Pros: This card is an excellent and very affordable upgrade to your aging AGP system that you don't want to spend your entire paycheck to replace. It beats my old ATI 9800 AIW Pro hands down. I play WoW at 1920x1200 full screen resolution on my 24" LCD, and I can turn the graphics to max settings with only little choppiness in certain areas (like Shatt and Nagrand). But that's not bad with 256MB video memory given the resolution I'm running. Also, the heatsink and fan are designed in a way that make them harder to collect dust over time.

Cons: The drivers are a nightmare. You must use the drivers on the CD first. I tried to update the Catalyst drivers, but my screen became blank after the reboot. It would sit in no signal mode until I get the eventual blue screen complaining about ati2vag.dll. From then on, reinstalling the original drivers was another nightmare. I couldn't count the number of times I had to boot into VGA mode due to the blank screens on normal boots. To reinstall the drivers, I had to remove the display adapters under safe mode, uninstall any ATI software from the CD, reboot in VGA mode, prevent Windows from automatically installing its own set of drivers, reinstall from CD, reboot in VGA mode again, set the resolution and hope it worked, and then reboot until the frame rate is automatically set correctly. This card is extremely picky about its drivers. I never had this problem with my 9800 AIW Pro.

Overall Review: This is great buy as an AGP upgrade or replacement. With its insane memory clock, this card is one of the best in the 256MB group. Be very careful with installing drivers. If you mess up, don't rely on System Restore to save your hide. It didn't save me.

Pros: True hi-def, meaning 1920x1080 resolution Uses memory card Small, light-weight Very clear LCD

Cons: I went to Best Buy and saw one of these on display. I was highly impressed at everything this camera packs. But just as I was considering making the purchase, I noticed that the camera did not have that peek-through view finder in the back! So when you flip the LCD over to allow people in front of you to see what you are recording, YOU cannot see what you are recording. To me, that's a big minus. If I want to put children on camera, I need to let them see themselves on the LCD in order to maintain their attention. Without that view finder, I'm liable to be shooting at the ground the entire time. Also, I don't like how Sony made the recording format proprietary.

Overall Review: If you place a mirror close to what you are shooting, then you should be fine.

Pros: This is a great buy for the price. I am using this drive as my storage medium rather than a bootable device. I figured that I wouldn't need a 1TB drive since I already have another 640GB on my primary, so that saved me a few bucks. Plus it's a Caviar BLACK. In my new Dell, I would have a hard time telling if the system is turned on even when the drive is running if it wasn't for the LEDs on the case. Everything runs so quietly!

Cons: I originally bought this drive with the intention of replacing my dying WD 160GB SATA I hard drive. Little did I know that this drive is not backwards compatible with SATA I controllers whereas many other SATA II drives should be capable. I searched Western Digital's website and found that there's supposed to be a jumper setting which would force a WD drive to run at SATA I speed. That did not work. I also tried installing a more updated SATA I controller, but that did not work either. This is the only reason why I gave it four stars instead of five.

Overall Review: I now have this drive installed in a brand new system with a 640GB SATA II as the primary. Transfer rates between the two drives run about 30MB/sec. But just to give you an idea, the transfer rate over an Ethernet LAN to my other PC is about 10MB/sec.