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Richard S.

Richard S.

Joined on 10/21/03

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Most Favorable Review

fits in my m18x

Western Digital Green WD20NPVT 2TB IntelliPower 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital Green WD20NPVT 2TB IntelliPower 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: 2GB Can fit all my Steam library on one drive.

Cons: I wish they would start designing the gaming laptops to accommodate 15 mm in their bays

Overall Review: I managed to get this in my Alienware m18xr1 in the cdrom bay with one of those converter things. Had to mod it a bit, plus I used slices of electrical tape to make spacing for the pressure holes.

Most Critical Review

Beware

Samsung Galaxy Note II N7100 3G Unlocked Cell Phone w/ 5.5" Super AMOLED Touch Screen / Bluetooth 4.0 5.5" Titanium Gray 16GB 2GB RAM
Samsung Galaxy Note II N7100 3G Unlocked Cell Phone w/ 5.5" Super AMOLED Touch Screen / Bluetooth 4.0 5.5" Titanium Gray 16GB 2GB RAM

Pros: Large screen

Cons: Phone last less than year before it dies

Overall Review: $600 phone that lasts less than a year before it dies. No kind of warranty help or anything from Newegg, Brainstorm (the seller), or Samsung

Too much hacking to get it to work they way you want.

Pioneer SPH-DA120 AppRadio 4 Smartphone Receiver
Pioneer SPH-DA120 AppRadio 4 Smartphone Receiver

Pros: Android in you car.

Cons: Android, the way you want it, in you car takes alot of work. MHL interface to my Note 4 drains battery instead of charging it. Very limited Android app support out of the box - ARUnchained improves this, but you have to root the phone to get this to work. You have to buy a parking brake bypass hardware hack device just to get Waze on the dash. Navigation while you are parked makes no sense. On the Atoto unit I put in my wife's car, all you have to do is ground the brake wire. On this unit you actually have to pulse it as it makes you go through a sequence to enforce this (brake, release, then brake). This big brother mentality needs to go. Tried with an Android stick - the screen jumps - nothing works of the getgo, have to tweak all kinds of setting to get the basics. GPS doesn't always work - haven't figured out root cause yet.

Overall Review: I would not recommend this product to other people. I would recommend one of the native Android Chinese car stereos such as the one by Atoto for half the price. I would not purchase this product again if given the choice. If I could change this, I would make Pioneer reproduce the design of the Atoto Android Chineses Double Din car stereo.

Not a true NAS

AVS Gear ME-740KBK Diskless System 3.5" Aluminium Lanshare Network Ethernet RJ45 & USB2.0
AVS Gear ME-740KBK Diskless System 3.5" Aluminium Lanshare Network Ethernet RJ45 & USB2.0

Pros: The power LED comes on when you turn it on.

Cons: This isn't a true NAS. The instructions are geared toward a windows/mac box and installing a "driver". I hooked it to my network and didn't see any new mac or dhcp requests in my log. This leads me to believe that having that driver is a requirement. This product becomes a useless piece of junk if you lose the cd.

Overall Review: Stay away from proprietary junk such as this.

BIOSTAR IDEQ 200P AMD Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce3 150 Barebone
BIOSTAR IDEQ 200P AMD Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce3 150 Barebone

Comments: Biostar IDEQ 200P vs Shuttle SN85G4 Athlon 64 All things considered are equal except: Biostar has: Realtek RTL8110S/RTL8100C Gigabit LAN 10mbps/100mbps/1000mbps 2x 3.5" (1 Internal 1 external) internal parallel port header 2 dp9 serial ports 1394 6 pin on front and back (6pin=power capable) Shuttle has: Realtek 8201BL 10mbps/100mbps 1x 3.5" Internal External parallel port 1 dp9 serial port 1394 4 pin on front and 6 pin on back (6pin=power capable) As far as hardware and connectors go, I can do RAID with the biostar and have a cdrom (I wonder if twin raptors at RAID0 would cause heat issues) It is also nice to have the power supplied on my 1394 devices (laptop hd enclosure) and to be able to to plug this in front I dont own either of these, so I am not familiar with driver issues. With the only information I have been presented, I would go with Biostar.

11/12/2003