Advantages: Near Cebu City and Mactan with its Resorts and Hotels - good connection by commuter ferry transportation
Disadvantages: Overpriced packages offered by some tour operators!

...between the barangays and sitios in the island. The island's main roads are mostly sandy. There are seven barangays in Olango Island, and it has a total land area of 954 hectares. Santa Rosa's area is 321 hectares and has about 4,500 inhabitants making it the largest barangay and the gateway to the island. Olango Island belongs to the City of Lapu Lapu in Mactan. The island has its own electric power plant also in Santa Rosa. Olango's rock base is coral limestone and littoral flats with thin sand or silt substrate and exposed rock base. The alluvium occupies mostly the coastal area of the island. Most of the 920 hectares is composed of calcareous sand, derived from the weathering of the limestone mixed with shell fragments. Olango Island has relatively few plant species. In the sanctuary, there are 27 species of mangroves; marine algae... Read review

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Advantages: New Technologys, Graphics Card, Intel Santo Rossa, Harddrive
Disadvantages: Looks and Weight

...design is its dummy button. If you ever have had a car which doesnt have all the extras you will find a few blank buttons. Yes this has one too. Enough about the looks though and I apologize to anyone who likes this laptops appearence and dummy button. PERFORMANCE This laptop is designed as an entertainment PC and it is one of the first to feature the Santa Rosa chipset from intel. For those not in the business that is the processer and it is the 4th version of the Intel Centrino processers. By buying a laptop with Santo Rosa means your getting a bit more than a flash processer, oh yes. By buying this laptop you will get the newer form of wireless internet (N) and a Windows Vista Ready graphics card ( although I strongly recommend against windows Vista as it isnt very good) This is also a Dual Core processer meaning alot faster management... Read review

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Advantages: Great taste
Disadvantages: A little pricey, somewhat high alcohol content

.... It is both produced and bottled by Kendall-Jackson Vineyards and Winery in Santa Rosa, California. For more information on this wine and other Kendall-Jackson products, please visit their website at www.kj.com.... Read review

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Advantages: A really little jewel you can't miss...
Disadvantages: The most important part of it it's his exterior view

..., and was chosen by a lot of artists as a temporary residence, like Leopardi, Shelly and Byron. I think that you must take a tour around it, in every road, above all the little one, you can find little but beautiful buildings, you can see through the houses windows Renaissance wall paintings, or vaults… Well let's return to the main subject of this op. Santa Maria della Spina is one of the first things that catches your attention by walking along the Arno (on the Lurgarno). It is situated near the Ponte Solferino, it is one bridge from the city main roads (Borgo Stretto and Corso Italia) where there is Palazzo Gambacorti, the municipality. (Easily reachable by feet) It was edified in 1230 as an oratory to protect the "ponte novo", a bridge linking S. Antonio and S. Maria road and it was called S. Maria del pontenovo. It is the result of a lot of works... Read review

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Advantages: Interesting facts
Disadvantages: none that I could think of

...the world. 5. Ripley owned one of the largest and most expensive collections of automobiles in the world, but he never learned to drive. 6. A memorial to Ripley stands in his hometown of Santa Rosa, California , in a church built entirely from one redwood tree. ****************************************************** Should you watch this show ? ****************************************************** Well if you are interested in facts like the one I have written about, do take a peek into Ripley's world . You will like it...... Read review

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Advantages: Read the review!
Disadvantages: Read the review!

...A Brilliant laptop, amazing price for the specification and ease of use. + A very sexy laptop! + Core 2 duo 1.8GHz + Nvidia 8400M GS 128mb Dedicated graphics + 120gb SATA Hard drive (room for improvement later) + 1.3MP Intergrated webcam and microphone + WIndows Vista home premium + Memory card reader slot + Very good battery life + Santa Rosa Centrino platform + HDMI Out Port + Multi feature DVD-RW Drive with Dual layer support + Scroll functions on mousepad - FN Key is where i say the CTRL Key should be as i usually get confused between the 2 - Pre-loaded software seem's to take up quite a bit of space - Drive came partitioned! - Tinny speakers with no bass at all! - Only the 8400 GS Instead of GT Overall i find this one amazing laptop! And i got a brilliant deal for this laptop, it seems well built and i personally think... Read review

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Advantages: Great screen Great keyboard Great make, Great quality
Disadvantages: Needs more RAM for the bigger games could do with bigger hard drive

...I got this laptop for Christmas and it has not broken down or crashed or done anything like that once yet. These are the laptops specs Intel Celeron M530 Santa Rosa Memory:1GB RAM Hard Drive: 80GB Hard Disk Drive Graphics Card: Mobile Intel GM960 Express chipset with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 Optical Drive: DVD SuperMulti, CD/DVD reader/writer for all types of CD/DVD discs Connectivity: Wireless LAN B/G, 3 x USB 2.0 Ports Operating System: Windows Vista Basic: Additional Software: Acer Empowering Technology, Acer Arcade, Norton Internet Security Trial, Adobe Reader, NTI CD Maker Display Size: 15.4" WXGA TFT Display with Acer CrystalBrite technology It has A microphone socket, headphones socket, expandable memory slot, projector output socket, printer output socket and a built in microphone. It is powered by windows... Read review

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Advantages: Scent, flowers, foliage, pric