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• How To: WinXP's IPsec client really can work!*
  Sunday 10 August 2003 – 04:54
  If you have an inexpensive IPsec VPN endpoint router and want to connect to the LAN behind it while you're on the road, you'll need to use a VPN client. Microsoft has included an IPsec client in Win 2000 and XP, but it is not the most intuitive thing to configure, and many have given up trying in frustration.
• Sony Vaio VGN-FZ21M – Do Work and Play Really Mix?*
  Thursday 20 December 2007 – 10:40 in Mobile
  "Raw power – refined style." This is the tagline that Sony gives its FZ line of VAIO notebooks. The FZ21M aims to be a workstation with media centre ambitions. But at £899 / €1.199, do work and play really mix, or is this a bad compromise?
• Money No Object: Are The Top-End Shure E500's Really Worth The Top-End Price?*
  Tuesday 19 September 2006 – 01:19
  Two high-end, in-ear headphones from Shure: One good, one very good and both with price tags to match their stature. Which is the better buy?
• Intel Goes DDR - Do We Really Care?*
  Monday 17 December 2001 – 06:00
  Intel is never shy of doing really weird things. Today marks the 're-release' of Intel's 845 Pentium 4 chipset. It's the same silicon as the i845 released in summer, only that now Intel 'allows' motherboard makers to use its DDR-support. Intel's marketing department calls this old new chipset i845D. We compared this wannabe newcomer to the other five established Pentium 4 chipsets.