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KENT S.

KENT S.

Joined on 02/24/04

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Most Favorable Review

Versatile Performer

Rjtech 7" Portable LCD TV
Rjtech 7" Portable LCD TV

Pros: Rugged, feature rich, good picture, good controls and remote. Tuner works fine for a small TV if you use a good antenna. Nice little compact bag for TV and cords. Plays movies on usb thumbdrive in avi format just fine. The "AV In" works fine with the kids PS2 game console. It has survived several short falls onto carpeted surface. I am very happy with this model. Judging by the reviews, it appears it accepts more types of video files from flash memory media than the other brands. I am impressed with this brand and will buy this brand again if I get another portable.

Cons: Accessory cords worry me a little as they don't seem very rugged. The antenna is not much but it will pull in close stations. (You shouldn't expect more than that though as an antenna that works good is bigger that the TV itself)

Overall Review: I researched the different portable TVs and decided on this one instead of a TV with a built in DVD player. I noticed that most of the cheaper portables with dvd players quickly fail. I mainly got this for the kids to watch movies saved on thumb drive or SD card while traveling. I found out that the default AV setting from the factory will not allow the TV to recognize an incoming AV signal even though the TV has separate jacks for AV In and Out. The manual does not tell you about this setting. I thought the "AV In" was broke when it failed to recognize the video signal from the PS2 the first time I hooked it up. The screen was blank with a "no sync" message. The setting you need to find is located in a wierd place in the menu under the time settings. It must be set to "auto sync" to work. You must get female to female RCA type adapters to connect the PS2 or other devices with male AV cables to the male ends of the TV's adapter harness that comes with the TV.

Most Critical Review

Disappointing laptop mouse

Logitech Black/White Notebook Optical Mouse Plus
Logitech Black/White Notebook Optical Mouse Plus

Pros: Solid body, responsive, works well on most surfaces

Cons: I know the description warns you about the cord but you don't fully appreciate how poor it is till you handle and use it. The wire in this cord is even more short than other laptop models and it is thinner and stiffer. Will need to find a good extension cord even for my laptop. The stiffness of the wire will always cause a drag feel from cord when using it. The feel of the buttons and wheel are poor for Logitech.

Overall Review: The short wrap-around cord feature is not that great. It really doesn't save that much space even if you do spend the time stowing it. I wonder how long it will last if you always wrap it up. I don't know why mouse manufacturers always put such short cords on the "compact" or "laptop" mouses. If longer cords bug people, they should just get a wireless. If you are looking for a good wired laptop mouse from this manufacturer then pick the Logitech Mini Optical 930732-0403. It is far superior to this mouse.

It has proven excellent for me

PNY 64GB Turbo USB 3.0 Flash Drive (P-FD64GTBOP-GE)
PNY 64GB Turbo USB 3.0 Flash Drive (P-FD64GTBOP-GE)

Pros: Fast transfers in both USB 3 and USB 2 Still going strong for at least a year now

Cons: None, No problems with it at all.

Overall Review: Fastest flash drive I have ever owned and used. I don't have any fancy speed analyzing reports and I don't use USB 3.0 much but this thing transfers large files on USB 2.0 connections three times as fast as any other USB 2.0 flash drive I have used. Still going strong a year or more. No problem with very large video files and play back just fine on multiple media devices. The bad ratings for these on Newegg are the opposite of what other vendors have on their websites. Another popular vendor shows ratings over 80% in top two levels and only 10% in the worst. That's with over two thousand ratings.

Excellent performance

EVGA TEGRA NOTE 7 Tablet - 16GB Flash, 1GB RAM Quad Core NVIDIA Tegra 4
EVGA TEGRA NOTE 7 Tablet - 16GB Flash, 1GB RAM Quad Core NVIDIA Tegra 4

Pros: Way faster than any other tablets in price range. Loads webpages fast and responsive screen. Awesome stylus comes with it. Awesome sound from speakers. Cool magnetic back. The units shape, size and weight is just right.

Cons: The camera facing the user is poor.

Overall Review: The camera facing the user is poor although the one on the back takes great pictures. This one is way faster than any other makes and models in the family's inventory. You can't go wrong with this one in the price range. Many of the "professional" reviewers from various websites and electronic pubs give this average ratings in everything except processor power. They always compare tablets like this to the scroogle nexus screen and exaggerate supposed flaws of competing tablets. I now realize that most of these reviews are totally biased after purchasing competing tablets. I refuse to be tied to a product that requires you to use a certain company for storage and access to media. The OS by default will try to share everything with one of the companies mentioned above so you will need to explore all those settings so you can turn them off. I got it for my teen daughter and she loves it. You can't go wrong with this tablet.

Works well

HooToo HT-WR01 Wireless N 300 Mbps 802.11 b/g/n Access Point / Signal Repeater / Range Extender (White)
HooToo HT-WR01 Wireless N 300 Mbps 802.11 b/g/n Access Point / Signal Repeater / Range Extender (White)

Pros: Extends strong and reliable signal Access point mode works well also Attractive

Cons: Need networking knowledge to get it to work right. Average person with little experience in router adjustments will struggle to get it working following the instructions provided.

Overall Review: It finds your router signal just fine, but you have to tell it to use that signal. In my case I only have a wired network of PCs and only use the Wifi part of my router for small tablets and iPods. I had to hook it up to one of my PCs with the provided Ethernet cable and get into its software that way. From there I was able to tell it to use my router signal. It worked great as a access point. I am using it as a repeater/range extender so I had to fumble with some of the other settings until I accomplished that. The device has to reboot after making any setting. I assume you can gain access to the device with a Wifi enabled laptop or PC but I didn't try it that way since I have neither.

Just good stuff

Kingston 4GB DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Desktop Memory Model KVR1066D3N7/4G
Kingston 4GB DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Desktop Memory Model KVR1066D3N7/4G

Pros: Low latency, the design and the dual rank construction should allow this to work in almost any older PC or motherboard running with DDR3 ram, Kingston quality; runs just fine dual channel when paired up with another stick of the same ram (don't have to buy the "matched pair") Low profile is nice for those trying to upgrade micro sized PCs made by the common manufacturers.

Cons: Just not fast for the newer PCs but that's not a con if you are buying this to gain more ram for older PCs/motherboards that run DDR3

Overall Review: This stuff should be able to get almost any older two slot DDR3 motherboard up to 8 megs. I was running a set of 2X2 Kingston HyperX 1333 in my two slot ASUS P5G41T-M motherboard. The mobo automatically ran it at 1066. I tried the same ram 2X4 for a total of 8 meg for the W7 64bit OS but could not get the mobo to recognize the ram. This 4 meg KVR1066D3N7 ram fixed my problem, it was recognized immediately and runs great in the optimum settings automatically with my set up.