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Kimberly B.

Kimberly B.

Joined on 05/02/06

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Most Favorable Review

She's a champ.

PNY VCG8800XXPB GeForce 8800GTX 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
PNY VCG8800XXPB GeForce 8800GTX 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

Pros: This card is a brute. From the moment you get the box until you are running Crysis at very high settings you know you have something special.

Cons: It only comes with drivers fro Windows XP Pro and Windows XP Pro 64 bit. No vista drivers included, but they're easily downloadable from the nVidia site. So do yourself a favor and update to the latest drivers right away. Course, thats pretty much any video card. Obviously with the high quality this card is very fragile, and if you dropped it you would be out of luck.

Most Critical Review

Sub Par Choice

Verbatim 4.7 GB 16X DVD-R 100 Packs Spindle Disc Model 95102
Verbatim 4.7 GB 16X DVD-R 100 Packs Spindle Disc Model 95102

Pros: Very few of these blanks even burned. Both my burners, a HP Lightscribe Burner, and a multi-format drive rejected these discs and would not do anything other than give an error message in the middle of burning. Basically, the entire stack was a bunch of coasters. I read this before from others, and thought maybe these were just noobs but this was not a fluke. There are better choices, stay away from these and go with Taiyo Yuden or whatever brand works for you because these simply don't work.

Cons: Price, if you are able to get any workable blanks out of this stack.

Great for slinging music to your system.

Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver for iPhone 3G/3GS / iPhone 4 / iPod touch 2nd Gen (F8Z492-P)
Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver for iPhone 3G/3GS / iPhone 4 / iPod touch 2nd Gen (F8Z492-P)

Pros: Works great, just plug the red and white RCA jacks into your system, turn the bluetooth on in your iDevice and you can play your tunes through whatever system you want. I use it to stream Pandora from my iphone through my surround sound system in my living room. Quality is good. Belkin did it again. Shipping was Newegg ridiculous, on the doorstep a day after ordering.

Cons: You have to be within range of the receiver which is realistically within 20 feet of the device. If you put your phone in your pocket the bluetooth won't go thru it and you will skip on your sound. But if you're ok putting your phone or ipad on the counter it works just great.

11/27/2012

Nice color laser printer, great bang for the buck

Xerox Phaser 6500/N Color Laser Printer
Xerox Phaser 6500/N Color Laser Printer

Pros: The printer installed relatively easy after inserting the disc. Nice thing is that this is a network printer also so the wifey can print from her laptop. I even found an iphone app which lets me print from the iPhone. The quality is great. Speed is moderate but very acceptable. There is a brief warm up period of a few seconds which is normal. Colors are bright and crisp. They rate the holding power of the tray as small but I can almost fit a whole ream of paper in it. After struggling with an inkjet which had shoddy quality and ate ink cartridges like a glutton, this is a welcome addition to the home network. Highly recommend, the price really makes this a deal for a color laser. Haven't needed them but Xerox's support is supposed to be good as well.

Cons: Windows wouldn't recognize until I inserted the CD and followed the setup procedures. Can't really dock it an egg for that. It's installed now, and running great. Footprint is just a bit larger than the so callled all in one inkjet

11/27/2012

Nice drive

LG Black 14X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 5X DVD-RAM 12X BD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA BDXL Blu-Ray Burner with SW, 3D Play Back - BH14NS40
LG Black 14X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 5X DVD-RAM 12X BD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA BDXL Blu-Ray Burner with SW, 3D Play Back - BH14NS40

Pros: This is a nice blu ray burner that takes just about every different format of disc you can throw at and burns them all with few or no errors. The drive was picked up immediately by Windows 7 and the drivers automatically installed with no intervention, although it does come with a basic driver CD. Drive also can playback 3d blu rays. I picked up the combo with the 25 pack of Rosewill discs which was a real deal, saving me about 25 bucks vs. buying seperately. Shipping was ridiculous Newegg fast, on the doorstep in 2 days from ordering.

Cons: The fact that they rate this as a 14X Blu Ray disc burner when there are absolutely NO 14x blank blu ray discs on the market is a bit ridiculous. How would you even know if this claim is true when the fastest media is 6x which is only a few choices even at that. edit: There is currently 1 10x blank blu ray on the market. The fact that there is not media currently available to take advantage of this drives presumed accurate specs are not the manufacturers fault, and thus not enough to warrant docking an egg. This is a 5 star drive.

11/27/2012

Great sound system / home theater

SONY BDV-E580 3D Blu-ray Home Theater System
SONY BDV-E580 3D Blu-ray Home Theater System

Pros: This is a great sounding home theater system. The sound can be turned up LOUD and it's crystal clear. Some of the best 'loud' sound I've ever heard, meaning it doesn't distort or lose quality when you turn it up. It just sounds great! Very crystal clear highs and soul shaking bass. The blu ray player works great also and plays most blu rays. The ability to connect to your home network, either wired or the already built in wireless is nice also -- you don't need to buy an adapter or anything like that. Connecting to your network is seamless and setup is a breeze as well. Setup is really easy, you hang your speakers ( 2 front, 2 rear, a center channel) wherever you want, place your subwoofer on the ground and then plug them all into the base unit. There is an included one-time device which detects the sound and adjusts the system for the best sound based on where you've placed the speakers - very nice! The system is rated as 1000 watts and sounds every bit of it and will fill your room.

Cons: My only gripes with this system are really nitpicking - it's a great system! I did find that the speaker wire was too short for the frontspeakers, though I have high ceilings and have the speakers mounted 10 feet high and angled down. So if you put them waist high or near your tv you should be fine. My other gripes are with how you access your ipod ( it includes an ipod dock which is another great feature) - first, on the dock there is a yellow video out which should let you play video but there is no yellow in on the base unit? Secondly, once you plug your ipod in, you can't touch it's screen you must play your music through the sony on screen interface, and there is no shuffle button, so you must play all your songs in order? Lame. Although I can just play them through the network PC. But that's kind of defeating the idea of the dock. Also, if I want to funnel sound through the ipod, i.e., the ipod's Pandora, MLB feeds, etc, it won't let you. It only lets you access the music lib

Overall Review: The menu for this device will appear very familiar to those of you have PS3's , it looks the same. The addition of Pandora, Netflix, etc, is also a nice bonus too. All in all a GREAT system with some minor annoyances which shouldn't hold you back from buying this. And of course when I ordered it Newegg had it on my doorstop in like a DAY. How do they do that? Rock on, newegg!