Pros: This laptop is thin, it is light, and it is powerful for being so thin and light. The screen is beautiful. The bezel is very thin, and the IPS panel looks great. The i7-8550U processor is very powerful. It also did not have thermal throttling issues like I've seen with other thin laptops using the 8550U processor, so the 8550U stayed at 4.0GHz even under sustained full load. This would make this a great laptop for people looking to do things like video editing on the go. Including a dedicated GPU is a wonderful bonus. Most laptops in this thin and light category only have the Intel integrated GPU, and that is very weak. Now, the MX150 included with this laptop is not a very powerful GPU, but it is a lot better than the Intel GPU. And it is nice to have. It will allow for casual gaming. However, playing modern demanding games will require that the resolution be lowered and setting in the games to be set down to low. The battery life on this laptop is down right awesome! I sat using this laptop for 3 hours straight, browsing the internet and watching youtube, and the battery went from 100% down to 60%! I had the keyboard backlight off, that is important because that backlight uses a lot of power, and the screen brightness was set to 25%. That is actually very good, and I suspect the full battery would have lasted about 6 hours of use, not gaming, but casual office work type use. I have to really give ASUS point for the upgradability of this laptop. Most thin and light laptops are not easily upgradable. Most have soldered, non-upgradable RAM, and no space for a 2.5" hard drive or SSD. However, this ASUS Vivobook S not only has two SO-DIMM slots for RAM(one occupied by the single 8GB stick already), but it also has an open 2.5" bay that you can use to add either a hard drive or another SSD(7mm max height). Plus, accessing the RAM slots and 2.5" bay is very easy, unlike some other laptops. You just take the screws out of the bottom of the laptop and pop the bottom panel off. And I do mean pop because it is held on pretty tightly by plastic clips that you have to literally pop them out to get the cover panel off. The trackpad on this laptop is very nice to use. It is accurate, and has yet to miss a two finger scroll or gesture that I've made. It is also very smooth, almost as good as an Apple trackpad. I thought the little notch for the fingerprint reader would be an issue, but it hasn't been.

Cons: There are a few minor cons to this laptop, some of them were compromises that had to be made to allow other pros to exist. The first con is the lack of a number pad. However, this had to be done to make the laptop smaller as well as allowing for the narrow bezel around the screen. There simply isn't space for a number pad on the keyboard. And I think ASUS made the correct decision here. This 15.6" laptop is actually smaller width wise than my 14" Ultrabook from a few years ago. There is no ethernet port on this laptop, and ASUS did not include a USB ethernet adapter with the laptop. This point alone is why I took off one Egg from the score. I understand that because of how thin this laptop is, having a built in ethernet adapter wouldn't likely have been possible. However, I think ASUS really should have included a USB, preferably USB-C, ethernet adapter with the laptop. I can buy one of these adapters for $12 from here on newegg. I can only imagine ASUS buying these adapters in bulk would bring their cost down to half of what I pay at retail. Not including one with a $850 laptop just comes off as extremely cheap on ASUS's part to me.

Overall Review: I would definitely the S510UN-NH77 laptop to people. I can see this laptop making a great laptop for a student. The battery should last through the day when they are going to classes without needing to be recharged. But at the same time, it will allow them to play games casually. And speaking of playing games, lets talk about the performance in games a little more. The MX150 that this laptop has is almost identical to the desktop GT 1030 graphics card or the integrated Vega 11 graphics on the AMD 2400G. That means modern demanding games are playable, but not at 1080p. This is not a gaming laptop, but it is a work laptop that can also play games. That is a big difference.

Pros: This was able to charge my Droid Razr Maxx twice from about a half charge. The aluminum construction gives this unit a real solid feel. This charges my phone super fast. The app on my phone says it is charging at 1.3A, that is faster than the wall charger that came with my phone. My wall charger only charges my phone at 0.8A. It says in the instructions that the battery bank will turn off when charging is complete. I think what they meant is that it will stop charging the device because mine didn't turn off, but it did stop fast charging my phone. It switch into a "trickle charge" type of mode to keep my phone at 100%, but not overcharge the phone. This behavior is just like a real charger, which I like. Though I'm not sure if this is a function of the battery bank or the phone, because even the cheapest of chargers does this, so I think this is actually built into the phone. Either way, I think this behavior is the best way to do it. I don't think I'd like this as much if it just charged my phone to 100% then turned off and let the phone die.

Cons: Instructions are extremely lacking. It tells you what the LED lights represent and how to hook things up, but doesn't mention what the power button does. I couldn't actually figure out what the power button does, it doesn't turn the unit off and the unit seems to power itself on when something is connected. Mine had a large glob of glue coming out of the bottom between the aluminum and the plastic end caps. It was easily peeled off, but it was very unsightly and left a little residue behind. It seems to take a really long time to charge the power bank. While it would charge my phone in about an hour, it took over two hours to charge the power bank back up. I think this is partially due to the fact that the power bank will only take 1.0A of power input.

Overall Review: I live in an area that has frequent power outages. I also use my phone for an alarm clock. Those two things have gotten me in trouble for oversleeping many times. I actually think this will be a useful. I plan to plug my phone into this battery bank overnight to charge, so even if the power goes out, my phone will still charge and be on in the morning. Then I'll charge the battery bank during the day while I'm at work.

Pros: -Really compact. I don't think the pictured do this thing justice, but the unit is actually just a little bigger than an iPhone with a case. I can fit this battery back in my pocket, that's how small it is. -It works to jumpstart cars and trucks. -It uses a standard MicroUSB to charge. So standard phone chargers will work. -It charges pretty quickly for what it is. It does take a couple hours to charge, but most battery banks take that long. -You can charge your phone from it. -It holds its charge in storage for a very long time. I've left it sitting for 6 months, and it still had a full charge when I pulled it out to use it. -It's so inexpensive. This unit usually sells for half of the price of most other jump starter packs. I'm guessing because of the smaller battery, but it still gets the job done.

Cons: -400A seems a little low for a jump starter compared to some others but I suspect some of the others drastically over rate their abilities. This rating of 400A feels more realistic to me. -It does get hot when used. -It doesn't come with a carrying case or bag.

Overall Review: Most of these devices give you some kind of rating for how big of an engine they can start, but this one doesn't. It just give the 400A Peak rating. I don't know how big of an engine it will actually start, but I'll tell you what I tested it on so far. It started my 2.4L 4-Cylinder Toyota engine with no other battery at all attached to the car. This jump pack was the only battery in the car, and it started the engine. Note that this is no the the intended use, it is really meant to boost a low car battery. But it worked and it did it pretty easily too. It started a 3.4L V6 GM engine that had a dead car battery. It did this pretty easily. And finally it has started my 5.7L V8 GM engine in my old pickup truck that had a dead battery. This is the one that really pushed this little thing. I'll admit I didn't follow the directions, so I tortured this thing, and it took it like a champ. It says in the directions to never crank the engine for more than 3 seconds and to wait at least 60 seconds between trying to crank the engine. I didn't do this. It took 3 tries to get my truck started. Each time I cranked the engine for at least 10 seconds and I didn't wait in-between tries. But it did get my truck started! Afterwards the jump pack was very hot, not so hot that I couldn't touch it, but for a Lithium-Ion battery it was hot. But the unit still worked, and even after 3 tries cranking this relatively big engine in 30°F weather, the unit still had half a charge according to LED indicators. I was so impressed with this thing that I bought 2 more so I can have one in each of my vehicles. It is so worth the small price.

Pros: It's small?

Cons: This thing is useless. It connects for about a minute, then disconnects and won't reconnect again until the computer is rebooted or until you take it out of the USB port and put it back in. This seems to be common with these.

Overall Review: Spend a little bit more and get something better. I was just wanting to get something that would get an older computer an internet connection, the speed didn't really matter to me, but this couldn't even manage that simple of a task. I'd use it as a paper weight, but it's too light so it can't even do that.

Pros: This unit is built extremely well. The cables are all good quality, the sleeving is very well done and not the cheap sleeving you can see through. All the cables are black as well, so even the ones that aren't sleeved look good. Seasonic power supply build quality is second to none, so I have no doubt this power supply will last for a very long time. The 10 year warranty tells me Seasonic expects it to last a long time too. The hybrid mode is a nice addition, and I like that you can turn it off with a button on the back of the power supply. Even with the fan going though, the power supply is very quiet. The fully modular design is great. One single rail means you don't have to worry about what you are plugging in where, just plug it all in, and you won't overload the rail. The finish of the power supply is very good, a nice matte black with no flaws means it will fit in to most cases. Every cable has a capacitor in it to make sure all your components are receiving stable power.

Cons: I had to remove one egg because of the poor documentation that comes with the power supply as well as the capacitors on the cables making them hard to work with. The book that comes with the power supply is pretty useless. It doesn't explain anything about the power supply, it was a very basic booklet that had basic instructions for installing a power supply and basic troubleshooting if something doesn't work, but that is it. In fact, there are only two pages of english instructions in the booklet, and two pages per every other language. Two pages is not enough to really tell the user anything useful. The other issue I had was the placement of the capacitors on the cables. They were so close to the end o the cables that it made them very hard to work with. It is extremely difficult to get the cables to make a bend at the end to plug into a connector. I would have preferred the capacitors be located a little further down the cable, or closer to the power supply end of the cable. These are really the only two issues I had.

Overall Review: I would definitely recommend this power supply. It is very well built, and backed by a good warranty and Seasonic's great reputation.

Pros: Metal enclosure looks and feels nice and seems to be rugged. Uses a USB Type-C Connector, which is less fragile than the Type-B style connector. Comes with USB Type-C to Type-C cable(honestly, the first device I own to come with one of these). Includes a USB Type-A to Type-C adapter for backwards compatibility. Comes with backup software. Comes with software to enable or disable hardware encryption.

Cons: USB Type-C doesn't really add anything to this drive. It doesn't make the drive any faster, and being able to put the connector in either direction doesn't really have much use on an external hard drive. It is still a standard ~5400RPM 2.5" hard drive, which means it is super super slow in everything but large file transfers, and it is still pretty slow for large file transfers.. The 1TB size is really just getting too small, especially for the price, these days. My pictures and videos alone filled this drive to nearly 80%, and that isn't even using the Discovery software to download everything from my social media. I would recommend getting at least the 2TB model. I'm not a fan of the backup software, it just seems to limited to me. I instead used the free program FBackup. It doesn't come with a carrying case. I would have preferred a plastic housing but an included padded case. Because, lets face it, it doesn't matter if the drive has a metal housing or a plastic housing, if you drop the drive the drive is probably going to die from the shock. That is just what hard drives do when you drop them. So a padded carrying case would be much better.

Overall Review: I would recommend getting the 2TB of 4TB models, they are much better values than the 1TB.