Computer Reviews

Get the 17 Inch. It's bigger and not much more expensive! I like the 17 Much better! That's the best I've seen so far. Not kidding. You would love it. I don't like the Sharp Aquos E1U 15 inch. It's not as good as this one.

I compared this TV to several other brands before I bought it. The features are nice, the picture quality is really good even with analog signal (regular cable), s-video and component inputs make this TV come ALIVE.

It fits perfectly under my cabinets in my kitchen. The remote looks basic, but has more one-touch features on it than I'll ever need. The menu is easy to follow, it even has a "plug-n-play" setup.

The casing looks sharp, the connections in the back are great and the sound is excellent. It allows you to automatically adjust the sound if you watch a lot of news channels vs. regular tv. I'm real impressed with the quality as this is my first Samsung product I've ever owned.

I look to combine this with a dvd-vcr combo unit and HDTV cable for ultimate viewing. But right now, I'm totally pleased with the reception coming from regular cable.

I'm also looking to see if I can use the TV's speakers as output from my MP3 player since it has multiple inputs in the back...something to discover later.

the Samsung 763MB is a great monitor.
The Picture is bright, clear, and the images really come to life.

The menu for adjusting your screen options such as brightness, contrast, postion, size, etc... is very well laid out and easy to use. It also has a feature that uses 3 pre-set modes for viewing text, internet & DVD's or games. Those settings really do a nice job of adjusting the display for the appropriate task you are doing.

One more note: The styling of the monitor itself looks really cool, but the plastic smells kinda funny at firs... hehe

I've owned this monitor now for about 4 months, and it has done everything a good monitor SHOULD do. I haven't had any problems whatsoever with it.
The bottom line is:
It's VERY reliable, VERY nice quality, BRIGHT & clear display and OK resolutions.
If you're looking for a great quality flat screen 17" monitor for gaming or multimedia use, look no further!

This product is great. Samsung has really made the one true monitor that every computer video gamer or dvd freak should have.

I purchased this set a year ago for our bedroom and couldn't be happier. Great looking, but a tad deep for a 20" tv. Cable (coax) and a Dvd (rca) are plugged in and both look great. Dvds are very vivid and sharp for a rca video jack(via the digital comb filter). Beware...one coax, and 1 set of (1 vid, 1 audio/mono) rca jacks in the rear and the side...that's it. You won't get the sharpness from s-video or stereo sound, but the picture still looks great! For a bedroom that'll do

This is a great TV. I'd reccomend it for maybe a bedroom. The quality tends to be a tad bit... not bad... but not horribly good within a few feet of the TV (Maybe 3?), but looks great anywhere beyond that. Many features. Great buy for the money!

I needed a new Television for my home theater, but didn't want to break the bank until the HDTV standards get themselves sorted out. With that in mind I went w/ the 27 inch Deluxe Stereo TV from Toshiba and am very pleased with the results. The television has 3 AV ins (2 rear and 1 side), a component DVD in and S-Video so there is plenty of room for all your home theater and gaming components. Another nice feature is built-in sound and video settings depending on the style of media you're watching (i.e. Movie, News, Sports, etc...) The sound is adequate for price of the system (although I prefer to run it through my home theater system) and the picture is crisp. As a final testimony, my wife who is not an electronics expert and who is rarely impressed by my toys came down to my home theater room and expressed, Wow, you got a flat screen TV. It looks great. Well, it wasn't a flat screen, but it did look great... at a fraction of the price.

ive had this tv for a few days. i must say i am very impressed. it has sweet features without being overly complicated. i say hello to it whenever i come home. its name is fred or freddy. the ONLY complaint i have, thus far, is that when changing channels it does not display the time. u can push the display button to show the time, but id prefer the time show up every time i change the channel. the picture is crisp and there are a ton of useful options. i love fred! fred loves me! im going to go spend some quality time with fred right now. oh fred, im coming fred! be right there! buh bye.

This small little disk is wonderful! It can hold more than 200 pictures on normal settings, allowing you to pretty much take as many pictures as you want. I used it on my week long vacation and still had room left when I can home. the pictures were wonderful, and when using an adaptor it is easy to upload them to your computer, and edit them.

I think this card is a great value and it has worked flawlessly for me since purchased.

With a 48 MB card I can take the equivalent of two rolls of standard film photos on my Epson PhotoPC 850Z digicam. Over the life of the card (which is supposed to be good for something like 10 million photos!) I think this card will pay for itself in very short order.

As I post most of my digital photos on Internet albums or print them out on my inkjet (also an Epson) I rarely go to my local photo developer anymore.

I will probably add a larger SanDisk card at some point after I upgrade to my next digicam.

As the first reviewer indicated, this is a very speedy USB flash drive. It easily gets 12MB/s write and 15MB/s read in real world conditions when connected to a USB 2.0 host. Only when reading/writing many very small files does it drop significantly below these values.

The metal contruction and retractable design make it one of the more physically robust USB flash drives around. I've used it regularly for a couple months under Linux 2.4 and 2.6, Mac OS X, and a variety of Windows versions without any trouble. It comes with a five year manufacturer warranty.

If you're looking for a top-of-the-line flash drive, this might be for you. Do remember that like most consumer electronics, the next generation of flash drives will probably be out in 6-9 months and will no doubt make this one look slow. However, until capacities go up significantly, more speed isn't really necessary since 512MB can be filled in less than a minute at 12MB/s...

This drive is amazingly fast compared to my old USB flash drive (a 128 MB Macally FD-128 Flash Drive). I did not do a strictly scientific test by any means, but the difference is incredible. The old 128 MB drive read a 34.6 MB file in 33 seconds and wrote the same file back in 50 seconds. The Cruzer Titanium read that same file in 1.8 seconds (my reaction time on the stopwatch may be a little slow), and wrote the file back in 2 seconds. I wrote a 200 MB zip file to the Cruzer in 15 seconds and read the file off the Cruzer in 12.5 seconds. I think even these non-scientific results speak for themselves. I am very impressed with this drive. The flashing blue access light is a very nice touch (especially when it starts flashing like a maniac during a large transfer). I highly recommend this stylish, fast, and solidly built drive to anyone.

I have no idea why this product was discontinued (or at least it isn't carried any longer by many larger electonics stores). It's great! So tiny, and it comes with a little carrying case. The SD card can easily be upgraded to a 256MB (I have one for my camera), and can also be used on some Pocket PCs, so you have one little card to carry around all the info you need. I love that you don't have to carry around a cord to connect this to your computer.

I was out shopping for one of the new tiny USB flash drives but I ended up buying this one instead. It was on sale at Staples for $17.50, which was less than the cost of the included 32MB SD card. It uses USB 1.1 but will also work (at 1.1 speed) in a USB 2.0 port.

It comes with a carrying case and a short (about 3 inches) USB extension cord, which comes in handy if you need to plug it into a port where there isn't room for the body of the drive. The carrying case also has a mesh external pocket, I assume for spare SD cards since it's too small for anything else. The kit also includes an installation CD but I've never had to use it. I just plugged it into my laptop or desktop USB port (1.1 or 2.0) and the Win XP Pro recognized it immediately by name. I plan to try it on my Mom's Mac (OS 9.x) next.

It is a very handy way to carry around files. It's not as small as the newer drives, but the upgradeability is a nice feature. The SD card will also fit in my PDA, although I don't know yet if it will need to be reformatted for use in the PDA. I'm hoping it doesn't, in which case I might be able to use it to transfer files from my PDA to other computers without needing the HotSync cradle.

The black thumb button on the case slides both ways. If you slide it toward the end with the SD slot it ejects the SD card. If you slide it toward the other end instead, it pushes out the USB jack. When the button is in the middle, both the SD card and the USB jack are inside the case making a very smooth package.
The whole thing is very light, yet feels sturdy. I'm pretty happy with it - I have what I need for the moment, and saved enough money that I can buy another SD card to add memory later if I like.

The only drawbacks are the width of the body (about 3x the width of the USB jack) and the slower 1.1 USB transfer rate. But for the price I paid, I'm very happy with it as it is.

I just purchased this product at Office Depot at a check out lane. This thing is a screaming eagle. It transfers files effortlessly and immediately. You can stick it in your pocket, wallet, or anywhere else you want to put it. Just plug it into your USB port and away you go. Like the other reviewer said, it's no bigger than a pack of gum and it's lightning fast.

I was using an older 128 MB flash drive as the file system for e-mail on two older laptop computers. This allowed me to keep my mail synchronized on my primary home system and the one I take on travel. The problem was that I outgrew the 128 MB, and since both of my systems were older circa 2001 laptops that used USB 1.1 and ran under Windows 98 SE none of the gigabyte flash drives would work with it - all of the others required either USB 2.0 and/or Windows ME or 2000.

This drive, however, is backwards compatible with the older USB 1.1 interface, and a Windows 98 SE driver is available for download from the manufacturer's site.

Download and installation of the new driver went perfectly. It was literally done in a few mouse clicks. I plugged the drive into each machine and it was immediately recognized by both my Sony and IBM laptops. I also tried this on a Windows 2000 system and it was immediately recognized and assigned as a disk drive without drivers.

Not only does this device work as advertised with no problems, but it also leaves room for a second USB device on laptops that have adjacent ports (my Sony is configured like this). My old flash drive required me to use an USB extension cable in order to have room to plug in my mouse, so the form factor is yet another feature I like about this particular model.

One final feaure I very much like - you can encrypt files on this device, and since I am using it as an email file system the privacy and protection this affords me is important.

Highly recommended if you want a high-capacity flash drive that will work on older Windows 98 SE systems, or just a reliable and easy-to-install flash drive for any system. It will not work on Windows 95 and below systems (none of the flash drives of which I am aware will).

I use this card in my digital camera, and it works perfectly. Stores still images and video files. It would be nice to have more storage, but those chips cost more.

I bought this memory card and used it on my Intel mp3 player and it works perfectly. Great bargain.

I bought this monitor a few days ago (because of the price). Having recently spent over a year unemployed and dreaming about an LCD monitor, this is like a dream come true. The color is bright and vivid, the case is stylish (and small, so that I can one day do dual-head without having a large gap), the viewing angle is good, and the response time is fine for watching DVDs (I saw no ghosting whatsoever). There's not a single dead pixel on it, and it's made programming a real pleasure.

The OSD (On Screen Display) controls could be a little better, but they weren't *hard* to use and you only really use them once when you plug the monitor in anyway.

I haven't tried the speakers out yet, but I already have a $50 set of speakers (w/ subwoofer) anyhow so I don't really see the point in in-monitor speakers.

This monitor is a great value, and it's logo is a water monitor (Varanus salvator). How could you go wrong?!?

Like most LCD displays, this one offers excellent picture quality although the attached speakers leave something to be desired. Unlike some other Sceptre displays, this one seems to handle resolutions other than the native one (1280x1024) well, and in my opinion does so better than comparable 17" dell flat panels that I have used. Picture quality itself is great (although is not as good as an Apple Cinema Display), and it has a large viewing angle. The warrenty is one year from date of purchase if the registration is sent in (one year from date of manufacture if not), but my monitor has performed well and I have not had to contact their technical support. Taken with the price ($400), this monitor is definitely worth the money. Only limitation to note is that this monitor accepts only analog input (no DVI), but the analog input seems to perform very well.