Pros: Great price. 16GB ram. i7 processor. Good mobile video card. It is a beast of a laptop. I feel more like it is a portable desktop than a laptop which is good since I normally hate laptops due to lack of power. I didn't buy it for gaming but runs TERA at max settings pretty smoothly so I assume it will run most games well.

Cons: hate windows 8. MS is trying to convince the world to pay for them to develop a mobile platform - it just makes no sense on a laptop. please in the name of science give me back my start menu. Second - Not a horrible issue but the SSD is split into 2 partitions (95GB and 121GB) and the 95GB partition is the C drive. You need to be careful not to install programs into the default location (C:\Program Files) as the C drive will run out of space. I didn't realize it till I had 2/3 of a very large game downloaded and had to start over completely. I know they probably do this so windows loads from the faster SSD drive.

Overall Review: excellent buy - got it on sale for ~1.3k. Plan to use it for software development and running servers. Needed the extra memory for experimenting with larger memory heaps on java based servers.

Pros: Pretty fast while it lasted. I dont have the benchmarks handy any longer (they were saved on the drive - oh the irony).

Cons: Crapped out after 1 year. Bios no longer recognizes a bootable drive. Tried reinstalling windows and it doesnt recognize any attached drives.

Overall Review: I went back to a 3 disk raid 5 array on non solid state.

Pros: Fast. Handles games like Tera online without issue on max settings. I used to hate laptops because they are not as powerful as desktops but now this is all I use. Its heavy and feels more like a portable desktop. The instant on feature is nice.

Cons: 2 sticks of ram just died. been about 11 months. Computer would not post and could not get to bios. had to take out 1 component at a time to find it was the memory. Windows 8 blows. Not many computers come with windows 7 anymore though.

Overall Review: nice laptop if you don't travel with it much. I use it to work in our living-room or bedroom. The ram dying is annoying but otherwise Im happy with it. Took off the 1 egg for that.

Pros: good speed. Never used powerline before and never heard of it till a week ago. Pretty easy to set up. You need to by at least 2 units that will connect with each other. Buying one unit alone makes no sense. All units come with a default network ID so they will work out of the box - but it is recommended you change the ID (or anyone in the same building who might use powerline might end up on your network). To change the default network ID you just hold the button in for 3 seconds. The light will flash for 2 minutes and during that time you have to hit/hold the button on any other powerline unit on the network (I think up to 8).

Cons: None so far

Overall Review: Reason for purchasing: My ISP only allows 1 cable modem (1 mac address) or I have to pay extra. My condo is rather long so it is difficult to get good wifi coverage through out and there are a ton of electrical devices interfering. I bought 2 powerline + 2 wireless routers. My setup is a cable modem in the front of the condo plugged into a wifis wan port. That wifi's lan port plugs into the powerline. In the back of the condo I have another powerline that plugs into a second wifi's lan port (NOT wan). Pretty simple to configure. Below are my internet speeds. I have not tried benchmarking on my internal network which might be a better test of the powerline since it might be my ISP limiting speeds. In any case these speeds are good enough for my needs. wireless front apt (router netgear WNDR3400v2) ping: 31 ms down: 21 mbps up: 12 mbps wireless back of apt (router:trendnet TEW-752DRU) ping: 14 ms down: 35 mbps up: 12 mbps wired back of apt (router:trendnet TEW-752DRU) ping: 12 ms down: 38 mbps up: 12 mbps

Pros: I was in fact delivered a motherboard.

Cons: That was all I got. Period.

Overall Review: I was going to get the Asus P6T delux and saw this as an open box item for the same price. I am willing to accept that it is not going to be a perfect product since there was a discount but the box had the motherboard and nothing else. No face plate even. No cords. No manual. No software. No audio output. I am mad enough that I dont think I will never order from newegg again and I've built my last 3 computers with them. I specifically ordered my ram from the MoBo supported ram and it is not supported my the other boards I am looking at so to RMA both will cost me like ninety dollars. As things are returning the MoBo alone will cost me forty five dollars and Im not sure yet but I doubt they pay shipping and handling.... some motherboards cost less that what I will have to pay to RMA it. I dont understand how their return policy can state that all returns must contain all original items and accessories and yet they send out an open box item with absolutely no "accessories".

Ive ordered one product from this company. newegg shows the shipping address for the order correctly at my home address in chicago. The shipping tracking link says it was delivered to hackensack new jersey. I will change the rating based on how they respond to the inquiry I just submitted.