Nice laptop, FAB extended warranty!

Advantages: Good specs, fast, wonderful extended warranties
Disadvantages: Feels a bit flimsy, no indicator lights showing wifi connection, etc.

.... My husband really enjoys this laptop for playing games, but that is not the laptop's main purpose for him and anyone who wants a gaming machine probably needs to do some research. It doesn't have indicator lights showing when the hard drive is working or when wifi is connected or when it's running on battery power (like my old Dell Inspiron does). Some people hate that. I'm not too bothered as I rarely paid attention to those lights, anyway. It also has buttons on the keypad to let you mute or change volume, which is very nice as my husband's last laptop didn't have that and it seemed to take forever for him to get the volume down if an ad popped up or a page had music! My current laptop has the "media" keys on the edge of the case facing me, which I like best, but having them on the keypad is a nice second-best option. The laptop also...

pippy_pop 06.08.2009 · Read review
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Energizer AA 2500 mAh Rechargeable Batteries

Advantages: Long Life
Disadvantages: Exspensive

...Hi today I will be reviewing Energizer AA 2500 mAh Rechargeable Batteries. Price You can buy these from Amazon for cheapest £7.05 I got them for £10 from B&Q and I got a charger as well. Life I recommend fully charging these for first time use. I put them on for a day. From the full charge I managed to get a week use out of them. I use them in my Xbox 360 Controllers which are used by me and my brothers so they were on for most of the week. Charge While using the official charger for this product it takes around 6 hours to charge fully (Overnight). Size I find that these batteries are a little larger than the usual AA batteries because in my Xbox controller when I first got them in they took quite a lot of force to get them out again. After using them for quite a lot it seems to have stretched the battery pack so it...

coolguymcd 23.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Energizer Batteries

The Energizer Battery Charger

Advantages: Good value for money
Disadvantages: Takes a long time to charge batteries

...I had been intending to purchase a battery charger for quite a while. In fact I had even dropped hints to certain family members around Christmas time, but to no avail. I was recently reminded of this missing piece of equipment in my life when I rediscovered the PC lead to my digital camera. Remembering that a pair of standard batteries lasted for only about 30 photos in this camera I decided that it was certainly time to invest in a battery charger and some rechargeable batteries. I purchased an Energizer CHDCW8 ? 4 battery charger from Argos for just £9.99. This decision was based on several factors, the most important of which was the price and what I considered to be the best value for money. The design also played a part in my decision process, but in the end it was the price/value that were the strongest influencing factors...

micksheff 31.05.2007 · Read review
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Extend your Range

Advantages: Easy to install and use
Disadvantages: no major disadvantages found

...of the building) The first of the two upstairs computers connected straight away, I had installed Belkin USB Wireless G Network Adaptors in each PC, but the signal strngth was low and connection kept dropping. The situation was even worse in the second bedroom as the PC refused to connect at all and a signal could not be detected. After some research I decided to install a Belkin Wireless G Universal Range Extender/Access Point - I had not previously tried out this product but the specification looked good and the features were exactly what I was looking for - according to the manufacturer... 'The Wireless G Universal Range Extender increases the coverage of your existing wireless network by retransmitting an 802.11b/g signal across a wider coverage area. Designed for easy setup operation, it works seamlessly with most routers and access...

pmdunn 21.02.2007 · Read review
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Extending Yourself

Advantages: You will eventually get to give the whole of your house a thorough spring clean.
Disadvantages: You'll have to stand some awful music which you won't be able to get out of your mind!

...If your house is too small you?ve got three choices. You can put up with it, which can make you feel virtuous and long-suffering but gets on everyone?s nerves eventually. You can move to a larger house, with all the associated upheaval or you can enlarge your own. Extending your own house might seem like the easiest and simplest method but there?s still a great deal to think about and very careful planning will be needed if it?s going to go smoothly. The first thing to do is get a large file ? you?re going to collect vast amounts of paperwork and it?s useful to have it all to hand preferably in an easily-transportable form. I have some blank sheets of paper in the front of mine so that I can make a note of any queries that I?ve got and then cross them off when they?re cleared. When you start thinking about an extension try...

SueMagee 03.08.2002 · Read review
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Let the Sun save your battery

Advantages: Helps prevent flat batteries; achieves longer battery life
Disadvantages: None

...want one just like mine, there is a special promotion from Maplin offering it at £14.99 (actually I?m quite tempted to buy another at that price as a present for someone); Northern Tool UK.com would appear to have cut the price of the newer 1.8W version to £23.49 inc. VAT. As a student I would probably still have had to ask Santa Claus, but it would have been of extra added interest to know that by keeping the battery maintained in a high charged state, I would have been extending its life too. And just in case you worry about the weather, there?s a little light that glows to reassure you that it?s receiving power, and even on a wet, miserable afternoon like today, when the sun is nowhere to be seen, it seems to be light enough to power the device. Flat batteries should soon become a thing of the past....

Discerna 23.05.2003 · Read review
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LOTR Extended Edition Box Set

Advantages: Amazing Detail, Funny, Groundbreaking
Disadvantages: May be too long for some people

...I have bought these extended editions as they came out over the years. I got the first one 'The Fellowship of the Ring' for christmas one year after vowing not to give into watching The Lord of the Rings films because everyone else was. After I got it I ignored it for months but one day decided I'd have a look, felt a little rude not to. I am very glad i did watch it. The Cast Elijah Wood - Frodo Baggins Sean Austin - Samwise Gamgee Dominic Monaghan - Meriadoc Brandybuck Billy Boyd - Peregrin Took Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn Sean Bean - Boromir (FotR) Orlando Bloom - Legolas John Rhys-Davies - Gimli Ian MacKellen - Gandalf Andy Serkis - Gollum (TT & RotK) Liv Tyler - Arwen Bernhard Hill - Theoden (TT & RotK) Christopher Lee - Saruman Cate Blanchet - Galadriel Hugo Weaving - Elrond Mirando Otto - Eowyn (TT & RotK) Brad...

danfellowes 15.05.2007 (18.05.2007) · Read review
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Review of The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Extended Editions) (DVD)

The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition

Advantages: Great cinematics, special effects, acting, location, extras
Disadvantages: none

...the extra DVDs as they let you get some much more involved with actors, writers and the storyline. ■The DVD■ These DVDs in any of the Lord of the Rings extended edition films are all sublime, the detail to which they show you everything is amazing. For anyone wishing to get into the film making or model building or special effects industries then you should give this a chance, even if just for the appendices DVDs. It gets you so deep and takes you on an emotional journey with the cast and crew and you learn a lot about where they filmed it, inspirations for the film and music. You also learn a lot about the author, J.R.R. Tolkien. You get to know about his past and his life and how he eventually came to writing the Lord of the Rings books after 'The Hobbit'. ■Disc One & Two Owing to the film being so long and then...

danfellowes 20.05.2007 (22.05.2007) · Read review
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WIRELESS BATTERY PACKS!!!

Advantages: WILL SAVE YOU MONEY!!!
Disadvantages: COST!!!

...built into the controller. So microsoft came up with the idea of... NUCLEAR POWER CONTROLLERS. But then they probably realised this would be to dangerous and powerful so they just settled for double "A" batterys. : ) The batterys will last for around 12 - 20 continuous hours depending on the type you use, but changing batterys almost every day gets very annoying, and expensive. If you have rechargable batterys you will save money instead of always throwing batterys way but why wait for batterys to recharge? Microsoft then came up with the idea of the battery pack. On a full charge it will last around 24 hours of gaming and can be on charge while in use! It will add a small amound of extra weight to the controller but not so that you would notice. This is all good! you can now have a charging pack so you no longer need to buy batterys...

Roguey-117 04.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Xbox 360 Rechargeable Battery Pack

Recharge your batteries the compact way.

Advantages: Compact, charges AA and AAA
Disadvantages: No European plug adapter

...~<*>~ Energizer ~<*>~ Engerizer have been around over a hundred years and made the first consumer batteries so should know a thing or two about batteries and chargers. ~<*>~ Price ~<*>~ Bought mine from Maplin at a reduced price, £12.95 Jessops online £10.99 + £3.99 p&p Tesco online £29.99 As you can see there is a huge variation in prices so check them out before you do. ~<*>~ What you get ~<*>~ Ultra Compact Charger. 4 X AA 2500mAH batteries. Instructions. The packaging is that tough moulded plastic that is impossible to open without scissors. Tried to open with my bare hands with no success, i am very stubborn. ~<*>~Instructions~<*>~ Are very basic and come on an A4 size piece of paper in 16 languages. The GB instructions would fit on one side of a credit card and the text is very small and people with poor...

oldwasp 22.02.2007 · Read review
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