Pros: Fast Installs easily On sale, plus free shipping, plus rebate.

Cons: Eats power supplies that are less than 26A on the 12v rail (more than 95% of power supplies) Takes up 2 card slots

Overall Review: All I needed was a $40 card to run a new 21" lcd, but I thought, "why not spend $40 more and get something that could game. I don't game, but my 4 and 6 y/o boys soon will. When this card arrived it was clear that it would eat 2 of my 4 pci/pcie slots. It ran as soon as it was put in, but took a dozen boot ups to configure 3 programs from Asus, my monitor SW and to remove 4 programs associated with my old on-board video card. Cool so far, so I thought, "why not install the included After Dark game and show off to my 6 year old". So after a 45 minute install of that game, I turned up all the settings, and called him in. We both were very impressed for 10 minutes until the computer just went cold and black. My power supply died! (I don't know if my drives and MB are ok yet.) After 3 hours research, I see that single 12v rail power supplies with 26+ amps (like Corsair) that can run this are $100 (and 4 days away.) Lesson - don't buy this unless you need it.

Comments: This is my first webcam. My wife and sister wanted to communicate. Overall, I wouldn’t buy this again given what I know now. The camera’s image quality and features are excellent, but the software is buggy and the cheap little headset (that clips to your ear) is a joke. It broke after 10 minutes. We then hooked up a little walkman mic while waiting for a new USB mic to arrive ($30 more) and began playing with the face tracking. It was good for a laugh. Maybe in the right environment it would be useful, but it would get confused by our ceiling fan, our TV a bright photo on the wall or just get stuck on a bright corner on the ceiling. It’s not useful for us. The failure of face tracking would be acceptable if the camera didn’t repeatedly freeze. Most of the time just unplugging and plugging it back in and restarting the software would fix it, but sometimes a reboot is required. It has probably froze 50 times in the month we’ve had it. And all that gets old when working with other webcam newbies across country with kids on both ends and little technical experience on their side. Setting up audio was no piece of cake either, with or without the broken headset. There are 3-4 places that sound is controlled on a PC, and the installation instructions, software help and Creative online help have absolutely zero to say about it. I had to do lots of digging through google for several hours to learn it. We use the recommended service of SightSpeed. It’s good for leaving video mails of nice quality, but very marginal live video quality. After a half dozen chats with my wife’s relatives, we still haven’t got both or our voices to transmit at the same time without breaking up. Maybe her computer is slow, I should check, but it’s really not the kind of thing you want to work with your mother on for a holiday gift and expect to go smoothly. After all this, I’m glad to have it and sure some of the remaining issues will be resolved, but I would not do it all over again. I’d either buy a nice medium priced webcam or wait for the next version to come out.

Pros: Really does stay in your ears when nothing else will.

Cons: 1) Sweat clogs the speaker 30 minutes into my workout, removing volume and base, but they are fine the next day after they dry. (The sweat can't be shaken out immediately) 2) Cord is ridiculously prone to tangling because it is designed to be rolled into a container. After almost a year, it's still like a slinky and needs almost a full minute to untangle each day. 3) Developed a short after 10 months and had to be thrown away.

Overall Review: Sound is fine, nothing special. Better than a dollar store pair, not as good as Bose, but at least they stay in.

Pros: Prints fine. Seems to come with full ink cartridges. Can stack thing on top of its flat square surface. Cheap.

Cons: Had a little difficulty setting up in Vista because I first allowed Vista to automatically find and download drivers, and then installed the drivers from the DVD when I thought the auto install was frozen. After a couple of reboots, the problem was corrected and the printer was recognized by all apps.

Pros: Excellent Tech Support! Great signal strength.

Cons: Vista installation difficulties

Overall Review: This linksys router was a challenge to set up for my home with a new Vista HP Presario and an old xp box, but the Tech support people were VERY good, and spent over an hour with me until all was working well. I carried my laptop outside and was still downloading fine from 80ft away through two walls, one concrete block.

Comments: Excellent mic. I just bought two for web video conferencing with my wife’s family. It sets itself up, just plug it in, and it picks up multiple people speaking on each site. But the first mic order took almost 6 days to arrive (3 day shipping). I paid the extra 3$ for rush shipping with the second and it arrived in 20 hours. Amazing!