Joined on 11/30/07
What's retail for??
Pros: It's a hard drive. It's sata. It's pretty easy to install, once you get the important details elsewhere. It's worked well now for two weeks. Guess that's success these days.
Cons: Haven't bought drives in a while, but the retail package costs more because it's supposed to have screws and a data cable. This has nothing, might as well have bought the oem package. Yea, the picture shows just the drive, but, seriously? So if you expect the niceties, screw this (no pun intended) and go for the oem package.
Piece of junk
Pros: It had a nice box, sort of.
Cons: 1) Plugged it in, 2-1/2 hours later battery still at 0%. Followed instructions exactly (yeah, unusual for me). Called ASUS. They started pointing fingers to newegg, and of course new egg isn't answering. 2) Have to do weird stuff to get page up/dn/home/end functionality on keyboard 3) Numeric keyboard has a strange layout
Overall Review: Sorry, based on this breezing through ASUS quality (non-)assurance and then basically washing their hands of it, how could i possibly recommend it to my friends? Maybe to my enemies perhaps.
Works well when it works.
Pros: No complaints when it works.
Cons: Quite often drops connections. I'm running a 5 and a 2.4 network, and typically it will drop the 5ghz connection first, then sometime later the 2.4. I'll have to unplug/replug the device to reset it daily, sometimes a few times a day, sometimes it will go 2-3 days without a reset. Not fun for a device that's supposed to just work.
Overall Review: I'm here looking for a new device to replace this one.
Easy setup and reasonably fast.
Pros: 4K screen is nice, touchscreen -- a requirement for me even though i only use it occasionally and it aggravates me when i accidentally touch it -- is also nice and accurate. Haven't used the extra hdd yet but it's nice to know it's there if i somehow find lots of stuff to store on a laptop. Maybe i'll just use it as a backup drive.
Cons: It's quite warm on my lap, but given specs, not unreasonably so -- get a tray of some sort. The power brick is kinda big and it gets hot even without heavy graphics card use. Once, the speakers became quite distorted; a reboot solved it so some kind of driver issue. The screen is quite reflective, wish they could have used a matte finish. Biggest problem for me is that home, end, page up, page down keys are on number keyboard, rather than separate keys. I often use the number pad and having to num lock/unnum lock and remembering to do it is a pain. Sounds trivial, but in practice it's not.
I was worried, but not any more.
Pros: It's an exact replacement for my Toshiba S50T-C 4K screen, including the same label on the back. Just plug and play it was working. Now that it's been a couple of weeks since it's been installed and working i am very happy with it.
Cons: It's a long, slow boat ride from China, but for the price ($110) i was willing to wait.
Overall Review: Although getting the laptop screen apart was a real problem, and obviously not this product's fault, it is something to consider. Just take something really thin (eyeglasses screwdriver) and gently keep prying around the edges. It may take a couple of times around. You might snap off a few plastic thingies but enough should remain to re-fasten securely. And if you can't, there's always duct tape. Just don't loose the little screws that hold the screen to the laptop cover!
Nice, solid piece of gear
Pros: Nice thick piece of sturdy aluminum, not junky foil. Plenty of screws included. No problems fitting 4 samsung laptop drives.
Cons: Doesn't auto-install.
Overall Review: Happy i got it.
Packed well but took a while before they shipped.
I ordered a laptop replacement screen, much cheaper than other prices i found. They took some days before it was shipped. It took the slow boat from china and then bounced around in NY for a week after getting through customs but that's not the company's fault, just a warning to expect delays. The screen was surrounded by cardboard, wrapped in bubble wrap until it was about 2-1/2 inches thick, then put in an appropriately sized box, then surrounded by 3/4" styrofoam, then put into a shipping bag. I don't know if it was reasonably possible to pack much more securely - kudos to the vendor. Installed in the laptop (my first big laptop repair) it looked really good and worked as it should.