The DELL XPS M170 Gaming Laptop

Advantages: NVIDIA 7800 GTX GPU, brilliant screen, exellent sound for a laptop, looks the part
Disadvantages: Pricey

...You may have seen my review for the TOSHIBA Satellite Pro L10 only a few months back. It was a nice little laptop for £500, but it did not have the kind of power I craved for the latest gaming and multimedia applications. This is what I replaced it with..........the DELL XPS M170 Gaming Laptop. System Specs: Dell XPS-M170 Intel® Pentium® M Processor 760 (2 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition 17 inch UltraSharp? Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife? 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm (upgraded from 1GB) 60GB 7200rpm Hard Drive 8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps) 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce? Go 7800 GTX. Extreme Graphics Performance The NVIDIA 256MB GeForceTM Go 7800 GTX and 6800 Ultra...

Kel1981 12.02.2006 · Read review
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Olympus FE-170

Advantages: High picture qaulity. lots of features
Disadvantages: Small internal storage

...The Olympus FE-170 to begin is a very good camera. REVIEW = The cam, as you can see is jam packed full of special features. Some you may find useful and some are just like-- what will I need this for. Luckily the camera comes with a handy booklet explaining in detail all of them :) Upon opening I was overjoyed with the overall appearance and weight and design of the product. The buttons fit lovely in your hands and are easy to use. Nothing is stiff and nothing is too loose. The buttons are perfect in my opinion. To take pictures just press the button. That is about the only feature I ever use. The macro shots work well though. They can take fairly close up good quality pictures of thing. Very useful for shooting individual items to put up pictures on the net for example. The picture quality is...

coopsta133 11.12.2006 (12.12.2006) · Read review
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M is for Megans Law

Advantages: We know where most of them are
Disadvantages: Parents are the offenders

...know how to record incriminationg I.P numbers and conversations. I supposed to sum it up I?m not suggesting we are being hysterical over pedophilia by wanting to know where they are 24/7 but there is a certain hypocrisy when we like to blame pedophilia on everyone but the family unit. Meagan?s law would bring reassurance to the middle classes that there are indeed no perverts lurking in their privet hedges with a bag of boiled sweets, but the downside would be if that one was discovered under this new exposure then the house prices would drop dramtically, until they were forced out of course For the irrationally angry working classes it would mean that summer of lynching, driving the problem underground and even deeper into the rented accomodation and estates where the people that detest them so much live. Summary: The lowest of...

thedevilinme 10.12.2009 · Read review
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A-180 CDi Avantgarde SE 3dr

Advantages: Looks, size, build quality, driving position, economy,
Disadvantages: Expensive, hard ride, front seats slightly lacking in lumbar support

...this car as a well built and different vehicle, comparatively rare on the road. Update: I now have 13000 miles on the clock and nothing has gone wrong apart from an intermittent rattle from the steering column area over some low speed vertical bumps. The service indicator is showing 3500 miles to the first service. Fuel consumption was 61.5mpg on a recent long motorway run. Further update November 2008: The first (and so far only service) cost around £170 and was completed on a Saturday morning. Mileage is now around 21000. 1 fault so far - this was a leak from the rear washer tube which was not clipped to the nozzle properly. I fixed this myself. Recently some of the washer jets became clogged, but I sorted this with a jetwash. I am having two new front tyres fitted by the Mercedes dealer next week. They quoted £94/tyre including...

johnsavill 06.03.2007 (24.08.2009) · Read review
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Review of Mercedes A 170 CDI

Fujifilm Strike Again

Advantages: The camera is brilliant, everything I wanted and didn't get with my vivitar camera
Disadvantages: I wanted a red one :D That's it really. A few problems with the scene modes but nothing too bad

...Batteries FinePix Software Users Guide Hand Strap USB Cable Owner?s Manual Weight and Size I wanted a small camera which would fit into my little clutch bag and this camera fits perfectly, I have no idea what the weight of the camera is when it has batteries in it, however without it is 120g which isn?t much at all. It isn?t too heavy at all, and you could keep it in your pocket whilst walking around and then just whip is out very easily and take the picture you want to take. The camera is very easy to carry around and you should have no problems carrying it around in a small bag, or even in your pocket. If any of you have a small compact camera, then you should be able to imagine the weight of this camera. Style If the camera was in a different colour, then I would have jumped at one of those instead of this, I?m not...

DixieChick10 14.10.2009 · Read review
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M is for Magnificent

Advantages: Easy to apply, great finish
Disadvantages: Too many colours, not enough nails!

...Barry M is a brand I normally associate with bold eye colours and glittery dust. But their bold colours are what attracted me to the nail varnish range. I own five colours in total and have definitely got my eye on more, so I feel like I can comment on how the range performs. Packaging The bottle is fairly standard - glass and transparent to allow you to see the colour within, with a screw-on lid. The bottle is rectangular and has a sturdy, thick glass base. From personal experience, I can tell you that these bottles will only take a few knocks and bumps. I did have one of my Barry M nail varnishes smash in my make-up bag. There's no mention of ingredients on the actual packaging, but you can find a full list on their website, if that's something that is of interest to you. Their nail varnishes are all vegan friendly...

lora44 16.11.2009 · Read review
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Kodak M863

Advantages: Good picture quality, LCD screen, versatility
Disadvantages: None!

...It would appear, the humble digital camera is somewhat of the ?pinnacle? in reviewing on these review sites?partly because it must be one of the main products that ?external? customers use to choose a product. So, without further ado, here?s the Kodak M863. Lovely stuff. My particular version comes in a black matt finish with a strap to place around your wrist ? being a bloke it was a far more obvious choice that the potential vivid pink option! Now, im hardly a connoisseur when it comes to digital cameras; the only other one I?ve previously owned was a ?Premier? one. (yep, never heard of them either!) But the first thing that strikes me about this camera is the large detailed 2.7 inch LCD screen on the back of the camera. With the camera being 8.2 mega-pixels; which is probably far too many to make any difference than, say, 6 mega...

carl.mcqueen 27.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Kodak EASYSHARE M863

Waking up the neighbours!

Advantages: affordable, brilliant sound quality, DAB receiver
Disadvantages: limited format playback

...If you are looking for an affordable stereo system that combines a CD player and DAB radio receiver then you should look no further than the Yamaha M-170. I have had the CRX M-170 model now in my living room for nearly 12 months and it is one of those purchases that will raise a smile when you look at it. Priced at £150 the system was cheaper than the DAB radio I had my eye on. The whole system is slim and finished in a brushed steel to give it an edgy look that wouldn't look out of place in a million pound penthouse overlooking the Thames but the speakers are plain boring old black and are something of an embarrassment. Thankfully the 2 speakers are small enough to hide away behind chairs and plants. The CD player can playback an assortment of files including CD, CD-R and CD-RW but can't play MP3 files recorded onto a CD, slightly...

cloakanddagger 11.09.2007 · Read review
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Mmmmm... 'M'

Advantages: The joy it brings me
Disadvantages: Allows over exposure of some of Madge's crappier songs

...Mmmmmm.... 'M'. My favourite letter, apart from the love letter of course, as it is extremely satisfying to open your heart and justify your love to someone who is crazy for you and who you cherish. Things that begin with 'M' are very important to me. Allow me to mention five of them, as this site is one which lets you express yourself... 'Mum' - the most important person in the world to me. She is on the borderline of perfection, and I really am a lucky star to have someone like her. She is a fairly recently-qualified nurse and attending her graduation was the proudest day of my life. I had a wonderful upbringing, and she gave up a period of her life to bring my sisters and I up. She would spend her money on us instead of being a material girl, and always read me a bedtime story. She is now divorced, and loves her life which makes me...

kevindye 15.09.2008 · Read review
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Olympus FE-170

Advantages: big screen, lots of features, easy to connect to pc.
Disadvantages: sometimes very slow shutter speed.

...In my experience of using this camera it is pretty good. I got it because my old one got stolen. It was a Sony Cybershot DSC-P73 (or DSC-P10 - can't rememeber which...) and i miss it because it was better than this one, but it was also more expensive. I'm not saying this one isn't good - it is! - I'm just saying that the Cybershot was better. This camera is great value for money. It has loads of cool features and it even had a built in guide which is great especially when you've first bought it and you want to play with it the minute you open it and can't be arsed with the booklet. The only problems I've found with it are that the shutter speed is sometimes quite slow depending on what setting you have it on and occasionally the pictures are "grainy" or very occasionally they pixelate themselves for absolutely no reason. But in...

xxpoggyxx 11.03.2007 · Read review
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