Pros: Dual display via d-sub/HDMI smooth Blu-ray playback (thanks to built-in UVD in APU) cool and quiet Radeon graphics

Cons: CPU

Overall Review: For fun I decided to play a blu-ray movie on a second display at 1080p. This little netbook performed flawlessly (thanks to the embedded UVD in the C-50 core), no skipping during playback. The only thing that took a while was to start the playback software (CPU). Once playback began CPU usage maxed at a mere 25%, averaging 9%. CPU maxed at 15% averaging 7%. I ran AMD's System Monitor during the test. ALL AMD APU's feature this built-in UVD. So ALL Fusion-based netbooks will handle blu-ray. If you want a multimedia-centric netbook with some good grapics performance then this machine is the way to go.

Pros: price, performance if you are very lucky

Cons: bad quality ram, lasted only 6 days, crashed computer as soon after windows loaded. pc would not power up

Overall Review: pay more for brand-name products. newegg should stock samsung-based memory modules. at least newegg was excellent with the rma

Pros: -dolby true hd and dts hd master audio decoding -good upconversion for dvd movies. -great black levels for blu-ray and dvd. -automatic pilarboxing. it appears that i have taken this feature for granted. -netflix enabled

Cons: -will not play point break. i blame fox use of bd+ i- read reports about firmware upgrade bricking the player. so don't upgrade your firmware -load times could be better -no movie codec information

Overall Review: the reason i own this player is because i got it for dirt cheap. otherwise go with the lg models. they do the exact same thing but they are better. still better than sony. sony sucks. panasonic is good but they don't offer netflix. the same goes for toshiba.

Pros: great loading discs. great at handling all types of dvd's smooth playback at layer break for dual layer discs (this concerns pretty much all movies)

Cons: awful black levels non-existent pilarboxing for 4:3 aspect ratios lousy unpconverter for 720p 1080i/p doesn't decode dts

Overall Review: the player is overpriced. i scooped mine up from craigslist. awful for 2.35:1 or higher aspect ratio movies because of awful black levels. forget about 4:3 aspect ratio movies because this player will not pilarbox the screen. i am keeping my toshiba hd dvd player.

Pros: -full blackberry functionality in a smaller package -great design -awesome button size -great external clock -great and loud speakerphone -great trackball -great with wifi -sturdy after countless drops and beatings

Cons: -no 3g (edge only) -a bit underpowered

Overall Review: anything great about the pearl is also applied in this clamshell design. great smatphone disguised as a normal phone "dumbphone." although rim's suretype is great in am well accostumed for multitap function, so i won't have any trouble with unique and jargon words. with desktop manager 5.0 service pack 1 you can use this phone as a tether modem or as a wifi adapter if you enable the wifi function. i love the external lcd as this great blackberry is programmed with an analog clock by default on the display. for those of us that grew up in the analog world the analog clock is easy to read. my only caveat is that the phone is a bit underpowered and is not hspa. but that's ok as the bold is suppoed to be rim's flagship model. hopefully the (hopeful successor) flip 9200 will follow the design pattern of the bold 9700, and pearl 9100 with added 3g.

Pros: flashed my second drive. every step of the process was clockwork. works like a charm. very easy (maybe too easy) to flash and install once having the right tools. once flashed you can use a usb-sata connector for easy transfer. you can get the hdd enclosure or dead drive for about 15 to 20 bucks.

Cons: voids your xbox 360 hdd warranty (if there is such thing, so there is really no con).

Overall Review: make sure you backup partition2 if you intend to play xbox originals, and any content that came with the original drive need xplorer360 beta6 extreme2 for the 120gb (i am too lazy for winhex) need xplorer360 beta6 for the 20gb