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Works Very Well (finally)

Ceton InfiniTV 6 ETH – Six-Tuner CableCARD Ethernet Network Tuner for Win7 and Win8 PC 5504-DCT06EX-ETH
Ceton InfiniTV 6 ETH – Six-Tuner CableCARD Ethernet Network Tuner for Win7 and Win8 PC 5504-DCT06EX-ETH

Pros: Operates smoothly. Very clean recordings. Can record six HD channels with ease. Fairly easy to set up and get the CableCard activated. Diagnostic software seems mature and runs well.

Cons: First unit received was defective. Ceton tech support is uncooperative and basically useless. Runs a little warm - I added a small USB fan that dropped the internal temp from 68 C to 47 C. The supplied USB cable for a tuning adapter is wrong - Ceton had to mail me right one!

Overall Review: Newegg was excellent at handling a replacement unit quickly. Ceton had a lot of nerve shipping these units with the wrong USB cable for a tuning adapter, especially since it's not standard. I would have given 5 stars if it had worked the first time and the USB cable had been right.

Quite a good phone and a great camera

Huawei P20 Pro 4G LTE Unlocked Cell Phone 6.1" Black 128GB 6GB RAM
Huawei P20 Pro 4G LTE Unlocked Cell Phone 6.1" Black 128GB 6GB RAM

Pros: Cutting edge smartphone technology, including the camera. Yes, it makes calls quite well. My interest in this phone was the high praise for its unique camera. It is very good. It's sitting at the top of the DxOMark rating for a mobile device. I really like the optical 3X zoom. The AI-based night mode is fascinating - it shouldn't work, but it does. The screen is really good and it makes the most of it. Like other modern phones, it's mostly screen, including the notch at the top and the unique chin at the bottom. I prefer the chin with the hardware button/fingerprint reader. I enabled the gesture mode for the button that replaces the usual three Android navigation buttons for more useful screen area. Though this is an unlocked Canadian phone, I just popped in my USA Consumer Cellular (T-Mobile) nano-SIM card and it worked perfectly. I did have to manually download English (USA) as it defaulted to English (Canada). Yes, it does have a one-year Canadian warranty.

Cons: The Canadian seller needs to do better. I placed this order with Newegg and paid for 2-day delivery using PayPal. PayPal immediately showed a pending charge, as I would expect. What I didn't expect was that after 48 hours, the charge was still pending and Newegg was still showing the sale was being validated. So I sent a nasty-gram to both the Canadian seller and Newegg. Within one hour - yes, one hour - the PayPal charge was put through and DHL had picked up the shipment. The Canadian seller sent me an apology. However, I had paid for 2-day shipping and didn't really get that. DHL did their job well and got it to me in a timely manner. Too bad the seller was asleep at the switch, so to speak.

Overall Review: Yes, I would recommend this phone to others who have a similar desire for a fabulous camera on their smartphone.

Decent monitor at a good price

Viewsonic VX2252MH 1920 x 1080 Resolution 22" WideScreen LCD Flat Panel Computer Monitor Display
Viewsonic VX2252MH 1920 x 1080 Resolution 22" WideScreen LCD Flat Panel Computer Monitor Display

Pros: Works quite well and came with an assortment of video cables as described. I see no dead pixels.

Cons: Yes, this is listed as Grade B, which is supposed to be a perfect screen and the body with a few scratches or stickers. Well, the body is perfect and there was a sticker on the screen which left some residue that I can't get off. Given my use of this monitor, that's acceptable.

Overall Review: The box it was packaged in was extremely sturdy with lots of heavy-duty bubble stuff.

A good deal on a good solid motherboard.

GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: The motherboard itself was perfect. It was very clean and didn't appear used. Everything worked. I've used it with Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 with equal success. For application compatibility, I ended up with Windows 10.

Cons: Nothing in particular.

Overall Review: I built myself a small Ethereum mining machine to learn about it It works quite well.

More than advertised

DELL Latitude 14.1" 1.60GHz 2GB Memory Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit NDD620XM16GEDCD
DELL Latitude 14.1" 1.60GHz 2GB Memory Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit NDD620XM16GEDCD

Pros: Finally works as it should. Good support. Came with faster CPU and NVidia graphics chip. Quite clean. Fresh W7 load.

Cons: Took weeks to get a good battery and power pack. Support is thorough, but not fast. W7 took several hours to get updated and add virus protection.

Overall Review: A good refurbished laptop. This one came with a faster CPU and a real NVidia graphics chip. They load up a fresh Windows 7 with a new keycode sticker, and add a few odd pieces of software, which I removed. The support from the refurbisher is thorough, and slow. I had to remind them a few times to send replacement parts. They are very cooperative and realistic in dealing with support. In the end, it was satisfied, though along the way, it was a little frustrating as they will do stuff and say nothing, and then a box shows up at your front door with what you need and there's a pre-paid return label inside. Very nice.

Really Fast

Mushkin Enhanced Atlas Series 120GB Mini-SATA (mSATA) MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MKNSSDAT120GB-V
Mushkin Enhanced Atlas Series 120GB Mini-SATA (mSATA) MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MKNSSDAT120GB-V

Pros: Really very fast. I'm not sure there is anything much faster. Windows 7 boots up in seconds. I put this as the boot drive in an Intel NUC box HTPC and it works very well.

Cons: This one is the replacement for the one I RMAed because it died after two hours - stone dead. I knocked the rating down one egg because of that.

Overall Review: This kind of SSD in a mSATA package may be the future for mass storage in a PC. Total silence and blinding speed - can't beat that.

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Spunky little PC

A very nice smooth running low-power PC. I installed Windows 10 Pro 64-bit - very smooth. I'm driving a 4K display via HDMI - smooth. Though it has a fan, it's virtually dead silent. This is perfect for my use as a DVR with SiliconDust tuners. I installed both a 2.5" SATA SSD and an M.2 SSD - carefully follow the instructions.

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