Computer Reviews

I have had my yellow Tivoli for about 2 years and it sits on my desk at work. I either listen to the radio, or use the aux to plug my ipod in or my laptop.
The sound this little yellow box puts out is a-mazing.

If you like to listen to radio and need to bring it with you (from room to room, camping, backyard, etc.), then this is the one. The sound is fantastic and clear; the reception strong, and the design well done. Easy to carry, easy to hold, easy to recharge.

Strange that I could think so fondly about a radio.

Toshiba makes quality TVs, still own 20-inch that is about eight years old, never experienced a problem. Nice picture, even facing sun. I considered buying flat screen for this reason but I am glad I made a decision to wait a while on paying for a more expensive set. I do have to adjust the antenna when changing channels, but it's worth it to receive the quality picture (hopeful that once the satellite is hooked up, this won't be a problem), currently just a little grainy. Happy though.

I have always been impressed by Toshiba's televisions, and this one is no exception. I purchased this TV last week, and I am thoroughly satisfied with my purchase. The picture looks great (especially DVDs through the component video inputs), the sound is way above average for a TV in this range, and the features are equal to what you'd find on pricier brands. Basically, Toshiba gives you the quality you want but without the huge pricetag. One thing made me sad though: only one set of Component Video inputs. So if you want that high quality Xbox experience in addition to DVDs, you'll have to switch it through your receiver (which is what I do). Anyway, great TV and great price.

I've had this TV for about 2 weeks now and it's been great. Great picture with DVDs and HDTV. If you don't plan on using this primarily for DVDs or HD, then you won't be as impressed with the picture. It really does depend on the source and the connections you use. My neighbor sells home theater equipment for a living, he recommended this TV for it's picture, and so far I agree with him. The delivery from amazon was quick(about a week), the delivery company was very helpful and curtious. So far an all around excellent experience.

My neighbor had a better deal on this TV but with the Shipping and Tax it would have cost more.

This tv has the best picture of any we looked at. It beats Hitachi and Sony hands down.

New as advertised, great product, good price, and fast delivery. A pleasent 5 star experience.

I purchased this tv about two years ago, and so far it's been perfect. I love everything about it. The only thing I would've liked to have had with this tv (which I did with my last), is the option to press rewind and have the tv turn off by itself when done rewinding, it's not really a big deal, but it was useful.
This tv sits on a table at the end of my bed, I have accidently kicked it off twice in my sleep, and the tv works and looks as if that never happen. So my guess is that it is a very well built tv. This tv everything you would expect a great little tv to be. Just to add, the speakers on the side don't go from the top to the bottum of the tv, it looks like they do, but they don't, it's just the design. The real speakers are on both sides, they are about 3 inches long.

I've been using the Toshiba TLP-ET1 for about 3 months and love it. It is LCD, 480x858 pixels ( 1-to-1 mapping of DVD video ). The color is fantastic and the 700 lumens is very good for home theatre with an 80" screen. I keep my room dark and use the low power setting. The only negative point that I can see is that screen door effect is still slightly visible at 1 1/2 x screen width but my best seating is at 2x anyway. Contrast ratio - black level is respectable and this is coming for someone that has been using (still uses) a 36" Sony XBR television which has outstanding black levels. There are no visible artifacts of any kind and the internal DCDi processor even makes 480i signals look great (ie standard broadcast). The internal sound system is a bit of a joke and may make some people over look this other wise great projector. Because of the short lens throw, I am uable to use this on a coffee table in what is otherwise a rarely used formal living room. The screen gets put away for other entertaining and the PJ looks good enough to stay on the table. I put my DVD player (Denon 710) on the same table to minimize the Video cable length and run the digital audio to my Denon 3803 receiver by a single long coax cable.

It has excellent features and is very easy to use.

For the previous reviewer; I've been quoted $400(cnd) or a new bulb from my dealer so it should be $300(us) or less.

After almost buying a HD wide screen TV that weighs 200 pounds and costs twice as much, I decided for now to go the projector route, and so far I'm not dissapointed.

I use a nice 5-foot "da-lite" screen to get a 16:9 image with the projector only about 6 feet away. Picture quality seems to be very good to me, much better than computer-centric projectors I tried in the past. The menus and setup are very easy to understand, and the little remote has dedicated buttons for the most used functions like picture size.

Drawbacks with a projector are you need a dark room, about 5 minutes setup time if you are not permantly installing it, and a new set of 4-meter long video cables; but that outweighs the benefits in my case of living in a small apartment and putting it all out of site in 5 minutes when I am not using it.

So far I have used it with my progressive scan DVD player, and my Xbox system, all using component cables and really enjoying the picture quality.

One comment is that since this model is so new - even Toshiba themselves do not know how much the replacement lamp (2000 hours) will cost. I see other lamps on their website for $500 so I wonder how much it will be for this.....

But in summary, for my situation it does exactly what I wanted it to do, and the price was right.

Get this item above for almost Half the price!!! ($$$) not a bad deal for all you get. 6 Flip covers, An Extra 8MB Ram, for a total of 16MB. Upgradable to 1GB with the IBM Micro Drive... You can even go wireless with this kewl device. Get it while you can!!!

Now you never have to be without important information, documentation, addresses, or contact numbers. Organize your meetings, e-mail, and calculate expenses even when you're away from the office. The TRGpro handheld computer is geared toward the mobile professional and is the first handheld computer to incorporate the simplicity and rich application environment of the Palm Computing platform with industry-standard expandability. By combining a CompactFlash expansion slot with the Palm OS, the TRGpro enables mobile professionals to access large-scale information and databases normally confined to a desktop PC.
TGRpro comes with standard Palm desktop software such as date book, address book, to-do list, memo pad, expense, and mail. The expansive 8 MB EDO DRAM memory stores approximately 24,000 addresses, 6,000 to-do items, 6,000 memos, and 800 e-mail messages, and accommodates many third-party applications.

The pop-up onscreen keyboard has three onscreen icons for system control, one user-configurable onscreen application launch icon, and four user-configurable quick launch applications buttons. The LCD display has enhanced contrast and backlit display, which makes it easy to see at all viewing angles, even in sunlight or dim light.

It comes with two AAA batteries so that you can get started right away, a user manual, a protective flip cover, and a HotSync cradle

This is an undercover Power House with the ability to be expanded to 1GB of memory with a flash card and still fit in the Palm of you hand. You can go wireless web, Get on your Intranet and more, this is one of the best devices ever made, I can't wait for the color one!

Now you never have to be without important information, documentation, addresses, or contact numbers. Organize your meetings, e-mail, and calculate expenses even when you're away from the office. The TRGpro handheld computer is geared toward the mobile professional and is the first handheld computer to incorporate the simplicity and rich application environment of the Palm Computing platform with industry-standard expandability. By combining a CompactFlash expansion slot with the Palm OS, the TRGpro enables mobile professionals to access large-scale information and databases normally confined to a desktop PC.
TGRpro comes with standard Palm desktop software such as date book, address book, to-do list, memo pad, expense, and mail. The expansive 8 MB EDO DRAM memory stores approximately 24,000 addresses, 6,000 to-do items, 6,000 memos, and 800 e-mail messages, and accommodates many third-party applications.

The pop-up onscreen keyboard has three onscreen icons for system control, one user-configurable onscreen application launch icon, and four user-configurable quick launch applications buttons. The LCD display has enhanced contrast and backlit display, which makes it easy to see at all viewing angles, even in sunlight or dim light.

It comes with two AAA batteries so that you can get started right away, a user manual, a protective flip cover, and a HotSync cradle.

No reason to spend excessive amounts of money on a firewire cable. This one works quite well. Sturdily constructed, and I haven't had any problems with it. Relatively decent price too, and the length is fine.

I don't know why other brands of Firewire are so much more expensive, it seems they're all alkie. I have never had a problem yet. Used it with my digital camera and it's been great so far. The 6 FT length of the cable is perfect, not to long not to short.

The picture Amazon currently shows for this cable is not the correct product picture for the actual item. The one in the photo shown is entirely different then the actual product you will receive and if you go to the Tripp Lite official website (TrippLite.com) you will see that the actual cable corresponding to this model (and the one you actually get) is a much more thick and industrial quality cable, unlike the one pictured. With a added ferrite shielding coil that most of you have seen on the VGA cable coming out of your monitors, this cylindrical hard black covering provides additional protection from noise that may enter the cable and disrupt the image and its quality. Other cables I tried did not have this ferrite "section" and were much thinner. Trying several extension cables that were much more flimsy feeling and thin including a Belkin SVGA cable, I found they all caused ghosting and degraded image quality. Unlike those this Tripp Lite cable has worked perfectly. This is a great price compared to the $20+ or so retail stores charge for inferior quality extension gold cables.

I added a standard monitor extension cable between my computer and my beautiful new NEC MultiSync 1700M+ monitor and ended up with a fuzzy, ghosting image. I replaced that cable with this and my monitor is once again absolutely sharp and clear. This is a very thick black cable, nearly twice as thick as a standard quality extension cable. It's not cheap, but there's no point in spending hundreds on a great monitor and sacrificing display quality with an economy extension cable. This cable won't let you down.

Just to chime in with what the other review said, this is the best UPS I've had so far. I've had 2 other ones (including an older Tripplite model) that worked well but stopped holding a charge after like 8 months. I've had this one for over a year now and it still works great (hurricane Isabel has given me at least 30 off-on type power outages tonight and yet here I sit -- I was actually shopping for another one so I can put my router and second computer on it).

It will only support your system for a couple minutes, but just being saved from those 1-second outages is worth it. I have my 19" monitor, my computer and a USB cablemodem plugged into it and it saves both my computer and my internet connection from power failures.

This is a great investment, even if you live somewhere where the power is normally stable.

I get a lot a lot of very brief power outages. The electricity goes off for about a half second, but then comes right back on - just long enough to make the PC reboot. That's the primary reason why I bought the Internet 350.

In the two months that I've owned the unit, I've had about a half a dozen of these "mini-failures". Each time, the Tripp-Lite has performed flawlessly, filling the gap in power so that my PC never even knows that anything has happened. I've also had one more serious power outage that lasted several minutes. The Internet 350 gave me more than enough time to save my data, shut down the applications I was running and power down my PC, 17" Monitor and Cable Modem in an orderly fashion.

The unit has a total of 6 AC outlets - 3 for surge protection only and 3 for surge protection and power backup. One of each set of 3 outlets is spaced to accomodate a transformer block without interfering with the other outlets. There are also telephone jacks so that you can surge protect your telephone modem line. LEDs give you the unit's status and it beeps when you're on battery backup.

I'm completely satisfied with my Tripp-Lite Internet 350 UPS and can recommend it without hesitation.

This toothbrush and flosser combo has lead to healthier gums and more comfortable cleaning at the dental checkups. I no longer have any visible plaque.

Two things to consider:
This is a single user brush. Even though it comes with extra brush heads, the manual warns against its constant removal and replacement so as not to weaken the fitting. (I change the brush head every month.) So, each member of the family will need to have his or her own SC500U.

The vibration is VERY powerful. One must develop a precise technique of navigating the brush within the mouth without having plastic part of the brush head or stem contacting the teeth. You'll see what I mean the first time you hit a tooth - it'll rattle your skull. I have since become well practiced in moving the handle so only the bristles touch my teeth.

I no longer use dental floss as this flosser is great, although the tufts are difficult to insert between the teeth. The bristles bend and scrunch up easily. I wish Salton would come up with monofilament versions in various thicknesses. A rubber gum massage tip might be nice, too.

We initially purchased the Ultrasonex toothbrush to replace a rotating head electric toothbrush that we didn't like. We were so impressed with how clean it got our teeth and how easy it is to handle because of the ergonomic handle that we bought another one for our kids to use while wearing braces. The flosser is just an added bonus. We didn't realize it but this item is from Salton who makes the George Foreman grill. No wonder it is such a great toothbrush.