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Charlene E.

Charlene E.

Joined on 01/12/06

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Rosewill RC-600

Rosewill RC-600 4 Port USB2.0 PCMCIA Card
Rosewill RC-600 4 Port USB2.0 PCMCIA Card

Pros: Cheap Price; under 20 bucks including shipping. Card has good quality construction and fits snugly into the PCMCIA slot and protrudes about 1.25" from the side of my laptop with adequate spacing of the four USB ports. The drivers installed without a fuss on this XP Pro laptop.

Cons: External USB power adapter not supplied with card, but appears to be easily available at the local electronics shack if needed.

Overall Review: This card was a last chance fix for this ageing Thinkpad R40 on which the two on-board USB ports stopped working. Now the R40 has four ports, two of which I use for Wireless N and Bluetooth dongles and two four my external DVD drive and flash drives as needed.

Most Critical Review

Antec NP65

Antec NP65 Universal 65W Notebook Power Adapter
Antec NP65 Universal 65W Notebook Power Adapter

Pros: Cheap price, good quality.

Cons: This unit works on some laptops, but when connected to a Dell laptop the Dell "Quickset" power manager recognizes the Antec as a non-standard power adapter and shuts down the charging circuit. No help on Dell Laptops!

Sandisk Ultra 32Gb SDHC

SanDisk 32GB Ultra SDHC UHS-I Card - Class 10 30MB/s
SanDisk 32GB Ultra SDHC UHS-I Card - Class 10 30MB/s

Pros: Black Friday special under $20 from New Egg! Proven Sandisk Reliability and performance.

Cons: No problems to report.

Overall Review: I used this SDHC card in conjunction with an IDE to SD Card Adapter to replace a failing 32 Gb IDE HDD on my ageing Dell Latitude. The setup was easy and the D410 recognized the SDHC card as a fixed mode drive when using Debian Linux OS. Drive read performance is at least equal or better than the old HDD while write performance is a little slower but not objectionable in general use. At an installed price under $30 including the adapter it gives a new lease on life for this old clunker at a fraction of the cost of a new replacement IDE HDD.

12/22/2012

Tenda W150M

Tenda W150M Portable Wireless AP/Router IEEE 802.3/3u, IEEE 802.11b/g/n
Tenda W150M Portable Wireless AP/Router IEEE 802.3/3u, IEEE 802.11b/g/n

Pros: Low price and portability with all the options.

Cons: Setup was not all that easy and is still not at 100% I am using the W150 now as a Router and even though the unit is set for wireless B,G,N mixed mode none of my wireless G computers will display web pages even at an indicated full signal strength. Only wireless N cards will work and I have not found the issue yet.

Overall Review: I like the unit, but be prepared to spend some quality time setting the unit up.

Works Great! just not in my iMac.

Crucial M4 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT064M4SSD2
Crucial M4 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT064M4SSD2

Pros: I jumped in and bought the M4 at just the right time for under $90 as it usually runs over $100. The SSD already had the latest firmware revision (0009) so it did not need updating.

Cons: Not to fault this SSD, but it refused to be recognized by my PPC iMac G5 even in OS X Disk utility. So I installed it in my Windoz 7 desktop and it was immediately recognized and fully operational. I will be setting the M4 up as the Win 7 OS drive and use the disk for file storage. So long iMac!

Overall Review: I knew I was taking a risk when trying the M4 in an old SATA 1 Mac and there has been little help regarding SSD support for legacy Macs in the Crucial and Apple community forums, but I will put it to good use elsewhere. Hats off to the Egg for great prices and prompt delivery.

Rosewill RIKB-11002

Rosewill RIKB-11002 Slim Keyboard with Low Profile Chiclet Keycap Design - Retail
Rosewill RIKB-11002 Slim Keyboard with Low Profile Chiclet Keycap Design - Retail

Pros: Under $10 with free shipping. Looked like a winner out of the box.

Cons: After a week or two of occasional use the keyboard began to type the wrong characters "D" would type "6" etc, which would require a restart to correct but the problem would soon return.

Overall Review: I figured it was just a bum unit, but at the price it is not worth returning it for warranty replacement. I have bought Rosewill products many times over the years and will continue to do so as I am usually very pleased with their products. Newegg is still the one to beat for price and service, even though it can be annoying at times sifting the computer parts from the kitchen widgets and chainsaws. It was probably just a fluke as I have been buying Rosewill products for a long time and hav