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Jeffrey L.

Jeffrey L.

Joined on 01/31/07

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Most Favorable Review

Using as backup no problems

Seagate Momentus 7200.4 ST9160412ASG 160GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive with G-Force Protection Bare Drive
Seagate Momentus 7200.4 ST9160412ASG 160GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive with G-Force Protection Bare Drive

Pros: 7200 RPM, quiet and cool running. Using as a backup HD with SyncToy on WinXP with Thermaltake BlacX docking station. All good so far.

Cons: None so far

Most Critical Review

Nice cover, bit snug

Zippered Neoprene Black Sleeve with Side Pocket for Motorola XOOM
Zippered Neoprene Black Sleeve with Side Pocket for Motorola XOOM

Pros: Good value for the money - well under store bought sleeves. Nice front pocket and zipper pouch.

Cons: Snug fit for a Xoom in width. The tablet fits but won't be a lot of protection on the edges. The front pouch has a zipper but it is sewn so that the metal zipper handle rests inside the pocket against the tablet. I just put it in with the tablet face to the back. Good value overall.

Refurb Dell from Blair Tech

Dell Latitude D630 Laptop Computer - Intel Core2 Duo - 2GB - Windows 7 Home Premium (1 Year Warranty)
Dell Latitude D630 Laptop Computer - Intel Core2 Duo - 2GB - Windows 7 Home Premium (1 Year Warranty)

Pros: Ordered a D630 but received an upgraded D830 - nice and welcome surprise, must have run out of D630's. Very clean, perfect LCD pixels, ran great out of the box. Bought it for the old style RS-232 port. Would have given 5 eggs except for a cosmetic flaw - see cons.

Cons: They sprayed some kind of de-glossing material over the entire keyboard, palm rest, and track pad area. A glob of it formed on the left click button and was sticky. Denatured alcohol dissolved it. With use the palm rest has become sticky as the material is worn. I plan to remove the material from the entire area below the keyboard and that will fix that.

Overall Review: Shipped quickly and packaged well in a sturdy corrugated box. No manuals or any paperwork but those are on the web. I expected some bad pixels in the display but not one bad pixel. Great price too.

Loose fit cover

Fosmon Silicone Skin for Motorola Xoom (Purple)
Fosmon Silicone Skin for Motorola Xoom (Purple)

Pros: Nice color and low price.

Cons: You get what you pay for. While low cost it does not fit the Xoom very well at all. It is so loose that it falls off the Xoom when handling the tablet.

Great hackable little reader

Velocity Micro - CRUZ Reader running Google ANDROID + Borders eBook Store
Velocity Micro - CRUZ Reader running Google ANDROID + Borders eBook Store

Pros: Great price for an android reader. Very mod-able with a great community of modders offering hacks and speed improvements. External SD card slot for PDF and text storage. Very nice 7 inch touch screen with very usable resolution.

Cons: 7 inch screen is too small for my use, but can't beat the price. Limited 256 MB on-board memory but a hack (app2sd) increases this a lot (I've got 650 MB now). Hack needed for android market and Cruz market is very limited. Stuck at Android 2.0. It is not a tablet but can be more than just a reader. PDFs are difficult to use because they don't re-flow text the way ebooks do so they're either too small to read the whole page on the 7 inch screen or you have to move the page around if you zoom.

Overall Review: Glad I got it for the price. The audio is good and it does multitask (e.g. play music and read at the same time). Battery life is approaching the stated 10 hrs so not bad.

Solid Performer

Rosewill USB 2.0 Slim 8x DVD Writer External Optical Drivewith LightScribe support Model ROD-EX003-LS Gloss Black
Rosewill USB 2.0 Slim 8x DVD Writer External Optical Drivewith LightScribe support Model ROD-EX003-LS Gloss Black

Pros: Small and compact. Writes DVDs (data and vid) as advertised. Have not yet tried the LightScribe feature.

Cons: Two plug USB cable takes 2 USB ports. It really needs to come with power adapter too.

11/25/2010