Once you go WiFi, it is hard to go back to a wired network at home or the office. The freedom one achieves with a truly wireless network - from PDAs to laptops, and now even desktop workstations - is one that is hard to express unless you have taken the plunge yourself. About the only thing stopping the power-user from making the Switch was the relatively slow-speed of 802.11b. However, now with 802.11g and its 54Mbit/sec connectivity, 2003 could very well be the year of WiFi.

Over the past couple of years, a few companies have begun to release color laser printers meant for the consumer/SOHO crowd. Minolta-QMS has been just one of the companies trying to capture this market. Its Magicolor color laser line has consistently vied with products from HP and Canon to grasp the hearts and minds of the home user. Thus, during the course of the Magicolor’s life cycle, resolutions, memory capacities, and feature sets have steadily increased while prices have declined. All of which brings us to the one of the most recent models in the family: the Minolta-QMS Magicolor 2350 EN. Have we reached the point in the evolution of the color laser printer where a relatively inexpensive machine like the 2350 EN can provide the quality we expect?

onsoles need upgrades too! Enter the Logitech Cordless Controller for Sony Playstation. This 2.4GHz cordless gaming pad works on both the PSX or PSOne, and the Playstation2. Designed for these consoles, the controller also works on a Windows PC with a 3rd-party USB dongle which converts the Playstation peripheral connector to a standard PC USB port. Armed with vibration feedback and dual-analog sticks, and the proper dongle, you could have one controller for both PCs and the console.