Joined on 12/13/02
Exactly the one I'mve been Looking for
Pros: Relative fast charge. Reliable; Small size.
Cons: Well, it is not fancy as some of the others have. I care less about this.
Overall Review: Almost all the other portable batteries I've looked at have the Micro USB power input. And this is the very first one I found that does not use the Micro USB. Charging input makes a big difference. With AC charger, you can charge it much faster. I use this battery mainly to power my MiFi. That box has a small cellphone type battery, but it lasts only minutes. I do not know why. With this large battery, I never have to worry about the MiFi out of power. I also use the battery to charge my Galaxy and Nexus tab. I've not used more than 1/2 of the capacity. A good buy.
Scam, Do not Buy
Pros: None
Cons: Basically the software is free and they make $ by subscription service. Rebate is scam.
Overall Review: I was wondering why this product has been bundled with so many other products and is basically free if you get the rebate ($60 to $80). Now I know. First, it is very hard to get your rebate. I do not know what the success rate is to get the rebate. I figure very very low. The software is essentially free and they try to get your money by forcing you to install the software and use its subscription service. To submit the rebate, you'll have to activate the product. I figure they would make the rebate eligible only if you keep using their service. Or no rebate! Most subscription-bases software is totally free, but this company add one more layer trying to get your $ through the rebate scam. You can't change your mind after you purchase the software. Do not buy.
Buy Whatever is Right For You
Pros: Small, slim, light for standard Mini-ITX
Cons: Not free.
Overall Review: A lot folks complained about the placement of the power supply and the needs for extra fan. Then I think you bought the wrong case. Do your research before you complain about this. This case is designed for passive cooling board, such as Intel Atom. With the passive cooling, no need for case fan. The PS is actually the only fan for it. It runs very quiet this way. Imagine what happened when you use 4 case fans, along with power supply fan, CPU fan, etc.....
Very Solid HTPC Case
Pros: Good looking Plenty room Good cooling
Cons: None of now
Overall Review: A lot of the negative reviews here are rather silly. This case is designed for HTPC. Water cooler does not belong here. The large $300 video card does not belong here. HTPC does not need the large gaming card. This is not a gaming case. This case is for a medium power, quiet HTPC set up. I have: Asus F1F75-FM AMD FM1 type GPU/CPU Corsair 450W PS Blue-Ray OD Single SATA HD My CPU fan is running at 1500 rpm and two original fans running at about 620 rpm. I do not hear the fan noise. As for the HD LED. The comments are very silly. The HD LED is there. But in order not to have very bright LED light, the HD LED was not drilled. So it is power/HD combo LED. With the same LED, you can still see the HD activities. So this is not distracting with TV viewing. Some case LEDs are too bright for this purpose.
Useless
Pros: Nice GUI
Cons: Corrupt backup without warning. Confusing log info.
Overall Review: Well, it is sad to own Acronis name. I've been using Acronis for a couple of years. It has some hicups, but I still stick with it. Now I run my own Home Server 2011 and I installed both Disk Director and True Image (called Backup and Recovery for server) server versions. No errors from installation. First server backup. It reported some errors with backups. I did some research and found the errors from shadow file setting (VSS?). Reset the setting and backup ran ok. Another backup problem. When I tried to set the backup compresson to high, the backup froze and would not go. So I had to stop the backup and set the compresson to normal or none. Finally backup completed. The restore was a disaster. I used to Disk Director Server to move a partition from one disk to another disk. The task completed with failure. The source partition was removed, but the target partition was corrupt. So I lost data. So I called upon the software to restore from the backup. The restore failed completely with tons of errors. It reported that the backup image was corrupt and could not complete. I mounted the backup image and tried to manually copy files from the backup image. I did salvage some data, but some files were lost. Some files could not be copied. Backup software has to be 100% reliable. Disk drives can fail and restoring is what we pay for backup software. Acronis has failed very badly. I'll stay away from Acronis and try to find something else. I lost data.....
It Sometimes Works
Pros: More flexible than Windows disk manager.
Cons: Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not!
Overall Review: Well it is hard to rate this one. I like this program and has been using it for a long time. I thought this is the most popular disk utility software. But I could be wrong. I know it has its own problem, but just surprised to see there are so many negative reviews. This program is good to change the size of my partitions. But it did a bad job in disk cloning. I tried to clone a 120GB disk to a 160GB disk and the new disk would not boot. Its disk image software has more problems. I consider it a junk if it is not 100% reliable with a backup software. Try to find something else.