Advantages: It's fast, It's powerful, It's reasonably priced
Disadvantages: Poor battery life

...Last year it was mobile phones, this year it's laptops. It seems to take forever to find my perfect product and with my new laptop I think I have. It's an Acer Aspire 5685. With a super cool Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 2Gb (T7200) it's super fast and plays games for fun. I spend a lot of time gaming and also on web development so a lot of time is spent creating and testing websites and uploading/downloading from the net. It has 2Gb ram to help it think on the move and a 160Gb hard drive that is more than adequate for my small business needs. The hard drive is SATA 2 so you're not left hanging about while it thinks about reading or writing to it. It has a 15.4 widescreen and is brighter than most laptops I've used recently. The GeForce GF7600 graphics card has 256mb memory and displays a fantastic picture. There are USB... Read review

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Advantages: Many hours of great fun
Disadvantages: Relys on GF's too much

...What can I say but, well done to all the game designers and creators... Final Fantasy 8 is wonerful RPG and the graphics is superb. It's made even better with the juction system and there's even more to do with the cards, and trying to collect them all is a relly hard task by very enjoyable. The game also involes 16 beasts and monsters called Gaurdian forces or GF. But I think the game and characters rely too much on the GF's because if you didn't have any GF's you couldn't use any magics and you couldn't junction.... Read review

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Advantages: Fast except multithread read,good capacity, stable, 5 years warranty
Disadvantages: Weak at multithread/multiple reads, a little noisy

...I've used a similar model for a long time and I have mixed opinions about 7200.10 hard drives. The good things of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 Seagate hdd are the most stables drives in the market, I've used my drive for quite a time and never experienced a single problem. Large capacity, 320 GB is more than enough (300 Gb real) Good speed, especially at writing data, but also at reading excepting multiple file copy. Speed is about 75-80 Mb at large files The access time is about 13-14ms (about the same as other hdd) Temperature IS OK. Very stable and reliable The not so good things: Multitasking read performance. While on single thread the performance is high, 75 Mb, while increasing the threads, many aplications used the speed drops at about 5-10 Mb A little noisy especially when many aplications are used Conclusion. Good hard drive... Read review

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Advantages: easy to use
Disadvantages: automatically picks up when opened

...I recently updated my mobile phone, to the Nokia 7200 and so far I am very pleased with the choice I have made. The 7200 is extremely easy to use and it is a very stylish mobile phone, the changeable fabric covers are ace however after a while the fabric is known to wear off. The ringtones that are already on the phone, are very good quality sound and they have got some good ringtones on it apart from a couple that are really bad, but you get that with all phones. One thing that isn't that too good is the quality of the pictures on the camera, and the sound on the video isn't that good eithier. You can save alot of text messages in your inbox, so far I have had over twenty messages in my inbox, whereas my old mobile phone only stored five messages, and then you had to delete some to retrieve new ones. Another little feature that I... Read review

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Advantages: Under Construction
Disadvantages: Under Construction

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Advantages: Tons of longevity, excellent graphics.
Disadvantages: Some parts of story badly explained, lengthy GF animations, sligtly complicated to start with.

...does make some bits more difficult to understand. The battle system has been completely overhauled since FF7, it still has the traditional Item, Attack and Magic commands, but they are used slightly differently. To enable your character to perform actinos other than attacks, you need to have a GF (Guardian Force), these allow you to utilise different abilities, such as Magic, Item, Draw, summon GF, and various other abilites, dependant on the GF you have. Also, the magic system has been changed aswell, instead of finding the magic as in FF7, you have to use the Draw command to draw your magic from opponents, you can then choose to either stock, in which case you will recieve between 1 and 10 of that type of magic, or you can simply cast it on your opponents. The GF command summons the selected GF to help you decimate your opponents... Read review

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Advantages: Tons of longevity, excellent graphics.
Disadvantages: Some parts of story badly explained, lengthy GF animations, sligtly complicated to start with.

...does make some bits more difficult to understand. The battle system has been completely overhauled since FF7, it still has the traditional Item, Attack and Magic commands, but they are used slightly differently. To enable your character to perform actinos other than attacks, you need to have a GF (Guardian Force), these allow you to utilise different abilities, such as Magic, Item, Draw, summon GF, and various other abilites, dependant on the GF you have. Also, the magic system has been changed aswell, instead of finding the magic as in FF7, you have to use the Draw command to draw your magic from opponents, you can then choose to either stock, in which case you will recieve between 1 and 10 of that type of magic, or you can simply cast it on your opponents. The GF command summons the selected GF to help you decimate your opponents... Read review

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Advantages: Great game to play
Disadvantages: Hard to learn at first

.... After your instructor comes to get you at the hospital, you then have to go to the classroom where all the other students are. Here you are told you have to complete your training by going to the Fire Cavern and then you'll be on the way to becoming a member of the SeeD, which is what you are training for. The Fire Cavern is situated behind the forest on the left of the Garden you have just come from, before you enter the Fire Cavern you have to junction your GF's and Abilitys. These can be found in the menu part of the game by pressing the circle button on your control pad, once you are in the menu press junction, at the top of the screen there is a list GF and Magic. If you press the GF you will see a list of GF which you can put with your character or other characters you are playing with. The GF's you start off with are called... Read review

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Advantages: Large capacity, fast especially at writing, Stable, Good price
Disadvantages: Weak at multi thread reads and this hurts (me)

...I've used a similar model for a long time and I have mixed opinions about 7200.10 hard drives. The good things of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 Seagate hdd are the most stables drives in the market, I've used my drive for quite a time and never experienced a single problem. Large capacity, 500 Gb is more than enough (470 real) Good speed, especially at writing data, but also at reading excepting multiple file copy. Speed is about 70-80 Mb at large files The access time is about 13-14ms (about the same as other hdd) Temperature IS OK. Very stable and reliable The not so good things: Multitasking read performance. While on single thread the performance is high, 70 Mb, while increasing the threads, many aplications used the speed drops at about 5-10 Mb A little noisy especially when many aplications are used Conclusion. Good hard drive... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, Powerful, Inexpensive, Compatable
Disadvantages: Hard to get hold of, Not the fastest card around

.... In general a GF3 Ti200 should be more than enough to run even the most demanding of games at full detail, providing you have a decent enough PC pushing the card. About the card The GF3 Ti200 is the little brother of the GF3, and the GF3 Ti500. The differences between the various GeForce 3 cards is simple: Faster core speeds = slightly higher framerates Faster memory speeds = higher framerates at higher resolutions, where memory bandwith is essential, to stop the card from choking. The GF3 Ti200 has slower Core, and Memory speeds than both the GF3, and the top of the range GF3 Ti500. This shouldn't perturb you though, as both of the latter cards cost more and offer a performance increase that isn't anything to write home about. The more advanced user can even overclock** the GF3 Ti200 to GF3 Ti500 speeds. Explanation... Read review

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