Advantages: Teaches maths, the alphabet. Light, easy to carry around,and cheap.
Disadvantages: None.

...With my little girls birthday being on christmas day, she always just gets money in most of her cards, so she can get whatever she wants. Just before Hollie-Rose started full time school, we went into town and she wanted a Laptop, I thought that it might help her with the alphabet and her numbers, so we got it. A big plus was that it was a Vtech toy. WHY V-TECH ++++++++++ As many of your know by my other reviews, I buy alot of Vtech toys this is because I think that Vtech toys are great, they are designed for children to learn as they play. Their toys are always brightly coloured, very tough and are very safe to play with. VTech was founded in 1976 in Hong Kong and the company products are aimed at children all ages,as years go buy, their toy's just get better and better. DESCRIPTION ++++++++++++ This Vtech laptop... Read review

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Advantages: Some brilliant imagery
Disadvantages: And your point was..........................?

...I've been meaning to read a Will Self book for a long time now, I thought it might sound impressive at parties if I could drop in the fact that I'd just read the latest Will Self book and said something suitably impressive like how the book was a singular and inquisitive commentary on modern contemporary living with a twist of age-old tradition behind each phrase taking the reader on a satisfying journey of discovery and adventure. Then I thought I never get invited to parties anyway and even if I did and I then said something like that, I'd probably get thumped! So I've stuck safely to my staple diet of modern day thrillers and police detective novels and decided to take a very safe route into the world of Will Self. "Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys" is a collection of short stories, 8 of them in all, and for all those... Read review

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Advantages: Great for child development, 10 different activities, even teaches basic spanish!!
Disadvantages: The repetetive music can be a bit annoying!

...My mum bought this for my little girl for Christmas, and she absolutely loves it. She is a massive fan of anything to do with Dora the Explorer and this is by far her favorite toy! It's a very sturdy, tough toy. Ours has accidently fallen off the table so many times and is still in prestigne condition. The only real downside to me is the repetetive background music - but compared to the positives of this toy, I think that's nothing really. The main reason she likes it is because when I'm on my computer she can be like mummy and plays on hers at the same time! She thinks it's a real laptop like mine cause it even has a mouse!!! The main reason I like it is not only does it keep her quiet for hours on end, but it's very educational also! It boasts ten interactive games to keep your child amused . These teach your children - Letter... Read review

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Advantages: Great viewing, learn alot about the real side of wwf, overall fun for all the family
Disadvantages: Not on long enough lol.

...Vince McMahon…the owner of the World Wrestling Federation, which is the biggest, most popular organisation around in the history of wrestling entertainment, has done it again. What is Tough Enough? With the success Wrestling is having around the world and the success Big Brother was, what a great idea to involve the two into a new show. From 13 chosen contenders, one man and one woman would train with professionals to become a wrestler and then hopefully become Tough Enough and be presented with a years contract with the World Wrestling Federation. How could you apply? To join all you had to do was read the code of conduct *all 7 pages of it* and fill in the application form saying why you should be accepted for a try out and all the other usual questions on an application... Read review

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Advantages: Different, interesting even if you don't like pro wrestling
Disadvantages: Only an hour a week when there is so much potential material

...into the pro wrestling family. As they progress (or not!) each week one person is eliminated until only a handful remain who will move onto a grand final resembling the Academy Awards to finally win their dream contract. One of the Chris's has already had some wrestling experience, but this is no help to him as the WWF seems to have a unique style, not to mention that their trainers hate the idea of teaching things already known, he has to unlearn and then relearn everything, perhaps making the task the most difficult for him. Speaking of the trainers, they are all famous, well established pro wrestlers themselves who, not being as young as they used to be, train many new talents as they begin to wrestle less and less. They are Al Snow, Jaqueline, Tazz and Tori. They all seem very tough, not just physically though, they cannot stand nay... Read review

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Advantages: Very robust, large screen & a solid performer!
Disadvantages: Fairly large and can get quite hot.

...I bought this laptop almost a year ago and have not had a problem with it to date. The design of the laptop is aimed at robustness and portability... all the hardware has been installed with the 'travelling salesman' at mind. I purchased this item as necessary equipment for my university course instead of buying a university recommended IBM ThinkPad. After much research I found that the IBMs tended to be a lot less reliable and the dell had good reviews all round - I have no been disappointed! The D600 does everything my home PC can do and more, with a lot less problems. The laptop/notebook is not the cheapest out there but the value for money and quality of the product is excellent! The only drawbacks I have found is that the hard-drive does get hot and you can feel this when you are typing; the heat is not uncomfortable however... Read review

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Advantages: Sturdy, made by IBM
Disadvantages: Doesnt look all that good next to the likes of Sony

...In November last year, I bought an IBM ThinkPad 600 Laptop computer. It is second hand, but only just over a year old. It cost £500 incl VAT and this is what I got for my money? PII 300 Processor 64 MB Ram 5 Gig HDD 24x CD-Rom 13.3? screen 56K modem I needed a laptop for work, so was looking for something that isn't afraid of getting carted around. Now, I know that's the general idea of laptops, but these days they seem to be built to look good and not to be durable when carrying them around. That's fine if you leave your laptop on your desk all the time, but this needs to be carried around a lot, and in any case, I've got the desktop PC which sits on my desk! First of all, fashion conscious people will not like the IBM series of laptops. They are built to be durable and tough, not in the slightest to look good... Read review

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Advantages: Good list of features, slim, light and good value!
Disadvantages: No DVD-RW drive, no floppy, no volume keys, little software included.

...Firstly I'd like to say that this is my works laptop so it is used daily for many hours a day. All that time it has been totally reliable! I have had this laptop for little over a month now. First impressions is that it looks very expensive and with all the equipment it has it is very slim and light. The quality as with most HP laptops is very good, it has a very nice black finish to it, however this can look greasy after use from sweaty palms. The display - The display on the whole is very good. It can be seen very well from all angles. It is sharp and displays the colours well. The brightness can be changed from the keyboard. The in between setting is just right. The screen has a maximum resolution of 1024 x 768 @ 24 bit colour, which is about right on a 15" TFT. One thing to note, the screen had NO dead pixels. In past... Read review

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Advantages: performance
Disadvantages: portability

...This HP Compaq laptop combines power with a good design and other great features to give you this fantastic business laptop. The laptop is Compaq’s Business Notebook 6715b, which you can probably guess from the name is designed and specifically made for business people, and so therefore comes with vindows vista business already in installed on it, this offers some extra features and programs compared to the other vistas and comes with Intervideo WinDVD, HP Quick Launch Button Software, HP ProtectTools Security Manager, HP Wireless Assistant, Synaptics Touchpad Driver, HP Backup and Recovery Manager, Roxio Easy Media Creator 9, HP OpenView Radia Management Agent, HP QuickLook. The design is really good too. It is all in one colour, which is usually something that puts me off laptops, however this all black laptop has a cool... Read review

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Advantages: Lightweight, Padded Laptop Compartment
Disadvantages: Looks too much like a normal laptop bag

...I bought a Laptop from Staples, and they had an offer at that point, if you buy a Laptop, you get the messenger bag for half price. So I got his bag for £25. There is a really good padded laptop compartment which easily protects the laptop from knocks and bangs. It is big enough to hold a 17" laptop easily; it has some space at each side so the laptop can not be hit easily. There is also another compartment in front of it that papers could be held in, at the moment it holds my laptop cooler easily, so could hold quite a bit in. This has some padding, but it is only on the side of the laptop. There is also another compartment right at the front. The front zips down to allow easy access to the areas within the compartment. Within this compartment there is a card holder, pen holder, a zipped compartment, and two Velcro down parts... Read review

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