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Michael B.

Michael B.

Joined on 12/04/06

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Sweet little device

Tekkeon USB Power Adapter MP1600
Tekkeon USB Power Adapter MP1600

Pros: I love this thing, I now have a spare phone charger for my motorola ic502 which takes the mini USB, and I can charge my ipod for less than $30!

Cons: Cord is very short.

Overall Review: belkin, apple, and numerous other brands charge a lot more for just a ipod charger, this gives you a lot more for a lot less. Once again Newegg.com delivered fast, ordering with them is a breeze.

This thing is sweet!

Rosewill RSD-CR106 Blue USB 2.0 External Single slot SD / MMC Card Reader
Rosewill RSD-CR106 Blue USB 2.0 External Single slot SD / MMC Card Reader

Pros: It's small, it's easy to use, it's fast, and best of all - it's CHEAP!

Cons: Only fits SD cards

Overall Review: Rather than pulling out a cable and plugging your camera in, slide an SD card in, plug it into your PC, and bam! either use windows to import pictures/movies or view the card like a Disk!

Stable and COMPATIBLE OS

Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 English 1-Pack
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 English 1-Pack

Pros: The biggest Pro - it's not Vista/7. XP is still considered the OS to use since it is compatible with almost any software program and any piece of hardware, which is the biggest downfall of Microsoft's defunct Vista and 7 (try getting windows 7 to run a novel 5 server without corrupting a few files!) We like our 10 year old novel servers, and we don't have a budget to upgrade 20 of them, so thank goodness you can still find windows XP. Get this and tell Microsoft they need to rethink their Windows 7 "works" campaign - because honestly, it does not "just work." The only thing that windows 7 has done faster than an equivalent XP computer is shutdown...wooohoo. I have a Dell P4 3.0GHz, 2GB RAM that boots to XP Pro and has Google loaded in IE8 in under 90 seconds, that's a 7+ year old PC.

Cons: IE7 makes browsing the web a gamble between an online game and a load of malware. ADP and some other encrypted sites will only run on IE6+. Blah, if Firefox was installed instead of IE I would be very happy with windows.

Overall Review: I am a fan of Ubuntu, but hardware support still isn't there to give you the performance of XP on certain computers - my Lenovo 1.8ghz DC laptop runs fast with great graphics performance on Ubuntu - but no sound. My HP dv2214us has sound and webcam support and yada yada yada - but it's nVidia chipset makes any game very choppy. Also Newegg doesnt let you write the word G -O -D?

Good OS - Not Vista or 7!!!

Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 32-bit for System Builders
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 32-bit for System Builders

Pros: It's not Vista or 7!!! FAST! It took SP2 for me to really like XP - I had stuck with W2K for almost 2 years till I finally upgraded to XP. It took Vista for me to really appreciate XP. Fairly stable, on my PC at home - a 2004 P4 w/ 1GB RAM, 64MB Video Card, and a 80GB HDD - from the time I hit the power botton till the time I open an IE8 window to the google search page = 64 seconds.

Cons: Security is not great - especially administering the OS to low-IT-level people who like to browse the internet and play games. Once malware is on there - say hello to restore, a clean install, or 4+ hrs of trying to find the virus to try to clean it.

Overall Review: XP has been the best for compatibility with Lotus Notes, Citrix, boot-times, ease of use, and my biggest concern - a Novell Netware 5 server (very VERY old - a PII server with a whooping 8GB of storage - but has been running for the past 423 days since it's last restart). Vista and 7 had many issues with Notes, and while I could connect and access files from the Netware server - if anyone tried to save a file from an application onto the server it would corrupt the file. IPv6 is just not ready for mainstream - didnt like having the hassel of disabling it in Vista through the registry.

Excellent Range

Rosewill RNX-G1W Wireless White Dongle with External 2dBi SMA Antenna IEEE 802.11b/g USB 2.0 Up to 54Mbps Wireless Data Rates
Rosewill RNX-G1W Wireless White Dongle with External 2dBi SMA Antenna IEEE 802.11b/g USB 2.0 Up to 54Mbps Wireless Data Rates

Pros: I had an old USB wireless adapter installed and it struggled to get a signal from my condos lobby access point. When I Installed this one from Rosewill I get a full signal now, almost a block away from the lobby and through 4 floors. Impressive. Also like the ability to put a antenna on it if ever needed.

Cons: Runs a little warm.

Overall Review: A realtek chip is what powers this sucker, same as on most motherboard RJ45 NICs. Fast little thing, great bang for your buck.

Good to go

Seagate BarraCuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate BarraCuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Its a hard drive! It's big, fairly fast, and cheap! Fast shipping by newegg again!

Cons: none so far, hope it lasts! Good warranty should take the fear of that off my head though.

Overall Review: I installed this HDD as my primary disk to replace the standard 80GB that came with my 7 year old PC, it loaded everything and now I have too much empty disk space.