Advantages: lots of space, childlock, reasonable price Disadvantages: not the most energy efficient model around
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Whirlpool is a well known brand that has been around since the 1950's although it was known as the Nineteen Hundred Company before that in America. Whirlpool then merged with the Phillips Company in 1989 before becoming it's sole owner in 1991 and it is only really been since then that the Whirlpool range has become common knowledge in the UK as well as being the world's leading manufacturer of home appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines and cookers.
This model wasn't the first freezer we looked at in Comet and had thought about buying the smaller 9.1 cubic feet version but as this one offered an extra basket and 2.2 cubic feet more for just £10 more I persuaded my bloke that this extra space was worth it although it did give him a little bit more work clearing out space in the garage.
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Advantages: Only £350! Disadvantages: plastic body,noise problem
This is by far, the best camera i own, i had the sony a100 wich unfortuantly broke, but the sony a200 delivers more with a bigger lcd screen and higher iso settings of 3200, i would strongly recomend this 10.2 megapixel camera to anyone.
The sony a200 sports a 18-70mm lens, which adds a bit more telephoto coverage, then other models aimed at this price.
The only problem with the sony a200 is when the camera focuses, it tends to make a lot of noise, and can take quit a while to focus on subjects, but apart from this, it is a realy nice camera, it is slightly smaller than the a100, but it still sports a plastic body, but thats expected of a slr at this price.
The camera has many more feutres inside, as sony use there feutres in the body, while other companies use lens based ones.
The camera has a Bionz image processing engine ...
Advantages: washes great low noise Disadvantages: none
Well Christmas Eve saw us left without a washing machine as ours decided that it wanted to pack up. This was a pain, as we wanted to get our last bit of washing done and out the way for the next day. Well we had to wait to get Christmas day out of the way and decided to wait till the sales got in full swing. Anyway it is now New Years Eve and there were plenty of places for us to look at now. Firstly we looked online to see what machines were on offer in the various stores, we looked at the usual, Dixons, Argos, Curry?s and Comet etc. Then we saw an ad on tv and went to the Miller Bros website to look the offer over.
Our previous washing machine was also a Whirlpool and it lasted for about six years so we got a fair bit of use out of it. Rather than get it fixed and incur labour charges that can make up most of the bills we saw ...