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MauritiusToday.com - Shopping Mall - National Geographic Maps: The Complete Collection
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List Price: $29.99
Our Price: $17.00
Your Save: $ 12.99 ( 43% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Topics Entertainment
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: TOPICS Entertainment
EAN: 0781735803127
Feature: This fully interactive guide will bring other parts of the world to life on your monitor - Full photo, video and audio enhancements to each map introduce you to the people and events that define a map
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Topics Entertainment
Manufacturer: Topics Entertainment
Model: CS-312s
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Windows 98
Publisher: Topics Entertainment
Release Date: 2002-11-25
Studio: Topics Entertainment
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Features
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This fully interactive guide will bring other parts of the world to life on your monitor - Full photo, video and audio enhancements to each map introduce you to the people and events that define a map
Learn all about People Of The Past, the wonders of space, the environment and war in the 20th century
An 8-CD collection that will bring the worlds and its different peoples to life!
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Editorial Reviews:
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National Geographic Maps: The Complete Collection takes you on a tour of the world by presenting you with a century's worth of vibrant, informative maps!
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: If you use a Mac, you're stone out of luck
Comment: The previews on this set are JPGs, so why did NG use some form of encoding for the main maps that makes them unreadable on a Mac? Other "Windows-only" CD collections don't, which means that even if we cannot access the interface (and, say, the search function), at least can see the content.
Shame on NG for excluding the rest of us in this way!
Customer Rating:
Summary: WORKS FINE WITH XP
Comment: NG Maps works fine with XP and XP Pro. In both, the user can
select a compatibility mode to emulate any MS OS from
Windows 95 to Windows 2000 and everything in between. The only
con with the program is it runs in low res mode. For people
who enjoy maps, swapping the disks won't be a problem. If you don't
know how to change the compatibility mode, try the "Help". All in all, the maps are great.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Avoid this product until it is fixed.
Comment: Beware!!! You will NOT be able to use this product on XP or XP Pro.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your money
Comment: I've tried installing this on two different computers. It "successfully" installed on my old HP laptop, but the software was absolutely terrible--unstable and very difficult to pull up maps when it wasn't crashing. The program just plain won't install on my new desktop (Athlon X2 3800+ dual core CPU, Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo, 2GB RAM, Windows XP Pro). All I get are error messages. If I could give this negative stars, I would. As a geographer, I'm sorely disappointed with NG for putting out this garbage.
Customer Rating:
Summary: What a disappointing experience!
Comment: These are some of the most wonderful maps in the world, especially from a historical geography perspective. But of what use are they in this format? It is difficult to search, impossible to browse effectively, and there is no way for an educator to present these images in any sort of useful format. I would suggest buying this collection only if you have hours of free time with nothing better to do than switch back and forth between 8 CDs for mild (but frustrating) entertainment with a nice glass of wine.
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