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william s.

william s.

Joined on 12/16/04

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Most Favorable Review

The best laptop i have every owned

TOSHIBA Satellite 16.0" Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 4GB Memory DDR2 800 Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit A355-S6944
TOSHIBA Satellite 16.0" Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 4GB Memory DDR2 800 Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit A355-S6944

Pros: it can handle games, photoshop cs4, and be your media box; all in one! it has a great screen and an interesting shell. i like the media buttons and harman/kardon speakers at the top. lastly i like the price that i got this for ($899)

Cons: the laptop shell is interesting, but i am finding it more of a con after a month. this is just me being particular... this thing is a finger print collector.

Overall Review: high def movies run great over it, games played: left4dead, portal, quake3, quake live, cod4... i haven't installed farcry2 yet to test it.

Most Critical Review

its an okay conversion board

ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA LGA 775 VIA PT880 Ultra ATX Intel Motherboard
ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA LGA 775 VIA PT880 Ultra ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: If you arent ready to do a full upgrade, then i suggest this board. it worked okay for me. i am now about to get my 2900pro and see how well it works with the "4x" pci-e16.

Cons: having issues with running multiple hdds on the sata ports. i may need to possibly update the bios to fix this issue.

Overall Review: wished there was a firmware update to push pci-e16 port to atleast 8x

10/16/2007

you get what you pay for

WD 2TB My Cloud Personal Network Attached Storage - NAS - WDBCTL0020HWT-NESN
WD 2TB My Cloud Personal Network Attached Storage - NAS - WDBCTL0020HWT-NESN

Pros: 1- capable of streaming movies! 2- has software to back up your devices 3- has the capability to backup itself 4- has the capability to be access remotely through the web

Cons: 1- is slow 2a- does not handle well with large data uploads 2b- does not handle well with multiple subdirectories in the upload 3- does not always back itself up

Overall Review: My setup is with 2 WD Cloud Stroage devices; Primary - HomeNAS for backup and data, Secondary - as the backup of the Primary. Never trust a Home NAS (even with a raid solution) to be your primary data location. This device works great for streaming movies and pictures to your entertainment system. Their Cloud access works, along with their backup software, but the downside out of all of this is just getting your data to it. If you try to upload data by explorer.exe, it takes too long, but download works absolutely fine. As the saying goes, "you get what you pay for"

Ideal Business upgrade

ASUS GeForce 8500 GT 512MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Graphics Card EN8500GT SILENT MAGIC/HTP/512M
ASUS GeForce 8500 GT 512MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Graphics Card EN8500GT SILENT MAGIC/HTP/512M

Pros: solid card that can handle all apps for business purposes. Price is great, shipping was fast, & installation was quick.

Cons: none yet

Overall Review: system was a tower server, kept getting blue screens due to a bad vid card. swapped it out and no issues.

11/23/2008

effective for a basic user!

TOSHIBA Satellite 15.4" AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-64 3GB Memory DDR2 667 Windows Vista Home Premium A305D-S6831
TOSHIBA Satellite 15.4" AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-64 3GB Memory DDR2 667 Windows Vista Home Premium A305D-S6831

Pros: great laptop for any basic user: great webcam for skype, loads applications quickly, runs vista really well, and a good sound system for a laptop. i also like the touch pad, it has an easy glide to it. its also a great system to teach people how to use vista.

Cons: load time for vista is a little slow, my system at home loads it very quick, i wasnt expecing it to be as fast, but it does seem to take its time in loading vista. after its loaded everything opens quick.

Overall Review: i like it!, the notebook didnt have a bunch of spammed software on it, if it did i uninstalled it pretty quickly. unlike other notebook providers, where its like pulling teeth to get the added 3rd party software off the machine.