Daily Reviews Summary 11/27/08

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Need for Speed Undercover Review
bit-tech published a review of Need for Speed Undercover

The sprints, highway battles, races and escapes are all fine -- it's the largely dull and unimpressive environment they are all set in that quickly gets old. The 'golden hour' lighting effect which dusts the landscape of the game does a good job of making it look pretty, but you still eventually get the feeling that you've raced the same street over and over.

The Tri-City area is, in other words, remarkably devoid of landmarks as well as pedestrians and the fact that there are often good ten-minute stretches without any traffic to dodge through doesn't help.

At the start of the review we said that the two important keywords for the / /Need for Speed series are style and brevity. You could argue that 'speed' should belong there too, but it kind of goes without saying. The issue with //Undercover though is that it's started to show us just how shallow those things can be.

It quickly becomes obvious that when you finally do get under the covers with / /Need for Speed then it's all sack and no substance. That's not enough to impress my girlfriend and it's not enough to impress me either.
Need for Speed Undercover Review

Samsung's NC10 sub-notebook Review
bit-tech published a review of Samsung's NC10 sub-notebook

The Samsung NC10 is, quite simply, the best netbook money can buy at the moment. While there's no one feature that puts it head and shoulders above everything else out there, the combination of superb build quality and attention to detail gives the NC10 a distinct edge over the competition.

Things like the matte finish which doesn't attract fingerprints (I'm not a fan of the White, but there are Blue and Black variants as well though), the excellent keyboard and one of the best screens we've seen on a netbook to date just demonstrate the thought and effort Samsung has put into this little device.

Of course, there are downsides like the trackpad and accompanying buttons, which we would have preferred to be a bit bigger, and we can't forget the performance limitations imposed on netbooks. Forget about watching high-definition video and doing other CPU-intensive tasks if you're not prepared to wait because, like every other netbook out there, the heart of the NC10 isn't designed with high performance in mind. Instead, the Intel Atom processor inside this device is all about delivering / /good enough computing and that's exactly what the NC10 delivers.

Frankly, that's about all we have been able to come up with and, as far as I'm concerned, if that's all that is wrong with a device that costs less than £300 (including VAT) then we're onto a winner.
Samsung's NC10 sub-notebook Review

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