Pros: Silent, high enough performance for HTPC and my occasional use of 2-5 year old games. About the cheapest passively cooled card you can find.

Cons: If your performance expectations are realistic, none.

Pros: The drive itself reads media, burns (DVD+CD) media using existing old Nero software I had.

Cons: The OEM product on NewEgg showed that a software disk was included. The couple reviews (unfortunately I didn't read all 150+...) I read before purchasing indicated software was included. It was not included for me, so I cannot play Blu-Ray movies or burn Blu-Ray media. I'm trying to figure how to get NewEgg to send this, it should not show software as included if it is not.

Pros: Laptop features other than noted below are as advertised. This is slightly higher performing than the AMD CPU in the ASUS 1215B it was to replace.

Cons: Keyboard has issues where keys must be struck much harder than normal to avoid missing keypresses. Especially bad is the space bar, which also must be struck very near the middle, and misses even hard keypresses near the left side. Keyboard is usable overall (no key fails completely), but is notably unpleasant to use because of these issues. The battery that came with this laptop did not work. It was at 0% charge, and would not charge. Windows indicated either "0%. Charging." or "0%. Not charging." depending on which of other online tricks regarding 'recalibrating' the battery I did, such as repeatedly removing and reinstalling battery drivers. BIOS upgrade could not be done since it requires a charged battery. I did all kinds of net searches and experimentation to try ever desperate trick to get this battery to charge. It would not. The battery was bad, and simply could not be charged. After debating whether to waste time with the vendor trying to deal with this, vs risking throwing good money after bad, I finally decided for the latter. I bought a new battery online, about $50. Opening the laptop and swapping the battery was a pain. But the replacement worked. New battery worked and charged great, with reasonably life. It was just the laptop was shipped with a bad battery.

Overall Review: All told, the broken battery meant I spent another two man days, $50, and performing laptop surgery to get this laptop to work as a portable at all. And it still is no fun to type on. I bought mine before the other negative reviews noting bad battery. Apparently this is a common issue. I wish I'd seen such reviews when I was shopping, so would have been able to avoid this laptop.

Pros: I got these to replace DDR1600 on an AMD Kaveri (A10-7850K). Easy setup - first XMP profile worked great for 2400Mhz 10-12-12-31 timings at 1.65v. Passed 4 hour memtest86 stress test. Mem benchmarks inline with expected. Eliminated slight choppiness with motion video scaled up to 2560x1440. HWiNFO64 confirms these DIMMs are dual-rank (best for performance with Kaveri CPUs according to a couple websites).

Cons: Height of DIMMs almost hits my CPU cooler. I would not be able to populate the other 2 DIMM slots on my motherboard with these because they would absolutely hit the cooler.

Pros: Very bright. Probably you'll want to drop brightness from 100% to something like 30% for normal usage, but brightness is available if you need it (outdoors?). 1920x1200 capable. This is definitely nicer for computer usage than the prevalent 1080P (1920x1080) and was a deciding factor in getting this.

Cons: Stand offers no height adjustments, meaning this large monitor is probably too high for desktop usage. Stand offers no tilt forward (only back), so you cannot even tilt it down toward you as it towers above you. Colors seemed washed out. At high brightness this was very much the case, but even at non-blinding brightness all colors seemed too white. I thought larger size would be good. It is not. Low DPI, same max resolution as 23-24" monitors just means you'll set this monitor farther back on the desk, defeating the purpose of larger size. Stick with a higher-DPI, smaller monitor set closer to you. I also tried this as a TV in a small bedroom, with a DVD player and WD TV Live Plus media player and Netflix HD. It looked good in this usage. However, it is a terrible choice in a TV role due to weak speakers (no bass) and no remote control.

Overall Review: In short, this is too big and low DPI to be a good desktop monitor, and lacks necessary features to be a TV. Skip it.

Pros: Comfortable, great layout, pretty

Cons: None

Overall Review: I long held on to an original Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro. For several years, MS made inferior successor models which either had sub-optimal key layouts (e.g. no inverted T arrow keys), or had a ridiculous behavior where the function keys by default send non-standard scan codes and you had to manually hit a toggle key to use normal function key behavior. This keyboard corrected those issues. It has the right layout, the right function key behavior, and the black look is even more appealing than the original Natural Pro.