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Colin B.

Colin B.

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Most Favorable Review

This one slipped through the cracks... but Newegg always makes it better!

Rosewill RV2-700 700 W ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V SLI Ready Power Supply
Rosewill RV2-700 700 W ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V SLI Ready Power Supply

Pros: 700 watts, 2 12v rails, shrink tubed wires with netted sheathing for organization and air dynamics in case. Everything is black and beautiful on this power supply. One big 120mm fan on bottom of supply for quiet operation.

Cons: Unfortunately, it came DOA, it wouldn't bring up the test light on my motherboard, nor would it respond to a power supply tester. I took out a spare power supply and plugged it into the PC I was building and it worked fine. No other complaints on Rosewill though. Every manufacturer can have a few slip through the cracks. Out of the tons of things I've ordered with the Rosewill name on it, this was the first DOA ever. Still a good average to me.

Overall Review: Submitted a replacement RMA over the phone and Newegg sent me a UPS return label in only a few hours! Thanks Daniel! Waiting for another one back! Don't do replacements online, newegg will request you to pay for shipping because any rma falls into the same treatment category at the moment. If you want a return label, just call them, these guys are so polite.

Most Critical Review

You get what you pay for

HP Officejet 4500 CB867A Up to 28 ppm Black Print Speed 4800 x 1200 dpi Color Print Quality Ethernet (RJ-45) / USB Thermal Inkjet MFC / All-In-One Color Printer
HP Officejet 4500 CB867A Up to 28 ppm Black Print Speed 4800 x 1200 dpi Color Print Quality Ethernet (RJ-45) / USB Thermal Inkjet MFC / All-In-One Color Printer

Pros: Cheap printer, $50 on a deal! All functions are attractive, scan quality is good. No need for fax, we have Email for that now. Sleep mode is always a plus.

Cons: Scanner software doesn't work on full install... Had to reinstall it once to get it to actually start working... HP CUSTOMER FEEDBACK PROGRAM IS 1.7GB big. Had to uninstall about 5 different HP bloatware programs. Comes with a pitiful amount of black ink. A few invoices printed out and it was gone. I bought the XL cartridge this time around...

Overall Review: Since the ink business is exclusive and HP makes all profit on it, it's smartest for us to buy the biggest cartridges possible. Get the XL cartridges when you can.

Lost out on a $200 discount because the touchpad is junk

ASUS - 15.6" NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M - Intel Core i5-5200U  - 8GB Memory - 128 GB SSD - Windows 10 Home 64-Bit - Gaming Laptop - (K501LX-NH52 )
ASUS - 15.6" NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M - Intel Core i5-5200U - 8GB Memory - 128 GB SSD - Windows 10 Home 64-Bit - Gaming Laptop - (K501LX-NH52 )

Pros: Got this laptop $581 on Black Friday. Total steal. 2 hard drives, I wanted to install Ubuntu and dual-boot. Integrated graphics? Chiclets? Full keyboard? Programmer / Gamer's dream. This thing had everything in the description. The resolution I wanted, the 2nd hard drive, thin, light, seems durable enough, what's not to like here? Seems great. This was going to be my programming laptop for the next couple years.

Cons: A Haiku: Newegg Black Friday Laptop had all I wanted Touchpad was the worst Basically, this laptop had it all, except it came with a trendy, apple-like touchpad that just didn't work right. It was laggy on screen, the physical surface was stuttery and not 'glidey' to the touch, and there was also no tactile surface to know "where you were". This is a step back from the experience I have with a 7 year old dell latitude. Insane. Because of Asus gesture, and the nonsense that is Windows 10, when you pressed it, it could do a bunch of stuff you don't want it to do, too. I'm not about that life.

Overall Review: Returned it, therefore I missed out on a $220 black Friday discount because the Touchpad was junk, and by extension, blowing my only chance at getting a great deal on a laptop before the holidays. This is how you know how much this meant to me. Sorry ASUS, I'll still buy your motherboards, but I can't deal with a user input experience that fails on every level. I'll be going back to my 7 year old Dell e6500 until I find something else.

7 years.

WD 640GB USB 2.0 3.5" Element External Hard Drive WDE1U6400N
WD 640GB USB 2.0 3.5" Element External Hard Drive WDE1U6400N

Pros: Lasted 7 years. Died last night.

Cons: none.

Dead after a couple months

HP Officejet Pro 8600 Up to 18 ppm Black Print Speed 4800 x 1200 dpi Color Print Quality Ethernet (RJ-45) / RJ-11 / USB / Wi-Fi Thermal Inkjet e-All-in-One Color Printer
HP Officejet Pro 8600 Up to 18 ppm Black Print Speed 4800 x 1200 dpi Color Print Quality Ethernet (RJ-45) / RJ-11 / USB / Wi-Fi Thermal Inkjet e-All-in-One Color Printer

Pros: Prints in Color and B&W. Scans in Duplex. It installs easily

Cons: Lemon-y, plastic, bloated and overly-huge printer for the job. It takes up way to much space for something that doesn't print or scan legal-formatted documents! Software-as ususal- comes with 8 or so applications that your PC doesn't need, and adds 2 startup items to your PC. Everytime I install an HP printer, they treat it like it's a server. HP "Starter" Ink cartridges now only include barely enough ink to facilitate test pages and configuration. The 149.99 pricetag does not include the inevitable $80 worth of ink you must purchase if you want to use the darn thing. I wouldn't sell a car with wheels that will only get you home, and then to the service station. Printer died with a solid green ON button. No startup, no moving, no noises. It just up-and-died one day. BONUS: All of the ink was restricted from access when it was off! I had to go office-space on it to get the $80 worth of ink (That I can only use in a comparable(Probably similar results) model. I'll be continuing to consult almost anything non-HP. This was an exception because I thought it was a deal, but it turns out, I got more

Overall Review: HP's product quality has decreased, and their attention to 'engineered obsolesce' has skyrocketed at the same time. Their inks hold less Their printers cost-per-page only goes up The warrantied support for a model like this makes it not worth it to deal with the warranty service.

Unacceptable except as a desktop Linux box / thin client

ASUS C60M1-I AMD Fusion APU C-60 (1.0 GHz, dual core) AMD Hudson M1 Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU Combo
ASUS C60M1-I AMD Fusion APU C-60 (1.0 GHz, dual core) AMD Hudson M1 Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU Combo

Pros: Sexy look, Quality build, Simple / Advanced BIOS toggle, Works like a charm. Great for a thin(Thick and fanless) client or a linux box. Asus Hardware has always been good to me, and it continues with the quality of the build.

Cons: Slow and outdated. It's only 1ghz, so most current OSes will refuse to run on it because of the perpetuation of the gigahertz myth. Oh well. I'll install XP. It should run well! I go through my usual setup routiune that I do with all PCs I build. 1. install OEM software and activate with user's old key. Restart 2. installed dirvers, 3. Install a few programs from Ninte (security essentials, java/flash/adobe updates), 4. install important windows updates (Minus the "Bing" stuff, Microsoft's brand has degraded into adware), and restart. So I'm ready to deply her. I restart just to give a quick look, and now, it's constantly bumping up to 80% CPU, then none, then 100% then none. (This was not a scheduled scan or something, or resident protection going crazy, it was svchost and explorer, indexing was OFF). Things I'm not too concerned about: 1. No HDMI 2. NO HI-Def audio in the back 3. Generally slow processor. (I wonder if the "C" in the processor name was created all like, "We wanna say Celeron, but that's Intel so we'll just say "C" and sell a scaled-down processor that's almost useless')

Overall Review: Build was 8GB RAM, a 64GB ssd, and this mobo into a microATX case in hopes of maybe installing some kind of media center / server thing. It's not suited, and I will get myself another A-3870k DO YOURSELF A FAVOR PLEASE. Pay the extra $40 it costs to get a better APU. The 3870k is a beast. I have it crossfired with a separate video card, and I can play and benchmark any current game I want.

12/25/2012