Joined on 04/29/10
Overall, Excellent
Pros: Build quality is excellent. Backlit keyboard is great, would never buy a laptop without one. Speed is excellent, 5400 RPM drive does not hold the system back much. 12GB ram is a sweet spot, not too much disk swapping with this much ram. HD screen is excellent. 2 second resume from sleep is literally 2 seconds. I mean, I open the lid, log in and the computer is responding to commands immediately. How they did this is beyond me. Although the fans do run, you don't hear them at all. The MSI gaming laptop will wake up the dead from the fan noise. The trackpad is SUPERB, nice and big, supports full gestures. I thought I wanted a touch screen but this is way better.
Cons: I think the only thing I would improve is I would have added a latch to keep the lid firmly clamped down when in transport.
Overall Review: Its a lot of computer for $1400. Also, with 2 drive bays, I can add an SSD as a boot disk for a nice upgrade path down the line. The battery life is excellent for the type of machine it is. It easily lasts 3 hrs + with a constant video steam running over the network.
Bad Experience
Pros: Works well for 20 minutes.
Cons: 3 stars is too much for this router. Wan connection kept dropping every 20 minutes. Had to reboot. Bought another brand router that seems to work well. This one went back to Newegg.
Overall Review: Newegg is the best.
Purchased for Asus G750
Pros: I had a few questions before I purchased, called Crucial. They answered right away and were very informative. Seems to work well. No problems with install.
Cons: Only thing I would improve is that the screws should have been included. I happen to have screws but it would be been nice if they were there.
Purchased for ASUS G750
Pros: I had a few questions before I purchased, called Crucial. They answered right away and were very informative. Seems to work well. No problems with install.
Cons: none really.
Overall Review: I am sorry to say that Newegg did not have the lowest price.
Best Speakers < $200
Pros: Trust me, I read all the reviews, and all of the specs of the Z623, the Klipsch Promedia 2.1, and the Corsair SP2500. I saw the Klipsch at Best Buy and I was not impressed. If you sample the reviews from 10 years ago, you will see that the Promedia 2.1 from 10 years ago is not the same speaker they make today. This combined with some model related problems steered me away from those. As for the Logitech, they are quite decent. I would take them over the Klipsch. The Corsairs are a different animal altogether. They are beefy with super attention to detail. The sound is amazing. The control pod is cool as well. Its not wonder they won maximum pc kick a-s-s award. ***UPDATE** These speakers have been rocking Ozzy and Black Sabbath for the past two years at 90% volume. Barely get warm. If you can find them,,,,buy them.
Cons: None, so far real happy with them.
Overall Review: Personally think they are the second best speakers ever made--The best being the Z-5500
Overall Nice Laptop
Pros: Overall build quality is good, I have seen better but not at this price. I like that its a 4th gen CPU, many companies are pushing the old stuff. The ram is expandable to 16GB, this is important. Beware of those cheap Asus / Toshiba / Acer laptops that are stuck at 4GB. This is real nasty. Also, many laptops have a built in battery, none removable. This unit has a removable battery. The battery will go bad one day and you will need to replace it.
Cons: The only con is the track pad that seems a bit spastic. Not the end of the world.
Overall Review: You can probably find laptops for 50-100 less but they will have the Pentium processor, non removable battery and non upgradable ram. The extra money for this one seems worth it.