Pros: Compact, AUX input, decent midrange for the size

Cons: the baffles on the back (the bassXport or whatever buzzword creative uses) don't look very durable; be very careful if you're grabbing the speakers to move them around

Overall Review: If you're willing to spend $50 on a 2.0 system, you're likely looking for something with a small footprint and are willing to give up some bass response. This is pretty much exactly what you get with the T12 - the frequency response won't blow you away at the low or high end, but they're stylish, have decent volume, and do fine for playing music while you work/cook/etc. note that using the AUX input mutes the main input (i.e. you can use one or the other, not both at the same time).

Pros: Extremely speedy drive. Easily hit 80-90mB/sec when transferring video files to and from a 1tb 32mb cache HD. i don't have a particularly new or optimized desktop setup, either. Although I hated having to use it (see cons/other thoughts), WD's RMA system is very user-friendly. They sent me a new drive via 2nd-day Fedex, and sell discounted UPS shipping labels (so I could send the dead drive back). Would've given the drive a 1-egg rating if it weren't for the easy RMA process. Doesn't matter how fast the drive is if you can't rely on it, you know?

Cons: Died within a year. Could've been random chance, or something regarding the uptime patterns on my desktop system, but any way you slice it, it still died.

Overall Review: Luckily, Vista seems to read SMART diagnostics from the disk and warned me before the drive failed completely. I was able to back up all of my important data - the drive died on the next reboot.

Pros: good for cooling my first-gen PS3, it's in a cramped media cabinet. quiet, speed-adjustable

Cons: even at the highest speed it doesn't move all that much air

Overall Review: wouldn't use it in a mission-critical application, but good for making sure air is circulating in a media center.

Pros: good match for my Mac Pro, as it fits like any other 3.5" drive. it's not as fast as the newest SATA III drives, but my mac only has SATA II anyway. pairs well with a 7200rpm 2tb HDD for a DIY fusion drive. doesn't show up with TRIM support in OSX, but otherwise seems to work like an OEM fusion drive.

Cons: I don't know how long the warranty coverage is

Overall Review: Great value refurbished; if I was buying new I'd probably get something else. definitely keep backups if you're using this as a primary disk.

Pros: crisp, no dead pixels. i built my own monitor stand and use it 90 degrees rotated for reading research papers/PDFs. viewing angles in this orientation are good as long as you have the monitor sitting to the right of your primary display. came with every cable I'd need to hook it up. color calibration/rendition is surprisingly good out of the box.

Cons: it's a TN panel, so there are limitations on the viewing angle. the way I have it arranged (see above), however, makes this a non-issue. status LED is a little bright if you're sleeping in the same room.

Overall Review: haven't tested the speakers, since I don't need them. it's a rebranded Acer monitor, if that matters to anyone.

Pros: Cheap 1gb 4650 card, with GPU/RAM speeds comparable to more expensive competition. Fan is not audible from where I sit (disclaimer: my computer sits below my desk, in a fairly quiet Antec case).

Cons: First one arrived defective and had to RMA; don't know how this will affect my rebate with MSI (which is the primary reason I chose it over the other brands at the time).

Overall Review: Plays starcraft2 at high detail, drives both my LCD monitors without any complaints.