Pros: Great reading light. Very low power consumption. Does not heat up your fixture.

Cons: Bigger than I expected.

Overall Review: This is definitely NOT a warm white. It is a rather harsh light with mostly no yellow "warm" component - which makes it great as a reading light, though you may not like it as an ambient light. It generates relatively little heat so You can touch it without getting burned, although the base does get moderately hot - which is why it has those fins around its side. I have two of these plus a warm "color" LED bulb in a three bulb fixture and this provides a pleasant light with brilliant illumination for reading and detail work.

Pros: Very bright. Reasonable price. Fine adjustment to spot or flood or in between.

Cons: Big issue: Quick battery drain; and, it's only one of the three that drains almost completely with the other two still at almost full capacity. Lasts about an hour in flash mode; 30 min continuous. Flash mode is not strobe style - it's half on / half off.

Overall Review: Rattles. Put one full layer of electrical tape around body barrel at front end to snug up.

Pros: Rugged and feature packed hardware (I think). This is a tough one. I plan on contacting Plustek, so I may be updating this. Basically the hardware seems to be fabulous; really feature packed. So it's really promising. But the software to use these features is missing or unusable. As an example there are two very promising features: multi-scan/IR dust/scratch removal, and 48 bit color depth. But the basic Plustek software, which is quite easy to use and seems to work well, does not support either of these features. The Plustek software does a basic single pass scan in 24 bit color and saves the picture. You're on your own after that.

Cons: Miserable supporting software. Plustek provides a CD with a striped down, obsolete version of SilverFast ver.6 which may support the multi-scan/IR scratch/dust removal and 48 bit color. However, it was extremely unstable on my Win-XP PC. It would run for 10-30 seconds and freeze up the computer - no response to Alt-Ctrl-Del - you have to pull the plug to reboot - something that extremely rare with XP. I tried to update the software and discovered that it was obsolete - but was provided an upgrade to SilverFast ver.8, which I was able to run. It's very difficult to use, mostly because the documentation is zilch. The stripped down version provided does not support multi-scan or 48 bit color. To get that you have to upgrade to the studio version at a cost that's twice what you paid for the scanner in the first place. So you can't use those fancy features unless you spend many times what you paid for the scanner.

Overall Review: I tried to get SilverFast tech support with no success. The phone message you get is "if you're not calling between 3 and 11 AM EST, hang up send an email" - i.e., you're calling Germany. Also "sorry, we are much to busy to answer all calls." Just a detail - the unit is a big brick - so note the dimensions and weight. Also note the installation conflicts described by another reviewer.

Pros: Blending function is very good, Strong motor - two speed. Well designed and well built blender.

Cons: Chopper was broke. Replaced. But what a hassle!

Overall Review: I was never able to talk to anyone at DeLonghi by phone - spent hours on hold. Then after about a month of emails I did get a replacement for the chopper cover - I found the email route by reading other reviews. Now I got a second replacement cover. They used my mail address for a replacement for someone else - he's probably still waiting.

Pros: Good Drive. Simple installation and use. Runs cool and totally quiet.

Cons: I didn't see any speed improvement over SATA 3

Overall Review: I replaced an old Seagate drive since I installed a new MB with a SATA 6 connection. I expected to see some speed improvement, but didn't. Also, when I got it the price was only $80 :-)

Pros: Rather inexpensive - look and feel good.

Cons: No good at sound blocking.

Overall Review: I got these because the reviews said they were pretty good at blocking ambient noise. I wanted them for use when mowing my lawn. They do not block the sound very well. I have a pair of much more expensive "Sennheiser HD 280 pro 64 ohm" that do a pretty good job of blocking ambient sound, but they are not practical because of the huge coiled connecting cord they come with. Even the "MEElectronics M6-BK" ear buds are much better than the HD 201 (both were about same price), and the MEE's are about as good as the DH 280.