USER REVI EW | 3XS EVOLVE NLE 4K
Can Scan’s latest update, the 3XS Evolve NLE 4K, rival its more well-known competitors when it comes to video post-production? Adam Garstone finds out 3XS EVOLVE NLE 4K PRICE £2999.99
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Fortnite combatants to overclock the hardware to their pizza-clogged hearts’ content. Plus, they have pretty-coloured LEDs. Scan also has a Royal Warrant of Appointment from the Queen – presumably because Her Maj likes to while away her evenings destroying her virtual enemies with a torrent of lead from a minigun, while chomping on an American Hot pizza with extra chilli. DESIGNED FOR POST But 3XS also makes PCs specifically designed for video post-production, and they beat many of the ‘big’ manufacturers’ products for speed, reliability and price.
the time by The Official Secrets Act. During the explosion of personal computing in the late 1970s and early 80s, innovative and excellent British computers twinkled into, and out of, existence: Oric – named in honour of Orac, the irascible AI from Blake’s Seven – Research Machines Ltd, NewBrain and, of course, Sinclair. With the personal computer now polarised into Windows PCs and Apple Macs, it’s easy to forget that some of the best PCs available are still built in the UK. The online retailer Scan – under the 3XS brand name – has an enviable reputation in the gaming world for making fast, rock-steady PCs – its choice of high- end components enables power-mad
he United Kingdom is the birthplace of the computer. Charles Babbage famously
4K is designed specifically for post-production and has an astonishly fast processor
designed the first mechanical computer in 1822. The genius Ada Lovelace recognised the potential of Babbage’s Difference engine and outlined how a computer program would work – the programming language is named after her. At Bletchley Park, Tommy Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world’s first electronic, programmable, digital computer – though when I was a kid that honour was thought to be American, as the brilliant WRENs, scientists and engineers at Bletchley were muted at
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