Advantages: Excellent picture quality, Good Lens Optics, uses AA batteries
Disadvantages: No charger, NiMh batteries, case or lens cap tether

...My previous treasured Olympus C2000Z was stolen, but the insurance company have now paid up. I had a brief dalliance with a Fuji 4700 (check out my Ciao review of that) but I was disappointed with the lens and picture quality of the Fuji. So I'm back with Olympus, and the C2020Z is great. most of the niggles with the C2000Z have been eliminated. The C2020Z feels like a real camera - it's easy to hold, easy to zoom, easy to switch from normal to close focus, and the on/off is now a proper position on the main mode switch. The menu rocker switch is very easy to use, and several of the common settings are on separate buttons on the rear casing. The LCD rear screen is even better than the C2000 and can be seen in all but the brightest conditions. Best of all the pictures are marvellous. Many of my pictures are engineering photographs... Read review

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Advantages: A bargain. Easy to install and used. Good entry level SCSI controller.
Disadvantages: No support for higher data rates.

...If you plug an SCSI card into your pc, don’t hold your breath because nothing exciting is going to happen. (Unless of course you have made a very bad job of installing the card. Then you might see smoke and flames coming from your cherished/reviled PC or even, in extreme cases, find yourself moving down a tunnel towards a bright light.) However, once you have installed you SCSI card you will be able to attach any number of exciting devices to your pc. Although this is an opinion of Adaptecs AVA-2900 series of SCSI card, it is also a general review of SCSI. I have done this because as far as I can tell this is the first review at Ciao of a SCSI controller card. This seems to be a bit of an over sight to me as any number of SCSI devices have been reviewed, (such as the excellent Plextor external SCSI cd writer which... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant Quality, Easy To Install, Print From Camera, Bluetooth
Disadvantages: Fiddly To Put Together, Poor Instructions

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Advantages: Easy to use
Disadvantages: To slow formatting - not enough features as Nero

...Adaptec direct Cd is an okay program, but for the most part it is too limited for the average or advanced user. If you are a beginner it is good only because it is easy and straightforward. But as you get better at rewriting cds, you'll notice you are missing a lot of the main features you will need to do it quickly and efficiently. The number 1 gripe I have with adaptec is how fast it takes to format your rewriteable cd. Adaptec's software is too slow (about 20 mins) as compared to Nero which takes a couple minutes. And on top of that, you can sometimes get errors depending on the rewriteable cds you buy and it will not format correctly. As soon as you get it formatted, it works well for the most part. Its quick to read and write, but if your going for settings, reliability and a fast writer program, then i suggest to use Nero... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent quick fire program
Disadvantages: WILL NOT WORK WITH XP....EVER

...About 10 months ago I purchased a Memorex CD-RW complete with adaptec Easy CD Creator v4 and Direct CD v3 how happy I was burning CD's and re-writing, erasing and saving all sorts to cd instead of clogging up my hard drive with rubbish....I could drag drop and delete pictures direct from my camera just like using windows explorer taking my work with me so that I could add to it any where. I am so impressed by every aspect of this programe , the speed and ease of use, extra program for jewel case labels, data copying, music CD copying is ideal so that I can have a perfect copy of my cd's in my car. It was dead easy to intall, with absolutely no hicups and for several months my Memorex CD-RW has had lots of use....UNTIL NOW GRRRRRR IT WILL NOT AND WILL NEVER WORK IN WINDOWS XP Adaptec software has been handed... Read review

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Advantages: Stable and easy to use
Disadvantages: Can destroy perfectly good blank CD's

...Having read other peoples opinions i feel i must have my say. Although I started with adaptec easy CD creator and had only a few problems, mainly installation, at first. I have since found that I have had to scrap over 5 CD-R's when doing direct copying. This is not down to my hardware, as will become clearer later, but I believe is down to the software itself. I recemtly installed Nero v5.0.2.2 and have had absolutely no problems since and not even one wasted CD-R or CD-RW. If you have the choice then go for Nero, although Adaptec is suitable it is nowhere near as good and versatile as NERO... Read review

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Advantages: Large high resolution screen, sd card memory upgradable, loads of features
Disadvantages: Have had trouble with crashing of the PDA

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Advantages: good quality photos
Disadvantages: takes up quite a bit of space

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Advantages: all you need to know about what online shops are good and bad
Disadvantages: none

...2020 shops is a very good site which has links to all the best places to shop on the Internet in a whole range of categories. Each site they refer to is rated by them and they tell you everything you may need to know about each company. Like Ciao they tell you the advantages and disadvantages and whether a shop is worth going to. They also have a link which takes you to a specific discounts page for each shop and tell you what they are currently offering to you. I must say that I found it very useful and even bought something off one of the shops they refered to as being one of the best, and in my opinion it was. Just a little note to anyone who tries going to 2020shops.com, it isn't a valid site, Ciao have made a mistake. The actual UK site is 2020shops.co.uk and the site itself is very easy to navigate, with little... Read review

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Advantages: You've got to be kidding
Disadvantages: Doesn't work, can screw up your system

...Adaptec is one of the biggest names in CD recording for computers and its Easy CD Writer is pretty simple and effective, but be very careful when you use Direct CD - it can seriously damage your health. I could never get the software working properly from the day I had it and it sometimes refused to allow me to get a CD out of the machine. I have a CD rewriter which allows me to burn CD-RW disks and I got it so that I could use it to back up my system on the basis that I could reformat the CD-RW disks and use them over and over again. Direct CD, however, has always refused to work properly for me and I just gave up using it, meaning that in the end I stuck to the CD Copier software included in the pack and just burning CD-ROMs. That always worked fine. In teh end, I had a problem with my PC and I took it back to the suppliers... Read review

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