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Christopher C.

Christopher C.

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Most Favorable Review

Fabulous

SAMSUNG TOC T240 Rose   Black 24" 5ms HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 DC 20000:1(1000:1)
SAMSUNG TOC T240 Rose Black 24" 5ms HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 DC 20000:1(1000:1)

Pros: Wow! I have lived with a laptop for years, and forgot what large display space (former multiple-monitor mac user) was like. This is my dream: two 8-1/2x11 pages full-size side-by-side with room for pallettes/tools as well. Just the right size; and bigger and you'd have to move your head around to view the entire screen. Great color, no bad pixels, sharp images.

Cons: All my PDF files showed a yellow background, unless I turned "tag for color management" off in Acrobat, but this didn't fix old PDF's. I thought it was my authorware, I thought it was Acrobat, it took a while to find it. The monitor comes with a T240 color management driver that's weird. Switch to another CMS and the problem goes away. Was Samsung trying to show off by putting color gradients whereever CMS is active? A text PDF doesn't need a color background! Go to Display properties/Settings/Advanced/ColorManagement and select something else from the list (I'm now using sRGB color space profile).

Most Critical Review

Could have been nice, but isn't

SAMSUNG ML Series ML-2851ND Workgroup Up to 30 ppm Monochrome Laser Printer
SAMSUNG ML Series ML-2851ND Workgroup Up to 30 ppm Monochrome Laser Printer

Pros: Cheap, quiet. Functioning as a single-sided network printer is fine.

Cons: I bought this from Newegg almost exactly a year ago. We need a duplex printer. After three months, it started jamming when duplex printing. The problem got more serious as time went on. Finally we had to never use duplex - not only would it jam every time, but the top eighth of the page was missing and/or smeared. I waited until just before the 1-year warrantee period, and sent it in for repair. The repair place, very nice people, attended to it right away, and requested the replacement part Samsung specificied. Now it's been more than three weeks, and Samsung still hasn't sent the part. They say it's back-ordered, and won't do anything else, like send a refurbished printer instead. We've been without a printer for a month, so I just ordered an HP - we have to have a printer. I am extremely disappointed, and will never buy a Samsung printer again (their monitor I have is, I must admit, pretty nice). Their service is worse than terrible. So I give this zero stars (eggs).

11/21/2009

Excellent

Acer VW237Q bi 23" (Actual szie 22.5") WUXGA 1920 x 1200 VGA HDMI LCD/LED Monitor
Acer VW237Q bi 23" (Actual szie 22.5") WUXGA 1920 x 1200 VGA HDMI LCD/LED Monitor

Overall Review: To upgrade my work-at-home environment, I got two of these monitors with a stand/bracket. I chose this smaller size monitor because for two side-by-side these fit just right. For code development this is a terrific setup. The 1920x1200 fits more stuff on screen than a vanilla HD 1920x1080. These monitors are an excellent value - two of them cost less than the stand! Sharp clear displays, easy VESA bracket mounting.

Terrific

StarTech ARMDUAL30 Dual Monitor Stand - Tool-less Assembly - Monitors up to 30" - VESA Mount - Adjustable Monitor Arm
StarTech ARMDUAL30 Dual Monitor Stand - Tool-less Assembly - Monitors up to 30" - VESA Mount - Adjustable Monitor Arm

Pros: I've had this for about three weeks now. Totally awesome - my two monitors float a foot above my desk. Good cable management means my desk is totally clean (I had to add a bluetooth keyboard to get rid of the last wire) and I can keep a pad of paper above my keyboard, and a speaker for music. The bracket allows easy monitor positioning, and I can move one or both monitors out of the way when I need to. It's ironic that the bracket costs slightly more than the two monitors I also bought from NewEgg for the new setup - two ACER 1920X1200 23" monitors (small is better for this two-monitor setup). But I'm very satisfied with the whole thing

Overall Review: Absolutely nothing wrong - easy to set up, sturdy and well made. Would buy it again.

Wonderful Printer

HP LaserJet P2055dn CE459A Workgroup Up to 35 ppm Monochrome Ethernet (RJ-45) / USB Laser Printer
HP LaserJet P2055dn CE459A Workgroup Up to 35 ppm Monochrome Ethernet (RJ-45) / USB Laser Printer

Pros: A terrific printer in all respects: fast, high quality output, pretty quiet. I needed a good duplex printer; bought and threw out a Samsung ML2851 after less than a year - it was about half the price of this HP, and worthless for two-sided printing. I have not had a single misfeed in almost two months. Printed two-sided a 500 page manual really quickly, didn't overheat, no errors. Photos print incredibly well. Straight-thru printing is great for heavy card stock, avoids curling the paper. Setup easy via web browser.

Cons: A minor detail. I set up the printer, via web access, to default to two-sided printing. It's almost impossible to override this from the printer preferences, and this is a pain. There are options for one or two-sided, but not for "printer default". The dialog shows one-sided already; selecting it changes nothing.

Overall Review: I avoided HP printers for 15 years because of terrible experiences with drivers that hung Windows. I had no problems now (the repair place told me HP were built the best and broke the least). This printer is the first (of 4) duplex units I've had that does the smart thing- if you print only a single page, it doesn't run the duplexer.

Lenovo Laptop 3000 N Series Intel Pentium T3400 2GB Memory 250GB HDD Intel GMA 4500M 15.4" Preloaded with Windows XP Pro and comes with Vista Business upgrade CD and Product Key N500(423363U)
Lenovo Laptop 3000 N Series Intel Pentium T3400 2GB Memory 250GB HDD Intel GMA 4500M 15.4" Preloaded with Windows XP Pro and comes with Vista Business upgrade CD and Product Key N500(423363U)

Pros: Light, fast, good price, quiet and runs cool. I had it with Dell, and I decided to try Lenovo because my repairman said ThinkPads were built the best. So far so good.

Cons: Some terrible user interface decisions. The Fn key is at the lower left, where just about all other keyboards have Ctl. This slows me down tremendously. The USB ports are on both sides, at the front, which gets in the way of mouse usage in a small space (I always use a mouse, the touchpad is just way too slow and inaccurate, no matter how much I practice). The Home and End keys don't exist, you need to use a Fn key combination. I've had two other laptops, and none of them had the above limitations. If this ends up being reliable, the above objections will end up being tolerated, if not entirely tolerable.

Overall Review: I miss the old screen format. New laptops are all going for wide screens, as if the only thing we do is watch tv and movies (I never do either one on a computer, and have no desire to). For working with content (i.e. writing), tall and narrow is much better. It's hard to find a laptop screen with enough lines of resolution.