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Kursat U.

Kursat U.

Joined on 10/10/09

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Most Favorable Review

Great card

SPARKLE GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card SXS4501024D5SNP
SPARKLE GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card SXS4501024D5SNP

Pros: Silent High performance

Cons: Little large

Overall Review: Great fanless card. I can finally use my computer as a real HTPC. It made a huge difference while listening to music or playind DVD,Blurays and I just dont hear any fan noise anymore. I have 2 other high performance cards and now I understand they generated a lot of noise. I have installed it in my shuttle computer SX48P2E. Because of the larger size I had to retrofit the DVD cradle and cut out a larger DVD opening. I was qute a bit of work but I am glad I did it. My computer now became usable.

Most Critical Review

Would have been very good if certain key problems did not exist

SIIG JK-WR0412-S1 Black 81 Normal Keys 14 Function Keys USB RF Wireless Mini Multimedia Keyboard
SIIG JK-WR0412-S1 Black 81 Normal Keys 14 Function Keys USB RF Wireless Mini Multimedia Keyboard

Pros: - Large enough keys, trackball, 3'rd mouse button.

Cons: - Certain multimedia keys press multiple times thus makes this keyboard unusable for HTPC.

Overall Review: This is the 3'rd HTPC keyboard I own and I research and buy carefully. This beyboard is really well thought out. This is why I boudnht it. But it has that strange problem, volume up/down keys press multiple times, so does the back-navigation key. I have returned the one thinking that it was defective. The new one also suffers from the same problem.

Great small computer

Newark Raspberry Pi Model B RASPBRRY-PCBA512  Motherboard/CPU/VGA Combo Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS
Newark Raspberry Pi Model B RASPBRRY-PCBA512 Motherboard/CPU/VGA Combo Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS

Pros: Versatile Linux, open source Lots of sensors, controllers

Cons: SD card sticks out a bit CPU a little underpowered No USB 3

Overall Review: Great device. Set it up as a samba file server and cloud server using openvpn. Occasionally use it as a silent, low power replacement for my HTPC. Works equally well as my electric monster PC which heats up the living room. Planning to use it for more stuff like, wireless multi room sound system, print servers, wireless monitor drivers, advanced remote servo controlled sailboat models, security cameras.

Great tablet with GSM

Huawei IDEOS Black Tablet GSM Android Smart Phone w/ Android 2.1 / 7" Touch Screen / GPS (S7)
Huawei IDEOS Black Tablet GSM Android Smart Phone w/ Android 2.1 / 7" Touch Screen / GPS (S7)

Pros: Works with squareup credit card reader and software Large enough screen Accepts GSM cards 2 cams , front,back Price

Cons: Needs 2.2 Anroid upgrade Resistive touch screen w/o multitouch

Overall Review: Bought this to run square-up credit card reader & software. I think this is the only inexpensive Android tablet that can run it even over wifi. It works fine because it has 3.5 mm audio/microphone jack and GPS. My GSM SIM card (ATT with data plan) worked fine. It would also be great as a small computer/big phone that I can carry overseas and use there on GSM networks.

12/14/2011

Super good depending on you usage

Shuttle XS35-702 Intel NM10 Barebone
Shuttle XS35-702 Intel NM10 Barebone

Pros: - Silent, small, inexpensive, just basic RAM,HD.

Cons: - Toashiba HD failed almost immediately.

Overall Review: Bought this to host sugarcrm and as an ftp and terminal server. It works very well so far. But the HD failed during Windows 7 installation. I did not obther to return it, it was not worth the time. I replaced it with an older HD I had which has larger capacity. I also upgraded RAM to 2GB using old notebook memory I had. So you might be better of getting a barebone. Even when mutiple remote desktop sessions are on and sugarcrm service idling/running the CPU usage is low, RAM usage is at most 1GB. I dont care about the Intel GPU. It is not important for the way I use it.

10/20/2010

Super good, depending on how you use it

Shuttle XS35-702 Intel NM10 Barebone
Shuttle XS35-702 Intel NM10 Barebone

Pros: - Silent, small, inexpensive, just the basic HD, RAM

Cons: - Toshiba HD failed almost immediately.

Overall Review: Bought this for sugarcrm hosting and as an ftp & terminal server. It works very well so far. Can keep it on thanks to the low power consumption. HD failed immediately and I had to replace it with an older one I had. Didn't bother ro return it, it was not worth my time. In the end I've upgraded RAM to 2GB using old notebook memory I had. So you might be better of buyig the barebone w/o RAM/HD. Didn't care much about the Intel GPU. I dont need GPU performance for the way I use it. Even when I open multiple remote desktop sessions while sugarcrm service idling/running it handles the load quite well. The memory usage is at most 1GB with Windows 7.

10/20/2010