Advantages: Choose your own specs, reasonable price, good customer service
Disadvantages: Sneaky sales tactics in places

...Let's get one thing straight from the off; I'm not a technical expert and I can't tell you the ins and outs of the technical aspects of this PC in any great detail. But what I can and will tell you all about is my experience using this PC and how well it's been able to satisfy my needs so far. Firstly, let's talk about why I chose this particular PC. Well I have to be honest, I chose the E520 mainly because I already have a perfectly good 17" flat panel Dell monitor from my old PC. What does that matter? The E520 was one of only 2 PCs I could find that allowed me to make my purchase minus a monitor. I was rather annoyed at being forced to fork out for a mouse and keyboard I didn't want or need though! But whilst that was my main reason for opting for the E520; I think I may well have made this purchase with a monitor if I had... Read review

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Advantages: Small and easy to use
Disadvantages: None

...After being used to using Nokia phones as i found them easy to use and having an oldish phone my husband decided it was time for me to upgrade my phone. As i didn't really like flip-phones i looked in my catologue and decided upon this Sony Ericsson Z520i which was priced at £109. I have a friend who has this phone and she found it wasy to use and when i received this phone it took me a little while to get used to it. The Sony Ericsson Z520i is a small phone which can sit comfortably in your pocket if you don't need to carry a bag and when i received this phone it had a white front which i changed it straight to pink. With this phone you have a built in camera which takes excellent photos and you can save photos of family and friends and use them as wallpaper on the phone. You can send text messages which is easy to do you can get... Read review

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Advantages: Great value, excellent looks, build your own - wide range of components!
Disadvantages: Dell Bios - Basically Locks any tweaking options! Awful keyboard and mouse! No FireWire as Standard.

...The excellent value Dell Dimension E520 system is built around the Intel Pentium D processors, they may be a bit old to date but even so, they offer the new Intel ViiV technology to provide you with an excellent media experience! Despite the lack of AMD processors, Dell have come out shining with the E520 - with at least 1GB of PC2-4200 DDR2 memory, you will be more than happy as you can easily run simultaneous, demanding applications at the same time. The dual core Intel Pentium D provides you with bags of processing power which will be very handy will today's demanding and power hungry games! Test's with Nero 7 Premium gave excellent results. We captured a 120 minute movie with ease and then burnt it to DVD in less than 30 minutes including encoding in super high quality! As well as this, we tested some of the most popular games... Read review

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Advantages: Hassle free, runs well, looks good
Disadvantages: Need to know a little bit to get right package

...The Dimension E520 is used by me as a business computer and was bought as such from the Dell Website. This review therefore focuses on the machine from a small business point of view. CHOOSING AND ORDERING:- The Dell website is pretty good it breaks things down for the lay person as much as possible however I still took advise from a more clued up friend on any techncal computer issues. The main benefit of the Dell website is that you choose a basic package - in this case the Dimension E520 and then choose your exact spec part by part. The set up for the part by part choices is pretty simple. The website displays the particular part in question, shows a picture, shows the current spec in the package you have chosen for the current price and then gives a number of alternative specification parts which either make the overall cost... Read review

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Advantages: Loads of features, simple to use
Disadvantages: Annoying side camera button, low memory

...I needed a new phone because the screen had broken on my old one! I humm'ed and haa'ed over which to get, and after a lot of thinking, I chose this! But was it the right choice? ***** Sony Ericsson is a massive company, so I trusted them the instant I saw this phone. I do not know anybody who has had problems with their phones! So why did I choose this one in particular? Well, I liked the colour! I chose the one with the pink/white changable covers! Im quite girlie so this suited me! The phone was complete with everything I required too! It has two connection systems ; infrared and bluetooth. Personally, I prefer bluetooth, and this phone did not change my opinion! It is very simple to use, and you can customize your name too! Complete with camera and video recording, the z520i is good for capturing those special moments... Read review

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Advantages: Plays MP3, photo and movie over your network to your HiFi/TV.
Disadvantages: Stutters very badly on any HD content.

...Morning all, I finally decided last week to order the D-Link DSM-520 from Komplett.co.uk at £172 inc VAT & del. Reasons for buying : I wanted to stream HD movies, photos and music. Reviews have been mixed, admittedly, but seemed to indicate that this was the best of the bunch. I also looked at the Freecom and the Pinnacle before deciding. The DSM-520 arrived on Monday 4th Dec 2006, and was installed very easily and quickly. That part at least was painless. I used D-Link's own Media Server and also a demo version of TwonkyVision. I couldn't get M$ own Media Connect to work, and I still can't figure out why. Getting wireless working was strangely easy from my Netgear router, and I was offered WPA or WEP. So, at first I used WPA wireless, just for a gag I suppose, cuz I knew it wouldn't work with HD due to the limited bandwidth... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent navigation
Disadvantages: Poor Points of Interest, manual needs printing from CD.

...Tom Tom 520T I am pleased with the ease of use and find setting up an itinerary a useful feature giving you more control of the route taken. The clarity of instructions, particularly when reading street names, is excellent. It is also useful to be able to add locations, as a friend lives in a relatively new housing development which was not listed. However the "Points of Interest" feature is extremely limited. I live in the West Midlands, close to Dudley and despite having a zoo at Dudley the POI tells me the nearest zoo is at Chester 61miles away. Similarly, if I ask it for the nearest swimming pool I am directed to The Grand Hotel in Dublin 182miles away. The nearest library is given as 90miles away and the nearest police, dentist, doctor and pharmacy are all 175 miles away in Ireland. These are just a few examples of Tom Tom 520T... Read review

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Advantages: looks and useability
Disadvantages: lack of memory

...here we have the sony ericsson z520i another small phone that easily fits in your pocket .I am writing this review because my girlfriend owns this phone wich is a neat wee phone that has alot of good quality about it. With this particular phone you can access vodafone live wich is basically wap browser that can let you access almost any information that you need obvsiously you have to pay for it but is a very useful attribute. I cant tell you the exact amount of memory of the phone but compared to other phones in this price range it is not too good but does hold a decent amount of stuff,for instance ring tone wise it holds 18 ringtones and thats including the ones that are already in the phone. the battery will last up to four days if the phone is not in use if you are using it constantly it will last for about 12 hours wich i... Read review

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Advantages: Built to your Spec. Godd Value
Disadvantages: None so far...

...I have just brought my Dell Dimension E520, directly of Dell's website. The reason I decided to go for Dell was that I could pick and choose what spec I wanted and i knew from previous experiences with the company they offered great reliability and value. I was looking for the cheapest PC I could find. So after searching Dell's site I found this dimension for just under £400. For that I got a 19' flat panel monitor, 2.8 GHZ 160GB hard drive 1024mb RAM, DVD ROM drive and DVD rewriter (2 Seperate Drives), 13 in ! card reader, Keyboard, Mouse an dspeakers. It also came preloaded with Windows Vista Basic. If your after the exact tech details then have a look at some of the other reveiws or the Dell website. The aim of this reveiw is to give you the basics, a guide for those who don't do computers. So all in all I though... Read review

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Advantages: Very quick and easy to set up,
Disadvantages: Shorter than claimed 100m Range, Some configuration problems in Windows XP, No Linux Support

...After recently purchasing a new computer, I decided to jump on the bandwaggon of Wireless Networking. After a rather failed attempt with a previous setup , I discovered the new offering from D-Link - the DWL G520. I bought two for the fairly hefty price of about £120, and they installed without a problem. However problems started occuring when one of the computers was moved slightly further away, the cards failed to find each other. After a quick e-mail to the D-Link customer support this soon was fixed, by decreasing the speed to around 48Mb/s. This didn't make much of a change to the performance. However when i decided to move one computer downstairs over the opposite side of the house, the cards failed to find each other even by reducing the speeds to 1Mb/s, this distance is much less than 100m. Any e-mails sent to D-Link, were... Read review

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