mattthegreat

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Review date: February 23, 2008
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- mattthegreat updated 5 products
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Updated Linux
December 27, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Tapped as "love it"
Agreed: "Not all hardware is readily supported."
Agreed: "Most Windows programs aren't available in Linux versions"
Agreed: "Spawned many variations and distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.)"
Agreed: "Designed for multiple users because of UNIX roots"
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Updated Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron"
December 27, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Agreed: "Has all the ui gimmicks you could want "
Agreed: "Open source so that anybody can inspect the code"
Agreed: "Very helpful community"
Agreed: "Free alternatives to almost any 'commercial quality' programs."
Agreed: "Very secure operating system (also for viruses, etc)"
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Updated Mac OS X Leopard
December 27, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Disagreed: "its just too awesome to a point where you cant handle it, and commit suicide"
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Updated Microsoft Windows XP
December 27, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Agreed: "Stable and reliable in the hands of a power user"
Agreed: "Poor security out of the box"
Agreed: "No virus checker included"
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Updated Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
December 27, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Agreed: "Simple installation"
Agreed: "Very secure"
Agreed: "Stable"
Agreed: "Not suitable for musicians as Aero introduces latency issues with ASIO. Focus on consumer => graphics, graphics, graphics and not much else"
Agreed: "Vista Ultimate version was vaporware, no worthwhile extras came out to justify the premium"
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- mattthegreat updated NZXT Hush
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December 17, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Agreed: "choice of either black or silver finish"
- mattthegreat updated 3 products
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Updated NZXT Hush
December 16, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Disagreed: "annoying blue light"
Agreed: "no removable motherboard tray"
Agreed: "no-frills interior"
Agreed: "noise reducing dampening foam works as advertised"
Agreed: "well constructed, sturdy front door panel"
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Updated Microsoft Xbox 360
December 16, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Disagreed: "Very loud fans and disk drive"
Disagreed: "Games can be expensive ($60)"
Agreed: "NetFlix is limited to the United States "
Agreed: "Avatars are pretty lame "
Agreed: "Optional installation of games to the hard drive works great "
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Updated Sony Playstation 3
December 16, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Agreed: "No backwards compatibility on the 40GB model"
- mattthegreat updated Sony NWZ-A720
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August 23, 2008 at 5:52 am
Tapped as "want it"
Tapped as "love it"
- mattthegreat updated Sony NWZ-A820
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August 8, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Tapped as "love it"
Tapped as "want it"
Disagreed: "Overpriced"
Agreed: "Not a touch screen"
Agreed: "Small screen"
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- mattthegreat updated 4 products
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Updated Windows Live Messenger
August 6, 2008 at 7:16 am
Agreed: "lots of features"
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Updated Windows Messenger
August 6, 2008 at 7:16 am
Agreed: "can't see photos"
Agreed: "not many features"
Updated Firefox
August 6, 2008 at 7:13 am
Agreed: "v3 Default theme sports obnoxiously large and glossy back button "
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Updated Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
August 6, 2008 at 7:12 am
Disagreed: "Takes up a lot of background resources for gamers making games almost unplayable at high graphics"
Agreed: "User friendly"
- mattthegreat updated Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron"
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June 28, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Tapped as "love it"
Tapped as "have it"
- mattthegreat updated 3 products
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Updated Microsoft Windows XP
June 27, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Tapped as "have it"
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Updated Apple iPod Touch
June 27, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Agreed: "Lame chrome back."
Disagreed: "Too big harddisk for me"
Agreed: "Context-sensitive on screen keyboard works very well."
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Updated Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron"
June 27, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Disagreed: "Missing drivers for most new hardware."
- mattthegreat updated 2 products
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Updated Apple iPod Touch
June 23, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Tapped as "want it"
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Updated Star Office
June 23, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Agreed: "Not quite as many features as MS Office"
Agreed: "Can download for free through Google Pack"
- mattthegreat updated 2 products
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Updated Microsoft Xbox 360
June 22, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Agreed: "Slow to fix and return broken consoles"
Agreed: "Prices of Xbox360 Marketplace items are steep"
Agreed: "Xbox Live integration makes you feel connected with the community"
Agreed: "Great titles on Xbox Live! Arcade"
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Updated Sony Playstation 3
June 22, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Agreed: "Very solid hardware reliability"
- mattthegreat updated 2 products
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Updated Opera
June 20, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Tapped as "have it"
Tapped as "love it"
Agreed: "Less CPU usage than Firefox"
Agreed: "Tabbed browsing with more than 100 open tabs"
Agreed: "Integrated spell checker (with presence of GNU Aspell)"
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Updated Firefox
June 20, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Disagreed: "Memory usage and load time are significantly slower than IE."
Agreed: "Firefox V2 crashes semi-regularly and uses a lot of computing resources"
Agreed: "Websites designed with proprietary IE/Active X code may not render correctly"
Agreed: ""Awesome bar" learns and adapts according to the frequency and recency of pages you visit"
Agreed: "In page searching and highlighting is powerful and straightforward. Just slash and type, or F3 refind: easy!"
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- mattthegreat updated 3 products
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Updated Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
June 7, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Disagreed: "Takes up a lot of background resources for gamers making games almost unplayable at high graphics"
Agreed: "GUI looks pretty fancy"
Tapped as "want it"
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Updated Apple iPod Touch
June 7, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Agreed: "Only one color available"
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Updated Sony Playstation 3
June 7, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Agreed: "Online not as good as Xbox Live"
Agreed: "Games are required to be on proprietary blu-ray discs"
Agreed: "Four USB ports on the 80G box."
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Joined on Feb 23, 2008
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Reviews Written 21
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