Joined on 11/19/06
Good mouse overall
Pros: Mouse has great ergonomics (for right handed folks) and good tracking, scrolling etc. Awesome battery life.
Cons: One review noted the middle mouse functionality is bad. I can concur. I rarely use middle clicks, but if you need to, it's hard to manipulate. If that's a serious requirement, this probably isn't the product for you.
N56U is great hardware, bad firmware
Pros: The ASUS router has great overall speed, range, and the interface provides lots of configuration options without a lot of complexity. Overall, it has the "potential" to be a great router
Cons: Looking past the potential, it has a significant flaw that affects streaming, connection consistency and is a detriment to most devices. The device will maintain connectivity with your computer or tablet, but wireless network traffic completely "times out" for anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes. While it should be able to handle streaming video easily, a high bitrate will essentially make it fall over every few seconds, resulting in random hiccups. This is not the high end consumer router that was advertised.
Overall Review: Don't make the mistake of looking at the average rating on this one! I've seen a few of these in action, and they all seem to suffer the same fate. However, if performance is insignificant, or if you like restarting routers a lot, then it works fine!
Works, but really slow!
Pros: Price was reasonable for the capacity advertised.
Cons: Most devices boast at least a 5-10 MBps speed write. This guy is slow to read, slow to write. A 1 GB transfer should take a couple of minutes, but on this guy it's closer to 10 minutes. Definitely get what you pay for here. If I knew the performance was quite that low, I'd have spent the extra $5-10 bucks for a Patriot device. Those have always been fast for me.
Overall Review: If you have no speed concerns, seems fine. Otherwise, it's worth spending a few extra bucks for better hardware.
Good thing it was free....
Pros: small
Cons: DOA
Overall Review: Usually, I have good luck with Patriot. If I didn't have to pay money to ship it to them, I might RMA the memory stick. Guess I know why it was included for free.
1 year warranty.....unless you register in 90 days
Pros: Drive is reasonably priced.
Cons: Extremely loud, my computer running under a strenuous load makes less noise than this thing just mounted. Power button is awkward.
Overall Review: My drive had been making excessive noise for a few months. I had ignored it mostly because it was still working fine and hadn't had time to contact Tech Suppport to request a warranty replacement. I verified that the drive had a 3 year warranty, that was a mistake. The drive actually has a 1 year warranty (in the US), unless you register with Iomega within 90 days, then they will extend your warranty to 3 years. Otherwise, no chat or email service for out of warranty products, the only option is a $25 charge for phone support, for a one time incident. At least there's a general feedback email, but according to Iomega, they don't respond to those. Seriously, read the fine print on their site, it isn't easy to find either.