cover
Andre L.

Andre L.

Joined on 08/10/04

0
0

Gallery
Product Reviews
Seller Reviews
Gallery
  • 2
  •  
  • 13
  •  
product reviews
  • 66
Most Favorable Review

Say goodbye to deep frying!

Rosewill Air Fryer 3.3 Qt, Oilless Air Fryer Oven, 1400-watt Power, Timer and Temperature Control Frying w/Low Fat, Oil Free, RHAF-15004
Rosewill Air Fryer 3.3 Qt, Oilless Air Fryer Oven, 1400-watt Power, Timer and Temperature Control Frying w/Low Fat, Oil Free, RHAF-15004

Pros: - Heats up faster than my deep fryer of comparable size - Very easy to clean up - No oils required - Quiet - Very simple to use... Set the temp & timer. Done! - It made me a PERFECT medium-rare 16oz NY Strip! - Cleanup is a breeze due to the teflon-like non-stick coating.

Cons: - The outer metal basket is exposed when not in the unit. Definite burn hazard! - Plastic is mildly brittle

Overall Review: I took the offer to review this while thinking, "Eh, I'll take a break from reviewing all the techie stuff. Plus, I like kitchen gadgets. I've been curious about these for a while. Let's give it a shot." My first test was to try things I typically put in the oven like frozen fries. Inevitably, putting 'em in the oven is very time consuming. And I always seem to get them over-done or still mildly soggy. And flipping them in a pain. With this unit, I just tossed in just a bit more than enough to cover the bottom. Maybe two layers worth. (I think the instructions suggest 17oz, whatever that equals in frozen fries!) I set the temp & timer according to the (minimal) instructions and waited a few minutes. Fries came out great! Next up came the stuff I usually deep fry in peanut oil like breaded green beans, breaded pickles, cheese sticks...your typical bar food / appetizers. Again, impressed! The only thing to note is that in this unit, if you go too long, the breading and vegetable inside will start to dry out as well taking away from the taste. The overall time from freezer to plate is about the same. Whereas the deep fryer may take 7-10 minutes to get up to temp, the air fryer gets up to temp much quicker. However, that is offset by the deep fryer only needing 1.5 minutes and the air fryer needing about 4-6 minutes. I think once you get the temp and time dialed in, all things being equal from start up to completion, this air fryer may be overall quicker than the deep dryer. Lastly, and this is what I was waiting for before I posted this review... The instructions said that this unit can cook a steak. "Say what??? This can't possibly replace grilling a steak! I've GOT to see this for myself!" So yesterday I bought a 16oz (1 lb) NY strip steak. I was about 1.5-1.75" thick. A nice cut! I won't bother getting into the 'proper' way to prep a steak for grilling. I'll just say that this steak went from the fridge to a plate where I rubbed some sea salt and general steak spices on both sides. It was out for about 5 minutes or so while the air fryer got up to ~360° (as noted in the instructions). I then laid it in the basket and set the timer for about 12 minutes. *DING!* timer goes off. I check the steak. It's definitely hot on the outside and still rather juicy. Not charred or anything, just grayish and hot! I take it out and place it on my plate. I cut into it. Whoa! This is the textbook version of medium-rare. Hot, gray outside and cool pinkish-red center. Then I take a bite. "WOW!!!" Short of having grill marks and maybe some char from the grill, I've never prepared a steak this precise of medium rare! I AM SOLD! Now, all that being said, there was only enough room in the basket for one of these steaks, so unless you plan on splitting a steak of this size, you're not going to get two in there. However!!! Two or three 8oz filet mignon would likely fit in quite nicely. "Filet Mignon in an air fryer! That's blasphemy! How dare you!!" Yeah, ya know what? I might just take that dare! General notes... - I don't know the accuracy of the temp dial. The spacing of the numbers is kind of strange. For example, the last temp settings printed on the dial are "330 ¤ 400". So the dot represents ~365° ...OK? Kinda strange, but whatever. - There is no heat shield on the basket when you remove it from the fryer. So you should NOT set it on a counter top. It's as hot as the temp you set, so BE CAREFUL. Fortunately, my gas stove burner grates are raised just enough that I can set the metal basket on there and the plastic part of the outer assm rests on the countertop. - There is a thumb button to release the inner-basket from the outer basket. Be sure that you don't inadvertently depress the button. Otherwise, literally, the bottom ('outer basket') drops out. That's how I determined the plastic is mildly brittle. Mine dropped about 36" and a small piece of the plastic housing chipped. Nothing significant though. It's a bottom-corner that you never really see. That's also what makes it mildly awkward since the outer basket is just as hot and unshielded: After taking it out of the fryer, you need to figure out where you can place the entire HOT basket assm so you can release the inner basket for dumping out the contents (if it's that type of food, like fries or veggies) - The unit is fairly straightforward as being a small convection oven. The fresh air is drawn in from the top by a fan. That fan blows the air over a standard electric stovetop coil. The same fan keeps the hot air cycling around inside. Standard convection oven science. 5 eggs! I'll miss my deep fryer, but only kind of. Speaking of eggs, that reminds me! Tomorrow morning I'm going to try frying an egg in a baking cup and see what happens!

Most Critical Review

There are better alternatives in this price range

Rosewill RNX-T600N, Dual Band Wireless N600 Wi-Fi Router, IEEE 802.11b/11g/11n, Up to 300+300Mbps Wireless Data Rates, 2x High Power Antenna
Rosewill RNX-T600N, Dual Band Wireless N600 Wi-Fi Router, IEEE 802.11b/11g/11n, Up to 300+300Mbps Wireless Data Rates, 2x High Power Antenna

Pros: As much as love to talk highly about something, this router just didn't really prove itself to be that great of a unit, at least not when compared to other units in the same price range, both retired and those still in retail channels. I'll say that the range should be good enough for most households. I have the router in an upstairs bedroom that faces the front of the house. I took my iPhone 4s connected to the 2.4Ghz band and walked behind my backyard shed which is about 120ft away. The signal passed through at least 4 walls (including the outside wall) and behind my shed. It also maintained a wireless connection speed of 270-300Mbps to my media server in the basement. It also proved itself to be quite sufficient in handling network traffic. I essentially created a network flood by kicking off simultaneous 7GB transfers among 4 computers (2 wireless, 2 ethernet), meaning I was pushing 7GB per PC and thus receiving 7GB as well. While that was running, I fired up some 1080p video on my Roku3 box. To pile on a little more, I kicked off some "speedtest" tests on my mobile devices. At no time did anything ever lag or stutter. So for people that have console gaming systems in their house, the built in QOS on this unit shouldn't have any problems. In further testing this unit, I set it up as a secondary router on the network and did a factory reset. Using the setup wizard, for all intents and purposes, it correctly identified it's place on the network and allowed it's connected devices out to the internet. I also did some basic testing with the URL filtering and it seems to work about as well as you can expect. Filtered URLs simply won't load and sites that have 'keywords' also don't load. No filter is foolproof and if you get carried away trying to add a bunch of content, you'll slow everything down and end up filtering safe content. However, it's something that parents or administrators can play with as a simple means of restricting internet content.

Cons: Where to start? As others have noted, the initial setup wizard does not appear to properly negotiate anything. And just to be sure, I went through a factory reset twice. Same results- nothing. At this point, your average Joe & Jane User would get frustrated. Afterall, it did come packaged with a rather nicely written quick setup guide. It was disappointing that it wasn't working. To add insult on to that, there is no real built-in on-screen help to assist anyone in determining what all the settings mean. Most(?) routers nowadays have assisting paragraphs somewhere on the current settings screen giving you some idea of what it's function is. If you want to find out something about all the various settings, you'll need to refer to the included PDF on CD or download it from Rosewill's website. And even the PDF is somewhat sparse. I don't expect someone to learn everything about networking by reading a setup guide, but I've seen consumer routers with better on-screen help & descriptions. Whenever you want to make a change to the router, you get the lovely "Wait 15 seconds" countdown. This gets old, fast. However, most of the time you can simply click to a different settings page, then click back and your changes are there. I'm guessing the 15 second wait is just a globally applied setting to cover areas that do take longer to internally reconfigure. I like all the known devices on my network to have static IP addresses, so after first setting them all manually, I then went back and tried a few using the router's DHCP reservation system. While the functionality works, the setup is cumbersome. For example, the DHCP tables shows the MAC address in the format of ##:##:##:##:##:##, but right below you can't cut & paste because the reservation input field only allows for 12 characters, meaning no dividers. And once you have a large list of reservations, there's no way to sort the list. The order that you enter them is the way you have to search it. Granted, you can use the browsers search function, but that just seems less intuitive than a sortable HTML table. I also had a problem with my Asus USB-N53 wifi adapter that is both 2.4 and 5Ghz. For whatever reason, it never negotiated more than a 54Mbps connection. In fact, it never even saw the 5Ghz SSID. But it works just fine on my other 5Ghz routers noted below. I double-checked both the adapter and router. Even the configuration menus deep-down in Device Manager looked correct. Other things that stood out? - I didn't see a place to change the "admin" login name, only the password. Being able to create a different login would be nice. - When I changed the default internal IP addressing from 192.168. to a 10.0 network, it didn't automatically update the DHCP scope. Those should be dynamically linked together for ease of use and configuration.

Overall Review: All my PC's are running Win7 Professional x64. My home/lab consists of the following network equipment either used in testing the T600N or used as a control/reference unit. (NewEgg SKUs where applicable). - Motorola Surfboard SB5100 cable modem - (2) desktops using built in 1Gb NIC - desktop using Asus USB-N53 wifi adapter (N82E16833320089) - desktop using Rosewill RNX-N2X wifi adapter (N82E16833166027) - desktop using TP-Link TL-WN772N wifi adapter (N82E16833704045) - Lenovo G550 laptop (N82E16834146706) - iPhone 3g, 4S, 5 - iPad 2 - Roku 3 (wireless) - HP LaserJet 4350n (ethernet) - Epson Artisan 725 (wireless) - (reference) LinkSys WRT110 router (N82E16833124285) - (reference) Trendnet TEW-673GRU router (N82E16833156285) - (reference) TP-Link TL-WR1043ND router (N82E16833704038) - (reference) TP-Link TL-SG1005D switch (N82E16833704042) Overall, this unit just doesn't impress, especially not in the price range which is currently $65. In order for something to be listed in the PROS section, it really needs to stand out for something. The fact that it appears "stable" or "does well in getting near it's theoretical transfer speed limits" is what one should expect; It shouldn't be a bonus at this price range. As an Eggxpert Reviewer, we try to get our reviews up within 2 weeks of getting the unit. Unlike testing a single function device like a HDD/SSD or power supply, for me, two weeks is simply not enough time to fully test the capabilities of the unit, such as VPN passthrough, tinkering with QOS, hardware acceleration, DMZ utlization, port triggering/forwarding, etc. Also, this is by no means a commercial grade router, so doing a deep dive into those areas are places that most of you won't go, so it's not really relevant right now. Given the fact that 1) it essentially failed the first OOBE ("Out Of Box Experience") FOR MULTIPLE REVIEWERS, which is to have the wizard get you up and running quickly, and 2) some of the other low-to-mid-level functions only received an "Ehhh" rating, doing a deeper dive didn't seem like good enough reason to go beyond the 2-week review period. So...my final/other thought? A 2-egg rating. I'd pass on this one. Does it work? Yes, for the most part. I'm certain for some, once it's configured, it would offer years of trouble-free operation and would probably garner a 5-egg rating. For those, it's "$65 well spent, no muss, no fuss." Are there shortcomings? Absolutely. Would these shortcomings be deal-breakers? For some, yes. If anything at all, the shortcomings would be annoyances that would lead to calls to Rosewill or NewEgg's tech support. Nothing burns a buyer more than having buyers' remorse and having to eat the re-stocking fee and/or RMA return shipping fee. Those that would decide to keep it would likely always be second-guessing their purchase.

4 Egg / 5 Egg ... Read the Review

Crucial 64GB 262-Pin DDR5 SO-DIMM DDR5 5600 (PC5 44800) Laptop Memory Model CT64G56C46S5
Crucial 64GB 262-Pin DDR5 SO-DIMM DDR5 5600 (PC5 44800) Laptop Memory Model CT64G56C46S5

Pros: - Crucial/Micron memory is a historically solid brand as an OEM - 64GB on a single SODIMM is nice if you need to want to get up to 64 or 128GB capacity

Cons: - As of May 2025, the number of systems that will properly support this chip is far fewer than those that will. But that's not really a Crucial problem. That's an Everybody Else problem.

Overall Review: Per Crucial's product page, this 64GB SODIMM is exactly same as their 32GB module except that this 64GB SODIMM has a Die Density of 32Gb, whereas their 32GB SODIMM has a Die Density of 16Gb. Laptops used for testing: * Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (16IAH7) (BIOS J2CN61WW) * Lenovo P16 Gen 1 (21D7) (BIOS N3FET43W (1.28)) I knew their 32GB version worked in my laptops, so I just presumed the 64GB would also. Unfortunately for me...Nope! Apparently, neither of my Lenovo laptops support the increased die density. The Legion was strange. It wouldn't boot with the single 64GB chip. But when I added in the 16GB chip, it booted up. Both BIOS and Windows were only reporting 16GB, but CPU-Z was showing both chips, as shown in my picture. When I went to perform a benchmark using PCMark10, it only recognized 16GB, so I didn't bother running it. The P16 laptop was surprisingly less tolerant, as it wouldn't even POST. It wanted nothing to do with it. I was expecting more since it has (4) slots and is an engineering/workstation class laptop. But, perhaps that exactly why it was LESS tolerant: It has tighter guardrails to ensure engineering/workstation-class output. As of this writing, I did a quick search for comparable SODIMMs and I wasn't finding any single 64GB chips. So it looks like Crucial is one of the first to market with the 32Gb die density. Congrats to Crucial! But I highly recommend checking Crucial's system compatibility checker. I only did this as part of my troubleshooting and that's where I found that it was (listed as being) incompatible, but the 32GB variant was good to go. All that being said, if you are looking for performance memory, consider that you need to weigh the speed and capacity of a single SODIMM versus a pair of SODIMMS. A 2x32GB configuration should provide better overall performance than a single 64GB SODIMM because you'll get dual channel performance. But if you're looking at this particular SODIMM option, you probably already know that!

Solid application suite for quickly getting your content created!

Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 2024 for Windows - Download
Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 2024 for Windows - Download

Pros: - There's actually three apps bundled if I was to include Adobe Organizer which gathers up all your media for quick access and use within both Photoshop & Premiere - For the novice user, it takes the most used functions of Premiere and Photoshop and makes them easy to access via options that wrap up a lot of functions into a single command. For example, in Photoshop Elements, there is a single click to perform a Rotate AND Crop, whereas in the full Photoshop, these are standalone functions. - The apps utilize hardware acceleration for some graphical and audio functions. - All the apps have easily accessible video tutorials to walk you through many common functions that you'll want to perform. There's also plenty of support content in Adobe's primary online support areas. - Once you buy this, it's yours! There is no subscription to expire.

Cons: - If you had a previous version of the full apps, but then let your subscription expire with the intent of buying these apps outright, the interfaces are a bit different, so there's some acclimation time you'll need to allow yourself. - Hardware acceleration didn't seem to want to play nicely with my RTX 3070Ti mobile chipset. More often than not, it was reverting back to the IrisXe chipset for hardware acceleration. - Premiere Elements doesn't recognize as many formats as the full Premiere Pro. I was actually looking forward to doing some content creation in Premiere Elements, but it wouldn't acknowledge my 4k video using the h.265 codec. The full Premiere Pro did. (To be fair, I tried a lot of highend editors (such as DaVinci Resolve) and Premiere Pro was the only one to successfully open the file.)

Overall Review: As an EggXpert reviewer, we're only given ~2 weeks to tinker with and post a review. Because these apps have sooo much depth and potential, it's challenging to give a really in-depth review, especially when it's TWO apps. That being said... From my short time with the apps, Adobe continues to do a fantastic job understanding what their audience is looking for and ensuring that it's easily accessible. Are there free apps out there that potentially do a lot of the same things? Yes, but I don't think that any of them are as polished as the Elements package. And because it's all under the Adobe umbrella, you get a solid amount of cross-product compatibility and familiarity, along with Adobe's fantastic support in terms of providing guidance and lots of ways to find the instruction you're looking for. All in all, I'm going to give this a solid 4-eggs. I'm knocking off 1 egg for the following reasons. 1) The apps were a pinch flaky in some spots when expecting to them to recognize my RTX/Cuda availability 2) Premiere Elements didn't open up all available video formats (compared to its Pro version) 3) There are free apps out there that can get you really close to the same final output if you're willing to learn and work across different companies.

11/29/2023

Works well! Removable, easy-to-clean attachments is nice!

Norelco NT3600/42 Nose Trimmer 3000 Men's Shavers
Norelco NT3600/42 Nose Trimmer 3000 Men's Shavers

Pros: - Has pretty much everything you need for basic grooming of hair around your ears, eyebrows, and nose - The removable attachments mean you can more easily clean them without worrying about getting the motor base wet

Cons: - At this price point, there are no significant negatives.

Overall Review: Keeping in mind the relatively low price compared to a standard set of namebrand clippers, there isn't much to complain about. But that should also cause you to temper your expectations. These work well for their intended purpose: inner/outer ear area, eyebrows, and nose hair. This is NOT a grooming kit for your entire body; It's not going to replace a pair of clippers that you might use for other parts of your body. I know because I tried. The biggest difference between this unit and clippers is that clippers seem to get ever-so-slightly closer to the skin. And I'm talking maybe by 1/32" or 1mm. That doesn't seem like a lot but you can notice by the way it feels when you run your fingers over the area. Again, this unit is fine for it's target areas. But I was a little disappointed that it couldn't "easily" handle things like the fine hair on the back of my arm. It did trim it, but it required a LOT of passes just to get a couple hairs. It wasn't really worth the time & effort. Regarding the nose hair attachment, when I first used the nose hair attachment, it did for a split-second seem to pinch or rip a hair, but then I didn't notice it doing again in any subsequent uses. Norelco says that you can use water to clean the attachments, and yes, you certainly can. However, if you want the cutting attachments to last, after cleaning them with water, I recommend using a drop of light oil, like what you'd use for clippers. This will help keep them from getting ruined from hard water deposits. And generally speaking, when you have reciprocating cutting blades (like these, and clippers, and hedge trimmers), it's a best practice to apply a light coat of oil for storage. (4) Eggs because these essentially do what they are expected to do, especially at this price point. But it misses out getting the fifth egg because I think people that have thicker, coarser hair are going to find it not as effective due to the design of the blade assembly. I think the blades need another 1/32" of cutting height, or increase the gap between serrations.

11/16/2022

Runs great...in my PCIe 3.0 motherboard :-/

Corsair MP600 PRO XT M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 NVMe 1.4 3D TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F1000GBMP600PXT
Corsair MP600 PRO XT M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 NVMe 1.4 3D TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F1000GBMP600PXT

Overall Review: I was planning on putting this in a PCIe Gen 4, but that ended up not happening. So instead, it went into my daily rig that is a Asrock Z370 Extreme4, i5-8400, 16GB, 2070 Super, and lots of storage. I knew from the get-go that it wasn't gonna be possible to push this unit to its limits. But we'll at least ensure that it's up to spec for PCIe Gen.3. The firmware EIFM31.4 is the most current as of this review and what the drive shipped with. I first ran it as a second NVMe drive. The Z370 splits data with some of the SATA channels, so I tested it both with and without drives on the respective SATA channels. There was no statistical difference, so that's a good baseline. I then ran it as the only drive in the system with a fresh install of Win10 21H2. Again, no statistical difference. So, let's get to the numbers. Since the numbers were so close regardless of the various tested configurations, these numbers are the averages because the deviations would only be noticed in detailed benchmarks. Using CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4, with a 4GiB data set... READ Specs Seq 1MiB, Q=8, T=1 ... 3400 MB/s ... 3243 IOPS Seq 1MiB, Q=1, T=1 ... 2233 MB/s ... 2115 IOPS Rnd 4KiB, Q=32, T=1 ... 635 MB/s ... 155068 IOPS Rnd 4KiB, Q1, T1 ... 77 MB/s ... 18961 IOPS Write Specs Seq 1MiB, Q=8, T=1 ... 3238 MB/s ... 3088 IOPS Seq 1MiB, Q=1, T=1 ... 2414 MB/s ... 2302 IOPS Rnd 4KiB, Q=32, T=1 ... 334 MB/s ... 81494 IOPS Rnd 4KiB, Q1, T1 ... 207 MB/s ... 50663 IOPS If I had to nitpick anything, I'll say that it would've been nice for Corsair to include the screw for securing it. There was no hardware included with the drive, so I had to scrounge through all my bins to find one of the tiniest screws used in a PC. Also, consider where you're hoping to install this unit. I was initially going to test this on a Win11-compliant computer. It's a Micro form factor and it turns out that form factor wasn't gonna play nicely. So I'd have to consider the same unit, except with a lower profile heatsink: the Corsair M600 PRO LPX. I have no significant complaints about this unit. It's currently being used as storage for all my primary gaming & VR titles; It's a nice upgrade from the previous SATA SSDs and USB SSDs that it replaced. The heatsink definitely gets warm, so it's working. When I get around to building a new system, it'll most likely find itself as the new OS drive.

seller reviews
  • 2

Average seller, no significant complaints

The shipping took two weeks from China. It was free shipping and it states on the invoice 5-15 days for shipping, so it was within the specified time frame, but towards the end of it. I ordered two leather belts @ $24 each (Items 9SIA25D0RF3726 and 9SIA25D0RF3721). Quality was average. One of the belts had what looked like dye or polish streaked on it. A decent amount of elbow grease & a microfiber removed most of it. And the chrome on the face of the buckles has a faint detergent-like film on it that I wasn't able to remove, but it's only visibile upon close inspection. 3-eggs doesn't mean "bad"; It means Average, which is exactly what this was from start to finish. I would buy from this seller ("Timebear") again if the price is right on a product.

On-time
Delivery
Product
Accuracy
Customer Service
Satisfactory

packaging was below average

I didn't really have any necessary interaction with the seller, so this is purely based on the shipping experience. The product I received was put in a box that was quite a bit larger than the product's box, and there was very little (if any) packaging material used to take up the extra space. So when my product arrived, it had bounced around inside the shipping box so much that it had torn itself open and some pieces were loose in the box. Other pieces of the product ("little tabs for securing pieces together") had broken off. The few broken tabs didn't keep the entire assembly from being able to be put together, so it didn't warrant me filing a complaint. I place blame on some of it breaking due to cheap manufacturing and part of it I blame on below-average packaging by the seller/shipper. Had it been broken to the point of being unusable due to packaging, that would've warranted a 1-egg rating (since no-egg is not an option).

On-time
Delivery
Product
Accuracy
Customer Service
Satisfactory