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Greg S.

Greg S.

Joined on 09/10/05

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Fix for Buzz

SAMSUNG HP-S5053 Black 50" 16:9 Plasma TV with Built-in HDTV Tuner
SAMSUNG HP-S5053 Black 50" 16:9 Plasma TV with Built-in HDTV Tuner

Pros: great tv, great picture quality, easy setup, looks good, decent sound

Cons: annoying buzz, but now it's gone. I called Samsung, they had a tech come by. He put some electrical tape on the inside of the rear metal casing and it works great. Samsung has a bulletin on the issue and this is their official fix. THE BUZZ IS GONE. If you have this problem, call samsung and they'll take care of you.

12/14/2006
Most Critical Review

Not goot for Vista 64 bit.

ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Minus the Wireless, and NIC card the board works very well. Fast, easy to use, compatible.

Cons: Getting the Audio drivers working with Vista 64 was a bit tricky. The wireless doesn't work with Vista 64 bit, period. The Marvell NIC card works for a while, but suffers from lag at times, and chooses to stop without warning and the OS needs to reboot to get the connection back up. It happens multiple times a day. Asus support doesn't know how to solve the problem with either network adapters. It's most definitely a driver issue, and no available drivers seem to work properly. I've just decided to buy a separate NIC card that works with 64 bit vista and disable the on board cards...

Overall Review: Card is no good with vista 64 bit. However, instead of looking for another card, I'd suggest you just stay as far away from Vista 64 bit as possible.

awkward rounded keys

Logitech MK520 Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo — Keyboard and Mouse, Long Battery Life, Secure 2.4GHz Connectivity
Logitech MK520 Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo — Keyboard and Mouse, Long Battery Life, Secure 2.4GHz Connectivity

Pros: +good size +decent layout +doesn't have that extra top row of garbage buttons you never use

Cons: -the rounded keys feel incredible awkward -mouse too small and feels cheap

Overall Review: I couldn't stand the rounded keys and couldn't return the item, so I just gave them away and bought another wireless keyboard and mouse (not bundled). I wouldn't recommend this keyboard because of the rounded keys. Pretty unfortunate because other than that, the keyboard was almost exactly what I needed. I prefer Logitech's Dinovo keybaord for notebooks, but I believe they're discontinued. Bummer.

Absolute Trash

Microsoft Windows Vista 64-Bit Business for System Builders Single Pack DVD
Microsoft Windows Vista 64-Bit Business for System Builders Single Pack DVD

Pros: uh, looks prettier than XP?

Cons: Wow, where to start? I guarantee you you'll have at least one piece of hardware that will have serious compatibility issues regarding drivers that actually work properly. If you're building a budget system, beware b/c this is a resource hog. In an attempt to make things easier to navigate through, Microsoft has achieved the exact opposite. It's overly complicated for computer savy people to tweak this OS.

Overall Review: Stay away from Vista people. It's really not worth the headache. XP worked fine and still works fine. I'm considering going back to XP.

Great TV, one very annoying con

SAMSUNG HP-S5053 Black 50" 16:9 Plasma TV with Built-in HDTV Tuner
SAMSUNG HP-S5053 Black 50" 16:9 Plasma TV with Built-in HDTV Tuner

Pros: It's really big, great picture quality, easy to use menu's, dual HDMI.

Cons: Samsung claims it has a quiet operation which is grossly inaccurate. It's got a loud buzz I'd put on par with a city street light. It can get really annoying really fast. I don't know if other plasmas have the same buzz, but if they don't I'd be willing to pay more to get one without the buzz. Too bad newegg doesn't have a return policy for bulk items.

Overall Review: Having this TV without an HD feed or food cables is a crime so if you don't already, get it.

It works fine

Rosewill RC-304 - 2-Port Parallel (SPP / PS2 / EPP / ECP) Universal PCI Card
Rosewill RC-304 - 2-Port Parallel (SPP / PS2 / EPP / ECP) Universal PCI Card

Pros: It works, installing it was easy. I placed it in a HP computer without any sort of compications

Cons: None observed

Overall Review: It's cheap and it works fine.

11/28/2006