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: Sleek, Light, Small, Modern
Disadvantages: Poor games, Small buttons

...The Siemens M50 in my opinion is a modern mobile phone. Its small (110mm long, 45mm wide), lightweight (90g with battery) and sleek looking. However it only comes in two colours – blue or orange (the blue looks more sophisticated, the orange stands out) The buttons on the phone can take some getting used to – especially if you are like me and went from a Nokia 3310 to the Siemens M50. The power off / hang up button is also small. However, the mobile has “magic buttons” so that you can access games, for example, fast and easily with just one press of a button. The M50 has a very good diary and reminder function. I often use this function to remind me of birthdays or anniversaries or even business meetings. The alarm clock is also a good function if you use it regularly. You can select what days you want the alarm to be activated... Read review

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Advantages: Small, cool design
Disadvantages: Very small Ah battery

...I don’t think I am Siemens addicted but all my phones till now are from this brand. I just like them so much and I think they give me best what I need from a mobile phone. One of my favourites is Siemens M50. It’s just 97 g and it has an ideal size for me - 109 x 46 x 23 mm. I am spending my days travelling here and there I found it’s very easy to keep it in my pocket and to be sure that I don’t forget it somewhere. The M50 has a very good diary and reminder function too, which helps me in my daily routine. The organizer functions are quite good as you can use the alarm to remind you of important things. The main colors for this phone are in Chromium Blue or Orange and I personally like the blue one. Some functional details: The Sims card for the M50 can hold 250 telephone number entries, which could be grouped together... 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: Still going strong after four years; superb resolution
Disadvantages: It's not a flat screen

...I am sooooo not technical and I wrote the accompanying HP Pavilion PC review to this product in a "non-teccie" style that seemed to appeal to most people who left a comment on it. Given that review's success in style and accessiblilty of information, I am happy to do the same for this relating product. (Which is good because you're dealing with someone who has to get his wife to set up the Playstation if I need to move it from the bedroom to the back-room). WHAT'S THIS THEN? It's not a television or a microwave. It's a monitor - the device you're using at the moment to read this review on. The M50 as a product is about six years old and I picked mine up in March 2000 because it was bundled in with HP Pavilion 6712 (see previous review). So as far as the M50 goes I had no choice in the matter, but sometimes having no choice... Read review

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Advantages: Reliable product
Disadvantages: Not flat screen

...So my ACER flat screen monitor at work gave up the ghost last week and Bob the IT Donut said that I could have a replacement flatscreen monitor but it would take 7 - 10 days until it was here. In a sinister manner, he leaned forward and whispered in my ear: "follow me, Wayne". I picked up a pen with which to stab him in case things got a bit tasty and followed him out of the office. We went a place in the basement affectionately called "the dungeon" and he showed me his wares! "Take your pick", Bob said as I surveyed the treasure before me. Keyboards, mice, computers, monitors piled dungeon ceiling high and standing room only! I picked out a Hewlett Packard M50 monitor, which is very similar to the one I have at home, though with a slightly different spec. I'm writing this review in a "non-teccie" style, and I hope you... Read review

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Advantages: Compact, Great Value!
Disadvantages: Touchpad can be annoying.

...Unfortunately, the Equium M50-244 wasn't my first choice of laptop - I learned to regret that. I was given a basic Advent as a gift; it was ok for about a month, then one day simply stopped. No explanation. Since it was a gift, we returned it and ended up with an "upgraded" Advent. No more than a month later - the SAME THING HAPPENED. When we returned to PC World, the Toshiba Equium was the next step up PRICEWISE, but spec wise, it was a downgrade. HA! I thought that the name Toshiba might offer a better product, thankfully I was right! However, I prepared myself for a slower computer, one that I would have to watch what I downloaded - would have to be careful about putting extra software on. I was SO wrong! From the minute I started up the Equium M50-244 it has been smooth sailing, very quick and it has surprised... Read review

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Advantages: Long battery life, it has so many features and very crispy screen, very robust.
Disadvantages: so far i cant think of any disadvantages because probably it doesnt have any.

...I bought this laptop in November 2005 for £749.99. Before i bought a Acer laptop which let me down a lot by its never ending troubles in laptop so i returned it the same day and got this TOSHIBA SATELLITE M50-159 after arguing with the manager at comet store because he did not want the acer laptop back when he knew that it was faulty so he still kept on arguing with me. Then after agreeing on exchanging with another laptop, I bought this laptop which was great the moment i took it out of the box. And since then, i have had no troubles with it, nt even a tiny problem in the laptop. The reason for no troubles is because its TOSHIBA. A TOP BRAND. The laptop is very fast when surfing on internet, playing games is great too, the battery life is alright because its more than i require, the design of the laptop is great too. I did not need... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, good-looking, small, easy to use
Disadvantages: didn't come with film, difficult to find extended life battery

...Yawn! Sorry, this opinion isn't going to be one of my most exciting but Pakalang suggested that I wrote an opinion about it after reading my Unbeatable op (so you all know who to blame!). I also must apologise for the 'untechnical' nature of my writing, I am a technophobe and as the title states this camcorder was designed for the likes of me!! I will actually ask Ciao to move this opinion as the VP-M50 is just an 8mm and not, as the category states, digital camcorder. My mission was to find a basic camcorder to take on holidays, nothing too flash (or nickable!) and as small and as cheap as possible. I did find one cheaper camcorder (by £20) but it was huge and very, very ugly! This camcorder was purchased from Unbeatable.co.uk (they come very highly recommended, see op for further details). It cost £222.50 from Unbeatable... Read review

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Advantages: Reliable
Disadvantages: Too large, sooooooooo 2000

...are they designed to look great and to work better with HP Pavilion PCs, but these technically advanced displays are super-easy to use and super-easy to customize based on your application needs and personal viewing style. You can choose from three budget-fitting models, so buy an HP Pavilion display to complement your HP Pavilion PC... You'll see the view is great. HP Pavillon M50, the one-touch display, tunes automatically and delivers the perfect picture on the15-inch display, the built-in speaker mounts give you a full-blown multimedia experience" I'd agree with most of this. The speaker mounts are OK but add to the width of the product and can prove cumbersome so Wayne bought some smaller, external speakers from Game for £25. Selected Specs: CRT - 15" Device Type Display / CRT Built-in Devices: Microphone Dimensions (WxDxH) 37.2 cm x... Read review

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