Advantages: Lovely Aroma. Nice Bottle
Disadvantages: A tad Expensive

...One of the most highly revered gins is Bombay Sapphire Gin- a British gin in the so-called "" London Dry" style. It comes in a most attractive blue looking bottle but the sapphire blue colour actually comes from a plastic film-the bottle itself is a white transparent colour. Why do much respected magazines and reviewers give such a high rating to Bombay Sapphire Gin ? It cant be for the sapphire blue plastic film can it ? No most decidely it is do with the gin itself ! This English gin is actually made with no less than ten natural botanicals and this is reputedly the most of any gin. The botanicals include the likes of paradise, almonds,lemon peel,licorice,juniper berries, cubeb berries,orris,coriander,angelica, cassia bark and 100 per cent grain neutral spirits. These botanicals are what give the gin its flavour so now you can... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, superb graphics
Disadvantages: Expensive

...The ATI RADEON 9800xt has a new video processing unit called the R360, it was manufactured on a 0.15 micron process with 115 million transistors and has a VPU speed 412 MHz, the onboard memory has raised from 128mb to 256mb running at 730 MHz and capable of delivering up to 23.3 GB per second. The top of the card has a copper plate, covered with rolled copper fins, and top by a plastic cover, the bottom also has a copper plate used to absorbed heat from memory modules. This video card has a very big fan and it adjusted according to the cores temperature and includes a thermocouple to monitor the card’s temperatures. The Sapphire includes all of the complementary hardware you need, including a power extension, a DVI-to-VGA adapter and an S-Video to composite output for the television plus a Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness and coupon... Read review

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Advantages: No trouble with latest games, cool and quiet
Disadvantages: Does not have DirectX10

...I bought this card about a month ago and since then I have had sufficient time to test it and see if my money was well spent, here is my short review of the Sapphire Radeon X1950PRO. The Radeon X1950 Pro was designed to replace ATI's older midrange card, the Radeon X1800 GTO. With a 580 MHz core clock speed and 512MB of GDDR3 RAM running at 1,4GHz, the Radeon X1950PRO boasts a faster core clock and memory speeds than the Radeon X1800 GTO. Like most midrange to high-end graphics cards, the Sapphire Radeon X1950PRO requires a link to your PC's power supply. Most PCs with a 300-to-400-watt power supply should be able to handle a single card, and ATI recommends at least a 550-watt power supply for CrossFire mode. The Sapphire Radeon X1950PRO's fan runs very quiet under stress and did not generate too much heat which was perfect for me. I... Read review

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Advantages: Great deep plots and good acting, weird!
Disadvantages: Do you understand what's going on?

...“All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension”. So started each episode of Sapphire and Steel, that wonderfully crap ITV sci-fiction attempt from the late 1970s / early 80s. This was ITVs low budget answer to all the Star Trek series that America was churning out to such success at the time. Well, I used to love Sapphire and Steel, simply because it was so different, so baffling, you felt this must be a programme on another intellectual plane from the one the rest of us are on. And make no mistake it was popular at the time, lasting several series, and even getting a comic strip in Look-In magazine (remember that!?) Basically, Sapphire (played by Joanna Lumley) and Steel (David McCallum) are time detectives. They are part of the elemental body guards who are ensuring that time travels... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap value video card
Disadvantages: Slower than others

...Finally I can replace my old vdeo card with a new one. I choose The Sapphire 9200se because I heard a lot of good reviews about it. The Sapphire 9200se is one of the top models in video card and I was able to purchase it for 18 bucks on a local shops. Installing this product is a breeze I just inserted it to the AGP slot and screw it on, The video card has a large heatsink instead of fan. After that I quickly install the graphics driver the setup is automatic and the installation process is over in minutes. This product is compatible with Direct X 9.0 and older versions. My PC system has an Athlon XP 3000+ processor, ASUS motheboard and 1Gb of PC 2700 ram. I’m expecting that the sapphire 9200se would deliver me some imressive results. I tried some games in it and I was impressed by it’s capabilities, It runs smoothly on warcraft... Read review

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Advantages: Inexpencive, very clean and easy to use.
Disadvantages: May not satisfy the EXTREME climber.

...5.Tens have gave me nothing but good, ever since i bought a pair of these Sapphire 5.Tens they have lasted me for almost 2 years. I live close to a climbing location so I climb at least once a week. These shoes have excellent souls, and are very comfortable on your feet. They have Stealth grip on them which basically means that the great is outragiously good. I would definately recommend these shoes to a friend no matter what experiance they have had. These shoes are definately made for anyone who climbs, experienced or not. The laces make it easy to adjust to the exact shape of your foot. These shoes wil definately get some "Oohs and Awws" from your buddies. I have been climbing for 5 years now and these have had to be the best shoes I have had.... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, Good for multimedia PC.
Disadvantages: Poor performance in high level gaming.

...This Sapphire Radeon X1550 is a simple PCI Express graphics card with 512MB of DDR2 onboard memory. With a retail price of around $89, it is quite affordable. The GPU heat is quite low as many other entry-level graphic card. The 512MB of DDR2 memory does get warm to the touch, but nothing too alarming so it's okay to keep the memory naked. The fan is not making noise too. Conclusion : This card performed exactly as I expected. If you play the occasional game at lower resolutions with minimal to medium details, frame rates are half decent. Higher gaming detail and resolutions are too much for this small video card. For this use you should go grab higher level cards. The best use for this is for multimedia card.... Read review

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Advantages: Exclusivity (produce of England)
Disadvantages: ?

...Bombay Sapphire royalty amongst other English distilled Gins. The dry gin is distilled from 100% grain spirit from a 1761 recipe. And sold at 40% proof by vol. THE PROCESS The incomparable taste of Bombay Sapphire is the result of ten carefully selected botanical ingredients coupled with a unique distillation process distillation process. Unlike some gins, which “boil” their botanicals together with the spirit, Bombay sapphire distils its spirit slow. The spirit vapour from the distillation then gently passes through a copper basket containing the botanicals. This infuses the subtle aromatic flavour from each of the ten botanicals into the spirit for a cleaner, crisper, more botanical taste. Find out more at www.bombaysapphire.com THE INGREDIENTS include almonds, lemon peel, and liquorice from Spain. Juniper berries, Oris root from... Read review

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Advantages: Taste
Disadvantages: Not cheap

...thing kicked off and we started to drink in rather less divey places. Suddenly bars were stocking a range of gins in the way that they used to only display whiskeys. Much to my shame, I really only tried Bombay Sapphire because it was in a really pretty bottle. I was gutted to discover that it was only a blue film on the bottle. The taste though was quite a revelation. Bombay Sapphire is based on a recipe dating back to 1761. It is quite a complex taste and is made up of a greater range of flavours than most other gins (10 botanicals mixed in a secret balance combination, most gins have about 6). There is a clear prescence of almonds. Design harks back to the age of empire and pictures Queen Victoria and the drink's Indian origins. I find it a very crisp taste and more refreshing than other gins. You are not aware of a strong flavour... Read review

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Advantages: Loyal and friendly
Disadvantages: none

...I have got two cats, Domino is white with black spots and Sapphire is pure black with huge green eyes. They arent pedigree or anything like that. We found them in a council dump in a cardbox box about 10 years ago, my dad had taken some rubbish to the tip and he heard them miaow as he was about to shut the door and squash the rubbish, meaning they would have been in there and died. So we tooke them in. Domino is male and he is really protective over me, if Sapphire shows her claws he chases her away which is really good. He is the one who chases the birds but never catches them, he isnt quite quick enough my nick name for him is "dippy dom". Sapphire is afraid of some human's we think it is because she was treated so badly when she was a kitten, she runs away if you get to close to her and if she doesnt want you to stroke here she... Read review

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