Pros: its windows. not crippled. can find print drivers for anything. will run anything not too intensive. isnt a stripped out os like android etc...no data mining.

Cons: battery is killing this thing so are viewing angles

Overall Review: just loaded win 8...DO IT!!! its what this thing needs. gone is the slugishness. pinch zoom works right.

Pros: signal is strooooong pushes all my neighbors out of the way. can set the channel width to a permanent 40mhz

Cons: a very very bad con...i have a 100+ megabit connection at peak performance. a nominal 85-90mbps. this thing, the 1043, maxes out at 65mbps. IMPOSSIBLE even at 300mbps on 2.4 band connection to hit 100mbps internet speed. my old dlink 825 will hit 85mbps and more on 2.4 band and 5ghz will hit as hight as 109 peaking at 133 MAJOR MAJOR problem. the 1043 is now the wireless internet choke point. wired is fine. hits 100+.

Pros: comcast "blast" at 50mbps is hitting me at 100+ peaking at 212. my routers are the choke points now. pings as low as 0ms my old 5120 still works after 9 years. hope this lasts as long.

Cons: none

Overall Review: bought at best buy. sorry new egg.

Pros: this last test... seq read = 525..has actually gone higher before. over the rater 530 seq write = 381 seq read = 95000iops seq write = 88.5kiops this is using the samsung magician 4 all about the drivers. iastor kicked it where it needed to be. this is on a lenovo x230t i5 3320m iirc. adata cas 9 1.35v ram clocking at 1.28v, 2 4gig sticks. this is my second drive. the first one is in my older laptop with sata 2. i had issues and a few kinks. it all sorted out. got the right drivers. the sata 2. 270 seq read. 240seq write. ~45k iops read and write. my old 830 128gb is still running flawless. yes, this hd will give an easy 7.9 on the windows assessment scale in win 7 pro 64bit.

Cons: none it works. get close enough to specs considering im running a 35watt mobile processor in a lenovo tablet.

Overall Review: i THINK this supports hipm and dipm. had to change registry to turn it on in power settings. judging by the longevity of the first one and the 830. id say these are hard to beat as an overall great ssd drive. i paid 200 for the first 840 pro when it was released. paid 140 or so for the second one a month ago.

Pros: none

Cons: ssid 3 says signal went from 38 to 50. YES...it went in REVERSE!!!! signal got worse not better. i didnt even reboot and i put the old antennas on...BAM at 38.

Pros: hmmm. not 1 pro.

Cons: never got it to work. was dropping wired connection as i stared at it. wireless wouldnt work 1 bit. i could access the router by wireless and can ping google from the built in ping test BUT would NOT give wireless and ip connection. no connection on 2.4 or 5ghz. everything wireless dropped connection completely. phones. tv. laptops. didnt check the other tv or blue ray players. updated the current firmware just in case. yes, it has the dec 2012 firmware. came with it. still didnt connect. restored stock settings 3 times. still didnt work. can see wireless. get into the router but it wouldnt give internet acess to anything wireless. rebooted after each and every single setting. still didnt work. wireless was 100% inoperational with internet access. and wired was 50/50 going in and out on its own. the 1043 worked before wireless failed. the dlink 825 works now. had a 655 and a linksys in the past. i KNOW how to set these up. this 4300 refuses to work properly. could it be a dud unit due to mass manufacturing? sure. do i have to waste time and rma this? yes. off to a brick and morter.