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Originally to be titled Sony PS3 Island Vs. Microsoft Xbox Island, maybe because I didn't have a premium account, I had to change subjects since I was told I was not able to transport to one of those islands. Took me a while but I decided to use Dell and IBM.

I chose to visit Dell first and really liked it. The Island was really easy to explore, as in I was able to fly back to where I wanted to go most of the time. To help with that, Dell's space had many teleport stations leading to every island that Dell had. The way you would transport would be really cool! One would click on the poster, then it would tell you to sit on a pod that came out of nowhere behind you. You would sit and then you would teleport to the Island or place of choice.

A button an avatar would touch to teleport to other places.

Dell did a good job setting up ads for their gaming laptops (don't really recall any other product being advertised) because that was one of the things that kept popping into my head when I would think about Dell's space.

An XPS Laptop

Something I really liked was the fact that it was nicely built with the many interesting buildings and big domes with the logo Dell everywhere. Plus the fact that I was able to go to each island rather than not be able to go to some because I was not given permission to made me feel like Dell is showing you what they completely got, making everything accessible to the user.

Something I did not like about Dell's space would be the fact that it did not have as much information about Dell as I had hoped there would be. There were minor pieces of information, but nothing major like a new product coming out, or talks about Dell's next step into computers. All I know is that if somebody asked me if they should visit Dell's space on Second Life for more information about them, I would tell them they are better off reading the wikipedia page on Dell.

For my second Second Life space I'd checked out, I found a lot of things that I did not like about this place after wandering around aimlessly for an hour.
1, IBM's space was waaaaaaaay too big!
2. I was unable to get to certain islands because I did not have access to that island.
3. I kept getting lost everywhere all the time!
4. Boring!
5. WAAAY TOO BIG!

Maybe its because I'm hungry and the desire to finish this as soon as possible is getting to me, I really was not a fan of IBM's HUGE space on Second Life.
Starting off, I thought IBM's huge space on Second Life would be a positive experience, but after flying around trying to get to know the place, and because I failed at knowing the place, I really grew tired of having to press the map key button to transport to where I wanted to go by flying. It might have been the small attention I get when I am bored, but I kept getting lost after a while as I felt like I kept seeing the same buildings over and over again! It was at this point when I began terribly missing being in Dell's four-island space. Maybe the space isn't boring to investigate, but since I kept getting lost, I was tempted to click the red boxed X on the top-right of the screen and end my misery, and I did after an hour!
Though I really didn't like the place, there were some stuff that I thought were cool and interesting. In my aimless wandering, I came upon the Italy island from IBM. I was surprised to see this because that meant that IBM must have many business through Second Life. I mean I am pretty sure it wasn't their only non-english space, so IBM must have a pretty big radius of business in the world. Plus with all those islands, there must be a lot users may be able to learn about IBM, well hopefully!

Anyone at this point can tell that I did not enjoy IBM, I thought Dell's space was a much more of a delightful experience as to IBM exploration being tiresome and boring and being lost the whole time. But if I ever get some free time over 4 hours, and I am near a computer with Second Life, I would love nothing more than to sit down and waste those four hours exploring IBM's space. I think I would actually enjoy IBM's space more than Dell's space because IBM's many islands will hold a lot more information for me to read rather than Dell's four island space with barely an information.

nowhere near the entire map of IBM's space!!!