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David O.

David O.

Joined on 11/19/06

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Most Favorable Review

Good mouse overall

Logitech M705 Marathon Wireless Mouse, 2.4 GHz USB Unifying Receiver, 1000 DPI, 5-Programmable Buttons, 3-Year Battery, Compatible with PC, Mac, Laptop, Chromebook - Black
Logitech M705 Marathon Wireless Mouse, 2.4 GHz USB Unifying Receiver, 1000 DPI, 5-Programmable Buttons, 3-Year Battery, Compatible with PC, Mac, Laptop, Chromebook - Black

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.

Most Critical Review

N56U is great hardware, bad firmware

ASUS RT-N56U Wireless Router Dual Band N600 Multimedia Ultra Slim Gigabit 802.11a/b/g/n support USB Storage, Print and Media Server
ASUS RT-N56U Wireless Router Dual Band N600 Multimedia Ultra Slim Gigabit 802.11a/b/g/n support USB Storage, Print and Media Server

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!

PNY Attaché 2 32GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Model P-FD32GATT2-GE
PNY Attaché 2 32GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Model P-FD32GATT2-GE

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....

Patriot Xporter Pulse 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Model PSF8GXPPUSB
Patriot Xporter Pulse 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Model PSF8GXPPUSB

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

iomega eGo Desktop 2TB USB 3.0 3.5" External Hard Drive 34985 Charcoal
iomega eGo Desktop 2TB USB 3.0 3.5" External Hard Drive 34985 Charcoal

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.