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Johnson F.

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Most Favorable Review

Great buy for the price.

Gateway 14.1" Intel Pentium T3400 2GB Memory DDR2 667 Windows Vista Home Premium T-6345U
Gateway 14.1" Intel Pentium T3400 2GB Memory DDR2 667 Windows Vista Home Premium T-6345U

Pros: Battery life 3 1/2 hours for Typing and Surfing the Web, 2 hours life if using the DVD or Hard Drive continuously. Supports 4GB in a 64 Bit OS. Stylish, sturdy. Installed Windows 7 on it, works fast. This is a very fast laptop.

Cons: No webcam built in. The speakers are terrible. The simulated surround sound drove me crazy, had to disable one of the speakers which made the sound acceptable.

Overall Review: Others have indicated this does not support 4GB, that is wrong, it supports 4GB on the 64bit versions of WinXP, Win Vista and Windows 7. I installed both Windows XP and found all drivers, as well as Windows 7 with no issues. Others have also mentioned this computer runs HOT, i would disagree, its WARM, like if you were puffing WARM air with your mouth into your hands. This is an absolute great buy, I would recommend it.

Most Critical Review

Very very slow compared to 1.5TB drives

Western Digital WD Green WD15EARS 1.5TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital WD Green WD15EARS 1.5TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: None.

Cons: Freezes, very very slow. I have other Hitachi and Samsung 1.5TB 5400RPM drives. This one is by far the slowest. Worst than slow, it causes very brief pauses in the OS, likely due to similtaneous access of the OS and User Interaction on the Desktop, which is a common scenerio. Unless you never open more than 1 window at a time. I wish I can't sent this back.

Overall Review: To test whether its really this WD15EARS drive causing the pauses, I cloned the drive to my Hitachi and Samsung 1.5TB 5400RPM drives, and those ran fine without periodic (but not constant) ackward pauses. Considering both the Hitachi and Samsung cost around $70, had I known I would have bought those instead. The WD brand is not what it use to be.

Fun for kids

We Ski and Snowboard Wii Game
We Ski and Snowboard Wii Game

Pros: o Easy to learn o Controls are very intuitive o Great variety of Ski Gear and Characters o Realistic feel o Great Graphics

Cons: o Gets Repetitive

Overall Review: Got this for my 6 year old niece and she likes this and it did not take her long to catch on. She usually like the simple games and this fit that Category. For that reason I thought it was well worth the Money. Also adults like it too.

10/29/2011

Best 16GB Flash Drive for the Price

OCZ Rally2 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive OCZUSBR2DC-16GB
OCZ Rally2 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive OCZUSBR2DC-16GB

Pros: Great customer service from OCZ. Great return policy, fast returns. Lifetime Warranty. Faster than most drives. Took 10 minutes to copy a 4GB file, versus 30 minutes for a Corsair drive I bought.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: This is the second one I bought, my last one lasted 3 years and died, but I returned it to OCZ and they quickly sent me a replacement. I have bought other brands such as Corsair who also have lifetime warrantly but I sent it back 3 times, because it broke 3 times within 3 months and those were the rugged ones that were suppose to last. These things break and overheat, so best to buy one with Lifetime Warranty with great Customer Service.

Works great - Tells me the wattage of my Computers

P3 Kill A Watt Electricity Load Meter and Monitor
P3 Kill A Watt Electricity Load Meter and Monitor

Pros: Had this for 6 months.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: With this device, I was able to tell the following. So now I know that my computer uses 60 watts while its on, 3 watts on standby. My monitor uses 20-30 watts. My laptop indeed does auto-off when the battery is fully charged. My newer Pentium Dual Core computers uses about 40 watts and the older Pentium III uses about 80 watts of power. The routers uses about 5 watts each and my outlet strip with everything off uses 1 watt.

Still working

CORSAIR Voyager 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive CMFUSB2.0-16GB
CORSAIR Voyager 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive CMFUSB2.0-16GB

Pros: Still working after 3 months. I put it in my pocket a lot. My previous one was a OCZ ATV and they always died within 2 months, I think because of the jostling that occurs in the pocket.

Cons: The write speed is slow, still waiting for my rebate to come back, not counting on it. I'm the type that follows the rebate instructions meticulously, so either the USPS lost the post card, or the processing never happened. Either way, too much of a hassle to chase down, have to eat the cost.

Overall Review: This is formatted FAT32 by default, which does not support a file around 4GB, had to reformat it to NTFS which then allowed me to write files greater than 4GB to it, such as DVD ISO files.