Pros: 1.Colours are good but it's even better once the monitor is properly calibrated. Nvidia's drivers have a handy gamma calibration for red, green, blue. Colour accuracy is better once you properly set colour gamma. 2. The 16:10 aspect ratio ins't perfect for DVD playback but for working on docs, it's good. 3. Minimal blur with motion video and NoLimits (a rollercoaster sim) has support for 1440x900. I use GRLevel 2 and 3 radar software and the extra width of this monitor is great for the multi-panel option in GR3. 4. Sharp text, especially when enabling cleartype.

Cons: 1.Black levels could be better. Others may have mentioned that the black levels / dark colours can sometimes look washed out. 2. Annoying blue box that states "analog / digital" pops up when monitor changes resolutions (like when windows boots up). 3. You must calibrate RGB gamma values for better colour accuracy (and reduced banding). 4. I believe this is a 6 bit display (16.2M colours) vs 8 bit. If utmost accuracy is important to you, you might be advised to look elsewhere. I'm not uber picky, and this is my first LCD so I'm sticking with it. Some very faint banding can seen with gradients. 5. It's a bit bright (but that can be a good thing in a very bright environment).

Overall Review: Other widescreen LCD's are more pricey and maybe I'll upgrade sometime later on to an 8 bit widescreen LCD. But for now, I'm pleased with the widescreen Viewsonic.

Pros: At the time I bought the drive, it was reasonably priced. However, the price has crept up since then. And the price was the only pro, unfortunately.

Cons: Slow performance, especially right before it died on me. Even when the drive was healthy, performance was sub-par. Anandtech reviewed the drive and came away highly unimpressed. Flashing the firmware to a newer version helped for about 2 weeks. However, performance was rather abysmal. It's not Crucial's NAND that was at fault, it was their [BAD] choice with picking a bad [imho] controller.

Overall Review: This is a followup review. I posted one about this drive way back last September, 2012 when I first received it. Now that the v4 has been discontinued, I urge you all to stay away from this one. This could have been a good drive had they chosen another company for their drive controller. So now, this drive will become a paperweight and I will replace it with a Plextor.

Pros: Super fast when encoding video (esp. with QSV). With my cooler setup, it doesn't run that hot either. Installation onto an Asrock TaiChi z790 motherboard was painless. I have come from a system that I built from parts I ordered here 9 years ago... Also an Asrock board, Intel 4771, and Gskill 16GB ddr3 ram. That system gave me around 20 to 25 fps doing a h264 encode on Handbrake using software encoding. This new system that I recently built consisting of the after mentioned Asrock Taichi z790, 32GB of Gskill ram and the 13900K takes that number and raises that to 75 to 100 fps doing the same encode. Using QSV bumps that number to well over 200 fps (for h.265) and approaching 300 with h.264.

Cons: Only con would be, you better run a good cooler with this processor as it can really put the heat out when you max out the cores. I wouldn't run this CPU on a "basic" board as well (boards with fewer power phases, lower quality VRM's and so forth).

Overall Review: If you're a content creator or gamer, this processor looks to be a good one for both. Just give it a good board and lots of memory... and of course a very good heatsink or water cooler.

Pros: Nice well built motherboard with pretty good expansion and motherboard audio is pretty decent (not as good as an outboard DAC or USB audio interface though). A lot of features for the money (the sheer amount of M.2 slots for one). And of course, Thunderbolt and USB -C ports as well! Bluetooth and WiFi 6E as well. Despite me not hooking up the wifi antenna yet, I am seeing strong signal from my AP.

Cons: 2 complaints but one is a rather common theme among computers that use DDR5 memory: Sometimes LONG post times, especially on the 1st boot. If you are building a new computer that uses DDR5 memory, take in mind that the first time you turn on the computer, be prepared for a long pause before your screen comes up. From that I have read online, it's due to the DDR5 memory being "trained". It's a combination of that and very large sizes of memory being installed nowadays, and also DDR5 being a very new technology that is causing a lot of these difficulties. So take that in mind before you start to panic. Another minor quibble is that the UEFI / BIOS setup doesn't like my Dell super wide screen (21:9) monitor so it displays as 1024/768 and it's stretched super wide. My monitor can display in 1920x1080 but the bios can't see or use that mode for some reason. The latest bios that came out recently seems to correct some of the long lag during post and waking up the computer from sleep mode. I'm guessing that a good number of BIOS revisions will come forth to correct more of this behavior in the coming weeks / months. Also with this being a "premium / enthusiast" motherboard, a module that accepts front panel connections from your case would be nice. An old timer like me has some difficulty plugging in some of the wires onto those tiny motherboard connectors. A module would be much nicer. Plug the wires into the module and the module into the motherboard.

Overall Review: Would I recommend this motherboard? I still would despite the at times long POSTs. Update that bios before installing windows or it may think it's a new computer, causing you to reactivate your windows install. Also, the 2.5G nic does better when you install the latest driver from Intel. I believe it's the Killer E3100 driver. Use the driver from Intel, not from Asrock, as that one is older and it doesn't perform as well. (iperf3 runs with the newer driver show much better results).

Pros: Very fast drive but it does take a good bit of time to spin up. But read / write speeds are FAST for a spinner. Drive is also quiet. Read / write speeds are fantastic for a hard disk. See the Crystal Benchmark pic.

Cons: Only con would be the slow spin up time but that's probably due to having lots of platters to spin up.

Overall Review: It seems that Western Digital has some QA issues seeing that a few people here complain about some drives being DOA. I had a similar experience. With 12 Terabytes of data, it will take a good bit of time to fill the drive up with transcoded movies. This drive replaces an 8 year old 3 TB Western Digital Black that I bought here 8 years ago.

Pros: It's basically plug and play since MacOS has built in drivers for the Broadcom chip this has in it. I initially had a small issue with bluetooth because I had another wifi card in the system that had an Intel chipset and it didn't play nice with MacOS. Also, this card works with Linux as well. Windows 10 is supported but you will need to install the driver manually. (K)ubuntu Linux and MacOS plugs and plays this card.

Cons: My experience was different because of the after mentioned wifi card I had in my system previously but once I removed the old card and removed the associated kexts for the old card, it began to work. And the Bluetooth worked after another reboot. My only gripe was the Bluetooth snafu that worked itself out. If you're starting fresh with a new build, you more than likely won't have the issue I had.

Overall Review: With this being only a handful of wifi cards that work OOTB with MacOS, I would definitely recommend this card. Installation was simple and involves running the supplied cable from the card to your motherboard's USB2 header, and of course plugging the card into an empty PCI-e slot.