Joined on 05/25/04
Pros: Economical, reasonably fast shipping from China
Cons: Does not support high speed OBD2 communications in recent vehicles. The data stream is there, but doesn't update as quickly as a high speed device.
Overall Review: It's works fine for general use. If you need a high speed OBD2 device, you'll need something else.
Good but....
Pros: Noise cancelling seems to be good to very good
Cons: The environment where I was planning on using this headset is a noisy diesel truck. Personally, I have 2 major issues, the second is actually related to the first. 1) I can't seem to get the headset to seat properly in my ear, with any of the 5 tips. It never seals properly against my ear for more than a few seconds. This may also be a side effect of wearing glasses, the temple keeps the ear loop on the headset pushed out a little. I have to be very careful to grasp the forward half of the headset to try to adjust it's position during a call, if I get the rear half, the call drops. 2) Under conditions other than on the road with the truck, volume is acceptable. I've used other headsets for months to years without issue, this headset is nearly unusable due to this & #1.
Overall Review: I may consider another BlueAnt product in the future, at the moment, I'll probably just sell this one at a loss.
Works well
Pros: I upgraded it to Win 8.1 Pro, no issues running anything (as noted, update all of your drivers.) It spends the vast majority of it's time running OpenSuSE 13.2 64bit (primary boot, dual boots Win8.1Pro,) running virtual machines, & other apps. Steam did install gracefully, haven't found any issues with it (not a serious gamer.) nVidia drivers work well.
Cons: Minor driver issues under OpenSuSE 13.2 64bit: some of the keyboard functional controls don't seem to work, like display brightness & keyboard lighting. Not a big deal for me, I have found workarounds.
Overall Review: It's an expensive laptop, but seems to be working at least reasonably well.
Pros: Everything seems to work as a new device, just a couple of very small marks in the case.
Cons: Discovered after I received it that this tablet does *NOT* have a GPS receiver. For my intended use, this reduces it's value.
Not impressed
Pros: Good selection of ear pads, good fit, good sound.
Cons: Poor to non-existent noise cancelling.
Overall Review: I've tried these in both a cube farm as well as a couple of long flights. The noise cancelling does reduce low droning noise, but does nothing to reduce anything else. I found I got more noise cancellation from the good fit, than from the active noise cancellation. I might buy them again for the fit & sound, certainly not for the noise cancellation.
*VERY* displeased
Pros: Not sure I can list a pro, except maybe the budget price. But, if it's not reliable, even if it's free, it's not worth it.
Cons: I've had this drive for around 4 months when it failed on a 3 year warranty. WD/HGST did accept it for an RMA, and it took 3 weeks without a drive for a replacement to arrive. In less than 3 days of use after receiving the replacement, it's now failed again. I'm probably not going to bother going back through warranty again. I'll have to purchase a replacement from someone else (and WD/HGST will not get my business back.)
Hisense Sero8 (refurb)
Shipped reasonably quickly. Only issue that I've found so far is that the tablet is claimed to be 802.11 b/g/n, it won't connect to my local 802.11n network. Not a big deal, it won't be in the house much, and connects to my 802.11g network just fine. Price is certainly right.