Plenty of drama and action in the SACM office this month, hence the lateness of this issue and our decision to move straight on to a July issue rather than messing about any further in June, and we aren’t even speaking about the hordes of international flooding our shores for SWC! Read all about it in Steve’s first Ed’s Note for SACM in this issue, either live in Issuu by clicking on the magazine above, or download it here for when you’re offline.

What it hasn’t stopped us doing is getting a ton of detailed and very interesting digital lifestyle info into this issue. We’ve got our hands on Samsung’s killer touchphone, the Wave, and been digging about in the company’s dev environment, called bada. Samsung is giving out huge prizes for the best new apps developed on this custom architecture, check out the full details in our feature inside. The security experts at Kaspersky have been talking us through their new PURE approach while providing us with essential digital security tips, and were on-hand when the Acer Timeline X landed in SA for the details. There are also hands-on reviews of the Nokia E63, some 2GHz Corsair Dominator DDR3, an awesome 27″ LG FLatron LCD, a pre-built Via system from TVR, and the brilliant ultra-mobile MSI Wind.

On the Mac side of the digital lifestyle equation, we get behind the covers of Safari 5, introduce a new 13″ Macbook Pro to our office, and review the Remote App on our new iPod touch as well as the updated Griffin iTrip and TuneJuice 2.

For the gamers, full reviews on Remedy’s latest blockbuster Alan Wake and the long-awaited Alpha Protocol from Obsidian.

Finally there are a trio of very educational new books available from Intersoft, if you’re interested in expanding your mind (and tech skills) without heading off to night school.

Enjoy the read, see you all next month!

Fret no longer, here it is. Read it online, or download it here. Enjoy!

This month, as you can probably already see from the cover, we have all the pertinent details on Adobe’s new Creative Suite 5 in a monstrous 18-page feature. We’ve tested Intel’s murderous new 980 X CPU, and reveal a glimpse of the new Xeon architectures we can expect to see consolidating server farms across the globe very soon. From AMD, the refreshed Athlon II range comes under our microscope. We’ve also taken a tour of HTCs sexy new smartphones, and although we missed the launch test the new Nokia N97 mini right here in JHB. And then there’s the usual slew of semi-random product reviews to enjoy.

If you’re a MacUser, we’ve officially integrated MacAction into SACM this month, so you have a whole section to yourselves where you’ll find Mac news, all the info on the updated MacBooks, and Apple hardware and software reviews to boot.

Finally, a few of the latest PC games have crossed our desks this month. Always good to end a magazine on some fun stuff.

It may be a monster this month weighing-in at over 140 pages, but we’d suggest you go have a read, as hidden amongst those pages (all right, not very well hidden) are two opportunities to get your hands on some awesome Free Stuff! Leadtek and Biostar products are up for grabs. In a free magazine I hear you ask? Yep, you don’t even have to drop a few bucks on some dead tree to win with the new SACM Online!

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Better late than never!

The new, entirely free, completely digital first edition of SACM is here! Please feel free to page through the magazine and flood us with your comments. This month we’ve reviewed Nokia’s gorgeous N900, the TomTom Start and Go750 Live,  and a group of Mecer notebooks all boasting the latest incarnation of the Intel Core family of processors, as well as a whole lot more!

The gaming section features yet more slavering praise for Mass Effect 2, and a look at the StarCraft 2: Wings of LiberyBeta which is eating up so many late night hours as we speak.

Industry experts discuss the effects of brownouts on our sensitive IT equipment, and we have all the details of Sony’sextensive product extravaganza showcase held earlier this month at the Calabash itself, Soccer City. We hope you enjoy the read of this, our first purely digital issue.