Pros: Adapter installs easily and works flawlessly. I have not directly tested speeds but performance appears typical for whichever wireless standard is in use. Well-supported in Linux; works out of the box on Ubuntu 11.04.

Cons: None whatsoever.

Overall Review: After struggling to get my old Broadcom-based Dell wireless adapter to work properly on my Latitude D600 under Ubuntu 11.04, I gave up and installed this. Total install time was under three minutes, from shutdown to surfing the web. I needed no additional drivers; the device offered to connect to my network as soon as I logged in.

Pros: They make sound.

Cons: Eye-searing blue power LED. "Sub" unit takes up a lot of desk space, but really doesn't perform well on the floor. "Sub" is just a single normal mid-range speaker. This system is basically mono plus stereo tweeters. And there's no bass.

Overall Review: For similar money, just get a 2.0 speaker pair larger than the satellites in this system. It'll sound at least as good and won't eat up your desk space.

Pros: Much faster than a standard 5400 RPM mechanical drive. 7mm high, so it fits in all modern laptops. Quiet (you can still hear some seek noise, but the spindle is as quiet as any other laptop drive I've used). Better value than an SSD, especially if you need a lot of storage space.

Cons: It's not as fast as an SSD. But that's to be expected, so I'm not sure it's a massive con.

Overall Review: This hybrid drive is a nice performance upgrade from a normal laptop hard drive, without going all the way to a pure SSD. It's fairly quiet and made my laptop considerably faster than the stock 5400 RPM drive. Managing the SSD cache and the spinning platters is automatic; the firmware copies commonly-used blocks of data to the SSD portion of the drive to speed up access. You only see a 500GB partition and don't have to worry about where to put certain files. It's no SSD, but if you want a speed boost without sacrificing storage space, it's a great value.

Pros: -Nice, professional-looking frame, without any glossy 'modern' styling touches. -Matte-finish screen doesn't show reflections. -Minimal ghosting. -Excellent viewing angles (hooray IPS!) -Decent color - despite being IPS, it's only a 6-bit panel so there's some extremely faint banding in certain color gradients; otherwise color is excellent. -Backlight will dim to a comfortable level, unlike many CCFL-lit models, and does not suffer from the high-pitched squeal many of those exhibit at lower brightness. -Speakers do not take up any bezel space, which is nice for those of us who won't be using them. -Internal power supply, so there's no extra power brick.

Cons: -Rotating base is extremely unstable. If you flip the monitor over and remove the screw holding the turntable, and throw the turntable away, you'll be left with something much more stable. -Blue power LED always blinks during standby. It can be switched on or off while the monitor is active but in either setting it blinks during standby, which is irritating. -Colors not quite as nice as I'd hoped for in an IPS panel. Still better than most TN.

Overall Review: Dynamic backlighting does not appear to have any effect unless the screen is almost 100% black. It can be disabled completely by holding the rightmost settings button (not power button) for five seconds. Default brightness is eye-searing. Turn it down; I found 15% very comfortable. It'll look dim when you first turn it down (since you're comparing directly to 100%) but once you walk away and come back it will be very comfortable. The other default settings are very reasonable. I raised contrast slightly to 74, raised Gamma to 2.4, and set user color to 50 red, 50 green, and 40 blue. See http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ for a sequence of test images to help with calibration. My first monitor had faint bruising which distorted colors. Newegg was helpful as always, took care of shipping, and got me a different one. Not a mark against the monitor, just random chance.

Pros: Been running strong since 2005. I haven't used it heavily in that time, but it's never given me any trouble for occasional use. It's been through three different hard drives (due to changing needs, not due to failures) and has worked well with all.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Usually doesn't need the extra power-only USB plug connected. I've run 4200 and 5400 RPM drives with a normal, straight-through A to A cable. When I ran the case with a hot, fast 7200 RPM drive, the extra power cable became necessary.

Pros: Cools well for its size, and the stock fan isn't terrible. It's very quiet by most people's standards. Fits in a case only wide enough for a 92mm exhaust fan.

Cons: Stock fan could be either quieter or more powerful; it sits somewhere in the middle.

Overall Review: If you want good cooling but don't want to spring for a huge tower cooler or don't want to risk damaging your motherboard moving a computer with such a cooler installed, this is a great choice. It's not small by any means, but it's much more manageable than the big towers.