Pros: Installs easily, does not bog the system down, catches a lot of nasty bugs. It does some system maintenance in the background.

Cons: The interface is not the easiest to navigate but once you get used to it is not all that bad.

Overall Review: For years Norton has been a very effective product that could drag a computer to its knees. Updates used to cause occasional problems, often major ones, and I finally ditched it a after having used it since the DOS days. I am happy to say that this version of Norton works well, it causes minimal system slowdown, and the auto update has never caused a problem. I guess Symantec finally got wise and fixed the product. I have been using Norton 360 going on two years with no problems whatsoever. The interface is a bit complicated to navigate at times. Things that should be simple to find are not always. Once you get used to it it is not so bad. The good news is that there is little need to tweak the settings, as I used to do with another security suite.

Pros: Inexpensive, providing three USB 3.0 ports with reasonably good throughput. The card fits nicely, with no protrusions.

Cons: This is a Do-It-Yourself project from the ground up. The device comes with an unlabeled mini-CD and the card. There is no manual, no data sheet, nothing. The five I bought came in a bubble-wrap filled envelope that appeared to be hand packaged in China The driver disk has a collection of folders and compressed files. There is no start-up script. You will have to find the 3 port USB folder and unpack its files and folders manually. Then you will find an installer, which does the rest. When the installation is done you must reboot to see the new device, although this is not mentioned. . I can find no Website for this company. It looks as if what is on the disk is all you will ever get. I am still testing the card to see if it is actually running at USB 3 speed. There is no Windows message telling me I could get better performance but the speed does not seem as high as I might expect.

Overall Review: If this card has the desired USB 3 throughput it will be a welcome addition to the laptop. This is likely an OEM product sold by the hundreds to equipment builders. I would not wish its installation on anyone who is not technically skilled. The average computer user is probably not going to get this card to work and at under #20 apiece, don't expect much support. In the future I will be certain to buy from New Egg partners who list a Website. That might have saved a lot of hassle.

Pros: Three terabytes with USB 3 is hard to beat but this disk was mostly dead on arrival. It was seen by Windows 7 but it had no files and no drive letter. When I rebooted it powered down. I had to power cycle it to get it to be seen again. After 30-40 minutes it started making high pitched noises and clunking sounds and then it came up OK. That does not instill a high degree of trust. I returned it to Best Buy.

Cons: The disk will power down if the computer is rebooted. It will not come back up. Seagate says to download new drivers for the USB 3 port and install their dashboard software to configure the drive so it does not shut down. I'm sorry but an external hard drive is supposed to just work. I should not have to install software from an unknown company just to configure the drive so it works as expected. I suspect the entire GoFlex line has the same problem. The drive works fine on an XP machine with a USB 2 port so Seagate may be correct about the USB 3 driver issue. I cannot imagine the grief the average computer owner would go through to get this drive up and running. External hard drives are supposed to be simple devices. This one is not.

Overall Review: This drive is entirely too "high tech" for its own good. I should not need a dashboard program to get an external drive to run. There is a utility program available called SeaTools that tests Seagate drives. It requires .Net Framework 4.0 to run. So, to test a Seagate hard drive you need to modify your PC in a major way, waiting 10-15 minutes for .Net to install, so you can have really nice graphics. I would prefer an ugly screen with courier 10 type if it just works. The replacement Hitachi has 2 TB capacity and USB 2 capability and cost $130. Most retailers had the Seagate 3 TB drive for $210 or $220. I paid $160 at Best Buy, which usually is not the best buy in town. I can handle the lower capacity and speed since the Hitachi drive is reliable and just works, without the special software.

Pros: Easy setup, seems simple to operate, good value.

Cons: None so far

Overall Review: I bought the Sony BDP-S560, which arrived dead out of the box. The manual was confusing as the blazes. NewEgg took an RMA with no re-stocking fee and they pre-paid the return shipping. What more could you want? With grand kids coming by we MUST have this unit working on 01/01 so there was not time to order a replacement. I got the Panasonic at Worst Buy for $150, or about $25 more than New Egg's price. At least a Blu-Ray disk of my choice (value up to $30) came with it. New Egg shipped the Sony in the retail carton, which may be why it was defective. Those boxes are intended more for trucking on a skid than shipping individually. UPS left the retail box, emblazoned with BLU-RAY DVD, on my porch for the world to see. The box may as well have said, "I'M EXPENSIVE. PLEASE STEAL ME". No matter, New Egg is tops.

Pros: This unit is small, it is easy to set up, and it is easy to use. Just be sure to update to the 1.02b firmware or later. The support site has quite a bit of useful information. The onboard setup screens are quite helpful. We shall see how this one shakes out. So far it looks excellent and the price is right.

Cons: Front panel is flimsy. It is nos apparent which drive is the primary one, which is on the right. If your first drive is on the left, adding a second drive on the right will shift your drive names around.

Overall Review: This unit is many times faster than the NetGear SC-101 and not quite as fast as an outboard USB drive. I have not yet tried to set up a RAID 0 (mirroring). Using the former EXT3 file system I had missing files and duplicate file names when I copied large amounts of data. The new 1.02b firmware uses EXT and is supposed to fix all of that.

Pros: This Motherboard is nicely laid out and it includes everything you need at a terrific price. Setup is relatively easy, given the overall complexity of the technology today. The system is quite fast and XP boots very quickly. The Intel 820 chip runs at 2.88 GHz and stays cool with the stock fan.

Cons: The on-board Attansic NIC does not work, period. The lights flick every 5-10 seconds and Windows says it is running just fine, but it will not connect to anything. I put in a Linksys NIC and all is well with the world. Other write-ups here mention that the Attansic NIC does not work on faster systems.

Overall Review: Asus makes excellent boards but their tech support is non-existant. They will not respond to requests for help. Attansic is a subsidiary of Asustech. Perhaps Asus is going to be making their own parts instead of buying them from others. Hopefully they will improve the quality of their products. If not, well, there is always Gigabyte.