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Norton AntiVirus 11.0 For Mac

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from: Symantec

December 17, 2007
Norton AntiVirus v.11.0 works great for my PPC G5 Mac running 10.4.11. It installed without any issues, and it's cheap insurance considering all the threats on the Internet. I haven't found any viruses yet, but I do transfer files from my Win XP system - there I've found several in the past year. Bottom line - good peace of mind.

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LEARNING COMPANY The Oregon Trail, 5th Edition ( Windows/Macintosh )

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from: Learning Company


My family, old and young, enjoy this game very much. I recommend this game.

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QuickBooks Simple Start Plus Pack 2008

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from: Intuit

October 11, 2007
I was very happy with my purchase. It was a very good price, everything was packaged still new, and delivery was fast. Thank you.

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Halo: Combat Evolved

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from: Microsoft

September 30, 2003
I remember the big hype about Halo, when it was released. I would have bought it right away if my machine had fufilled the minimum requirements. Lucky me, I had to wait until now and could get the game for a low price. Here is why:
The graphics are not great. Even for the time Halo was released, the textures are not too detailed and the landscape looks like cut from cardboard. Unreal did almost as well in 1998. The story is good enough with three parties, each stiving to achieve their own goals. Also, the use of vehicles makes the game some fun. But the rather lame and very linear construction of the levels don't live up to the possibilities.
Multiplayer might be great with MODs, otherwise it is just slow and boring.
It was ok for ... Read More:

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BitDefender Antivirus 2008 - 2 Year/3 Pc's

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from: Bitdefender

August 31, 2007
So far I'm pleased with this product. It's non intrusive to the operating system and doesn't slow down the machine at all. It has done a good job of blocking what needs to be blocked and cleaning up the drives.

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Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION]

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from: Intuit

September 09, 2007
I should have listened to the other reviews on this one. I'm still a fan of turbotax, and thought, hey this should work well with it, but was I ever wrong. Fundamentally the product has the right features and reports but it just doesn't tally well, which is after all what financial software is supposed to do. I have spent 10-15 hours just trying to get a couple of accounts to tally accurately and they never do. Its not by some large margin, but a couple hundred bucks here and there and you start to lose trust in the accounting application's fundamental capabilities. At this point I'm resigned to use it account approximately and report on "roughly" the right numbers but that really just isn't good enough for what is supposed to be basic accounting software. ... Read More:

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Reel Deal Slots Blackbeard's Revenge

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from: Phantom EFX

September 02, 2008
I should have listened to the other reviews on this one. I'm still a fan of turbotax, and thought, hey this should work well with it, but was I ever wrong. Fundamentally the product has the right features and reports but it just doesn't tally well, which is after all what financial software is supposed to do. I have spent 10-15 hours just trying to get a couple of accounts to tally accurately and they never do. Its not by some large margin, but a couple hundred bucks here and there and you start to lose trust in the accounting application's fundamental capabilities. At this point I'm resigned to use it account approximately and report on "roughly" the right numbers but that really just isn't good enough for what is supposed to be basic accounting software. ... Read More:

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Art of Murder: FBI Confidential

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from: City Interactive

July 29, 2008
I thought this game was great! The story was intriguing the dialogue was good and the main character is hot!! I was totally impressed.

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Rollercoaster Tycoon 3

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from: Atari

October 26, 2004
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 is a great game with great features, and it is very fun. I enjoy playing it a lot.

BUT, some of the controls are hard to use, and the instruction manual doesn't help much. The staff management is annoying, but you get used to it. Also, on some computers, it is slow. You need lots of memory, horsepower, etc. Also, difficult to learn at first.

Still, the game itself is fun, without the several bugs. Not suitable for very little kids.

4 stars for kids 10 and up

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The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth 2

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from: Electronic Arts

February 28, 2006
Overall, this is a good game and a vast improvement over the first BFME. The inclusion of the dwarves and elves as races makes the skirmish mode more interesting.

There were a couple of things that were disappointments. First of all, I have to say that the graphics, even when set on ultra high were very disappointing and EA made no effort to improve them since the last game. The graphics where blocky and the characters' faces were all blurred out.

The largest problem was that if you are using any sort of nVidia graphics card this game usually WON'T even start. When I went through the EA support system they said, "try rebooting and enter this code." Needless to say, that didn't work. I then went to nine other third-person forums where I ... Read More: