Pros: I put two of these in RAID 0 and haven't had a problem since. They run really fast and score well on Hard Drive tests. The prices are also pretty good, and I haven't had any reliability problems. After these, I was so impressed that I bought two Vertex IIIs for RAID 0 at my dad's computer at his work and they ran flawlessly too (and their speed had me drooling at 800MB/s, Windows booted in less than 10 seconds). I had two Onyx SSDs in other computers before these and they ran well too.

Cons: Forget about getting the rebates. OCZ makes it a real pain to get them, and mine didn't even work when I got them (the money had already been spent in some barber shop in Georgia). Consider the price before rebate to be the price you'll pay. Minus 1 egg for the tricky rebates (I've never actually gotten a working one).

Overall Review: Don't use a Marvell controller for RAID. It comes on a lot of modern motherboards (Asus Sabertooth, Intel Z77) but it's not very good. Usually you can use the other RAID controllers on there and they are much better.

Pros: - fast - i7 - decent battery - good amount of RAM - 1920x1080 w/ decent screen size - price

Cons: - Dust/dirt magnet - Heavy - Clunky - Battery charger broke after a few months, couldn't charge at all. - ASUS support sucks. - ASUS' website is hard to navigate I sent in my laptop to get the battery charger repaired and it came back with the side all scratched up from where they worked on the charger. The particles from the shell of the laptop must have gotten into the keyboard area because the LCD screen cracked in multiple locations during return shipping. I sent in a request for a full replacement or money back. ASUS service sucked the first time, hopefully they'll redeem themselves on the second time.

Overall Review: I've had a few other ASUS products that have been good (monitors etc.) that I luckily haven't had to send in for repairs.

Pros: I absolutely loved them. The sound quality was incredibly and the bass was amazing. Putting on a Sixx AM album sounded the best, for some reason. For me, the price was $35 which was worth every cent (I'd pay $100 for a pair of these if I heard them elsewhere).

Cons: MSRP is $200 They can hurt your ears after a few hours.

Overall Review: Sennheiser is by far the best audio brand that I know of.

Pros: Paired this thing up with a 3rd gen i7 and an H100 cooler, overclocking to 4.4GHz was a breeze and it runs amazingly. RAID 0 setup for two 60GB OCZ Agility SSDs as boot and two 1TB HDDs for files was pretty easy, but the Marvell controller is awful (avoid it at all costs). 3D BIOS is great.

Cons: None that I know of.

Pros: Put an H100 on this thing with some good thermal cooling and overclocked to 4.4 GHz base without a problem. The Z77 motherboard made overclocking a breeze. Runs really well and reliably (I upgraded from a bloomfield i7 that I had for more than a year that still runs perfectly, just wanted to have the latest generation).

Cons: More than $300 for a processor is somewhat expensive, but whatever.

Overall Review: Intel is great.

Pros: Love it. Have been using it for months now and it can run practically any game I throw at it in 1920x1200 at max settings with 30+ FPS. It's also quiet (for a video card). It's a pretty good price too.

Cons: It makes a little noise? It's not free? Nvidia's support for Linux with more than 2 monitors or more than 1 video card is awful. TwinView is good, but doesn't support 3 monitors.

Overall Review: Perfect on Windows, but I'd go for an AMD with Linux, I've heard they're much better (I've heard they dedicate full time employees to helping the open source community).