Pros: Nice slim unit. Worked as advertised. Plug it in and away you go.

Cons: The cable is short. Really short. Like maybe twelve inches if that. I had to get an extension cable to run behind my desk to hook it up to one of my rear USB ports because I didn't want to take up one of my front ports. It only burns at 8 speed and reads at 8x because it runs on the USB 2.0 bus.

Overall Review: As long as you know what your getting this is a nice piece of kit. I decided to bail out on the traditional front mounted optical drive and I don't regret it for all the more I use an optical drive this unit makes sense. If I need an optical drive on another computer or ultra book I can use this drive if I have to. Its portable, its fast, and its inexpensive. You really can't go wrong.

Pros: This is a good looking product. It seems to have an awful lot of headroom for OC. At 1080p this thing really shines.

Cons: Hot - really this thing is stupidly hot. Even without any tweaking this thing pegs itself at 90 degrees and stays there. When you apply a custom fan curve you'd better be ready for some fairly impressive noise - because boy howdy do those fans spin up high - and since the card never gets cool it stays pegged at 100% usage. It reminds me of a hair dryer running full blast when the fans are tuned all the way up.

Overall Review: Someone else mentioned a design flaw - I'm not sure about that necessarily; however, if I could return this card for a refund I would do so. I am only able to get it replaced. Don't waste your hard earned money on this card.

Pros: I ordered this computer as a Xmas gift for my mother. I know what she uses a computer for and I know what she needs. This computer packs the epic Sandy Bridge based i5 processor which still packs more than enough horsepower for everyday computer tasks. The computer was in excellent shape and looked like it had been hardly used. There are no dead pixels on the screen and the Windows 8 install upgraded to Windows 10 no problem. The battery holds a charge just as expected and my mom has owned it for about a month now without any problems at all.

Cons: The product took some time to ship from the retailer. I am pretty sure they were pretty busy due to the holiday season. Irregardless the product arrived on time and it was well packaged and safe so kudos to them; however, the length of time it took it to ship made me a little nervous. Also - there is no finger print reader on the model of computer that i received. That is the only problem with the product that I received but I don't really care because my mom would never be able to figure it out anyways and it would be just one more thing I would have to trouble shoot for her as soon as she messed it up. I am removing one star simply because that part of the product description is wrong.

Overall Review: I picked up this laptop with a free carrying bag for 199.99 on a Newegg.com daily deal. For around 200 dollar shipped I was able to pick up a nice laptop that my mom is going to be able to use for years. This laptop is also stupid easy to upgrade. I dropped another 4 gigs of RAM in it in less than 5 minutes. The entire bottom of the laptop comes off with the push of locking latch. Everything is right there - hard drive, DVD-ROM, memory, even the wireless networking radio is all open and easy to access for upgrades. With the extra memory Windows 10 64bit feels fast. I will probably drop an upgraded solid state drive into it at some point (simply because I anticipate my mom will drop it). I would definitely order from the retailer (Notebook Ave.) again.

Pros: This is actually a nicely designed keyboard. I have had Logitech keyboards in the past and I have found them to be nicely made and this one is no different. The LCD screen is nice and bright, the USB Audio pass-through worked fine for me, and a plethora of macro keys round out a nice gaming keyboard. The back lighting is also nicely done and the colors are fairly bright without being completely obnoxious.

Cons: It's large. Let me reiterate that because it bears emphasis: LARGE. If you have limited space then this keyboard will make you very sad and agitated - as it is huge and heavy. Next lets talk about the quality of the keyboard. The keyboard has a very nice feel, the keys feel like a typical Logitech membrane based keyboard. Key action is smooth and quiet. The space bar on this keyboard though is janky. I'm not sure if its the product of a bad refurb or if it is the result of poor design. Personally I think that its a design issue. The space bar feels like there is a single membrane button under it and when you hit it at angle it does not always register or it double registers. The keyboard is huge and my hands are rather smallish for a man and I touch type. For gaming its passable, but if your a college student or do any sort of typing then this keyboard is going to make you lose your mind. Finally there is the LCD display. Let's be honest about this: no one needs this display. The functionality is limited to games that support the LCD - which when I hooked up to Logitech's website they downloaded five game presets out of the 129 games that I own. That is not really a value add and after getting it setup I mostly left the LCD on the clock function.

Overall Review: I purchased this because I missed having backlit keys and an array of macro keys. I've been using a mechanical keyboard for a couple of years and it has no backlight feature and only about 5 macro keys. As soon as I switched the keyboards I immediately missed the quality tactile feel of my mechanical keyboard (Cherry MX Browns). I used it for about two weeks and switched the keyboards back. I am going to keep this keyboard for another rig that I am building but my main gaming/productivity rig is going to stay mechanical. There are better keyboards that you can purchase brand new on this website and most of those are from Logitech. Nobody needs the LCD and if you are going to spend fifty bucks or more you are better off spending twenty or thirty more and going in for mechanical keyboard.

Pros: The price on this laptop is excellent for what you get. What do you get??? Well you get an Intel Pentium Proc (Ivy Bridge based), 4 gigs of RAM (expandable to 8 according to documentation), 500 gig hard drive, a valid copy of Windows 8, 2 USB 2.0 slots, a memory card reader, and a single USB 3.0 slot that doubles as a device charger, plus HDMI and VGA outputs. I picked this up on sale for $279.99 with a promo code for $20 off so $259.99 with a $50.00 rebate. Even if I never get the rebate this is still a properly fantastic deal. For 259 you get into a modern, capable computer for the price of what a netbook used to cost. This is a fully functional and capable little home office or student machine.

Cons: The laptop lid is a finger print magnet. The fit and finish on the computer is nice but the track pad feels to be a bit on the cheap side and I wouldn't trust it to hold up under prolonged use (so invest in a wireless mouse). They keyboard is fine for a chiclet keyboard and you will either love it or hate it. It will work fine 99.5% of the population, but for some reason only .5% of people that it would bother ever seem to write reviews on Newegg so be aware its a tad on the mushy side. It came loaded with some crapola games from WildTangent or some other crapware provider but it was easy to install and you also want to uninstall the McAfee AV and the Office Trial and go with free solutions if you want. To me its all bloatware so I took that off too. My last complaint and this is the one I dinged it one egg for is that when the computer is refurbished ASUS deletes the recovery partition. Which I am sure has something to do with their Windows license with Microsoft. My guess is that when the computer is refurbished it is considered a different computer than the license was originally created for and hence they have to remove you ability to re-install Windows. There is not even a valid Windows license on the bottom of the machine. So once you get this setup and running be aware that you'd better utilize Windows 8 backup utility to clone a copy of your hard drive the way that it is if you don't want to have to shell out for a new Windows 8 license later. Not that I would. If this thing ever goes bad I will just toss Windows 7 on it and forget about the touch screen because in reality the touch screen functionality is simply a gimmick.

Overall Review: I picked this computer up for my step sister who is a nursing student. I know she uses MS Office and plays on Facebook until her eyes bleed. This computer is perfect for her because its light, has a lot of thoughtful features, and its cheap so if it gets stolen or broken were only out 250 bucks or so. This machine will do Facebook and all other social networking and office tasks perfectly fine. Be aware that this is not a gaming machine. It is also not a machine for content creation, video editing, or 3D rendering. It will do those things but not well and if you need that sort of functionality you are not going to find it in a 250 dollar ultra portable. You probably are not going to find that sort of functionality until you get into the 600 - 800 dollar range. If you know what your buying then this is a great little machine. I would recommend it to anyone.

Pros: This Toshiba Satellite is a very nice notebook. It has USB 3.0, plenty of USB 2.0, a "quad core" processor (based on AMD's definition of quad core), 6 gigs of RAM that can be upgraded to 16 gigs of RAM and of course Radeon Integrated Graphics (the HD 8400). This is not a powerhouse gaming rig. It is an aggressively priced mid range home office or student notebook that has a nice finish, bright screen, and enough horse power and memory to get through 99% of all tasks. Facebook, MS Office, Email, Web browsing, Research, multi-tasking, numerous tabs open in Chrome or IE, even some older titles of games and newer titles with the graphic options reduced - this system is all about value and that is what it represents. We bought this computer "refurbished" and it came well packaged, protected, and looked like new. Not a mark on it anywhere. It boots fast (even with a mechanical hard drive), has plenty of storage, and an adequate screen and adequate speakers.

Cons: The screen has a very limited viewing angle. You basically need to be dead on with the screen and have it tilted ever so slightly to get the perfect viewing angle on it. Any deviation from this causes the top of the screen to look darker than the bottom or vice versa. The color gamut is pretty bad - still a panel capable of perfect Adobe color gamut replication is not going to be found on a 300 - 400 dollar laptop. Mechanical hard drive is meh. If I were buying this to keep I would trash the mechanical drive for a 250 gig SSD and call it a day. It will make the computer feel silly fast and also reduces the possibility of lost information and makes the hard drive basically impact proof. I would also invest in an 8 gig RAM kit as soon as I could afford it and invest in the most aggressively timed DDR 3 Laptop kit I could find. The HD 8xxx tends to respond very well to increased RAM timings so that would also squeeze more power and value out of the system. If your not used to chiclet keyboards then the keyboard on this laptop will take some getting used to. As chiclets go these keys feel a tad on the mushy side, but for typing and occasional gaming it will get the job done.

Overall Review: This is a great laptop for a student or anyone else looking for a well equipped and modern laptop for cheap. The system came out of the box looking and smelling like new. Not a mark, scratch, or defect to be found anywhere on the system. I picked this system up on sale for 329.99 with 20% off in a coupon code that I got in an email. I purchased this PC for 299.99 shipped. For that price it was a screaming deal. Seriously cannot be beat at that low of a price. Even for 329 it was a good deal. I would not pay more this computer than that. Anything over 330 and the value starts to go away compared to other systems that can be found including some brand new systems.

I ordered a refurbished HP laptop from them and it arrived in good packaging (well protected), in excellent condition (no dead pixels, clean, and with the hardware that was described). I would definitely order from them again.