Joined on 09/12/04
impressive
Pros: menu is smooth to navigate, nice headphones, lightweight, beautiful screen, durable feeling case
Cons: keyboard is hard to type into when holding it vertically, no flash in the web browser(yet, hopefully it gets updated firmware someday), having to tell dumb people what it is by saying its like an ipod gets old...
Overall Review: i had to install windows xp's service pack 3 to get the zune software to install, which was kind of annoying but not really a big deal. mix view is a cool feature, sometimes i get on my computer just to look at it and listen to music(and im a gamer who usually needs to see explosions to keep my attention). i'm happy with my purchase.
Pros: Very large amount of cooling surface and very quiet for the first few months.
Cons: Recently it has started to make a loud grinding noise when it boots for a few minutes. sometimes it stops, sometimes i just turn it off and get on my laptop because of the noise. It is really a dissapointment that a product can start out so perfect then just become garbage less than a year after purchase when it supposed to last for 6 years... arcitc cooling will never get my money again. Its also very difficult to position in a case and can be tricky depending on your motherboard. I had to swap MB at one point and the fan direction had to be changed because of the weird design.
Overall Review: Newegg was very fast with my original shipping of the product and has more information on their site than the manufacturer's does.
decent upgrade
Comments: I originally wanted to use with a linux box to try out mythTV but i had issues with it recognizing so i threw it in my XP machine and it worked like a dream, i use a ulead dvd burning software to make dvd's with great quality from my captures. i also use it to convert old VHS tapes to DVD with its inputs.
great product
Comments: i have a 3.2GHz pentium 4 and my temps were hovering at around 70C which was causing alot of problems. after using this HS+F and arctic silver paste my cpu is down into the 30s and gets as high as 38 with games or dvd authoring/burning. I even managed to overclock to 3.4 easily. i will try for 4.0+ soon if i get a good OC software.