Joined on 11/30/04
Very nice piece of hardware.
Pros: In a nutshell, it works well, looks awesome, and is essentially plug and play on Windows 7 (haven't tried other OSes). Also, there is no bloody power cord so that's one less thing you have to worry about. It's a very simple machine. 1 button on the front to open the tray, 1 mini USB port in the back for power and data. Also, though I haven't tried it, I assume this drive would make an excellent replacement for any optical laptop drive. Just need a smidge of know-how.
Cons: It's USB cord is essentially 2 USB plugs, but with most computers having at least 4 USB ports these days, that shouldn't be a problem for most people.
Overall Review: You simply can't beat it for the price. Other External BD might be faster, but it's $150 for Pete's sake!
Nice, but don't break them!
Pros: These headphones are cheap and sound great to a non-audiophile
Cons: Cord is way too long, I stood up and somehow got tangled up in the cord and it just snapped where the cord splits between the mic/headphones jack. I stripped the wires a little to see if I could fix it, but there was just no way. The wires are insanely small, and there's 3 stranded colored wires, there was just no way I could fix it so in my disgust I enjoyed jumping up and down on them in my garage, and YES IT DID MAKE ME FEEL BETTER!
Overall Review: This is the second pair, the first had a problem with the cord as well, a loose connection where the cord plugs into the headset, but only after 6 months or so. Don't break the cord or you're out of luck!
General listening
Pros: I did a lot of research, and these were some of the best you can get for around $200. I'm no audiophile, but these are the best headphones I've ever owned, period end of story. I don't do anything crazy or professional with them, normally just listening to music, watching movies etc. But in my opinion they were worth every penny. 2 things I especially liked: The foldability- Nothing new here, but still nice. The spiral detachable cord - Again not innovative, but a very nice feature. I have fairly large ears and I can wear these for hours at a time, no problem at all.
Cons: None
Overall Review: Sorry if you were looking for a review about sound quality, but I honestly don't have an opinion about not enough bass or too much treble or whatever. They sound fantastic to me, and that's all I have to say about that :)
You get what you pay for.
Pros: For $2,300, this laptop is a BEAST. Seriously, nothing can touch it at this price range. I really love everything about this laptop. It's powerful, lightweight, powerful, beautifully designed, and did I mention it's powerful?
Cons: Unfortunately it's not without it's flaws. I've seen people complain about the screen and I did notice it was different at first than my other 13 inch 1080p laptop that I was used to, but maybe that was just the size. My main issues are with the hardware. The screws, FYI are #6 Torx screws so unless you already have one of those, good luck getting it open if you have an issue. My issues are stemming from where one of the 3 SSDs connect to the motherboard. It runs just fine until I try to restart it, then it will automatically go to the BIOS, and further inspection shows that it can not see one of the SSDs. Of course because they are in raid 0, if one fails none of them work because the data is split across all 3. Super crazy fast, but not as reliable. The reason it can't see that particular SSD (which I found out through literally pressing on parts of it with my finger and pressing the power button to see if it would get past the BIOS screen and load windows) is because the part that connects the SSD to the Motherboard is not correctly seated somehow. Very annoying, but I can make it work I guess. Another issue I discovered is parts seem to be very cheaply made in general. For instance, with the back cover off the frame of the laptop is very delicate, specifially where the motherboard ends and the battery begins because it doesn't have that circuit board for support. Another example is when I was fiddling with the SSD I had the laptop open right side up and the battery literally fell out, there's nothing holding it in at all. This actually broke some of the wires off of the connector that connects the battery tot he MOBO.
Overall Review: I'm lucky enough to not only be sufficiently skilled to fix this myself with limited tools (A Gerber multitool and a torx screwdriver), but that the issues I've had have not been worse (unfixable) I would have already RMAed it but I'm currently deployed with 3 months left so it would take far longer than I'm willing to wait right now, I'll probably do it when I get back home.
BE WARNED!
Pros: Fast, prices are competitive compared to other brands
Cons: I own 3 of these hard drives, 2x 256s and a 128, they have serious firmware problems. They will do fine for a while but as time goes on there are increasing chances of them having problems. There's a bug in some drives that sometime after 5,000 hours of operation the drives will eventually shut down every hour. That one can be fixed with a firmware update. There is another bug however that can not be fixed with firmware updates so far. It causes the drive to become undetectible and potentially destroys the data on the SSD
Best I've ever owned
Pros: Insainly fast
Cons: This chip set is being phased out
Overall Review: I got this processor as an option in a $5,000 laptop I bought. When I got home from Iraq I put it in my desktop. I barely overclock this sucker at all, up to around 3.8Ghz if that. The only time I've ever maxed this thing out is when running video converters.