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Magellan Roadmate 3120 review - "retro" review challenge in 5 minutes or less

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Here's the results of a "5 minute review challenge" a lot of people are doing lately: I did this when I was on my tablet with limited connectivity on a extensive 10 hour road trip. The challenge was to get it done in 5 minutes while also taking pics of certain areas of a product that's typically hard to review and think of on the spur of the moment. Also the "retro" reviews are getting quite common specially with stuff that's off the beaten path like GPUs units, old consoles, old networking hardware, phones, etc... Enough with the intro and here we are at the actual review! Note: from this point on nothing has been alltered from a raw notepad file typed on my tablet since the 3G was cutting out a lot (backwoods west virginia can do that to yah lol) Magellan roadmate 3120 the magellan roadmate 3120 is a great midtier gpus unit that has a great ui, fast signal, decent amount of features, and is affordable and fun to use. accuracy on eta d...

Virginia Beach, VA denny's quick review 07.20.12

Virginia Beach, VA denny's quick review 07.20.12 intro: greeted wierdly, wasn't seated promptly and there were plenty of empty tables, our table wasn't even cleaned off very good, took a very long time just to get drinks! wifi was there but it was filtered and blocked a couple tech news forums I visit that aren't malicious or that bad. took 12 minutes to connect as well order 1: mine: it was some kinda tilapia and it tasted good, it came with cheesy taters and they weren't all that great. food rating 3.7/5 order 2: sis: burger without bun (gluten intolerance) it tasted good to her but not the best it could have been. food rating 4.5 /5 service: very slow and disorganized, everyone there was, nobody was taking care of the diners and a mom next to use got restless and her kids were crying becuase they were hungry and thirsty and she took 20 minutes to get thier drinks and the kids were screaming loudly. I felt sorry for them becuase I was equally as frustrated...

Best Western Plus Newport News Inn & Suites review for 07.19.12 stay to 07.22.12

Best Western Plus Newport News Inn & Suites review for 07.19.12 stay to 07.22.12 Stay location:Newport News, Virginia Stay duration: 07.19.12  to 07.22.12 Room rate: 95USD/Night totalling approx 275USD Please note: I did not do the booking, my mom did. I am unsure about total resolved (adjusted price) hotel notes: Best Western Plus Newport News Inn & Suites Pros: price was very low, availability, has wifi, has free breakfast,easy access to dining and shops and is a central Operations point to multiple area attractions, very easy to access offf freeway, very good layout, decent sized rooms, nice fixtures, plenty of tables, room felt secure, very courteous guests, decently fast elevator, smoking rooms are on top floor so you don't have to walk thru that if you don't smoke, well seperated rooms, responsive to wifi issues we had, changed room easy, parking was pretty decent. beds were decent, had a good bit of pillows and they were good,adequate bedding, A/C w...