REVIEW
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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