Computers Reviews

The wireless keyboard works fine, and shortcut keys for volume, calculator, etc are handy.
Effective range from mouse to wireless puck is about 5 inches! Mouse goes through batteries incredibly fast. Went through countless alkaline AA's since I bought it a year ago (keyboard doesn't do this; still on original batteries). In contrast, previous Logitech wireless had great battery life and I never even thought about the range to the puck. This time I didn't buy a Logitech because couldn't find an ergonomic keyboard layout, but MS's mouse is so annoying that I'd never buy this again.

This combination of keyboard and mouse are awesome. It was a breeze to install even better were the included batteries so I did not need to hunt a pair down. The range and feel are great as well. Already reprogrammed some keys and they work great.

This keyboard does as it should. No problems typing from across the room (think multiple monitors or projection, not idiot who crosses the room to type just because it's wireless). Response is fast enough for gaming, and the keys don't object to being abused a little bit..

Most of the basher reviews here seem to be about software crashing or that F-LOCK function. F-LOCK does in fact suck. F-LOCK bypasses the Function keys in favor of gimmicky "OPEN" and "E-MAIL" buttons designed for non-users. I would give it five stars right out, but F-LOCK is a feature in need of elimination. So I gave it five stars anyway (based on the no-way-out status of F-LOCK). You see, sadly, Logitech has jumped on this bandwagon as well, so there is no escaping the gimped function keys. A good friend is still mourning the need to return his bluetooth MX-5000 due to the extreme multi-faceted suckage.

As for the software, eh, I've never noticed anything. It behaves for me on Windows 2000 and XP Pro alongside a whole host of various other devices.

It's an "older" model now, and no it doesn't "do" anything.. No LCD or awesome blue lights. No lights at all actually. The thing is completely solid, and I would absolutely buy another one if I needed another wireless keyboard.

**I will add one interesting bit of info, I've found that the keyboard seems to brodcast from the underside. If you put it flat on something too dense or irregularly shaped from too far away it has trouble sending a signal. The further away I am, the more propping the keyboard up at an angle helps the transmission.

I ordered this based on the fact that the leather bag I have been carrying is just too heavy, and there were some reviews stating that this would fit a 15.4 inch screen laptop. While the bag is very light and compact and well made for the price, there is NO WAY you'd get a Dell Inspiron 6000 with a 15.4 inch screen in this, no matter how much Vaseline you use. Maybe one of the kids will think it's a cool bookbag.

I was shocked when I started loading my gear into this backpack. After putting in my 15.4 inch laptop, my cell phone, Ipod, Palm, digital camera, 48 CD/DVD case(full), headphones, microphone, mouse, power cables, USB ports, cooling pad, bluetooth dongle, USB cables, firewire cable, phone charger, wet wipes, extra battery, camcorder, extra mini DVs, camcorder charger, mini tripod, and a few other odds and ends, it refuses to fill up. It looks nothing like the picture shown; it's very refined looking and is easy to carry even when loaded with all the stuff I put in there. It doesn't even look full. I do a ton of video capture and editing and I finally have something to carry all my gear in a discrete easy to handle way. At any time I may have thousands of dollars worth of equipment with me and with this backpack you would not be able to tell. In my opinion it's worth much more than $24 at and I could not be any more pleased with it.

it's very comfortable and convenient.
And also the material of this bag is good.
It's worth of money.

I bought the original Tom Tom Go back in November 2004. Since then, my attempts to reach their customer service have all met in failure. My last attempt, 10 days ago, was an effort to buy updated maps for my product. Yes, their website will offer to sell you maps, but there is no way to determine the date of the maps you already own, and no way to determine the date of the maps that you would be purchasing, in some cases for a large sum of money. If you try to find a telephone number on their site that you can call, you will be disappointed. I am disappointed and would advise you to look elsewhere if you want a product that is supported.

The Go 910 is definitely the best GPS device out there today. I used it on a long sojourn on the East Coast over the Fourth of July weekend and it never missed.

Before I left I loaded up a bunch of playlists onto the device with plenty of room to spare!! Before I left I was concerned about the mount drooping in the hot weather. I don't know if people have tried this, but you have to turn the dial on the mount such that it clicks in twice. There's a first click, then dial farther until the padlock symbol meets the dot. Even in the 90-degree weather the dock didn't move.

Voices had some trouble with street names, but still, with the text-to-speech it was nice to have something more than the generic "turn right here."

Love the big screen, better than Nuvi 360 AND the Streetpilot c550, my next turn was always visible well in advance. Phone conversations were clear and map accuracy was fine.

A GREAT product!

Took the Tomtom 910 to Europe where it worked flawlessly. It acquired location after about 10 minutes in Switzerland and 5 minutes in Italy. The mapping is superb and very precise, even in remote locations. Spoken directions are right on cue, foreign language support is excellent as well and the Tomtom is very user friendly. Bluetooth interface for cell phone works well, the clarity of phone conversation is A+ and incoming text messages pop up on the display. Plenty of space is available on the internal harddrive to download music files, I suggest however to connect the MP3 player to your car stereo for perfect sound. Internal speaker is ok for navigation but not the best to listen to music. POI's are user selectable, you can for instance program your GPS to alert you for every post office on your selected route. The Tomtom can also handle multiple destination without problem, you can either program the unit directly or do the trip planning on your PC and download to the 910, it is the easiest thing to do. I agree with other reviewers, the windshield mount is not designed very well, you have to make sure that it snaps securely into the back of your GPS unit and sometimes you have to wiggle the unit until the LED lights up in order to charge your GPS. Battery life last about 5 hours. Readability is crisp except in very bright sunlight. The Tomtom 910 is a superb product that comes loaded with all the bells and whistles, very user friendly and programable to anybody's likings. Included is a very handy remote control, PC interface with power supplies as well as a microphone that can be permanently wired for your hands free phone calls. It is well worth your money especially if you need European maps on occasion. The days of feeling lost in an unfamiliar place are a thing of the past.

I have a hearing loss and must use hearing aids. The Sennheiser RS 140 headphones allows me to listen to DVDs, TV, CDs without the use of hearing aids. A great product.

These sound pretty good, considering they are wireless. Most people won't be able to tell the difference between a wireless vs. wired headphones. If I was mixing audio professionally, I probably wouldn't use these. If I'm watching a movie, or listening to tunes at my computer while I work, these are great.

If you take off and walk away from the base, you'll get crackle and fade. This is kind of a no brainer, I don't see why some reviews make this an issue. If you live next to an airport, a secret military installation, or the SETI array or something... then you'll probably have a lot of background noise...but for most people these are pretty good on the noise/greatness ratio.

Pros
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-No cords.
-Good sound.

Cons
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There is this really f***ing annoying "BEEP" tone that happens whenever there is no signal being broadcast. So if you put these on before you click play, you get this annoying, repeated "BEEP" tone. It reminds me of some of those retro games: when you're low on energy the beep was so annoying you'd look for places to kill yourself just so it would stop, the headphones have this whenever there is no broadcast signal.

All things considered, I would recommend these.

Wow, these headphones are awesome, the sound is pretty good for no cord and now i'm able to walk around my house listening to whatever i want to...

good reception overall, comfortable feel, they just ROCK!!!

I bought this based upon the other reviews. This is definitely not worth the money I paid nor the time I spent installing it. Prior to mounting this antenna, I was using the antenna included with the STH2 home kit and could get fair reception using it INSIDE my garage on a clear day. I thought the SIR6 antenna would be better since it offered better adjustment and easier mounting. This antenna doesn't get good, uninterrupted reception on a clear day. As recommended for those in Tennessee, I mounted this antenna on an outside, west-facing wall and pointed the antenna north-northwesterly with absolutely no obstructions between the sky and the antenna. I get intermittent reception and usually no more than one bar as indicated on my Starmate Replay receiver. Needless to say, I have gone back to using my home kit antenna. That antenna works better and is more discrete than the SIR6.

It is a 100 times better than not having one, still will fade in and out sometimes but overall it is excellent.

It is a must have. I now get great reception.

It works just like it says. I was looking for a wifi card to replace one I broke and got a great deal on this one. So far it seems to be a good product.

The provided software is largely immaterial to the Linux user, only implementing the drivers (in conjunction with ndiswrapper & wpa_supplicant) found in the /Driver/NT/ subdirectory of the supplied CD.

This is a good, full-speed performer for pretty-much any Linux-based laptop/notebook, you'd care to throw at it.

WPA & WEP are fully-supported, and connections are easy to establish and maintain over relatively long distances between the card and AP.

Overall, I am very satified with the operation of this card, and would recommend it for those who have concerns about providing wireless b/g connectivity for Linux-based laptops & notebooks.

I would buy another one, were the need to arise.

Worked like a charm, easy to install didn't use the provided software because we were replacing a B card.

I have been using this card for a few weeks now. It is cheap, fast and reliable. I use it in my Panasonic DMC-TZ1 camera and I can store video at the highest resolution and frame rate (VGA, 30 frames/sec) without hiccups or breaks.

I am in bliss on this Mac after being a PC Dell person for a long time (12 years). Its like finally being sober, no drama, a clean feeling at this computer. I am so glad I made a switch. isight is really fun. It is what I have always wanted in a computer.

This is without a doubt the best computer I've ever owned. I've had other MAC's and previous to this iMAC 10 years worth of Windows machines. Loved this from the minute I saw it in the Apple store. I did upgrade the RAM to 2GB, and this computer flies! I'm running Windows apps using boot camp and to be honest with you they seem to run faster then they did on my last Windows machine. Get the 20" display, upgrade the RAM to 2GB and you'll be all set!

supposedly July/August 2006

then, I'll get a max'd out iMac 20"!

Although people had problems with the first generation of this grip, I've been completely satisfied with mine. Recently, I've been shooting with a 300 2.8L, and it would be much more difficult without the extra length the grip ads to the body. Similarly, the second set of buttons for vertical shooting makes a big difference, too. (One note: when shooting vertical, it is hard to actuate the thumb wheel and impossible to use the joy stick--which I do frequently to change focus points--without moving my right hand.) By holding two batteries, the grip also keeps me from worrying about running out of juice during high volume shooting sessions.
The grip still has a little flex in it, but I've never had any of the power problems that I've read about here and elsewhere.

This grip does add some weight to the 20D camera that I own, but I did not have a single problem with power!

well it was one of the best accessories that i can think of for this camera. fill it with two packs , shut it, and forget about ever needing batteries for a week or two of continous shooting..

awesome grip too and makes the 30d feel like a pro.
well anything more can i say. love the solid hold that i get on this camera.
well not for the weak or the fainthearted, for sure

I have bluetooth built in to my laptop (Dell Inspiron 9300) and I haven't had problems with anything except for this keyboard and mouse. The mouse works fine except that it's kind of jumpy. The keyboard requires me to go through the bluetooth reinstall process every couple days.

I've given up on these products. I'll wait a couple years until the bugs are out.

I bought the keyboard to use with my HP dv8000t laptop so I could pick up and go without the hassle of unplugging. The laptop is bluetooth-enabled already, so I was able to install the keyboard without installing the software and the USB dongle. (I like that because now I can bluetooth-enable another PC if I want to.) This keyboard is bigger than my other keyboards, so it takes up more space than I am used to, but it feels comfortable under my hands. It has lots of nice features but they don't always work. For example, the left scroll doesn't work most of the time. Also, it becomes disconnected from my laptop about once every two weeks. (This is not because I didn't install the software. I actually installed the software, tested the keyboard for a while, then wiped my drive and installed the OS and connected with the keyboard again. It seems to perform better without the software on my PC.) It is easy to reconnect but if I were a desktop PC user I would be very unhappy because I would be totally without a keyboard. At least as a laptop user I can fall back on the laptop's keyboard. The mouse stays synched better than the keyboard does. The responsiveness of the keyboard and mouse is mostly good. I also have a wireless keyboard/mouse from HP with the unsightly dongle and it does not respond as well as this one. I prefer the MS keyboard over the HP (which, to be fair, was only half the price). I just wish all the MS features worked consistently and that it would never disconnect while it remained in the 30-foot range specified in the docs.

I bought this package purely for the keyboard. I wanted a new one with wireless technology and I was driven to Bluetooth just because it is so reliable. I do not use the keyboard and mouse together, however.

The keyboard is one of the most comfortable keyboards I've ever used. I am a computer programmer so having a nice keyboard is essential. The pad at the bottom is very comfortable and the keys are very well spaced and organized. The only real compliant is they cut some corners with the home, end, page up, page down, and delete keys. They moved them around from the conventional way which I still haven't gotten used to but it's fine.

I have experience no lag with either the mouse or the keyboard. I play a game called StepMania (a sort of Dance Dance Revolution clone for PC) which requires very accurate timing with the keyboard. I've experienced no problems here, it's spot on and probably the fastest ever. The only problem, really, is it takes a while to register if you haven't use the keyboard for a while since it must turn back on from sleep mode and reconnect. After that however, there are no problems at all.

I do not use the mouse with the keyboard. I decided to use it as a mouse with my iBook since it had built-in bluetooth. I had absolutely no problems connecting the two devices and it works flawlessly. I don't use the mouse very much, but the times I do use it I experience no problems.

Both the range on the mouse and the keyboard are extremely nice. I can go anywhere in my room with either the mouse or keyboard and experience no problems.

The battery life on the keyboard is also very nice, esspecially since it has the built-in sleep feature. I have had to replace the batteries once since I got the unit in January of 06 (currently June of 06). I have not had to replace the mouse batteries yet, but I do not use it very much.

Others complained about not being able to use the keyboard in the BIOS or startup screens, but I haven't had any issues with that. It depends on how recent your motherboard is, and mine is relatively new so I had no problems.

I highly recommend this setup to anyone wanting a wireless keyboard or mouse, or if you want to split and use the mouse with a laptop and keyboard with a desktop. Either way, you cannot go wrong with this package, it is extremely excellent.