Pros: Absolutely beautiful picture, no flaws at all. Rich color spectrum and deep blues and greens are immediately clear. Compared to my other monitors, a Westinghouse and an Acer X223W (Neweggs, of course), this refurbished unit may be the best of them. The stand is solid and attractive. Better than the aftermarket Ergotron I Newegg'd for my Acer for ~$35. Now that I've experienced the utility of a stand that allows significant tilt and 90 degree pivot (for working on full-screen Portrait-oriented word-processing and brochure documents and web sites), I'll never own another monitor without one.

Cons: Came with a VGA cable, rather than a DVI, but even the VGA connection looked stunning. So bright at normal setting, I turned down the Brightness to just 5% for my preference.

Overall Review: I don't know if I'm more impressed with Newegg for offering it, or with LG, the actual brand, given that the sticker on the back shows it to be a 2007 Flatron L200ME-BF. The actual screen area measures 16"x12". Native resolution: 1600x1200.

Pros: It's no louder than any other HDD. As usual, Newegg's delivery time was excellent, and online tracking is indispensable.

Cons: This drive had the effect of actually slowing performance on my machine (Gigabyte MoBo 880GMA-UD2H, 4GB DDR3 RAM, Phenom2 x4 965 proc, XP SP3, 6Gbit/s cable) by 35 seconds(!) at boot-up. I measured its performance against my existing Samsung HD502HJ 500GB 3Gbit/s HDD, by cloning, and ran the test 3 times each. Load time for PremierePro CS4 was 10 seconds slower and Photoshop CS4 was about 5 secs slower. GRC's Spinrite 6 reported that it would need 40 hours to check it for errors (option 4), vs 14 hours for the Samsung, reporting a very much slower read ability. (A 500GB Hitachi Deskstar HDD I use on a different machine also is reported by Spinrite to require only 14 hours.)

Overall Review: On further google reading, it appears that a 6Gbit/s HDD is absolutely pointless because spinning platters can't possibly output anywhere near the throughput potential of SSDs, for which that speed is intended. See wikipedia.orgs's entry for SATA, "...even the fastest conventional hard disk drives can barely saturate the original SATA 1.5 Gbit/s bandwidth...". I wish I'd known that before I hit "buy". I'm returning it & I'll instead buy another Newegg 3Gbit/s Samsung or Hitachi HDD while I save for a SSD.

Pros: Bootup & application start-up times are remarkably faster on my aged Acer Aspire 5516 laptop with 4GB memory. Despite my limited SATA1 mobo with dual-boot XP SP3 & Windows 7 Ultimate (both 32-bit) this SSD has resulted in the following improvements in startup times, compared with its predecessor (another sweet Newegg upgrade- Hitachi HTS 320GB 7200rpm SATA 3Gbps): Win7 Boot= 1:05 vs 2:00 minutes; VMWare player= :02 vs :15; Win2003Server (VM)= 1:27 vs 5:20; Photoshop CS4= :07 vs :25. Biggest improvement I've ever added to any computer, and I have built a few. Upgrading RAM used to be the bomb, but that was then. 3 days free shipping? Fantastic.

Cons: I had to uninstall my old friend Auslogics' Disk Defrag. I felt a bit guilty cuz that software served me so reliably for years, but of course defragmentation is actually bad for SSDs. No SATA cable included.

Overall Review: I may need to cut back to PB&Js for a while so I can save up to buy some more of these speed demons to to put on my other machines. I'll never be so much as tempted to buy another spinning platter. Corsair has an excellent reputation with me (I own their PSs and RAM), and based on my experience so far, I'll happily extend my loyalty to them for SSDs.

Pros: Boots my WinXP SP3 machine 20 seconds faster than the already-fast Samsung 320GB 3GB/s HD502HJ that it is replacing (2:20 secs vs 2:40 secs, about 10% improvement). I don't know whether that advantage comes from the larger density of data available to the heads on the outside portion of the platters, or the additional MB cache (32 vs 16). Whatever the cause, the faster access makes my Firefox, Photoshop CS4, After Effects CS4, and various video-encoding apps all load and run noticeably quicker. This is the fastest HDD I've ever experienced. Newegg shipping had it here in 3 days, and the box + bubble wrap was sufficient.

Cons: none seen. I was able to clone my old drive to this one without any hiccups.

Overall Review: This is my 3rd Hitachi, and I am a newfound Hitachi (and Samsung) HDD enthusiast bordering on evangelist . For 15 years I had only experienced faultless performance from dozens of HDDs from Maxtor/Seagate & Western Digital on a couple small networks I run, but over the last 4 years or so those devices have consistently performed measurably slower, and with unacceptably high error rates. In the last 30 days I returned the last WD (5000AAKX) I will ever buy, because it added 40 seconds to boot time compared with its lesser-spec'd predecessor.

Pros: A very significant advance over its predecessor: a 500GB Western Digital 7200RPM 3Gbit/s less than a year old. My XP SP3 machine went from a 4:05 minute boot-up to 3 minutes after cloning & defrag. (Lots loading: ZA software firewall, AVG Free AV, HP network printer bloat!) Weekly defragging seemed to finish much quicker. GRC's Spinrite6 reported that a full scan (level 4) would take only 14 hours, vs 40 hours needed for the WD HDD. Same software also reported zero errors, vs the WD which had thousands. Video processing (Premiere Elements 7, Nero, Slysoft, After Effects CS4) was notably quicker.

Cons: none - It's as quiet as any HDD I've owned.

Overall Review: Having used dozens of Maxtor/Seagate & Western Digital HDDs over the last 20 years, I'm now solidly sold on Samsung and Hitachi HDDs (this is my 2nd) due primarily to the greatly improved application load times, especially as verified by Spinrite.

Pros: Flashing green LED confirms working status. Evidently runs in "promiscuous" mode too. Fast Newegg delivery, as usual, with indispensable shipment tracking.

Cons: Weak ability to receive, compared to my existing ASUS 5516 laptop's Atheros built-in antenna. Buggy Belkin "Wireless Networking Utility" software refused to see available signals when connected to my desktop machine, even with a 4' extension USB2 cable and moved around a 2nd story window. Belkin support guy "Paul" (with distinctive overseas accent) asserted it as a known issue, and suggested to use instead MS Windows native wireless networking client, which did see 4 of the 6 known available APs. On my laptop, also running XP SP3, the Belkin software installed and operated flawlessly, though using inSSIDer2 revealed ~40% fewer available connections than the Atheros device, and with about 20% lesser signal strength.

Overall Review: Admittedly, I bought this only because it is on a lifehacker.com article's list of antennas that have a promiscuous mode which allows for a particular kind of packet grabbing. Other antennas with that feature can cost over $100. Haven't tried it yet - was an impulse idea...

I paid extra ($49) for the fastest delivery, which showed as taking 3 days, but the seller got the Intel 11400 boxed up and out so fast, I got it within 24 hours here on the East coast! Exactly as described- a 65W (lower heat) 11th gen Rocket Lake with included Intel fan (and factory-applied thermal paste) , crazy good. No need for an upgraded fan/cooler or separate application of essential thermal paste. Id buy from this seller again, no hesitation.