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 pallets full... Read review

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Advantages: looks good, most up to date LG phone on the 3 network
Disadvantages: takes a while to discover all the features

...The LG 8138 is the latest phone to be offered on the 3 network. It boasts a stylish silver flip top style handset and is pocket size so you can take it everywhere with you and catch snapshots at the click of a button. LOOKS This is my kind of phone. Silver base handset with the flip top illustrating a light blue colour. Measuring 4.8 cm width and a length of 9.5 cm with a depth of 2.5 cm the phone easily fits into your pocket and is a contemporary design which is eye catching. The LG 8138 boasts a colour front screen so you can store your favourite pictures on the front of your phone and these can be different from the colour photo that you can store on the screen inside your phone. FEATURES 1. Camera The camera is a swivel style on the top of your phone and there are 3 quality grades that you are offered. I think the quality... Read review

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Disadvantages: Addequate but outdated CPU

...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's Bios... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap upgrade, expandable memory, bluetooth
Disadvantages: Avg battery life, filmsy case, screen blanks out occasionally

...Originally I was on 3 with an LG U8138, but 9 months into my 12 month contract, they contacted me offering me an upgrade (already!) plus 9 months half price line rental. So I jumped at the chance. I was given a variety of rubbish phones to choose from for my upgrade phone, of which I considered the Motorola V3x and the Nokia 6280. In the end I chose the Nokia, simply because of it's expandable memoery and 2mp camara. The first phone arrived, in all it's shiny glory... I ripped the box open and started to play with the functions. Only to discover that memory card (it's a mini SD card) was not being recognised by the phone. I rung 3, who directed me to my local 3 sotre in Oxford Str. They said this was a common problem with the phone. So I asked for a replacement, however the store said because I got my Nokia over the phone, it... Read review

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Advantages: it's a mobile phone
Disadvantages: manufacturer problems

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

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Advantages: Good screens, decent camera, good reception and features
Disadvantages: Sometimes fiddly to use, no external memory, can't upload you own applications (or can you?)

...I've had a mobile for around 8 years now. I've also had about 16 phones and all bar three of them have been Nokias. I like Nokia because I've kind of got used to it, but when my fiancée decided to get me a new mobile for my birthday this year she chose the LG 8138 for me. She has the older model which is the 8110 and I'd had a play around with that and I liked it so I wasn't too concerned. OK it wasn't Nokia, but then again a change is as good as a rest apparently. The phone design is clamshell type thats in silver with a blue fascia on it. Disappointingly you can't get any other colour scheme. I'd have liked to have been able to get a different colour fascia, maybe black or a deep grey as I like those colours with silver (my engagement ring is silver with a deep grey imprint on it), but alas I can't. Not a big setback, just... 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 type... Read review

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Advantages: Huge range of cars
Disadvantages: Disinterested sales team

...I usually make snap decisions about things I probably shouldn't, and buying a car was one of them. I saw the car (a 51 plate Ford Focus) on the website on the Saturday night, and went in to see the car on the Sunday. After a quick chat with my girlfriend, I decided to go ahead with it. The salesman didn't seem to interested, and as soon as I said I would buy the car, he took my details and that was that. Then I went to get my detaiuls taken for finance. This was the hard part, as I was waiting for more than 4 hours in the waiting area. The financial consultant I talked to was very helpful. He showed me the terms they could offer. I had a quick look over it and said yes. He asked me if I was sure, and then pointed out the APR of 24%. He advised me not to go for the deal, and that it would be cheaper for me to go elsewhere for finance... Read review

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Advantages: Great value traiffs, Phones are getting better, Clear bills, Coverage is on the increase
Disadvantages: None that i can say

...Well what can I say about Three Networks! Lots I think, some of it may have been said before and some may not have been said before. Well I have now been with Three, for 12 months. And I can say what a great 12 months it has been, I started off with my LG8110 phone, nice little phone it was, seeing that a lot of the others phones were really big. So no being with them for 12months, I have just had a free upgrade to the new LG8138, and this phone is even better than my last and also has longer battery life. Anyway let's get onto what you need to know. The network coverage, well 12 months ago was good, 12 months on the 3g coverage is even better, how do I know this you may ask. Well I use this phone for work, so I'm all over the place Birmingham, Southampton, Wales, Cornwall, and Norwich. I also use the phone on hands free in the car... Read review

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