Pros: Decently well built, small footprint, & easy to change tapes. I was debating to buy another at the nice sale price of $30 so I don't have to swap .5 and 1", but that is just me being lazy and I am saving for a $400 model for shipping labels. The laminated stickers are decent quality and I have had no problems sticking them to metal or LDPE/HDPE plastic, even with the standard TZ tapes. You can insert graphics and custom fonts at a price cheaper than models where you are locked into "system fonts". The software isn't bad for creating multiple designs and switching between them to print with little tweaks as needed.

Cons: Use the software and "chain printing mode" to avoid the wasted tape in between each label. When you are on the last label in a batch, uncheck chain printing so the last label isn't left inside. Yeah, this is kind of annoying but less so if you print many labels at ones. There's about 1/4 inch wasted space (top+bottom) and (left+right) and I wish I could push out more to the edges. Another reviewer mentioned using the printer driver with 3rd party software, so I might try forcing the issue there.

Overall Review: Brother is/was supposedly good for Linux drivers but this software is Mac/Win only and I didn't figure out yet if it might work on Linux. I'm still locked in to Win for some software where I use this printer, so I guess that is okay for now. Reading the help files, there is supposed to be a way to read a database and pull in values to predesigned fields, but I am not to the point of figuring that out yet. I wish there was more guides for stuff like this or better hardware/software before jumping to the $1,000 range.

Pros: These seemed pretty nice, but broke a bit past the 30 day window to RMA. The long cord is necessary for me but actually a bit too long. Audio seemed decent but I won't pose like an expert on that.

Cons: Broke way too soon. At first, I thought there was a problem with the jack or my computer case. For a few weeks I had been having to pull the plug out slightly to get anything beyond very minimal sound and this was putting the strength at 50%. I could tell I was missing half the audio and it would occasionally get stronger if I messed with the plug. Today my already weakened sound started cutting in and out. I figured I had to mess with the plug, but no it seems like the plastic volume control housing along the cord has some problem.

Pros: It was just three Hamiltons on sale at a local Sears wannabe. If the tray wasn't so bad, it is acceptable for a low-end TO. Really though, you should buy anything that isn't B&D because all they sell has this same faulty nonstick coating. No, I am not just one of those weirdos who freak out about chemicals in the coating.

Cons: The aluminum pan with silver nonstick coating started to flake the first time I used it normally and gently hand-washed it. I should have known something was up, but waited a bit too long to get my 60-day refund at my local store. It goes into the dishwasher for probably the 2nd time and comes out coated in rust spots. B&D will only send a new pan and I don't see why this one would be any less defective, but we'll see.

Overall Review: Spend $50 more on a nice toaster with real toast settings. If you have to go cheap, don't buy B&D with crummy nonstick coating.

Pros: Fine so far, seemed like a much better value than everything else out there right now. I had some sort of external 2TB on order from another place that cost half as much, but it was a smaller cache, 5400RPM, etc. but they were taking forever to even ship. I'm glad I switched to this.

Cons: none yet

Overall Review: Testing out SRT caching with a Samsung 830 and maybe it still needs more time to adapt, but it isn't that much faster than the HDD alone in boot time. I think within windows some things seem faster but speed was nice on HD alone (asrock extreme3 gen 3, i2500, 16g 1600 ram)