Pros: addendum to my previous review -- The two-sided ("duplex") printing is neat, but it's a bother to crawl through all the pipes and wires of the configuration just to change to it. It turns out that there's a whole nother ML-2955ND hiding under that black square on top. Press it and your "eco"mode turns on (or off). One trip through the configuration pages lets you choose all sorts of ways to save paper and toner, but I chose to keep the toner dark and all other ritzy if wasteful settings, but just set the layout as back-to-back. Now I switch into or out of duplex with just a button press. By the way, many months so far, this printer is a sweetheart. Nice to leave the printer plugged in, using only about a watt in its "power save mode" that flips itself on after a few minutes.

Cons: Still the memory thing. Unpredictably, my Win XP will insist it has run out of memory until I change the ML-2955ND's spool settings (ANY change). Then, like that gal on Saturday Night Live, it whines "never mind" and prints for a while.

Pros: Works just fine (my first couple hundred pages), but only if you find out about the traps (see "Cons"). Duplex printing is a plus when you just want to file something, although letters and short reports to others still go best with blank backs. The carton pictures say riffle the paper, but it seems to feed fine when I just put the stack in.

Cons: Hard-to-find instruction manual is seriously incomplete. For filling the paper tray, there is an illustration on the carton that misleads. It shows the main paper tray with a stack of paper bent up at the front, like lying down on a pillow. Wrong! You have to wiggle the tray back almost an inch (sticks out the back) to make regular 11-inch paper lie flat. Another bug that I haven't solved yet: With 64Mb, it happily prints a half-megabyte book I've written, but then chokes on even a brief note ("out of memory") until you change the "advanced" settings from spool-all, to spool-page-1-then-print, to print-directly-to-printer -- it doesn't seem to like any one of them, just likes to be changed and then it prints. Bratty. Temporary settings work in the Windows printer box (it seems to forget a lot), but permanent settings (including 1200dpi, 600dpi is default) are hard to find. Turns out they tuck themselves into an icon in the system tray that calls itself "Samsung Easy Printer Manager."

Overall Review: A hundred clams, plus or (lucky me) minus -- that buys a nifty "commodity" laser printer these days. (My first one cost $2800, back in the dawn of time.) Tip: It seems that the settings for paper type, thick and cardstock and whatever, are a way to slow down the printer when it's misbehaving. I doubt whether these settings actually squeeze the rollers tighter or looser.

Pros: Bought two Gigabyte MB's from the wonderful Egg a couple of years ago. No problems with them. EP45-UD3R, if you're curious. This review is about Gigabyte: amazing support! Liking my UD3R's, but with NewEgg no longer offering them, I grabbed a couple of "new but returned" ones on e, pause, bay (the Egg's autosearch hates mentions of other sellers) for, of course, 75% off. BUT they were both DOA, although my other stuff from that source is always fine. Not expecting much, I went to Gigabyte's website and left a message about their two boards, telling where I got them and the manufacture date of each -- which is the first four digits after "SN" in the sticker on the side of the 24-hole power connector. ("1809" meaning 18th week of 2009) Shockingly, Gigabyte issued RMA's for both and all I paid was the postage sending them to California. Two weeks my door to my door, and they now work fine. It seems that Gigabyte will do that for three years out. Like wow. I contacted Asus about some board

Cons: None, concerning their support.

Pros: good solid board, reviewed it before

Cons: Odd habit of this board, it won't work with a hardware change until the second boot with it. Use the "slave" connector with a hard disk, for instance (OK if the disk is jumpered "cable select"), and then let's say you add a second hard disk on the "master" connector. UD3R makes the slave drive primary! Everything comes up backwards, which can wreck stuff unless you notice. Boot the two-disk setup again, and primary shows up as primary as it's supposed to.

Overall Review: Another example: Put in a new hard disk for a new job, and it won't boot at all. Click off power and boot up a second time, and all is normal. Can scare you at times. I swap disks a lot, for safety, and use a lot of deep-digging software like GoBack and Casper, which messes with the boot sector. UD3R doesn't like that, and always gives me the finger first time into a new setup.

Pros: see my 5-egg review 13 boxes down

Cons: They boast about their "xpress recover," claiming you can set aside about 10 gigs, unpartitioned, on your hard drive for a backup of your "system." But welding your lifeboat to the same ship that might sink is kinda silly; plus, the board refuses to see the 14 gigs I reserved for it. Googling the problem: No living human has made "xpress" work in the 3 years it's been out.

Overall Review: They also offer a "backup" BIOS that waits for the main BIOS to die; it then "will take over on the next system boot"; but they give no instructions. Given the empty offer of "xpress recovery," their BIOS promise is unconvincing. Anyway, these two toys are not important. If you clone with Casper and rope in with GoBack, you are safe from everything but an airplane flying thru the window.

Pros: What to do with those flashy stickers? I guess I'll leave them stuck on the window for now. What can you say about a brand-new motherboard? It works. It does as well as my previous pair, Asus P5N32-sli SE Deluxes. But the future is the future, unknowable by us just-got-it reviewers. I hope my UD3R's don't lose keyboard in the BIOS as both the Asus boards eventually did (both USB and PS2). Not a gamer, I will not overclock them and hope for a long, happy relationship. To you one or two guys grousing about little stubs on the board that can be snaked out to a back-panel COM or LPT port: It was a deal-maker for me, because I got a wonderful price for a huge 12x18 high-res scanner that pulls cartoons I draw into the puter for cleanup and transmission to publications. The same goes for the single IDE slot and my empire of four big drives in slide-out drawers: Legacy hardware can be wonderfully useful and cheap, so I love a motherboard that accepts it.

Cons: Not taking an egg away, but this board does NOT listen to USB keyboards or mice, unless I set the BIOS wrong. I "enabled" just about everything but Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and still both UD3R's turn up their noses at USB messages. The only way I can wake up the puter is with a PS2 keyboard, not my hard-to-find left-handed USB keyboard. (My "mouse" is a Wacom tablet.) So I have rigidified a PS2/USB adapter thingie to the back of one case, using a jumbo paper clip, which setup moves to the other case easily when I switch cables to the adjacent computer. This USB problem with the UD3R (Windows itself has no such problem) means that lots of booting-time tools are unusable without the PS2 keyboard hole being used. That includes GoBack, a marvelous tool for leaping back to ten minutes ago, before I scr*ed everything up with some new toy, and even back to ten days ago. Also frozen out (if you type with USB) are the disk-managing CD's and floppies, and other deep-diving rescue tools.

Overall Review: Stay away from Gigabyte's CD files. At one point the CD ran away from me, installing chipset drivers. Then, the time functions (setting the time in Windows itself, and calling an atomic clock) wouldn't work right any more. Windows kept setting the time an hour off (without any daylight saving time problem). Luckily, I have GoBack and happily went back. Speaking of Google, the Gigabyte CD has a really cute toy. The latest updated Internet Explorer says you have to use Microsoft's own search. M$ even has a web page that offers to reset the IE search provider to anyone you want -- but it doesn't work! Those sneaks. However, the Gig CD toy is called, "make Google the default search in Internet Explorer," and it worked like a charm. I know Gig must be in bed with Google, but it's such a cute trick! Of course I only cheat on my beloved Firefox 2 when some dumb website only works in IE -- and that includes our beloved retailer, NewEgg. What about it, Mr. Egg?