Joined on 12/04/06
Sweet little device
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!
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
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!!!
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
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
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.