Mustek MDC-3000 good as gift for mother-in-law

Advantages: Low price
Disadvantages: Cheap plastic and battery slot and a lot more

...I have owned Mustek MDC-3000 digital camera for more than a year. I bought it because of the price and reasonalby nice look on the web without having it in hands. The camera is actually producing not bad photos (you may see few examples attached) but only in well lighted places, especially outdoor in sommer. So when you want to have simple cheap toy for making few photos on vacation it might be not so wrong choice. Let me look now at some disadvantages. First of all it has poor, cheap plastic case which is really easy to break. My camera felt once on the floor at home and case broke at the same time. Similar I can tell about battery slot which you have to use quite often because the camera simply consumes too much power to be able to make all photos even using 16 MB Compact Flash card. You can forget about having good...

RSTech 11.03.2004 · Read review
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Review of Mustek MDC 3000

Numbers can be deceiving...

Advantages: Lowest price 5mega-pixel camera you'll find
Disadvantages: lacks many features you find yourself needing

...I?m a car nut, plain and simple - much like the Mustek mdc5500z. The 5500 (I wont give it its full title or we'll be here for weeks) is a digital camera, a nice and simple plain talking, straight up digi-cam. And as long as you remember that you'll be fine, however, if you want something more, or consider yourself to be a bit of a dab hand at photography then your going to want to take a few more notes from the ATM and pop down to your local camera specialist who will no doubt charge through the roof and be full of employees who only speak in numbers and specifications, and who all have monotone voices. You will need to do this because the 5500z is NOT a complex camera. I wanted a digi-cam this Christmas and played my own Santa by grazing the interweb for a camera that looked good, had a high resolution but didn?t cost over £100...

topgeartom 18.01.2005 · Read review
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Review of Mustek MDC 5500 Z

It won't break the bank

Advantages: Not expensive, video conferencing, good battery life
Disadvantages: Dating technology, offset LCD screen, lighting problems indoors

...The Mustek MDC-800 is a silvery little thing, with a grey plastic cover at one side for ergonomic grip. Rubberised panels allow access to the AC/DC and USB connections. There is also a plastic cover that allows compactflash memory cards to be inserted. First impressions were good. The build of the camera is solid, and the design isn't at all bad. The LCD on the back is a decent size, and the silver buttons are stylish and well placed. The MDC-800 is also well featured. Able to take pictures at low, medium or high resolution, with the maximum being 1024x768. The standard filters are there, and well as the ability to allow for longer exposure. However, I found the lack of a shutter speed control somewhat annoying. The LCD works well under most circumstances, but in sunlight, it is difficult to see. This is to be expected of course...

psiclone 17.08.2001 · Read review
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Review of Mustek MDC 800

the camera is not as good as it sounds

Advantages: when conditions are good picture quality is ok, very cheap
Disadvantages: not durable, broke somehow, very poor customer service

...i was looking for a camera to take me from a film to a digital camera. i did a little research and found the specification i thought would match what i wanted which was a 5 mega pixel camera with a 3x optical zoom and a 4x digital zoom. for those specifications the MDC 6500z was the one for me it was by far the cheapest at £120 with those specifications on the market at that time, so i got it. however having had it for a while now i have changed my opinion. - what the manufacturers and the sellers of the camera neglected to mention was the fact that the camera takes so long to do anything at all. the start up takes a good 5 to 6 seconds which might not sound much but if you have a child for example waiting 5 to 6 second may mean you miss some great picutres of your kids. once you have waitied for the camera to turn on you then...

markhayward 10.04.2006 · Read review
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Review of Mustek MDC 6500Z

Looks Good, Sounds Good, Feels Good

Advantages: 3 MD, 3 CD, Nice sound quality.
Disadvantages: Quite large, Expensive

...The MD-C2 is an easy-to-use, nice looking, great sound quality hi-fi. The 50 Watt speakers have many great capabilities including surround sound, X-Bass and equaliser.. All of which you can customise to suit you. The hi-fi is also easy to use, the buttons are assorted catagorically, and everything is well spaced out. It's nice and visual, many flashing lights, and it's all symmetrical. The MD's record and play well too, and with no hassle either thanks to the '3CD>3MD' function. But, to be honest, i thoroughly regret buying this hi-fi and i would only recommend someone else to buy it if it were cheap. The reason I say this is because why have 3 MD? it's just pointless, you can play only one at a time, plus it adds on a hundred odd quid to the price tag. And also, the CD player has messed up, it takes about 5 mins to load a CD, so i...

kaan 03.04.2001 · Read review
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Review of Sharp MD-C2H

The UNITED of the world

Advantages: n/a
Disadvantages: n/a

..., which renamed in 1902 into the most famous United of the world, the Manchester United In 1900 club Thames Ironworks was renamed to West Ham United So, the name united was “spread” all around the globe from Grenada (U.S.) to Nigeria and…Malawi!! Totally there are 46 United in the world. Here are the remaining: -England: Leeds, Cambridge, Carlisle, Colchester, Hartlepool, Oxford, Peterborough, Rotherham, Scunthorpe, Sheffield, Southend, Torquay. -Scotland: Ayr, Dundee -Australia: Sindey -Nigeria: Gombe, Zasper, Kvara, Leventis, Plato, Undozi -New Zealand: Central, Christchurch, North Sore -Zimbamboue: Arcadia, Caps -N. Ireland: Ballymena -U.S.: DC -Ireland: Drogenta, Galway -Grenada: Fontanoy -Singapore: Gayland!!!! -Jamaica: Hazard, Semba -Japan: Tzef -Kenya: Mathare -Malawi: MDC -Gana...

aek21 30.01.2002 · Read review
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Review of Newcastle United

Amilio Pro by name Pro by nature

Advantages: Looks, quality build and price
Disadvantages: Initial speed of start up speed and battery

...layer) - integrated Display 15" TFT active matrix 1024 x 768 ( XGA ) Graphics Controller VIA UniChrome Pro VN800 Audio Output Sound card Telecom Fax / modem - MDC - 56 Kbps Networking Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g Input Device Keyboard, touchpad Power AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz ) Battery Lithium Ion Run Time (Up To) 1 hour(s) Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition - English As you can see, for the price of under 400 pounds I was very impressed. When I got the laptop I was even more impressed by the feel and build quality. It felt solid and not flimsy like other lower price bracket models. I also got a USB floppy disk drive which is really handy. This laptop also has the Intel (doom doom...

fuzzycats27 10.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pro V2030 Edition

Father, dear Father

Advantages: He's my dad
Disadvantages: none

...freely. I was busy though - sorting out press and TV coverage of dads death - loads of press interviews, but nothing to TV. Wakefield MDC were brill. They lent us a Press Officer, as a buffer from the press. The funeral service was relayed via big screens throughout the village, and a few thousand turned out to say their last goodbyes to Henry. I remember the procession through the village - the streets were jam packed with people stood still as the Hurse drove past them. My dad would have liked the funeral. I was in floods of tears. I was crying with laughter at times. But it was then when i realised just how much I loved the old man. Well, I have turned into my dad. I work in Environmental health - my dad used to chair that committee till he died, and I am an active trade Union rep. I always thought that that would be...

wildcat2003 05.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of Everything that starts with F ...

When Mummy Notebook Met Daddy Desktop

Advantages: Robust, well specified, beautiful screen
Disadvantages: Less portable then less bulky models

...drives are on the same side of the machine which is useful if you use either infrequently as you don't need to search. There are 2 built in stereo speakers which are powerful enough for me to listen to music on without any problems, usually only having it at level 1 sound (it goes up to level 16 which is deafening). There're also microphone in and headphone out ports - the latter allowing you to listen using any old walkman headphones while keeping your music or film silent from the rest of the room. The machine has a 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet, something essential if you want to use it to access a university server, for example from your college owned accommodation. For people who understand (ie not me) it also boasts 56K MDC V.90/V.92 data/fax modem (with international PTT approval) a Wi-Fi 802.11b wireless LAN and is Wake-on-Ring ready...

zoe_page 17.12.2003 · Read review
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Review of Acer Aspire 1703SC

My spare laptop Or, just plain GREEDY

Advantages: Powerful laptop. Loads of memory. CDRW/DVD Combo drive. Fast booter. Good quality. large screen.
Disadvantages: Crappy speakers. Skimped on the software.

...access panel on the under side of the laptop base unit. Just undo a few screws and change the drives over. ----- Combo Drive: ? ?: NEC CB-2100A CDRW/DVD-ROM combination drive. Basically it?s an 8 speed DVD drive which is fine for watching DVD movies or using DVD data cds. The CDRW writes at 8 speed (or up to), re-writes at 8 speed (or up to) and is a 24 speed CD-ROM drive, so it?s about the normal for a laptop combination drive. You?ll get plenty of good results with the stability and reliability of this drive when ever you use it. ----- Modem: ? ?: Smart Link MDC V.92 56K. A pretty nifty modem at the end of the day. I?ve tested it using 2 phone lines and have had a constant and consistent connection speed of 52kbps, which is very good for a 56K modem. As usual, you get the RJ11 phone to modem connection cable, plus a connection...

Paddys_back 11.09.2002 · Read review
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