines of code and image files on a server somewhere, are displayed on your computer. The differences between them mean they don’t always render web content identically, especially in these days of embedded content, multiple coding languages, and…

Philips Evnia 49M2C8900L Hankering after a dual monitor set-up? Then you might want to consider this 48.9-inch ultra-wide display. Ostensibly aimed at gamers, it’s packed with exactly the kind of tech that’ll make you drool – from a quantum dot OLED (QD-OLED) 1800R curved screen with support for up to 99% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut to a resolution of 5120x1440 pixels. Plus, it also has a 0.3 millisecond response time for slick movie viewing as well as game playing. The icing on the cake, though, are the 49M2C8900L’s added extras. For not only does it boast Ambiglow, the Philips ambient lighting technology that splashes colours on the wall behind the monitor to create a more immersive viewing experience, it also has DTS Sound with a 30W-output sound system. The…

35 Microsoft Surface Laptop 15 36 HP Pavilion 16 37 Asus ROG Strix Scope II RX 38 2TB Kingston Fury Renegade SSD 39 2TB Lexar NM790 PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD 40 2TB Seagate FireCuda 540 SSD 41 32GB Crucial Pro Overclocking DDR5 42 Deepcool CH160 case 43 Benq X500i 4K Short Throw Projector APC is Australia’s oldest consumer technology magazine – having been consistently in print for over forty years, since our first issue way back in May 1980 – and we take that heritage and responsibility very seriously. While our focus is obviously on the personal computer the very definition of the PC has changed and shifted markedly since the early 1980s. As such, we touch on many other areas of tech, too, from smartphones and apps to peripherals,…

Microsoft Surface Laptop 7

PRICE $3,699 WEB microsoft.com From the outside the Surface Laptop is a very normal looking laptop that might even be boring if not for the range of colours available. It’s a premium all-metal design that (finally!) favours robust repairability over being extra slim and light. Still, the 1.83cm thickness and 1.66 kg weight is perfectly fine for carrying on the go. The Surface Laptop is a CoPilot+ PC, but at the time of writing the new AI enhanced features are very limited, or yet to arrive, so we won’t cover them in any detail here. The 15in Surface laptop is equipped with the 12-core Snapdragon Elite X CPU, which also includes a Qualcomm Adreno GPU and Hexagon NPU. The 32GB of RAM is soldered in, so can’t be upgraded, but…

Microsoft Surface Laptop 7

PRICE $1,799 WEB hp.com Designed to be an all-rounder, the HP Pavilion 16 is a large 16in screen laptop that is still thin and light enough to carry on the go every day. Our test model (16-ag0000AU) features a Ryzen 7 CPU and integrated graphics, but there are also Intel Core and Ultra configurations that can include higher resolution displays and discrete GPUs. The screen on the Pavilion 16 uses a 16:10 ratio, with a 1920 x 1200 resolution, 300 nit brightness and 62.5% sRGB colour gamut coverage. The Ryzen 7 8840U is quite new (released Dec 2023) and offers 8 cores (16 threads) that can boost to 5.1GHz. You get a big 1TB SSD but the 16GB of RAM (2x 8GB) is low profile, so soldered in and not…

Asus ROG Strix Scope II RX

PRICE $189 WEB asus.com Mechanical keyboards for the average Joe are a bit unique these days. Because the market and the enthusiast space has advanced so rapidly over the last few years, long gone are the times when manufacturers could forgo sound-dampening, and use any old Cherry switch or a discounted alternative on their boards. After all, why buy an off-the-shelf product when you can build a board specifically for your needs? Layout size, switch-type, foam dampening, keycaps, cable – all of it can be customised to your liking. That puts the traditional manufacturers in a tricky position when it comes to designing new product lines, and it’s very much a case of ‘adapt or die’. “Why buy an off-the-shelf product when you can build a board specifically for your…

Asus ROG Strix Scope II RX

2TB Kingston Fury Renegade PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD

PRICE $239 WEB kingston.com SSDs are, on the surface, quite boring. They don’t have the graphical fidelity of a GPU, they can’t render 4K video files, or act as the beating heart of your machine like a CPU, and they aren’t as critical to your system’s operations as RAM. In fact, you can get away without using one of them at all. A simple HDD will allow you to run a machine and do all of those things you know and love, just more slowly. So why have we’ve got so excited over this drive? Surely, at its heart it’s just another boring SSD with slightly better sequentials, right? Well, yes, but also no. Kingston has produced some fantastic drives, but in the world of cutting edge PCIe 5.0 storage…

2TB Kingston Fury Renegade PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD

2TB Lexar NM790 PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD

PRICE $199 WEB Lexar.com This might be the best-value PCIe 4.0 SSD we’ve found to date. Usually, when we say something like that, there’s a massive trade-off to be had at the same time. With the NM790, though, that’s not the case – for a PCIe 4.0 SSD, it’s seriously impressive. Not only are the performance metrics up there with some of the best PCIe 4.0 drives we’ve tested, but it trounces some of our favourite drives from a value perspective. Let’s talk numbers and what you get – top-line specs. 2TB of total capacity on the PCIe 4.0 standard, with an M.2 2280 form factor. It’s utilising 232-layer YMTC TLC NAND flash memory. YMTC (Yangtze Memory Technologies) is a relatively new Chinese semiconductor company that’s just been launched onto…

2TB Lexar NM790 PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD

2TB Seagate FireCuda 540 PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSD

PRICE $579 WEB Seagate.com Well folks, here we have it: Seagate’s top-tier, flagship PCIe 5.0 drive that you can pick up right now. It’s not quite as blisteringly quick as some of its like-minded competitors, at least not on the sequentials, but it is nippy in other areas. Let’s dive in. The FireCuda 540 is pretty similar to a number of 5.0 drives out there right now. In fact, it’s genuinely quite sad just how similar all these drives are. At its heart, the 540 features a 232-layer TLC NAND developed by Micron, Phison’s E26 PCIe 5.0 controller, and an LPDDR4 DRAM cache as well, all baked into the M.2 2280 form-factor. One key difference, however, lies in the warranty, and that’s the fact this comes with an endurance rating…

2TB Seagate FireCuda 540 PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSD

32GB Crucial Pro Overclocking DDR5

PRICE $180 WEB crucial.com For the longest time, two of the biggest names in the memory market have been Corsair and Crucial. They’re without a doubt some of the largest manufacturers out there, with some serious market share both on the enterprise level and to us consumers as well. Corsair has perhaps made itself more prominently known on that front, particularly with its Dominator and Vengeance series (although Crucial certainly has tried in the past with its Ballistix line), but all in all, these two juggernauts have been at it for many, many years, battling to and fro over ever-tightening market-share. Why is that relevant? Well, let’s just say that when it comes to performance, these two are the kings, and our memory kit on test today, Crucial’s Pro Overclocking,…

32GB Crucial Pro Overclocking DDR5

Deepcool CH160 Case

PRICE $79 WEB www.deepcool.com Over the years Deepcool has earned a reputation for providing highly functional cases without exorbitant price tags. The CH160 looks like yet another example. It costs just $79, so it already offers excellent value for money. But there’s more to the CH160 than just a budget price tag. The CH160 is a Mini-ITX case that’s available in both black and white versions. It’s on the larger side for an ITX case at 336×200×283.5mm (L×W×H) but that’s very much a conscious decision as the CH160 is designed to be compatible with large air coolers. Even a cooler the size of a Noctua NH-D15 is well within the CH160’s 172mm limit. It’ll also accept triple slot GPUs at up to 305mm in length (with an SFX PSU), meaning…

Deepcool CH160 Case

Benq X500i 4K Short Throw Projector

PRICE $2,599 WEB benq.com Projectors are still difficult to justify on so many levels. The biggest reason is what kind of screen tech we have available to us. No matter how you spin it, a 4K gaming projector’s main advantage is screen size. Everything else, from colour accuracy and latency to image clarity, is superseded by the monitor tech we have, typically at far lower prices, too. If you’re looking at a projection unit like this to replace your desktop monitor, we’d say that it’s not worth considering. If you want a beefy 42-inch monitor, then you can grab something like Asus’s ROG Swift OLED PG42UQ, complete with 137 Hz refresh rate, 0.1ms response time, and 4K 41.5-inch panel for less than $1,499. If you want something ultrawide, then Alienware’s…

Benq X500i 4K Short Throw Projector

NEEDS Windows 10 or 11, macOS or Linux WEB www.audacityteam.org It’s nearly 22 years since the first stable version of Audacity was released, and it’s still the best free audio editor around. Version 3.5 further expands the program’s capabilities without cluttering its distinctive waveform interface. The most notable addition is the ability to save your Audacity projects online using its free hosting service Audio.com. Introduced in version 3.2, Audio.com originally just let you share files with other people by uploading them to your account, then sending a private link to your intended listeners. It now works more like a cloud-storage service, letting you access your audio files from any computer and collaborate on projects with fellow Audacity users. Sign up for a free account at https://audio.com, then when you’re ready…

MAC PRICE From $14.49 NEEDS macOS 13 or later WEB omnigroup.com Keeping on top of all those everyday tasks of life and work is often too demanding for Notes and Reminders, and merits closer integration with more dedicated features. OmniFocus has sufficient flexibility and power to handle tasks ranging from a brief course of dental treatment to moving house or setting up a business, and borders on full-blown project management. It has also been endorsed by David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, as an ideal platform for applying the techniques he advocates. Its success depends largely on its interface. Version 4 of OmniFocus brings a novel and near-perfect solution with its Fluid outlines, using Apple’s SwiftUI, that adapt to available information. Add an Action to a project and set…

DEVELOPER Fedora Project WEB https://fedoraproject.org LICENCE Mainly GPL Fedora is developed by the community-based Fedora project. It’s the upstream source for both CentOS Stream and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). There are two major OS releases every year, targeted for the fourth Tuesday in April and October. Releases are supported for just 13 months. This review focuses on Fedora 40, which at the time of writing is still in beta, so we encourage you to download and test features for yourself. This is easier said than done, as visitors to the main website will find there are five editions of flagship Fedora alone: Workstation, Server, CoreOS, IoT and Cloud. It is also available in a variety of spins, such as the immutable Atomic Desktops, and those with alternative desktop environments like…

RUN WIN 10 FOREVER

If you’re still using Windows 10, it won’t have escaped your notice that Microsoft is keen for you to upgrade to Windows 11. Notifications have been popping up in Windows Update for some time, and recently users have been seeing full-screen adverts urging them to make the switch. Yet users aren’t exactly rushing to embrace the new OS. According to StatCounter figures from March 2024, Windows 10 is still running on 69% of all desktop computers, with Windows 11 trailing behind at 26.7%. For a free upgrade, that’s a pretty low figure. There’s no single reason why more people aren’t rushing to Windows 11. In some cases the new OS’s hardware requirements are an obstacle – but we’ve heard from many readers that, even though their PCs are capable of…

RUN WIN 10 FOREVER

ACTIVATION AND LICENSING

Windows isn’t free software. You may not have paid for it directly, but when you buy a new PC with Windows preinstalled the price includes a licence to run the operating system. Normally this will be what’s called an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) licence, meaning it’s tied to the specific hardware. In other words, it allows you to run Windows on that specific computer, but not to move it onto another machine. This has both practical and legal implications. If you’ve ever performed a major hardware upgrade on a desktop PC – such as replacing the motherboard – you may have found that Windows thinks it’s no longer running on the same machine, and requires you to reactivate the OS. Similarly, when you move Windows 10 from physical hardware into…

ACTIVATION AND LICENSING

COMPUTEX 2024 SHOWCASE

MSI SHOWS OFF A COMPLETE RANGE OF PC PRODUCTS, AND IT’S NOT AFRAID TO INNOVATE. After a couple of quiet years following the pandemic, this year’s Computex was back with a vengeance. Of all the times we’ve visited Computex, we’ve never seen so many people crammed into the Nangang Exhibition Center, and MSI’s booth was a perfect illustration of this post-COVID rebound. It was absolutely overflowing with people. The component section of MSI’s booth contained many of the things we have come to expect from a Computex showcase. There were lots of monitors, motherboards, graphics cards, cooling, SSDs, and the occasional oddball product. CAMM2 COMETH MSI showed off two particularly interesting products: CAMM2 memory and its Project Zero backside-connector ecosystem. If both see widespread adoption, they will represent the biggest…

COMPUTEX 2024 SHOWCASE

Network-attached storage (NAS) may be one of the dullest sounding technologies, but in practice it’s one of the most brilliant. Sure, buying a NAS drive can be an important part of any backup strategy, but thanks to the range of apps found on modern NAS devices they now serve a range of uses. For a start, they can save you a lot of money in the long term by replacing subscription services. They can act as your own gigantic Dropbox, allowing you to share files with friends, family and colleagues in a way that you control. That’s particularly useful for photos and videos that you’ve captured over the years. Then there’s the other type of video: films. Load up Plex, for instance, and you can stream your collection whenever and…

How to choose the right NAS for your needs

How many bays do I need? We strongly advise you to steer clear of single-disk NAS systems. If a single disk holds the only copy of your irreplaceable data and it fails, you’re in trouble. It’s much safer to go for a two-bay system and configure it with two hard disks in a RAID1 array. In this configuration, your data is mirrored between both drives. If one fails, you’ll still have the copy on the other one. Just be sure to replace the broken disk promptly so the NAS can rebuild your array and restore your protection. Don’t be tempted by other two-disk configurations such as JBOD or RAID0: these offer more capacity and can be faster, but they lack the fault tolerance of RAID1. A four-bay NAS drive is…

How to choose the right NAS for your needs

Asustor Nimbustor 4 Gen2 AS5404T

$889 | asustor.com Asustor’s Nimbustor 4 AS5404T is a four-drive NAS enclosure aimed at demanding home users or small offices. It’s a performance-focused NAS thanks to the fairly muscular Intel Celeron N5105 processor and 4GB of RAM. At the back you’ll find two 2.5GbE ports, along with two of the NAS’s three USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 sockets – the other one is easily accessed at the front. The NAS can mount up to four 3.5in or 2.5in SATA disks in various RAID configurations including RAID5, 6 and 10. Unusually, it also has four NVMe slots. You could configure the AS5404T with a four-SSD RAID5 volume, alongside a slower disk-based storage pool. Alternatively, you could use an SSD cache to accelerate disk performance, or compromise with one or two SSDs on…

Asustor Nimbustor 4 Gen2 AS5404T

$649 | qnap.com QNAP makes so many NAS enclosures that it can be hard to place specific models within the range. The TS-264 comes under the “Mid-range First Choice” bracket, which is QNAP’s way of saying it’s intended for small offices, homes and micro businesses. The “2” tells you this is a two-bay device, accepting up to two 3.5in or 2.5in drives. Inside there are NVMe slots capable of accepting up to two 2TB SSDs, which can be used as storage or an SSD cache for the hard disks. QNAP pairs an Intel Celeron N5095 processor with 8MB of onboard RAM, which can’t be further upgraded. At the back you’ll find an HDMI socket, two 2.5GbE connectors, two USB-A 2 ports and a USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 port, with another…

$858 | qnap.com Many cheaper NAS enclosures must appeal to the crossover between home power users and the lower end of the business market. QNAP’s TS-253E has its sights set chiefly on the latter. It’s a two-bay NAS, capable of accepting 3.5in or 2.5in SATA disks, and packing a further two slots for NVMe SSDs. QNAP markets the TS-253E as a long-term model, which it says will be sold and supported up until 2029. That makes it ideal for businesses intending to roll it out in a standard, easily supported configuration across multiple workgroups, outlets or branch offices. The TS-253E has a similar spec to QNAP’s TS-264 (see p85), but it makes do with a less sprightly Intel Celeron J6412 processor. This is paired with 8GB of onboard RAM, which…

Synology DiskStation DS423+

$789 | synology.com Synology’s DiskStation DS423+ is a home and small office NAS, offering four SATA drive bays, and supporting up to a whopping 72TB of storage. With a Celeron J4125 processor and 2GB of RAM, it’s similarly specified to the two-bay DS224+. Unfortunately, that extends to its dual gigabit Ethernet ports, which look like a mis-step when many competitors now offer 2.5GbE. Synology hasn’t been overly generous when it comes to other ports, either. You won’t find HDMI here, and there are only two USB-A 3.2 ports – and they’re the slower, 5Gbits/sec Gen 1. The DS423+ does have a trick up its sleeve in the shape of two NVMe SSD slots. Drives in these can be configured as a cache for hard disk volumes, used to create a…

Synology DiskStation DS423+

TerraMaster F4-424

$759 | terra-master.com TerraMaster’s F4-424 looks exactly like a four-bay version of the disappointing F2-212, but don’t be fooled. It’s a thoroughly upgraded device, featuring an Intel N95 processor – one of the more powerful CPUs that you’ll find in a NAS at this level. It’s paired with 8GB of DDR5 RAM, which is handy enough, but you can upgrade to a maximum 32GB, though doing so means binning the 8GB SODIMM already fitted. Despite keen pricing, the F4-424 is a nicely designed product. Its four tool-less drive caddies slide in and out smoothly, while at the rear there’s a single 12cm fan – quieter and more effective than two smaller fans. Here you’ll also find an HDMI port, along with USB-C and USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 connectors. As you’d…

TerraMaster F4-424

Asustor Flashstor 6 FS6706T

LABS | NAS DRIVES $760 | asustor.com As its name suggests, the Flashstor 6 is an all-flash NAS enclosure, with space for up to six NVMe SSDs. It’s aimed mostly at enthusiast use in the home, so comes with useful multimedia features such as HDMI and S/PDIF audio outputs. It’s well specified elsewhere, too, with a pair of 2.5GbE network ports, two USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports and two USB-A 2 ports. The supplied 4GB of memory is upgradable to 16GB. It doesn’t have any hard disk slots, but you could add bulk storage with up to two Asustor AS6004U expansion units, each accepting up to four 3.5in SATA drives. If six SSDs isn’t enough, you could choose the 12-slot Flashstor 12, which is otherwise broadly the same. Most NAS…

Asustor Flashstor 6 FS6706T

LABS | NAS DRIVES $419 | qnap.com QNAP’s TS-233 is an entry-level two-bay NAS, aimed squarely at home users who want the extra reassurance of data redundancy. It’s probably the most compact two-drive enclosure we’ve seen; a diminutive box you could easily slip on to a bookshelf or tuck behind a desk. While it’s a little taller than the norm, it’s at least a couple of centimetres narrower than many of its rivals. The spec here is typical for an entry-level device. At the back there’s a single gigabit Ethernet port, with a lone USB-A 3.2 at the front socket – a button sits just above for triggering one-touch backups of inserted drives. Inside there’s a quad-core ARM Cortex processor running at 2GHz, paired with 2GB of non-expandable memory. The…

LABS | NAS DRIVES $889 | qnap.com The QNAP TS-464 is a midrange, four-bay NAS enclosure that supports 3.5in and 2.5in SATA drives. It’s otherwise essentially identical to the two-bay TS-264 (see p85), which is no bad thing: it means a strong specification that includes two 2.5GbE network ports, an Intel Celeron N5095 processor and 8GB of RAM. Open it up and you’ll also find NVMe slots for up to two 2TB SSDs. There’s scope for upgrades, too, in the shape of a dual-port PCI-E 10GbE network card and multiple expansion drive options. The TS-464 supports the full range of disk configurations you’d expect in a four-bay NAS, including RAID5, 6 and 10. You can also migrate from a two-disk RAID1 array to three- or four-disk RAID5, giving you an…

Synology DiskStation DS223

LABS | NAS DRIVES $419 | synology.com The DS223 sits almost at the bottom of Synology’s huge NAS range, with only the single-slot DS124 and the more basic two-slot DS223j variant sitting below it. Accordingly, it’s not particularly well specified, with only two SATA drive bays and no NVMe slots. There’s 2GB of RAM onboard, which can’t be upgraded, while all the processing work is done by a lowly four-core Realtek CPU clocked at 1.7GHz. Perhaps just as significantly, this NAS has just a single 1GbE network port, immediately putting it at a disadvantage to 2.5GbE devices when it comes to fast file serving. Still, the DS223 is designed and built with Synology’s usual quality. Pull off the front panel and its two drive caddies slide in and out smoothly…

Synology DiskStation DS223

Synology DiskStation DS224+

LABS | NAS DRIVES $429 | synology.com At first glance Synology’s DiskStation DS224+ looks much like the cheaper DS223. It’s the same colour and dimensions, and has the same button, port and LED layout on the front panel. However, this NAS has dual 1GbE ports, which can be used to offer faster throughput and failover support. There’s a bigger upgrade inside, where the DS224+ has an Intel Celeron J4125 processor rather than the limp Realtek in the DS223. Its 2GB of memory is also upgradable to 6GB via a spare slot, accessible without tools if you remove the drive caddies. Synology talks up the enhanced performance of the DS224+ when compared to previous-generation devices, and this processor should certainly help if you’re intending to use it as a media server…

Synology DiskStation DS224+

Synology DiskStation DS923+

LABS | NAS DRIVES $899 | synology.com Synology’s DS923+ is the only NAS in this group that we’ve reviewed before. It impressed us enormously at the time, so we wanted to see how it compared to a new crop of rivals. Those familiar with NAS terminology might be thrown by the “9” in the model name. In fact, this is a four-bay device, which you can expand with a five-bay enclosure for a nine-disk maximum. Although it looks identical to the DS423+, it’s significantly better specified. For a start, there’s a powerful AMD Ryzen 1600 processor, paired with 4GB of RAM that you can upgrade to a hefty 32GB. This NAS has two NVMe slots. At its back you’ll find one of the two USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 ports, along…

Synology DiskStation DS923+

TerraMaster F2-212

LABS | NAS DRIVES $279 | terra-master.com TerraMaster’s F2-212 is an entry-level NAS enclosure offering two 3.5in SATA drive bays. It’s not especially well specified, pairing a lowly four-core Realtek processor with just one gigabyte of non-upgradable RAM. At the rear there’s a gigabit Ethernet port, along with one USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 and one USB-A 2 port. Open the F2-212’s plain packaging, however, and you’re in for a pleasant surprise. This is a decent-looking NAS enclosure, with some nice finishing touches. Its drive caddies are among the smoothest to remove and reinsert, and we managed to drop in two 3.5in SATA disks and get the NAS started in well under five minutes. TerraMaster’s setup wizard is relatively simple, offering the usual two-bay choice of RAID0, RAID1, JBOD and single-disk…

TerraMaster F2-212

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual with 3-port USB hub

LABS | NAS DRIVES $582 | owc.com Every group test should have an odd one out, and in this case it’s OWC’s Mercury Elite Pro Dual. This desktop dual drive enclosure connects via USB-C, and supports two SATA disks in RAID0, RAID1 and JBOD configurations. We tested the version with an integrated, fully powered three-port USB hub, which could be ideal if you’re looking for a simple way to dock a laptop or gain more storage. The host interface, the single USB-C and dual USB-A ports all support 10Gbits/sec speeds, theoretically allowing for 1,250MB/sec transfers. You can buy the Mercury Elite Pro Dual as an empty enclosure, which will set you back around $580. OWC supplied us with the 4TB model, configured with two 2TB disks, but you can select…

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual with 3-port USB hub

We chose a mid-spec Intel Core i5-1135G7 Windows 11 laptop with 16GB of RAM. We upgraded it with a USB-C to 2.5GbE adapter, and used a QSW-1108-8T switch kindly provided by QNAP. We tested each NAS with the maximum number of disks fitted. For two-bay devices, we used two 4TB Synology Plus disks, and where possible tested again with a mismatched set comprising 12TB WD Red Plus and 14TB Red Pro NAS hard drives. On four-bay devices, we used four 1TB Seagate Barracuda disks, then re-tested using one of the two-disk pairings. Where a NAS had NVMe slots, we added two WD Black 1TB SSDs and repeated our tests with them configured as a read-write cache. Where supported, we also configured and tested these as a standalone flash volume. With…

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Sometimes specifications paint a very accurate picture. Take the Asustor Nimbustor 4 Gen2: it sounds fast on paper, and it proved so in practice. Sometimes, however, specifications create the wrong impression. In theory, the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual can chuck data around at 1,250MB/sec. But connected to our computer, configured in a RAID1 array, it barely managed a sixth of that. In this test, though, it became abundantly clear that one specification really does count. On every benchmark, almost without exception, devices with 2.5GbE network interfaces were significantly faster than those with plain old gigabit. On large files the difference is massive, with gigabit devices strangled to a maximum of around 113MB/sec while 2.5GbE NASes merrily went to 283MB/sec. So how much does that matter? If you’re buying for…

VIEW FROM THE LABS

From the front lines of the Australian PC market SHOP TALK What products, inventions or technologies from Computex 2024 are you excited for? Noctua Thermosiphon AIO Cooler. The most interesting thing about this cooler is that there is no pump. Instead, it relies on the natural laws of thermodynamics to turn the liquid to the top, evaporating through the system. In short, this is a fancy term for vapor chamber cooling and is not exactly new, but it is very ‘cool’ to see Noctua give liquid cooling a go. Andre, JW Computers One of the bigger reveals at Computex 2024 was Intel’s mobile only Lunar Lake processor. Lunar Lake marks a significant shift by Intel, as where Meteor Lake before it was very much iterative and classic in design, even…

AUSTIN COMPUTERS ELITENODE PRICE $1,499WEB tinyurl.com/APC535ac This system has a very good CPU at its core for the price, with six P-cores and four E-cores offering 16 threads total there’s a lot of compute on tap here, great if you run CPU-heavy tasks. Unfortunately fitting that processor into the budget has compromised the system in two other key areas, namely the motherboard and graphics card. The motherboard isn’t so bad but uses the entry-level H610 chipset which may restrict IO options. The graphics card on the other hand is something not much faster than a GTX 1660 Ti. With the rest of the system looking adequate, only consider this if graphics performance isn’t a priority for your needs. CPU Intel Core i5-14400F; COOLER OEM; MOTHERBOARD MSI PRO H610M-G WIFI DDR4;…

Budget. A perfect balance between price and performance. We’re being very aggressive with our budget builds this issue. There have been a number of tweaks and changes to really try and make the most out of the budget we have, and see if we can’t keep the price to a maximum of around $1,500 without compromising too heavily on performance while we do it. Our AMD build had a few subtle changes in price, with last month’s spec dropping by $14. Still, we’ve swapped the motherboard for the Asrock B650 PG Lightning to save even more. It’s still a full-fat ATX board, with suitable power solutions, plenty of connectivity, and decent memory support, too. Also, after seeing how aggressively prices have fallen on the DDR front, we’ve upgraded to a…

The problem solvers

Are VPNs toast? I’ve been reading a news story on the TunnelVision vulnerability for virtual private networks. Apparently, this – excuse the pun – tunnel-sized hole in VPN security has existed since 2002. It says the vulnerability allows attackers to force VPN apps to send and receive at least some of your traffic outside of the encrypted tunnel. The claim is that you’re only safe when the VPN runs on an Android device or Linux PC. Is this true, and if so, does it mean the VPN networks I’ve been using for all these years have been utterly useless in all that time? Caitlin H Tracey APC Responds: The headline of this vulnerability does make for grim reading. That said, in practical terms, the risk can be minimised and even…

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Make Windows better

WINDOWS 11 Control your cursor using your voice Another new feature in Moment 5 (see below) is a grid that lets you use your voice to move your mouse to a specific part of your screen. If you haven’t set up ‘voice access’, search for it in Windows then open it. You’ll then need to click Download at the top and follow the instructions to install. Once complete, say “voice access wake up”. Say “mouse grid” and a 3x3 grid will appear on your screen, numbered 1-9. Now say which numbered box you want your cursor to move to – for example, “mouse grid one”. The cursor will then move to that part of the screen, inside a smaller 3x3 grid. In our example (pictured below), we’ve said “mouse grid…

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Make Office better

LIBREOFFICE WRITER Embed fonts in documents to avoid problems when sharing If you feel the selection of available fonts in LibreOffice Writer is too limited, you can add new ones. Visit www.fontget.com/discover/libreoffice/, select a font you like, then click Download Font. Extract the ZIP file, then highlight all the TTF files within, right-click the selection then click Install. In our example, we added the Caladea font and typed some text using it ( 1 in our screenshot below). If you want to share a document using a new font with someone on a different PC, you’ll have to embed the font so they’ll be able to open the document without experiencing any problems. Click File at the top left, then ‘Properties…’. Now click the Font tab 2 in the box…

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CHROME Turn any website into a desktop app A few years ago, progressive web apps (PWAs) were touted as the future of the web. These effectively turn websites into apps, which you can launch from your desktop without opening your browser first. Although Chrome, Edge and Brave support PWAs, the popularity of the technology has been limited by the lack of compatible sites. You may have noticed an ‘Install [site name]’ icon in your address bar on websites including Argos, Outlook, Google Drive, YouTube and X (formerly Twitter), to indicate PWA support, but most sites haven’t yet added the option. To remedy this, Google is testing a feature in Chrome that lets you turn any website into a desktop app, whether it supports PWAs or not. To try the option,…

Customise your keyboard

HELP STATION | MAC IT WILL TAKE 10 mins YOU WILL LEARN How to find characters and make changes to accomplish things more easily YOU’LL NEED macOS 10.4 or later Your keyboard may feel fixed but it’s more adaptable than you may imagine. With a few tweaks, you can put a host of extra functions at your fingertips, making it easier to type and navigate applications. Maybe create your own macOS keyboard shortcuts and edit any of the existing ones. Or assign specific functions to keys and go beyond the character set you see printed on the keyboard, even making use of different language layouts. By investing a small amount of time exploring the options, you can use your Mac like a pro. It’s even possible, via System Settings >…

Customise your keyboard

Fancy file management

Although a file manager has little to offer besides the ability to copy, move or delete files and folders, and generally navigate to the directories of your choice to access the files you’re looking for, it is one of the most important and frequently overlooked productivity tools. We’ve already covered a few CLI gems in previous issues, but this month we’re talking about Superfile, a file manager with the right mix of fancy and modern to make it well worth a look. Released under the MIT licence, Superfile is a configurable file manager that’s all about user experience. Unlike most other CLI file managers, Superfile has a distinct appearance, using different panels to display useful information. While some modern TUI utilities have incorporated mouse support into their operations, Superfile is…

Fancy file management

Phone & tablet tips

ANDROID & iOS Disable link previews in WhatsApp chats When you share a link to a web page in a WhatsApp chat – be it a news story, social-media post or a product in an online store – the app automatically generates a preview of the content. This is useful for showing people where the link will take them before they open it, but there are also some drawbacks to displaying previews. Not only do their images and text summaries make your conversations look more cluttered, but they also mean anyone glancing at your phone can see the content you’re sharing in your chats. There’s also a risk that link previews could compromise your privacy by revealing your IP address – and therefore location – to the sites you’re sharing…

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Build your own weather machine

YOU’LL NEED • Pi Pico W• I2C LCD• 4x F2F jumper wires• Code: https://github.com/lesp/LXF316/archive/refs/heads/main.zip The Raspberry Pi Pico W excels at being used with online APIs for a myriad of data sources. We’ve used it to read the news, tell us who is on the International Space Station, and now we are building a portable weather station that uses OpenWeather’s API to tell us if we need an umbrella. W is for weather Holding the BOOTSEL button, connect your Pi Pico to your computer. Go to https://bit.ly/XF306Micro Python and download the version of MicroPython for your Pico/Pico W. Open your file manager, go to the downloaded file and copy it to the root of the RPI-RP2 drive. This flashes the new firmware to the Pico. Using your distro’s package manager,…

Build your own weather machine

The games we play PRICE $89.95 PLATFORM PC WEB homeworlduniverse.com Homeworld 3 wants to remind you of its legacy a lot, especially in the campaign. After the events of Homeworld 2, Karan S’jet, the mothership’s navigator, was sent on a mission to deal with a looming crisis, but she never returned. Twenty years later her protégé, Imogen S’jet, is following in her footsteps, with a new mothership and a new fleet that must strike out on their own, once again without support. But where the original Homeworld often took a minimalist approach – from its narrative to its map design – Homeworld 3 is comparatively busier, with maps full of debris and terrain, and a story that constantly wants you to take a break from the fun stuff so you…

PRICE $69.95 PLATFORM PC, PS4/5, XB1/S/X WEB motogpvideogame.comu While the more enjoyable bits of the last game’s challenge remain in this year’s outing, these are slightly more forgiving 1,000cc beasts than 2023’s machinery. The dreaded ‘pick-up effect’, in which the bike stood itself up more as throttle was applied, narrowing lean angle and thus cornering trajectory, has been all but nerfed. Kerbs feel slightly less deadly to venture a wheel onto, and stopping the bike feels kinder too. Meanwhile, the race stewards have been imbued with a keener eye on AI riders’ nonsense. Joining these newly fastidious stewards on the podium of new stuff is an updated rider market system that sees other riders from the MotoGP class, as well as Moto2 and Moto3 categories, moving between teams. A simple…

PRICE Free PLATFORM PC, browser WEB bit.ly/globeba If, like me, you’ve been craving a new Zelda game, then Globeba is the one you’re looking for. It’s a sizeable game complete with three dungeons and an overworld – and some of its own ideas atop the familiar framework. It begins with your spellbook being stolen by the obligatory evil wizard. These are the old style of Zelda dungeons, pre-Breath of the Wild. They’re split up into boxy rooms filled with locked doors, switches, enemies and obstacles, and overcoming them requires clever use of your abilities. The puzzles are strong here, with the occasional stumper that stopped me in my tracks, but never for too long. As you acquire more spells, the dungeons become more impressive, culminating in a final area that…

PRICE Free PLATFORM PC, Browser WEB bit.ly/TristramGame You’d probably agree that Tristram was the best part of Diablo: the demon-ravaged town where you could stay a while. But what if you could stay a long while, and let other adventurers do all the dungeon crawling? Essentially, you play as Deckard Cain, who is trying to save the town by summoning warriors to it. This you achieve by blowing a summoning horn, then ringing a bell to gather your adventurers at the dungeon. As they chip away at it automatically, they’ll bring back gold to spend in the shops afterwards, improving their chances and boosting the economy. You can’t outfit your warriors, who will pop to the shops of their own volition and fight monsters while you sip your tea, but…

PRICE $36.50 PLATFORM PC, PS5, XBS/X WEB indikathegame.com Indika is a misfit Russian Orthodox nun on a mission. She’s tasked with delivering a note to the Danilov monastery, which is a welcome reprieve, because the other nuns in her own monastery hate her guts. Little wonder, though: she’s not a very good nun. The trip is fated to go spectacularly wrong, and that’s no spoiler, because the tone of Indika immediately warns us that we’ve entered a redemption-free zone. Across the six hours it took me to complete, our doomed hero moves through a succession of bleak, dehumanising environments, solves a bunch of puzzles, survives some utterly miserable encounters, fails to achieve anything she set out to do, and then must go on living. It didn’t make me feel good,…

PRICE $65.95 PLATFORM PC, Linux WEB tinyurl.com/APC535men No other strategy game in this recent real-time strategy resurgence can deliver moments quite like this: a single soldier on a mounted machine-gun holding off a hundred enemy infantry, a lucky artillery shell wiping out a terrifying enemy tank, or a brave paratrooper demolishing your opponent’s defences by crawling up to a defensive line with a satchel filled with explosives. These moments will leave you feeling elated, and crafting a dynamic sandbox in which they can happen is a massive achievement. Original developer BestWay shows a deft eye for creating drama out of what could be meaningless death. Combat in Men of War II feels mechanically deep and incredibly satisfying when you get it right. Instead of the traditional rock, paper, scissors style…

GAMES PRICE Free PLATFORM PC, Linux, Browser WEB bit.ly/RoyalWrit The Royal Writ is a charming card game, with a hand-drawn art style that imbues its woodland critters with abundant personality. The overworld map will be familiar to veteran slayers of spires, with every node granting either a new card or a battle that puts them into service. In The Royal Writ, you plonk your card-based soldiers onto horizontal lanes, then watch as they advance to the right of the screen. Every turn, they do damage – a combination of their attack values, and of any cards that might be sitting behind them – with the total deducted from the enemy’s health bar. If you take too long to empty their HP, your cards will be destroyed as they bash into…

GAME CHANGER Old games, new perspectives RELEASE 2011 DEVELOPER Crytek PUBLISHER EA LINK shorturl.at/akMU9 The heavily armoured SWAT team member crashes through the apartment’s left-hand window, rappelling in on a cord and blindsiding me. My Nanosuit detects the impending assault just before the impact, though, injecting nano-bots into my bloodstream and speeding up my reaction times massively. As a result, just as the SWAT is about to open fire I pivot my armoured torso just enough to destabilise his incoming trajectory. As the muzzle flashes and the rounds miss me by inches, we collide together sending both myself and the SWAT team member flying out the apartment’s right-hand window. Grappled together and plummeting many floors in a hail of broken glass, the fight isn’t over, though, and both the cop…

Chip off the old block

Inspirational stories from computing’s long-distant past When you consider the list of machines that have made use of Zilog’s Z80 microprocessor chip, it reads like a computing equivalent of Who’s Who. Having burst onto the tech scene on the back of a 1976 advert that pitted the Z80 squarely against Intel’s 8080A in a so-called “Battle of the 80s”, Zilog’s single chip ended up being used in Sinclair’s ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum, Amstrad’s CPC and PCW ranges, the TRS-80, the Osborne-1, a host of early Sega consoles and many more machines besides. You’ll find it in the Amstrad NC-100 and NC-200, the TRS-800 Model 100 and Sinclair’s Cambridge Z88. You’ll spot it inside graphing calculators made by Texas Instruments and Amstrad’s ill-fated E-mailer telephone. There was a Zilog Z80…

Chip off the old block

Free up space by shrinking software

When I moved house last year, it took me three ‘passes’ to reduce my collection of personal belongings to a manageable and transportable size. Boxes of old Christmas cards, faded clothes that no longer fit me and broken gadgets that had beeped their last were all eventually – albeit reluctantly – disposed of in the appropriate recycling bins, once I’d overcome the notion they might one day prove useful again. I have the same inclination to keep software I rarely use installed on my PC – just in case I ever need it in future. And while removing a program I can easily download again isn’t as big a deal as chucking out a spare toaster or a pair of jeans I could have squeezed into if I breathed in…

Free up space by shrinking software

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