Advantages: Slimline, Well Featured, Looks Good
Disadvantages: No Firewire, Not thought out properly

...ThinkCentre... Think Smarter IBM’s range of workstations have always been backed up with a long history, after all shouldn’t IBM be the experts, they did “invent” the PC after all! IBM’s ThinkCentre range represents IBM’s mid-range business workstations, enough power and multimedia capabilities to run the top end office and productivity, whilst keeping costs down to make the systems as affordable as possible. A hidden but equally important part of the ThinkCentres resides inside the computer and installed on the hard drives, these discrete design decisions and software packages that are shipped with the machines. I have recently installed 86 IBM ThinkCentre S50’s at work; this review is my attempt to distil my experiences into words. WHATS IN THE BOX? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When the box arrives at your door, or in my case three... Read review

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Advantages: The case dosn't look too bad
Disadvantages: Addequate but outdated CPU

...significantly lower than Lenovo is 3Ghz upwards. Quite how the ThinkCentre A55 hopes to even try to compete with other manufacturers offering 3-4Ghz CPU's with a price tag of around £50 less is somewhat of a mystery. Having said that, as my mate has proven with flying colours.."there is one born every minute" The memory installed is on a par with most budget PC's and is supplied with 512Mb DDR II SDRAM. Thankfully memory these days is a relatively cheap upgrade option. The hard drive installed again is somewhat below acceptable for the price tag. The A55 is supplied with an 80Gb hard drive. Although this size of drive is acceptable, for £400 you would expect something around 100 -120Gb in size. The graphics card is on-board as is the norm with all budget PC's. The graphics memory is shared with the PC's RAM and is adjustable via the PC... Read review

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Advantages: very good processor with unique vast features.
Disadvantages: the flat screen looks too fragile.

...Well I have to come with the review of PC computer. Lenevo think center is a brand of computer that never made waves in the computer market. But I decided to give it a try by buying it and wanted to get rid of the popular dell, IBM and apple computers for some time. Well the lenovo think center computer has proved to be a bit different. Some features actually made me to purchase the product and are features like the administrator password, power on password, booting without mouse and key board, hard drive I/O control, usb control, serial port I/O control, boss Sequence control and diskette I/O control. These are the features that really made me to splash at about £250.60 on it. The lenovo thinkcentre A55 9265 Pentium D 915 2.8 GHz computer has host of unique think vantage technologies at competitive price. The processor... Read review

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Advantages: Relatively cheap, good disabled access
Disadvantages: Expensive cake!

...our handiwork, we’ll have to make do with admiring someone else’s. A few weeks ago in late April, we happened upon a little local gem, hidden away alongside the A51 in north Shropshire. We’d driven past the sign for the Dorothy Clive Gardens many times before but never been in. Then a friend went and told us we must go. We certainly didn’t regret it. The garden grew out of one man’s desire to give his ailing wife a change of scenery. Colonel Harry Clive, local dignitary and businessman, started to clear the disused quarry above his house in 1940. Around half a mile of paths were eventually hacked out through the brambles between the stands of oaks, birch and scots pine now colonising the redundant sandstone workings. With the help of knowledgeable friends, the quarry was gradually planted up. Its sheltered and shady aspect was ideal... Read review

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Advantages: Location. Ready made house of horrors set?
Disadvantages: Where do I start?

...at the very heart of the UK motorway network. Lichfield itself is a small city of some merit, many years ago I spent a day here as a tourist, mostly admiring the superb cathedral, which is but a five minute drive away from the Lodge. The Lodge is located 1.3 miles north of the city centre. FIRST IMPRESSIONS 1 / 10 Our first impressions were entirely unfavourable. It was 4.50pm as we headed south on the busy A51, the main road from Stafford to Lichfield. The website booking confirmation gave us accurate directions, backed up by our own GPS system. All well and good, except that when we arrived at our destination the Innkeeper's Lodge was nowhere in sight. Fortunately the traffic lights at the junction of the A51 and Lichfield eastern by-pass turned red in front of us. In the dark, on the other side of the junction we spotted a pub... Read review

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Advantages: ibms past record
Disadvantages: poor choice of graphics port

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Advantages: Large selection of water related items
Disadvantages: Busy during peak times

...OK, so I know most of you are still groaning at the title, but it was the best I could think of at the time. None the less it is an accurate statement as having visited Stapeley Water Gardens on many occasions; I can say that it is the best place around for all aquarium and pond needs. Stapeley Water Gardens is situated, not as Ciao currently have it in Birmingham, but in the small Cheshire village of Stapeley. Situated on the A51 road a mile or so outside of Nantwich, the centre is easily accessible from all angles and only 15 miles off the M6 motorway at junctions 16. (with signposts) The opening times of the garden centre are as follows. Summer: Mon - Sat 9am-6pm (Wed until 8pm, Mid March-Mid Sept) Sun 10am-4pm Bank Holidays 10am - 6pm Winter: Mon - Sat 9am - 5pm Sun 10am - 4pm Bank Holidays 10am - 5pm... Read review

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Advantages: Category Assistants at Ciao.U.K.
Disadvantages: only DM 20.- for the best 50 opinions at Ciao.de

...://www.ciao.com/memberview.php?MemberId=476786&xid=05cb3b6a51eb10eb49226b5f675d917b96 There you can find a picture of myself, too. Thank you for reading my short opinion. Greets from Stuttgart/Germany to the whole U.K.! If anybody by sheer chance knows Caroline Pearson from Bexhill on Sea, then send her my best regards; she was my first love – 23 years ago...... Carpe noctem, jabber... Read review

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Advantages: Variety of Flavours, Reasonable prices, Suitable opening Hours
Disadvantages: Not much to see other than a field of cows and statues made out of hay

...Having been stuck at a loose end on a saturday Morning my boyfriend and I decided on a drive to Nantwich to have a walk around Bridgemere Garden Centre and Stapeley Water Gardens. We had passed Snugbury's which is located on the Chester A51 outside Nantwich a few times but never stopped to take a look but this weekend I managed to persuade him otherwise, plus I was hungry......... I have to admit that I am not a huge fan of Icecream but Snugbury's is delicious, they have over 30 flavours that are constantly changing and cost GBP1.50 for a large sugar cone and 2 scoops of ice cream. I opted for the banana caramel option which was heavenly not too sickly, my boyfriend however chose the lemon meringue flavour and also stated how nice the flavour was. It is free to visit Snugbury's farm and not only do they serve cones but they also... Read review

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Advantages: Intellectual, Intriguing
Disadvantages: A Little Boring

...I'm quite fond of quiz shows and will watch most including The Egg Heads. The show has been running since 2003. The shows format hasn't changed and neither has its channel (BBC) but it time has, originally it was aired at 12:30 but now it is shown at 5:30 pm - a slightly more prominent slot in my opinion. The shows format is very simple, but not overly exciting (to say the least) - a normal amateur 5 person quiz team take on the ultimate and slightly eccentric quiz team (The Egg Heads) composed of • Chris Hughes, the rural, steam trainer fanatic (a winner of master mind and international mastermind in the 80's, and Brian of Britain in 2005) • Kevin Ashman, the middle of the road man (a Mastermind, Brian of Britain, and 15-2-1 winner) • CJ De Mooi, the young cocky one (a 51-2-1 winner) • Daphne Fowler, the one... Read review

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