Pros: A lot of printer for not much $$. 30ppm and duplexing for this price is outstanding. The output quality is excellent for the price - won't shame your high-end model but it's very good. There were complaints that the E240D was noisy even at idle, since the fan never stopped running. The E250D is utterly silent when idle and the print mechanism is relatively quiet too. The construction does not feel cheap & plasticky like many low-end printers - this seems well put together and quite sturdy. Time to first page of 7.5secs is accurate.

Cons: Found in the manual: "Windows 98SE(USB not supported)" after I'd torn my hair out trying to make it work... and the parallel port would not do bi-directional for Printer Settings on my system. The first printouts showed a narrow (1/8" wide) band about 1-3/4" in from the left edge, all the way down each sheet. Could feel it with fingertips so seemed like pressure roller damage - couldn't see it looking straight at the page but holding at an angle it was obvious and unacceptable. Running a few pages through in Duplex mode seems to have fixed it, even for single side prints.

Overall Review: These are 1st impressions with only a couple of days use, but so far I'm impressed. Note: The E250D is not sold as supporting Postscript at all -- PCL5E & PCL6 only -- and there's no driver for Postscript. The E250Dn *does* have Postscript 3 with 89 scalale fonts so if you must have it that's the one to get.

Pros: Nice looking monitor with great ergonomics -- plenty of height adjustment -- and it looks great. Contrast, brightness, color is fine with plenty of usable adjustment.

Cons: As someone else remarked, there is a halo around text, especially on a neutral background, like beige or grey... like you have in Windows menu areas. It is the same effect I've seen on other monitors which could be corrected by sharpness adjustment BUT there's no such adjustment here... connected to DVI. Could be I got one which needs some internal tweaking but I've checked this on two different computers.

Overall Review: I bought this because it seemed perfect for the office - height adjustment, good image, brightness,contrast etc. and built-in speakers. I'm quite disappointed with the text quality though. I'll let it "burn in" and maybe try the VGA analog interface to see if things get better.

Pros: Very fast: HDTach results 150MB/s to 70MB/s (outer to inner) which is about twice the speed of the previous Barracuda 500GB models they replaced in a nForce4 RAID-1 mirror. I can't hear them over the office background noise so call them quiet. Most importantly no glitches in speed trace.

Cons: None - you expect to pay more for this class of drive.

Overall Review: I got two of those to replace a mirror of 2xBarracuda 500GBs in our Windows Server 2003 internal Web Server which got damaged by a bad Smartpower PSU - the TVS (Transient Voltage Supressor) chips were burned by voltage ripple & spikes, one was still alive so I managed to rescue the data. Those drives had always shown 2 or 3 large downward spikes on a HDTach scan which was evident only when mirrored. The new Constellations show a smooth transition from 150MB/s to 70MB/s possibly confirming the claims that they are able to withstand minor vibrations from neighboring drives during head positioning; at least it confirms that the nForce4 RAID was not to blame. I'm very impressed.

Pros: This is a great scanner for a workgroup that has low to moderate volume - its quality and speed is good enough that it saves a walk to the copier for quick copies. Set up is flexible and the buttons can be programmed for straight to print or for storage in various file formats.

Cons: The OMNIPage software which comes with it is too limited to be much use and keeps nagging to "upgrade" to the full version. The Acrobat works fine though if you make .DOC files, it's a little hit or miss on vertical spacing.

Overall Review: I note that someone else complained about jams with the ADF BUT this is what happens if you connect to a USB 1.x interface because the paper moves too slowly - it really wants the USB 2.0 interface to work right... as specified. I used a low-cost Rosewill add-in USB 2.0 card and it works fine. This product is mis-listed at NewEgg and only shows in the full Canon Scanner listing - it should be in the Flat-Bed section since that's what it is, with ADF of course. I fought with a HP 6250 for years until I finally gave up and got this. What a relief!

Pros: Nice layout and easy to work with and rolled edges mean no blood gets shed. Nearly up to Antec's expected quality - card bracket alignment with mbrd is excellent. The .8mm gauge steel is still strong enough to resist flexing but...

Cons: ... it is not as good as the 1mm gauge steel we used to get with Antec TX series and previous excellent cases. Maybe they were too heavy for some but I loved them. As already noted the knurled cage retention nut fell out of the drive cage plastic mounting bracket the 3rd time I was reinstalling the cage. The plastic bracket is held to the case bottom with self-tapping screws which chew up their threads in the plastic when reinstalling - I was ultra careful but just couldn't get one of them to refind its threads.

Overall Review: I don't see anything else I like for an office system - even at home, I don't need/want a carnival show for a computer case. This will have to do but I'll miss the old Chieftec cases from Antec. I hope they can rework the very minor design flaws in these.

Pros: This keyboard feels just like they used to whan they cost ~$xx... back in the "good old days". If you long for a keyboard with great feel to the keys, with just the right amount of resistance and travel, this is the one. No special Internet or "media" keys fluff here... or stodgy, mushy feel either.

Cons: I wish they'd do a USB+PS/2 version. USB is taking over and the hot PnP does help sometimes.

Overall Review: The mouse is OK -- a bit of a freebie anyway considering the keyboard quality -- we'll see how long it's feet last but none of them seem to go very long anyway. The contoured, curved key layout is nice - if you like to keep your left pinky ready to hit a Caps Lock, Shift or Ctrl, there's a ledge just to the left of the keys where you can "rest" it.