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Andrew W.

Andrew W.

Joined on 10/04/07

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Most Favorable Review

Laptop fits great!

Targus 16” Groove Laptop Backpack - CVR600
Targus 16” Groove Laptop Backpack - CVR600

Pros: It really fits to your back and is comfortable to wear, even with the laptop.

Cons: Not very much room for books and binders, it will hold alot in the front pouches such as pencils and pens.

Overall Review: Great price, solid material.

Most Critical Review

Good Features when it works

MSI TV@nywhere Plus Tuner Card
MSI TV@nywhere Plus Tuner Card

Pros: The ability to listen to FM and choose between Composite, S-Video, Antennae, and cable inputs. Sound quality is good, you can schedule TV record and watch it later. And not the worst resolution I have ever seen...

Cons: The remote. If you can get it to work with more than 3 channel switches in a row, buy a lottery ticket. If you don't press the remote just the right way and you don't start the utility using the remote you should just get up and go to a real tv.

Overall Review: Overall it is a good product, certainly lacking and should be improved with new firmware or something...

10/11/2010

Solid Hard Drive

Western Digital AV-GP 500GB IntelliPower 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" (WD5000AVCS) Internal Hard Drive
Western Digital AV-GP 500GB IntelliPower 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" (WD5000AVCS) Internal Hard Drive

Pros: I bought this hard drive when it was on sale and it was definitely worth the price. Installed windows 7 on it on the first try which is a miracle in itself. After install comes out to be 498 GB which is what I expected. So far the drive is pretty quick and it fit into the 3.5" bay with no issues.

Cons: None so far

Overall Review: No cables or screws come with the hard drive, not a con to me I have plenty kicking around, just something to consider.

Great Camera

Logitech C310 HD Webcam, HD 720p/30fps, Widescreen HD Video Calling, HD Light Correction, Noise-Reducing Mic, For Skype, FaceTime, Hangouts, WebEx, PC/Mac/Laptop/Macbook/Tablet - Black
Logitech C310 HD Webcam, HD 720p/30fps, Widescreen HD Video Calling, HD Light Correction, Noise-Reducing Mic, For Skype, FaceTime, Hangouts, WebEx, PC/Mac/Laptop/Macbook/Tablet - Black

Pros: This camera has great video quality and the camera driver is very simple to install. The cord is plenty long enough to run from my case to the top of my monitor with some extra. Does not come with a bunch of freeware programs which is a pro for me because I only use it for skype video calls. Skype was able to read the camera as a USB device with not even a hiccup.

Cons: None so far

Overall Review: The mount fits monitors of all sizes and can be placed on the desktop, the mount is a little tricky to get just right, but that is with all cameras, it has a "follow face" setting but i have not tried it yet.

Good Motherboard

BIOSTAR Hi-Fi Z87X 3D LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
BIOSTAR Hi-Fi Z87X 3D LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Good motherboard with plenty of memory slots and a good amount of PCI-express connections. Was really nice to have so many fan connectors physically on the board.

Cons: One of the motherboard heatsinks seemed loose and kinda wobbled around.

Overall Review: CPU connector seemed kinda strange and took a minute to figure out (my first Intel board may be the problem). At first i thought having sideways USB 3.0 and SATA headers would be nice but with my ATX mid tower case there was very little room to connect them. Had to remove the board to attach the cables then remount it.

Super lightweight

ASUS 23" LCD Monitor 1ms (GTG) HDMI x 2, D-Sub VX238H
ASUS 23" LCD Monitor 1ms (GTG) HDMI x 2, D-Sub VX238H

Pros: Good monitor, extremely lightweight. Good color, no dead pixels. A good amount of options for adjusting screen picture

Cons: Speakers are very quite and not very good quality, but I bought a monitor not speakers. Seems flimsy, time will tell

Overall Review: Had a full screen monitor before this, still getting used to the widescreen. Comes with a DVI to HDMI cord, would have been nice for a straight HDMI cord.