Pros: Great inexpensive way to add USB 3.0 to your system.

Cons: The product description on Newegg lacks a few important details! Here's what they need to warn you about! For this thing to work, it needs to be connected to your computer's power supply. It doesn't just get its power from the PCI Express bus. There's a 4-plug molex connector on the RocketU card that MUST be connected for this thing to work. This is a problem from several different angles. First off, even if you do happen to have an unused connection inside your computer, and it happens to have a FEMALE connector on the end, it probably won't reach all the way over to where this board is. Second, if you have a newer computer, it won't use 4-prong molex connections at all... it will use a 15-pin SATA plug. I went to install this card in to a brand new Dell XPS machine, and was totally out of luck. No way to make it work out of the box. To make it work, I had to order Newegg item #: N82E16812530007 which is a 4-pin molex to 15-pin SATA adapter cable.

Overall Review: The "Quick Installation Guide" that comes in the box with this card is a real joke! There is not one single mention about the fact that you have to power this card with a connection to the 4-pin molex connector. In a perfect world, this card would come included with two sets of power cables: one for folks with older computers that use 4-prong molex connectors, and also an adapter cable such as Newegg item #: N82E16812530007 so that it will work on newer computers that use SATA. At a bare minimum, Newegg's product description should point out that an internal power cable is NOT supplied, and that it is REQUIRED.

Pros: Large hard drive, lots of RAM, very large widescreen display, incredibly good sound for a laptop computer, plays DVDs extremely well. Goes to sleep when you close the lid, and wakes up very quickly (right where you left off) when you open the lid again. Lots of computing power here. With my previous laptop, when the thing went in to a virus scan it used up all the system resources and the computer was basically unusable until the scan completed. This computer, though, seems to have no problems doing multiple things at the same time.

Cons: Some of the other laptops in Toshiba's lineup have an HDMI output, so you can plug them right in to your HDTV. This particular laptop does not have it, though.

Overall Review: I'm impressed with the DVD playback. About a year ago I was in the market for a laptop computer for my wife. We were very interested in a Gateway laptop at a local retailer. Having had a some bad experiences with laptops that were severely underpowered for basic tasks, I asked the salesman to pop in a DVD movie to see how it played on the Gateway laptop. As I feared, it was basically unable to perform the basic task of playing back a movie. Sure, it played... but with so many dropped frames that the movie was truly unwatchable. With that in mind, I popped a DVD movie in to my new Toshiba laptop... and was delighted to see it play flawlessly. It looked (and sounded) so good, I had to sit down and watch the whole movie.

Pros: Much quicker to boot up and quicker to actually get a Blu-Ray disc playing than the other Blu-Ray player I own, a Sony BDP-S300. The Sony takes 45 seconds from the time you push the eject button (with power off) until the disc tray door opens. The DMP-BD30 does it in 20 seconds. To actually get "National Treasure 2" to read the disc and get to the first menu took the Sony an incredible two minutes and seven seconds... the Panasonic did it in 34 seconds.

Cons: Ten years from now we will laugh at the idea of paying this much for a Blu-Ray player, and also at the idea of waiting 20 seconds from the time you push eject until the machine boots up and opens up the disc tray.

Overall Review: The Panasonic is very responsive when you push buttons on the remote control. Again, using "National Treasure" as an example, if you are accessing the disc menu and you simply push the up arrow on the Sony BDP-S300, you will see the menu selection move up on your screen a second or two after pushing the button. On the Panasonic, it is instantaneous.

Pros: So easy to transfer files! It shows up as a disc drive in "My Computer" as soon as you plug in the USB cable. Drag and drop your MP3 files to it. It's that simple. The sound quality is excellent. Even the supplied ear buds sounded good, although I quickly switched to a more comfortable set of headphones. Impressive long battery life! Definitely buy this version (The "L" version) and not the regular X5 with the cheaper battery. I just love playing in random mode, so that I have no idea what song will play next. NewEgg rocks... I had this thing in my hands about 30 hours after ordering it.

Cons: You have to go fairly deep in the menus to turn random play on or off. The owners manuals aren't very good... there is a skill to writing an owners manual that is thorough yet easy to understand. These people do not have that skill! I think the manuals were translated from Japanese, too... there was one sentence that made absolutely no sense! It took me a little while to figure out how to change things in the menu system... it was not an intuitive process. However, it makes sense once you finally figure it out. One minor annoyance is that the more songs you have loaded on this thing, the longer it takes to boot up. When I first loaded just a few songs on to it as a test, boot-up time was not bad at all. Once I got my entire library on to it, the boot-up sequence really slowed down. Now I just make a point of turning it on first and then fumbling with the headphones or car adapter while the thing boots up.

Overall Review: My wife has an iPxd and I found the iTunes software to be so confusing. This is SO much easier... being able to just drag and drop files using "My Computer". Also, with an iPxd, the iTxnes software converts each song to Axxle's proprietary format. This takes a LOT of time. The iAudio transfers files much quicker due to the fact that it doesn't do any conversion... it's as fast as transferring any file to an external hard disk. I moved about 3000 files to the iAudio in 15 minutes.