Acer Aspire S3 Review

The Acer Aspire S3 looks very nice in the product photos, and it is often associated with Ultrabooks because this type of design, which is inspired from the Macbook Air, has been used by many PC manufacturers in their recent designs. I like the new look very much, and I have been pretty bullish about Ultrabooks, at least much more than I ever was about Netbooks. Although Ultrabooks often share a similar hardware platform from Intel, they differ more than one may think, and depending on how they were designed, the end-user experience can be very different from one model to the next, so don’t let the superficial resemblance fool you. In this review, I will tell you how it felt to use the Acer Aspire S3 and we will look at what I felt was its strengths and weaknesses. Ready?

 

Review: Fallout: New Vegas

Welcome back to the wasteland. As the game starts out, you are brutally "murdered" by a cheeky fellow in a checkered suit with a pretty pearl .45. You wake up in a rundown town called Goodspring in their doctors house. (Yeah you weren't "murdered" but you were shot in the face). There are many mysteries and side quests that the player may complete as their leisure. They can run through the campaign or take their time doing every stinking side quest. You can literally spend DAYS playing this game, I know I have already clocked in over a week or two of play time. The game is about the same if you have played the first Fallout. You also don't need to have played the first Fallout to understand the story of this Fallout game, all though I think you should play it in my opinion. The story in that one is a wee bit better in my eyes.

Playability, the one world that should be present in any game ever created. You know why all those other crappy games went down onto the this game sucks big mansticks is because of playability. Call of Duty is such a good game because people can keep replaying it. The exact same thing with this game, you can first play as a good character, then replay as a bad character or a neutral character. Wipe out one faction save the other.

• Protip: Get a companion as fast as you can and carry anything of value, i.e. guns, armor, meds/drugs, or any other miscellaneous items you may find on your travels. You can really use those caps fast when you *SPOILER* buy lots of body implants that can greatly increase your stats. Each costs about 4K caps and the better ones can cost up to 8Kcaps! A good place to sell your crap is at the Gun Runners west of New Vegas, later on in the game they hold a fluffy 8K caps for you to sell stuff to.

 Hardmode: A motherless baby in need of a boob to suckle on, my god! Only play on hardmode if you have played the entire game, know what you are doing, and are brave enough to take on the mundane annoying ass tasks that hardmode requires. Constantly tired come on you wimp! Keep walking and shooting! Thirsty? Suck it up bitch, you think the military was thirsty at the Palau islands? Shit yeah they were, but we still kicked ass!

Summary of my rant, the game is definitely a buy. The game has good mechanics, re-playability, thrill, story, and deep characterization. I only wish that in Hardmode, it wasn't so annoying with the amount of crap you are always having to deal with. 

Review: Samsung Captivate

So after buying a droid and not liking it, yes I am a picky bastard, I bought a better newer phone. Awwww yeah! The Samsung Captivate smartphone. This thing has got balls of steel baby, best phone I have ever had in my entire life and with a little insight and trickery you can get around the crazy amount of charges that AT&T wants you to pay monthly.

GO-PHONE! I can't stress this enough for a smartphone if you rarely use a data plan. I am not an avid Facebooker or a ... Twitterer. (I usually only check my email when I get home anyways) So I was in no need for a $15 monthly fee for data I was never gonna use. I got a go-phone and as a college student I rarely use the phone feature too, mainly just for texting my peeps. Easy ass plan let me tell you. Works wonders, got the $1/day usage fee IF you use the phone that day then some other charges every minutes after, I don't know them since I don't use them. Then get the 1000 text message package for like $10. Boom, I spend just about $20 a month on a top of the line smartphone.

Now beyond my rant about my service provider and onto the phone! The phone is flippin' light! I compared it to the Droid and let me tell you, the Droid is like holding a brick while the Captivate is like holding a feather. I just bought a case on eBay for $5 to keep it from floating away. The screen is also very bright and the OS as a whole is very responsive. I enjoy the fact that it uses the Android OS since I think Apple is a bunch of pretentious buttfucks that duct tape everything they can down to keep you from doing something they don't want you to do. Android removes that tape with open source baby. Talk about an awesome OS, opensource, fast, light, and the app marketplace is already getting close to that of Apples.

• Protip: Turn the screen brightness down all the way, even if you don't have the Captivate. Keeping the brightness low may make it harder to see, but trust me you'll get used to it. The battery lasts an additional day or two with the brightness down to low.

• Protip: Turn off 3G if you aren't using a data plan like me, to do it on the captivate. Dial "*#*#4636#*#*" that should bring you into the phones maintenance mode, click phone information, and change it to GSM only. Boom, no more 3G charges up the ying-yang. 

From just following those tips, my phone only needs to be charged about once a week, and I use it EVERY day. Amazing!

In summary, best phone I have ever had in my entire life. Suck it iPhone buttfags!