Style, Specification, it's a SONY! (Vaio VGC-M1)

Advantages: Total integration, high specification, stylish and innovative.
Disadvantages: Costly 'Sony' brand name, possible upgrade troubles.

...than bother about spending hundreds on upgrading. Overall, this stylish machine is unbeatable for the specification together with the reliability of the Sony brand name. I spent my time looking, and still can't find anything significantly better. Save the time I took looking, go out and buy the Sony Vaio VGC-M1 now! Any questions on this review, feel free to email me at roverturboandy200@hotmail.com or leave comments below....

sneakyweasel 05.08.2005 · Read review
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Jean Alesi A god in yellow overalls

Advantages: Style, temperament and a well needed character for the sport
Disadvantages: needs more testing when it becomes avaliable to gain knowledge of the car

...Jean Alesi is a great driver who drives with every ounce of passion and desire as his begginings in the 1989 Tyrrell. Now in the Jordan, he looks around 25 in the overalls, hes got the desire and a car that he can demonstrate his brilliant racecraft and potential as a hard racer. His last fewcars have been disapointing, Saubers and Prosts, but hes managed in the main to squeeze something out of them and has never given up on the desire to compete. His celebrations after minor point`s scores this seasons races show how even small achievements, light the fire of his competitive edge Now even though the oldest on the grid, he still wants to race, unlike Damon Hill who was just there to pick up his pension money, he is in a top team and , if he`s offered a contract there for next season he copuld be a race winner again if Jordan can...

F1Fever 21.08.2001 (23.08.2001) · Read review
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RBG In Effect

Advantages: A few big tunes
Disadvantages: A couple of tracks let it down

...M-1, of the Floridian alternative, political Hip Hop duo dead prez realised a solo album in 2006 entitled ?Confidential?. This release acted as a short break after having two in-your-face albums from the pair in which they shocked listeners with their original take on black oppression, and here M-1 chooses to lighten their image with music for more generic Hip Hop fans. 1. ?One Side? (Intro) 2. ?Early? To start things off you have a track which unites dead prez as stic.man joins M-1 in what is a big starter. It is something heavy to get you prepared for what is to come in the rest of the thing. I felt that it was the best way that this album could have got underway as it reminds you why you will have initially got into M-1?s material. **Four Stars** 3. ?Land, Bread & Housing? If you are aware of dead prez? material, then this...

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Heart of a Sicilian

Advantages: Great Skill and Heart.
Disadvantages: went to the Wrong teams at the wrong times

...him. I have had a few pictures of me taken with him. Also at Silverstone one year he remembered my name when i was in the Paddock. ( how good was that ) Its a shame he isn't in F1 anymore because he really is exciting to watch. <Background> Jean Alesi was born named Gianni as his Father was Italian but growing up in France meant he was teazed at an early age so his mother (French) renamed him Jean to keep the locals happy. His Father owned a car repair shop, where when Jean was 15 he did his work experience. After which Jean became obsessed with cars and had the idea of following his dads footsteps and start Racing. Alesi's first experience of racing was in 1983 when he raced in the Renault 5 Turbo cup in France. Alesi secured one win and finished seventh in the championship, wasn't bad since he missed one race. ( And i must admit i...

BloodySpike 12.11.2002 · Read review
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One of the better DVD recorders

Advantages: Excellent pictures, supports DVD-Ram, good with Sky
Disadvantages: Does not write DVD+R/RW, no CD-Text. JVC's poor reputation.

...All DVD recorders are complex pieces of kit, and so this review necessarily goes into some detail to help you make the right choice for you. The situation is compounded by a format war, almost as bad as the old VHS/Beta war which resulted in the low quality format winning, but this time even more complicated. If you already know about the various formats available, then skip a few paragraphs, but for the rest of us, let's first explain what the DVD formats are, and how they differ, so we can see where the JVC DR-M1 sits in today's marketplace. There are essentially three formats of recordable DVD, and within two of those are R (recordable once only) and RW (recordable and erasable to re-use). Some of these DVDs will play on most domestic DVD players, and some won't. The types are: * DVD-R and DVD-RW. The JVC uses these disks...

colin99 27.06.2004 (21.10.2007) · Read review
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Racing with his heart sets the heart racing

Advantages: Not an automaton, great car control, rain ability
Disadvantages: Tends to make the wrong choices for his career

...couldn't even begin to imagine. He has superb car control, as evidenced by his sublime skills in the wet - an advantage negated by traction control, which allows a driver to plant his foot to the floor and to hell with finesse. Jean Alesi is, at heart, a showman, who desperately wants to give the crowd - his people - value for money. That's a rare and precious thing in today's Grand Prix world, and we should enjoy it while it lasts. I believe he could have been champion had he signed for Williams in '91, but he chose to follow his heart. One thing I'm sure of: we'll notice the gap once he's gone. ***************** Update - 12/10/01 ***************** And now, the end is near (etc). Jean has accepted that he's not going to get a drive next season (a decent one, anyway - Arrows might have been a possibility had continuing in F1 been...

davidbuttery 16.07.2001 (12.10.2001) · Read review
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A refuge from the M1..Woolley Edge services

Advantages: you know what to expect, somewhere to stop if you are tired
Disadvantages: expensive food

...We stopped here becasue we'd been stuck in traffic after a motorway accident on the intersection of M62 and M1, and we needed to take a break becasue we were frazzled- forgot I had air conditioning! I knew that there was a service station between junctions 39 and 38 southbound on the M1 so we headed there. Easy to follow signs to the car park- with words and symbols so you'd understand even if you didn't speak English. FACILITIES Shop- newspapers, sweets, books, music, drinks, sandwiches, greetings cards and gifts..they were selling the Harry Potter latest book on Saturday but I wouldn't pay £16.99 for it! Some people were, though. Food can be a bit expensive and so can the sweets but if you have to buy them, it serves you right for not planning in advance!!! T2 phone shop- selling mobile phones and accessories. Good value...

ginger59 23.06.2003 · Read review
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Rain master

Advantages: Experienced driver
Disadvantages: Too experienced?

...Jean Alesi is currently the most experienced driver that is still racing in Formula One. He is known to be a very good driver in the rain, but recently Prost hasn't really anabled Alesi to put in any good drives. He seems like a nice fellow, and I quite liked the Ferrari dou for severl years, which included GEhard Berger and Jean Alesi. A very experienced driver, but is he coming to the end of his racing career? I think he still has some time left, hopefully more competitive than right now. It would be nice to see Alesi right back up at the front. If I'm correct, he's only won one race in his entire career, which was in canada. He should have won more, but still very good, and when he has a competitive car, he is regularly finding himself on the podium....

robertliu84 04.08.2000 · Read review
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Handy but dull

Advantages: cheap, easy to use
Disadvantages: no effects limited sound editing, dull sounds

...The Alesis SR-16 holds the title of the best selling drum machine of all time and some would say with good reason. The sound quality that this machine can produce is excellent but the drawback is that the 230 odd sounds contained within the unit are uniformly dull and uninspiring. If you need a workhorse set of drum sounds for backing tracks etc then the SR16 will do the job in style but i would not recommend it to anyone who has any kind of imagination in their music. The operating system is fairly straightforward but some of the pattern editing is fairly cryptic if you don't have a manual, apart from that it's pretty easy to figure out whats going on. The SR16 can has 150 somewhat dodgy preset patterns but you can create another 150 of your own to string together in the 100 available songs. Outputs consist of a stereo pair and an pair...

crustypaul 19.12.2000 · Read review
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Want near-field monitors on a budget? Buy these!

Advantages: Superb sound reproduction, Build quality, Price, LOUD!
Disadvantages: None really... they are pretty heavy though

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backler87 18.05.2005 · Read review
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