Olympus PowerMO 230 II

Advantages: Beautiful continuous tone, photo quality prints, great "feel" to prints fun to watch print
Disadvantages: cost, proprietary papers and ribbons, lack of wide color gamut, max-print size 7.64 x 10.146"

...is 8 x 10. Olympus also designed the printer to be able to print pictures straight from Type II CF cards and Smartmedia cards, although I don't know of anyone who would do this. You get a supposed print preview in the LCD window on the front of the printer, but it's so dark (black and white too)as to be useless in telling you if the print will look good once printed. I download pictures to my PC, adjust as necessary in Photoshop and then print when I'm satisfied with the photo file. The printer does an incredible job with continuous tone relative to inkjet printers. It's really noticeable in skin tones, skys and other large areas of relatively solid color. You don't get any visible dots of color as you sometimes see with inkjets. My biggest complaint about the printer is the color output that I'm seeing with my prints is not as wide... Read review

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Advantages: fast and affordable laptop, Its just fantastic
Disadvantages: a few bugs with vista

...or music onto CD. PROCESSOR Intel core 2 duo T5500 / 1.66 GHz Data bus speed: 667 MHz Mobile intel 945PM express CACHE MEMORY L2 Cache 2MB RAM 1 GB / 4 GB (max) DDR II SDRAM 1 x 1 GB STORAGE Hard drive 120 GB CARD READER 5 in 1 card reader SD memory card, memory stick, memory stick PRO, multimedia card, xD-picture card DISPLAY 15.4" TFT active matrix 1280 x 800 ( WXGA ) 24-bit (16.7 million colours) Crystalbrite VIDEO NVIDIA geforce go 7300 turbocache supporting 400MB Video memory 128 MB Max allocted RAM size 272 MB POWER External AC 120/230 V (50/60 Hz) BATTERY 6-cell lithium ion Run time (up to) 2 hours OPERATING SYSTEM / SOFTWARE Microsoft windows vista home premium Norton antivirus, acer launch manager, NTI CD-maker, Adobe reader I highly recommend anyone to buy this laptop if they are in need for a new one, it is future... Read review

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Advantages: great PC
Disadvantages: microsoft reliability

...Warranty 3 years warranty Monitor None. Networking Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet Optical Storage CD-ROM OS Provided Microsoft Windows XP Professional Power AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz ) Processor 1 x Intel Pentium 4 530 3 GHz Processor Main Features Hyper-Threading Technology Product Description Lenovo ThinkCentre A51p 8422 - P4 530 3 GHz RAM 256 MB (installed) / 4 GB (max) - DDR II SDRAM - 400 MHz - PC2-3200 Storage Controller Serial ATA ( Serial ATA-150 ) ; IDE ( IDE/ATA ) Type Personal computer Weight 23.1 lbs... Read review

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