Pros: I can hold it securely in one hand! Having a laptop where you can do this is quite liberating, as you can pick it up or stow it away at a moment's notice. Waiting for the city bus? Can't easily pack up with a 14.1" laptop, but you can simply hold your Eee in your hand, and stow it once you sit down. Running XP or Ubuntu, the 900Mhz Celeron M in this is plenty sufficient. The GMA 900 in this has no problems running compositing in Linux, so you'll be able to have all your drop shadows on your windows, transparency, and all that good stuff if you'd like. All the good oldschool games run great. Fallout 2, Starcraft, Quake III Arena. Turn off some of the features, and even Dwarf Fortress runs great. Battery life is about what ASUS advertises. I have 60% left after having sat down for about 1.25 hours. So about 3 hours estimated total. This is in XP, mind.

Cons: Internal SSD is not soldered on, the 4GB SSD in these is in the flash_con mini-PCIe slot. If you're going to upgrade it, you'll have to ditch it, unlike the previous models, where the 4GB SSD was soldered on and the flash_con slot was free (but without a connector soldered on). Keyboard is cramped. For those with large hands, look elsewhere. For those of us with thin or at least nimble fingers, it'll take about a week to adapt to the keyboard well enough to type about 45 WPM (about half of my regular typing speed). This particular model comes with NO WEBCAM in the lid. For me, this was a plus, because having a camera fixed on me while I work bugs me. For others, this might be a concern. Has a cheap TFT whine. In a room with at least a little noise to it, you can't really notice it. When you're in a quiet room, you will notice that the LCD gives off a high pitched whine. Those middle-aged or past, congratuations, you can't hear it. I got used to it either way.

Overall Review: I wrote this review on my Eee 900! I think that speaks for how well one can type on this thing given time to adapt. I upgraded immediately to 2GB of DDR2-667, but pretty much any stick of DDR2 RAM you can get on NewEgg will suit fine, it will just be underclocked. Added a 16GB SDHC card. DUAL BOOTERS: Install XP to the internal SSD, and make a 128MB partition at the end of the disk, and mount Linux's /boot directory there, and install GRUB to the SSD. Then install / to an SDHC card. If you want some of the SDHC card accessable to both XP and Linux, make that partition on the SDHC card *FIRST* and the Linux root *SECOND*. Windows XP will ONLY show the first filesystem on removable media even if there are several valid partitions. XP has moments where it'll grind on the SSD and become unresponsive for a second or three. I installed Linux to an SDHC card, and it never has such problems, even though the SDHC card has half the burst speed. Turn off indexing and write cachin

Pros: Keyboard is fine to type on. Mouse has a good deal of weight to it.

Cons: Uses a rather large receiver base with a long USB cable instead of a smaller USB dongle. You have to associate your keyboard and mouse to this occasionally, which is annoying. Other Logitech sets have one small dongle that is always associated. Range is kinda abysmal, which is absurd compared to how big the base station is. I had this setup to a desktop under my TV, and it was about 2.0-2.5 meters between the coffee table and the couch where the set would be used. Both the keyboard and mouse would blink in and out of functioning at this distance. Holding down a button in a text window, and then slowly pulling the keyboard away from the base station confirmed that the reception is very poor. The mouse also tracks very poorly for a laser mouse. Both my coffee table and desk have a wood top that is finished, and is somewhat shiny. The mouse works, but cursor position becomes erratic. The fabric of my couch also gives it problems. I should have bought a second MK520 instea

Overall Review: I own a Logitech MK520 keyboard/mouse combo with the "Nano" USB dongle. Being cheaper, it is far nicer than this combo. It suffers none of the problems of this set. I ultimately swapped the two, because the MK520 set was more capable of handling the radio distance and surfaces than the LX310. On my desk, the distance to the receiver is only about half a meter away, so there are no issues anymore with reception. The mouse still flakes out enough to require a mousepad. The keyboard also uses AAs, while the mouse uses AAAs. I had to go out and buy a pack of AAA NiMHs, but that's about par for the course.

Pros: They're long enough, they work, and they're cheap. Pretty hard for a manufacturer to mess up the venerable USB cable.

Cons: The MicroUSB port is a little chunky with the black plastic around it. I have to make sure to seat it properly on my Galaxy S phone, or else it might not make complete contact. I could probably file it down easily enough if I wanted to.

Pros: The wall plug breaks out into 3 USB ports, one of which can drive a whole amp. This is great, since I now have one plug that services my entire desk of electronics. I'm absolutely taking this with me whenever I travel, as the plug folds in. The 1A port specifically is great for charging my very power-hungry Nook Color, which complains about standard 500mA chargers. The other ports charge my Galaxy S phone just great, which isn't nearly as picky but will fast-charge on the 1A port too. The car adapter is also superb, and can put out some real current for my Galaxy S phone. My old adapter put out about 500mA, and would barely maintain the phone while in GPS navigation mode. This will run and charge it instead, while taking up less space. The car adapter is TINY, it barely sticks out of the 12V port on my car.

Cons: I got this product when it was about 70% off. At its current price, I would probably look elsewhere. But at the price point I got it at, it was a complete bargain.

Overall Review: Both pieces are sturdy, travel-ready, and get the job done well.

Pros: Immensely easy to flash a third party firmware. Just grab the right .bin file, upload over an ethernet cable, and reboot. Seems faster than my old WRT54G that it replaces, although it might be the firmware doing that. Runs Tomato like a champ. Uses half as much electricity as a WRT54G (23W vs. 12W), so my UPS should last a little longer now. I couldn't believe it, but I think my WRT54G with DD-WRT was a bottleneck on my network. I did speed tests before swapping the routers, and then after. I was getting 8 Mbps down and 0.6 Mbps up before (DOCSIS 2.0 modem), and now I can get 20 Mbps down and 3.7 Mbps up! I had to swap them once more just to be sure. I'm not sure if this is the hardware or the different firmwares, but it is a very welcome change! Signal strength penetrates through walls effectively enough. Very easy to setup the router as a repeater in Tomato. Excellent QoS tweaking and bandwidth monitoring in Tomato too. Antennas detach.

Cons: At this price point, a USB port for doing NAS would be nice. I'm nitpicking, though.

Overall Review: I'd recommend Tomato instead of DD-WRT for the GLs. They operate much faster, and Tomato seems to be more frequently updated than DD-WRT.

Pros: Very comfortable. The audio quality is some of the best I've ever heard in any of the headphones I've ever owned. Everything sounds improved enough that I'm going through and reviewing all my old music to see what I've been missing. Highs are clear, mids are full, and the bass is also full, but not as punchy as I had anticipated. If I work with an equalizer, I can get the bass very punchy without distortion just fine. I feel these are pretty solid for using as monitors. Certainly much better than ones I've had in the past. Woven fabric cables are wonderful. And they throw in an extension too. I don't think these will die from stress on the cables near the audio jacks any time soon. The whole headset in general is made pretty solidly, with metal piping at the common failure points on most headsets. These should last a long time and handle the abuse of walking around with them.

Cons: The specs on the product page don't match in the included spec leaflet in the box, but that's not a huge deal. It's just that the frequency response isn't reported as low as the product page says it is. The padding on the earpieces is some pretty plush fabric, and as such tends to trap heat like earmuffs. They can get a little hot on your head after awhile if the room you're in is just a little on the warm side. This is advantageous while listening to an MP3 player while outside in the bitter cold, though. These things leak sound in both directions. The level at which I listen to most of my music approaches, but does not hit being distracting to others. I can hear people trying to get my attention with these on, and I can hear them clearly with the headset on, but the audio muted. Given the situation I generally use these in, I consider this a plus, but others will not.

Overall Review: The color is not as radioactively fluorescent as the pictures on NewEgg and other places lead you to believe. These are made of matte-finish lime-green plastic. I'm betting the contrast between the black accents, the green plastic, and the white backgrounds on most pictures tricks your eyes. Make no mistake, though. These are definitely eye-catching. Just not eye-searing. Take that for what you will, I find them to look rather nice. They are certainly a splash of color in my otherwise drab workplace. They certainly throw people off guard. The audio quality of these is on par with a PC151 set I bought for gaming. The Sennheisers have a punchier bass to them, and sit on-ear, but are equally clear in the mids and highs. I'd prefer to be able to tilt the audio balance only when I want it, and not having it innate to the headset. These Orcas keep everything nicely balanced, and do not distort when I shift an equalizer in any one direction.