Maplin drops copying devices
News Maplin Electronics, a retailer with 80 shops across the UK, has moved to discontinue the sale of three devices capable of circumventing Macrovision copy protection technology, the company said last week.
[February 9, 2004, 13:05]
Accelerated decrepitude
Blog You know that something's gone wrong when you walk down Tottenham Court Road to pick up something ubernerdy from Maplin and end up blowing the budget in Muji instead. In my defence: Maplin didn't have the USB experimenter's kit I wanted, and the...
[November 25, 2007, 18:06]
Business broadband demos hit the high street
News BTopenworld has teamed up with electrical retailer Maplin to give small firms a taste of what broadband can do for them. The Internet service provider announced on Thursday that eleven Maplin stores across the UK have started offering broadband...
[October 10, 2002, 11:35]
Apple Mac mini: a first look
Talkback You can get a PS/2 to USB Active Adaptor (basically you plug your PS/2 keyboard and your PS/2 mouse into the adapter, which you plug into only one of the USB ports) for £19.99 at Maplin.
[January 14, 2005, 10:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's been great watching Maplin grow from a mail-order supplier of nerdy electronic bits to a nationwide chain of nerdy electronic bits and cheap gadgets, even if its shop assistants continue to delight and enthral with their extraordinary...
[February 13, 2004, 16:50]
Maple to go retail through Maplins tie-in
News Maplin has about 45 stores in the UK including superstores trading under the Mondo name. However, the retail outlets won't carry stock; instead, users will be able to try out systems before buying and having the units delivered within a few days.
[January 8, 1998, 16:51]
Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment Maplin sell them for £10 but even that seems excessive given that you can pick them up on eBay for less than a fiver. My personal worst example of this was from PC World, who wanted to charge me £15 for a VGA-DVI adaptor.
[December 6, 2007, 9:24]
Measuring power consumption
Blog I’ve had a power monitor from Maplin for a while, but most of the time it’s been monitoring total power consumption of the rack. A recent electricity bill has prompted me to investigate how much power is being used by each device in and around the...
[June 19, 2008, 9:20]
Atom power hits town
Blog They, like me, know that Maplin sell the drivers for that, so that's Monday's task. We've got our first Atom machine in. Full benchmarks and other details later, but.it's interesting. It's the ecoquiet RM One 50, so called because it uses less than...
[May 30, 2008, 17:50]
Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment Does that mean the Maplin set are somehow on a higher moral plain? So there have been a couple of comments on this blog entry - that have taken the supercilious “why didn’t you read the box” stance. Well, I didn’t and quite frankly I shouldn’t have...
[January 28, 2008, 16:20]
GPU vs CPU: wrong battle, wrong war
Blog FIrst, it is exceptionally difficult to make GPUs do anything well except what they were designed to do - enormously parallel operations on very large data sets - and while this means you can build scientific and engineering supercomputers from a...
[November 27, 2008, 6:56]
Pandering to the Masses
Blog Comment Maplin is one example of such an offender, USB keys compatible with Windows. It would also help if manufacturers and retailers did not designate hardware compatibility as Windows (and sometimes Mac) only.
[March 23, 2009, 16:16]
