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Network World's Buyer's Guides bring together the critical information you need to make informed technology buying decisions. Save time and money by using the Guides to plow through information on the hottest IT products and trends - all in one place. The Guides are segmented by topic and subtopic, covering the essential product categories for enterprise IT networks, and are automatically updated so always contain the latest specs. You’ll also find comprehensive unbiased editorial content and test results to help you make your purchase decision. These in-depth guides include:
  • A powerful side-by-side Product Comparison Tool, along with comprehensive product specs and company data
  • An overview of product categories
  • Technology primers that define how products work
  • Market trends with current information about the vendors in the market, what their products do and where their products are headed
  • Buying tips to help you identify the important questions to ask to avoid pitfalls
  • Comprehensive Test and Review results from Network World's team of experts
  • And Best Practices for implementing what you buy

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My Brute for iPhone
My Brute is a fighting game with some role-playing game elements like leveling up and constant character improvement. As you level up you acquire new skills and weapons as well as more hit points and other stats. The only problem is that you have no control over any of it. What skills or weapons you get are totally random. In fact, the only thing you actually control is who to fight. Every battle is played out automatically with no controls--you just watch.

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Symantec's Backup Exec
Norton Ghost, meet Backup Exec. Backup Exec, meet Ghost. That's right: Symantec's Backup Exec System Restore 2010 Desktop Version ($70, as of 11/23/2009; BESR for short) is an imaging product based on Norton Ghost. But it's also a substantially improved version that offers a compelling new feature as well finally addressing my longstanding and deal-killing complaint about Symantec imaging products: their inability to back up using the boot disc.

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Gateway LX6820-01
Gateway's LX6820-01 is a sensible "next step up" in the company's LX series of desktop PCs. Compared with the company's $800 LX6810-01 value PC, the LX6820-01 gives you a little more power in the processor, significantly more hard-drive space, and increased frame rates for your games, all for a bit more cash (the price is $980 as of 11/15/09). The downside? Pitted against some of the bigger systems in the value PC arena, the LX6820-01 falls short in features and performance.

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