Joined on 11/08/04
USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure
Pros: Works great and enclosure is very quite. Looks good. Well built. Can turn off fan if not needed on all the time.
Cons: Very bright blue LED's light up my room at night! Simple fix, ***(UNPLUG THEM)*** Very Satisfied with the Enclosure.
Overall Review: Great Product, Works well as intended. I have it on 24 hours a day and even with the fan off the enclosure dissipates heat well, probably will depend on the hard drive you insert but overall a good design. Unplug the LED to fix the issue of lighting my room at night when trying to sleep was an easy thing to do. If you can install the hard drive in the enclosure you should easily be able to trace the LED wire to the plug on the board.
Best Blue Tooth Device Yet!
Pros: Great Clear Crisp Sound! Not like other blue tooth devices I have had over the years and there has been many. I almost gave up on the technology until I decided to try these and now i'm convinced you can get great sound from a blue tooth device. This is the most flexible device on the market because you can use your favorite head phones, one for high end use like over the ear phones another for sports like clip on ear buds or even a home or car stereo. Plug this device into your auxiliary input on you car stereo and you now have instant built in car to stereo bluetooth calls and music like pandora or stored on the phone. Even hear your turn by turn directions from your phone! Great device! The market should be flooded with these, Samsung really made it work! I also like the control over the music and built in equalizer! Sound is very good. Finally!
Cons: Not recommended to have the device charging (per instructions) while using the device. Too bad I would buy one and permanently leave it on my car all the time for hands free calls and music without the fuss of charging it, it would be nice just to leave it in the car charging all the time.
Overall Review: I have purchased many blue tooth devices over the years only to be disappointed... Not this TIME! These are the best sounding clearest signal I have yet heard! Sounds as good as wired... The most versatile because you can use any type of headphones you want or plug them into your home or car stereo system for hand free and wireless music and calls! I will by one for everyone of my family and even a couple for myself, one for the car and the other for personal use. I love this device! Samsung keep improving the use and versatility of these types of devices instead of being forced to use only the headphones that come with the device even though the ear buds seam to sound as good as my high end phones I like the option of using others especially if I loose or break the phones that come with it.
Works Well, Great ISO Player
Pros: Plays ISO format and everthing I have thrown at it with ease, can update over the web, had no problem logging into my hi end pc running Vista Ultimate 64 bit over my network. File access was easy enough. I gave it five eggs becuase it is the best one currently available in my opinion. I have continually been pleasantly surprised with Patriot products being relatively new to the market, I hope they continue as much so as to keep up the competition with its products being of good quality, performance and bang for buck, this is good for the industry.
Cons: Could use a little better user interface but it is not a bad interface at all. If you are spoiled with gui interfaces it would be a con but it is easy to navigate. I really like the thumbnails that run the dvd files in real time motion so you can preview them without actually running the the dvd.
Overall Review: I looked at many of these including the WD, what I like the most was being able to play ISO files. I added a 500 gig 2.5" hard drive and copied all my iso files, music files and pictures to it and love that it is so small I can take it anywhere like on vacation. Very well built, not plastic. Needs a cool case, another cool feature is having it randomly play your pictures while playing music. Currently I think this is the best unit on the market, I could see a huge market for these. I dont use the file copy through the menu because it is allot easier to just plug it into your pc and use it just like a regular hard drive, once I have everthing copied just unplug it from your pc and use it as normal for use on your video display or tv. HDMI works well.
Works as advertised
Pros: Works well, I purchased one then bought another after using it for a while for another laptop. I did have some problems with the fan. If they used a ball bearing fan this would probably be one of the best coolers on the market. Most of the time I don't even use the fan, just the design alone keeps the laptop much cooler. When the fan is on though my notebook internal fans sometimes never kick in or at least much noticabley less often. As for the leg that kicks out, I only use the leg when used on a desk, otherwise I leave the leg up when used on my lap and this works well and is confortable.
Cons: Fan could be better
Overall Review: It is small enough to fit in my laptop case so it is always with me. Most of the time I do not need to plug in the fan which is fine when using it on top of the bed which still allows cool air to flow underneath the laptop which you can't do with some of the ather coolers on the market. Price is good for the benefits.