Samsung X10 1700

Advantages: Very light weight and portable
Disadvantages: Short battery life

...If you are thinking of buying this particular model then you obviously have good taste. As well as looking good the X10 1700 has all the trimmings that you could wish for in a notebook. I have yet to find something that this thing cannot run, its has made my desktop completely redundant. It can cope with all the latest hi spec games such as Sim City 4 and Command and Conquer with out slowing even a little. The screen resolution and clarity is outstanding though you can have difficulties when trying to view the screen in bright sunlight but I'm yet to see a notebook that has overcome this problem. The lay out of the computer itself has been well thought through and the shortcut keys are particularly useful and can be personalised. The built in finger print reader and the software provided for it is excellent though a little faffy to set...

faffler 19.05.2004 · Read review
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Snap Happy Samsung!

Advantages: Great camera at a great price.
Disadvantages: None at the price, you get a great item for what you pay!

...up to A1/A2 size, I would not notice the difference compared to a cheaper model with slightly less megapixels. Thus, I was directed towards the 10MP Samsung ES55. I had wanted something with excellent picture quality that I could use in low light conditions, taking pictures in clubs and indoors. I would also use the camera to take pictures for my business. But, more poignantly, I needed something cheap! I'm pretty broke and I had expected to fork out quite a lot for a quality camera to meet my requirements. I'm also quite interested in art, so as a hobby, had intended on taking up a bit of photography. When buying a camera, it would be helpful to make a list of your primary needs and budget and see what falls into your category. I was told this would be the Samsung. Sorry if I am droning on at this stage, but I really do think...

Bojack 27.10.2009 · Read review
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The Wii Fit Plus is an excellent add on, and great fun!

Advantages: fun, good for you, multiplayer
Disadvantages: none really

...the Training plus and My Wii Fit Plus. Firstly the Training plus section this has 15 new games that work on your body and your mind. Perfect 10 - where you have to use your hips to bump the numbers around you to add to 10, sounds easier then it is trust me, great fun with mind and body. Cycling- You use the balance board to step on and move forward, and the Wii remote for the staring, once you have tried this a few times you can cycle round the island collecting the the 13 flags on your way before making it back to the start line. Rhythm Kung Fu - This is great fun using the balance board, remote and numchuck to copy what the other people are doing behind you, whilst keeping in time to the music. Driving Range- In all honesty i found this my most difficult but then I am no good at golf in reality either, you use the remote as a club and have...

sashysach 09.11.2009 (10.11.2009) · Read review
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Samsung's Neat Little Netbook

Advantages: Good performance, Good connectivity options, Good webcam, 160GB HDD, Upgradeable
Disadvantages: Not very good accessories, Picks up Fingerprints, Weird button under touchpad

...(although I do still have the cloth from my Eee PC). USING The NC10 has a 1.6GHz Atom processor and 1GB of RAM, which doesn't sound like much but it is very nippy for a low cost notebook. Music and videos play smoothly as they would on a full size laptop. The memory is even upgradable as the 1GB memory can be swapped with a 2GB one for even more performance. Also, 160GB storage for something that was meant to just be for surfing the net is pretty good and would allow for a lot of downloading. I would prefer this over a Linux netbook with a Solid State Drive with limited storage. Battery life seems to last about 5 hours although they quote 7 hours (probably only if you have it with the lowest brightness and leave it idle). The Samsung NC10 has a 10.2 inch screen with a native resolution of 1024 x 600, which was one of the deciding...

Deru 21.02.2009 (25.03.2009) · Read review
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Review of Samsung NC10

Samsung but smaller

Advantages: Very compact and lightweight, excellent value for money, great design with brilliant screen
Disadvantages: No dvd drive but this is to save on weight and you can pick up an external one for reasonable

...Having previously had a laptop my wife recently decided to buy a new computer for herself as she felt she was not taking her laptop with her due to size and weight and so decided to opt to pick up the Samsung NC10 netbook. So you may have noticed that this is a netbook and be wondering what this exactly means...a netbook is a smaller, lighter weight laptop that is simply designed to handle internet browsing, e-mail and office software. The question I was asked by my wife before she picked this little gadget up was would this be able to play games? The answer is yes but of a limited variety as this is not designed with the same level of specs in as a normal pc or laptop (you would also need to purchase a cd or dvd drive for if you are looking at playing games that use a cd). Now down to the actual netbook itself...the Samsung is...

tangoman1984 27.10.2009 · Read review
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Bt Diverse X10 twin

Advantages: Solid, Big name Number storage, caller Display
Disadvantages: Volume not great .

...I was looking for a twin cordless phone set, and bid for this set on Bid TV auction channel. I paid £20 + £6.99 p&p. They were delivered in 5 days to my door. The box was an attractive Blue with pictures of the Phones and the functions listed. The contents were 1x Diverse X10 base, 2 Diverse X10 handsets, 1 Diverse X10 Charger, 2 Mains Power Adapters, 4x AAA Rechargable Batteries, 1x telephone line cord, 2x Belt Clips,, 2x battery Compartment covers, 1x base Plinth, User Guide Booklet. the Main Phone sits in a larger Grey base and the 2nd phone sits in a slightly smaller Grey Base which are reasonably stable. Both phones are identical and have Buttons 1 to 9 as well as the usual # & *. You can scroll through the menu options with the up/down button, recall button for use with switchboards, and there is also a secrecy button...

Cassybobo 20.11.2007 · Read review
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Sky Plus is a Plus

Advantages: Record, rewind, series link
Disadvantages: Expensive, bad customer service

...If you love TV then you probably love your Sky + box and if you haven't already got one you really really need to get one. For me this box is definitely a Plus with one little Minus but I will get to that later. Sky + is a personal video recorder that allows the user to record, pause and instantly rewind live TV. It works in conjunction with a Sky television subscription. It was launched in September 2001 and in February 2008 Sky announced that over 3 million households now have a Sky + box. Sky + is such a benefit to have. You access all the features of the recorder through your Sky + remote. Recording - Sky + allows you to record any programme that you like. It is very simple to do. You do not have to set any timers or set up any video tapes, etc, the show is saved as hardware on the Sky box. Basically you search through...

Spottydog11 14.01.2009 · Read review
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Reach for the Sky ( Plus of course)

Advantages: We watch what we want when we want
Disadvantages: None for me

... SKY PLUS Move over sliced bread, there's a new kid on the block! From now on I will describe things that are good,as the best thing since Sky Plus! I'm of an age to have been around for the first of the Ferguson video players (as so wonderfully described by the brilliant Peter Kay). There was no remote control- you had to walk over to the machine to do all the recordings, and the amount of times we settled down to watch a film my better (?!?) half had recorded only to find a recording of something completely different. My goodness didn't we think we were something, with our mock leather video covers that held recordings of Corrie and the likes! But know videos and video recorders are a thing of the past and will soon be appearing on the Antiques Roadshow. The advent of recording onto DVD seemed to...

oldchem 28.10.2009 · Read review
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Never mind, Digitals comes cheap with Samsung

Advantages: Read the review
Disadvantages: Mostly but the price

...If I remember correctly of all the cameras that I have reviewed here, this possibly is the cheapest so far. In fact the main idea was to have a first hand experience of Samsung range of cameras and I thought it prudent to try the cheapest possible available in Samsung array of cameras. Well the experience is very close to disaster. Design: Probably its only positive point is its price, that probably is about all. If you look at the design it does look cheap, drab and dumb to say the least. In fact the ES55 looks just that better with its very quaggy aluminium casing, this one comes with a forlorn drab plastic wrapping which probably will make the least fashionables talk about fashion. Lets have a look at the technical specs of the Samsung ES15: #Maximum resolution 10.2 megapixel #3x optical zoom lens #AA alkaline...

roktimdutta 29.09.2009 · Read review
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Samsung hits the netbook world for 6

Advantages: sturdy, reliable, quite nippy for a netbook, relativley cheap
Disadvantages: sound, no ssd option, still can't beat the aspire one

...10 is very slightly nippier than some other netbooks such as the msi wind. The screen is also the standard 10.2" 1024x600 too, but it is a very good quality screen, and puts most other netbooks to shame. The deciding factor in the netbook market is the quality of the netbook, and the samsung comes with quality to the hilt. The solid build of the netbook combined with it's spacious (by netbook standards) keyboard helps to make using such small devices less of a pain, and everything just feels right with it. the ports and connectivity are good too, with 3 USB ports, a VGA out port (for hooking up to an external monitor) and a 10/100 ethernet port.vBattery life is pretty standard, generally speaking the netbook will last 3-4 hours before dying. overall there isn't much to criticise this netbook for, sure it could come with a SSD drive...

Kai_M 25.06.2009 · Read review
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