Epinions Recent Reviews for Clive_Conway

Nespresso LeCube--Stylish, compact, easy and tasty too!

Wed, 5 Dec 2007 03:02:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - Strong, sweet tea is my drug of choice, but I am very partial to my lunchtime caffe latte, hot and rich. I recently found myself working at home for a few months, but constantly drawn to local watering holes for my lunchtime latte. Why not get a coffee...

Apple (M9270LL/A) (M9270LL/A 1002500): The second best keyboard available for PC or Mac

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:13:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - I must admit, I am a bit of a keyboard tragic. I have spent countless hours of my life testing keyboard after keyboard searching in vain for the perfect action. And frankly, I am appalled at most modern keyboards, with their soft, squidgy, imprecise...

Pretty close to the perfect laptop in Dec 05

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:57:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - [For full specs and feature description please refer to your local Acer website. Specifics vary from country to country, and I prefer to focus on things which are relevant to your purchasing decision and my feelings about the machine] As usual, my...

Lovely machine with one odd, maybe fatal, flaw

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:07:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - As with most of my reviews, I am not going to give you a run-down of all the features and specs of the Ferrari 4005, as that's all available on Acer's website and any number of other reviews on Epinions. Instead, I'm going to cut to the chase and tell...

Apple's own iPod killer

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:01:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - Call me a Luddite if you will (okay, okay, stop now) but I never really ‘got’ the Sony Walkman thing. I really love music of every variety (except, of course, country and western), and thoroughly enjoy listening to a very good audio system, so listening...

Second best 2MP camera?

Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:15:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - This is obviously a rather dated review. Latest digital camera articles are posted first at http://eebahgum2.blogspot.com/
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The Jungle Book 2: If you think like a child you'll appreciate JB2

Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:37:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - Reading adult reviews of children's films is always amusing. And there are some great penetrating reviews of JB2 here on Epinions that amused me no end, because most of the criticisms you could make of this film are precisely the things which make it so...

Astonishingly beautiful.

Thu, 17 Apr 2003 04:12:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - Hildegard von Bingen was one of the greatest women of history. Born at the end of the 11th century and living into her 80s, Hildegard became Abbess of the nunnery at Bingen, but she was a person of many talents. Theology, music and poetry were amongst...

Look past the violence if you can

Wed, 9 Apr 2003 23:21:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - It can't be overlooked--this film is incredibly violent. Whether it is gratuitously so, however, depends on your perspective.

Somehow, American violence in films tends to be different from that in many Brit films. American filmic violence...

Let's not get too excited now

Thu, 3 Apr 2003 03:17:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - I was surprised when I read the other reviews about this Compaq laptop. All the praise seemed a little over the top, and when I read comments about how fast it was, I had to laugh.

Let's be realistic here--this is a 1.2 Gig laptop. It isn't...

Plans for the weekend? Why not sand with style?

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:24:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - For amateurs like me, it's not what you do with your tools, it's simply that you have them. That way, rather than having no plans for the weekend, you can spend all week telling people that you're going to restain the dining table, or polish up the...

Cosmo On Park Road: Great apartment hotel, great location

Thu, 12 Dec 2002 03:47:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - The Cosmo is not so much a hotel in the traditional sense as a series of small apartments. They are like hotel rooms, but have kitchenettes and in-built laundry facilities.

The place does have most hotel like facilities, such as spa/sauna,...

Please buy me one for Christmas!

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:12:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - Those of you who have read other computer reviews I’ve written will know that I periodically emphasise that the 3 most important things about a computer, whether laptop or desktop, are the things with which you interface, namely screen,...

In which I review the full range TS (GX), RX, RS and WRX

Mon, 9 Dec 2002 00:49:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - There I go doing it again, putting the same word in the Pros and Cons list, that word being 'value' in this case. More on that later...:-)

Lest you're as confused as I am about models in the Impreza range, let me try to clarify:

The...

The classic Saab, still desirable

Sun, 1 Dec 2002 21:38:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - The Saab 900 is an automatic classic. There's never been anything quite like it, and Saab, to their detriment, don't build cars with this sort of character any more.

But you want to be careful about cars with 'character'. Italian cars with...

Don't skip this review, or this rope

Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:22:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - Please note: Since this review was published Reebok have replaced this rope in Australia. The plastic rope reviewed may still be available in other markets or from old stock. The two new models are both leather ropes, and the smaller of the two, with...

Good car, but getting old and slow

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:29:49 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - Buying a new car recently was at once the most exciting and frustrating experience of my life. I remember being told by someone that when you bought a puppy, you could never tell if it would grow up to be a dog that dribbled incessantly, or didn't...

More bang, more bucks. Bargains to be had.

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:11:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - I hadn't played Tennis for a while, so was in the market for a new racquet. As a regular badminton player I already had the usual complement of injuries, including tennis elbow, so I was a little paranoid about shock absorption and so on.

And...

Almost a real telecaster...

Wed, 30 Oct 2002 04:33:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - I have to admit, I've always been a sucker for a Telecaster. There's something anachronistic about that old-fashioned styling which has always made them retro-cool to me. I'd die for a real Tele, but it'll probably be longer than that before I can afford...

The coolest PDA, but...

Tue, 29 Oct 2002 01:21:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - I won't bore you by going through all the technical specs for this PDA--others have done that already. I'll just tell you why you may or may not want one.

Fact is, it is really cool. Mine is metallic silver and makes everyone stare when I pull...

Hewlett Packard ScanJet 7400C Flatbed Scanner: The views of a commercial graphics user...

Tue, 29 Oct 2002 01:06:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - I'l come clean from the outset--I have an Epson scanner at home, a 1640 Photo, with sheet feeder and transparency adaptor. The Epson is superb, fast, quiet, and with tremendous quality--you'll find it reviewed elsewhere on Epinions.

So when it...

You've played the game, now watch Jolie

Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:04:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - I've read some the the reviews criticising this film--No depth or development, they say, and they're right. Weak and predictable story--yup. Lack of wit and humour when the movie is begging for one-liners and repartee--yup.

In a sense, all...

Pioneer 343/344/Old 525/535

Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:39:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - Model numbers vary in different markets, but as I see it, these are all variations on the same DVD player. It's a twin laser machine with the Viterbi circuitry doodad.

I'll get to the bottom line at the top for a change--you simply will not...

Can't afford the toys? Buy the mag!

Wed, 28 Mar 2001 01:30:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - This morning I needed to drive in to work and had a choice of three cars. In the old days that choice came down to the one I felt like driving. Now it's the one I think might make it there and back. Let's see, the old Saab has a shot transmission and is...

If you MUST have an external CD-RW...

Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:34:00 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Clive_Conway - SEE STOP PRESS BELOW.

I am one of those people they call "Road Warriors". My laptop and I are seldom parted, either at work or at home.

It became clear I needed a CDR drive for distributing files to clients and as a backup medium...