Pros: This usb is about 4 times faster than most of my usb sticks. This is based upon me using USB 2.1. Although it is a USB 3 Capable stick, I dont have any ports on my computer that can go at that speed. I can not compare this to USB 3.0 as I have no experience with that yet. The rubber that people mention coming off is a cap that is about 1/2" long, just to the left of the word Patriot on the main picture. It is the same cap as all of their similar models of USB sticks. They will come off if you are not careful when you put it in and out of your pocket, but is otherwise just fine by me. USB stick also does not have that "breaking" feeling right where the connection meets the housing as many USB sticks have. I find this to be pretty rugged and the rubber coating "helps" with accidents like dropping and water but of course does not make it indestructible.

Cons: anyone who bought this during the Black Friday period and is trying to use rebate code PAT-13493 should try rebate code PAT-13516. I think they made a mistake when sending their .pdf to Newegg (US Only) and you will go crazy trying to find it. Please use PAT-13516. Patriot was made aware on 12-2-13 but who knows how long it will take them to figure this out.

Overall Review: use rebate PAT-13516 instead of PAT-13493

Pros: Easy to set up, provides NAS out of the box and simple to use if you want it for simple things. Nice ability to backup in the background with a fairly small footprint (use of system resources). You can map the drive as a network drive and not use their software if you wish. Drive formatted to NTFS so you can use large files sizes (above 2 GB). Fully functional but not happy about the software one bit.

Cons: The software that comes with it is clearly made for extreme novices. It backs up data according to categories such as documents and movies, pictures, other, etc. You do not get to choose which files, only groups on or off. It does not tell you which files are being backed up, either, only how much rough data is there (in Megabytes). It looks for certain file extensions and backs them up in the background. The only way you can tell what was backed up is to try a retrieval process and then try and locate your file for backup to see if it exists. I did this once or twice to find that it backed up some of my files but not all file types. You cannot choose which folders to backup which makes this very frustrating to use.

Overall Review: Based upon their limited software alone I would not buy this again but I did like the ability to map the drive. You would have to keep the drive powered on constantly if you used it as a mapped drive with 3rd party backup software. This is a setting in the software once you get it up and running.

Pros: Moderately priced robot. Easy to work buttons. It reacts to motion in front of it based upon levels of "aggression". Does a dance, etc.

Cons: this thins is NOISY. makes sounds all the time, hard to live with. Moves best on smooth concrete or wooden floors. Doe not walk in straight lines. Once you have seen a few of the functions, it outlives its interest.

Overall Review: would not purchase again. it does what is says, but this is good for a week at best before you quickly grow bored of it.

Pros: this model has been upgraded and needs only one coax input for 2 seperate tuners. the software they give with it is fairly user friendly if you want basic settings.

Cons: difficult to wall mount. unable to stack them... but probably should not due to heat.

Overall Review: this is good for an over the air tuner. I highly suggest you put some kind of surge/ground on the coax before putting it into the device as this could fry it easy (lightning). then again... it is lightning. very happy and have bought many of these

Pros: low price, mostly easy setup. nice remote. works better with other WD devices such as the "twonky" found on WD network drives (NAS).

Cons: This device will not send a picture to most televisions through HDMI until you get a firmware upgrade. Once done, it should work on the HDMI cable. The menus are okay, but they are so slow to load you press the button again, and then it buffers each key you pressed. This device shuts down quite often without warning and has trouble playing many file types it claims to support. When playing large files it often locks up and will not stop playing the file until you disconnect the power--turning it off does not stop it with the power off button on the remote. I would not reccomend this player to anyone who wants a media streamer than can play files off your computer. As for playing netflix, it is fine, but there are LOTS of other worthy devices out there for this purpose.

Overall Review: I would not reccomend this player to anyone who wants a media streamer than can play files off your computer. As for playing netflix, it is fine, but there are LOTS of other worthy devices out there for this purpose. I would say this item feels more like a beta test than a finished product.

Pros: Decent price and good remote.

Cons: If you choose to wall mount this the hookups are towards the middle of the tv, making them completely blocked by many styles of wall mounts. The HDMI ports worked with about 1 in 4 devices that I tried in them and on the ones that do work, they make a light hissing noise out of the television at all times. Its not an expensive TV and this is probably why.

Overall Review: I wish I had spent more and gotten a TV from a reliable manufacturer.

This company took no ownership over the fact that it took them over 2 weeks to ship a package and then it came under a different shipping ID number. They blamed the USPS for losing what they called "many packages" and refused any fault of their own. Would not use this company again.

they must have put this order out the door the next day. very pleased.

got what i ordered. could have been packaged a little better, but the mouse was not harmed. makes a good travel mouse.