Posts Tagged: Peripherals
Drobo Review
Review by Product: • Drobo (company site) • What’s Good: • Ease of Use • What’s Bad: • Regular Price • This past week I was warned that my backup drives were out of space and my primary storage had less then 15GB. I could add more external drives to the stack while maintaining the headache, or I …
Griffin PowerMate Review
Review by Product: • Griffin PowerMate • What’s Good: • Provides always accessible volume controls, Programmable, Works in both Windows and Linux, Solid feel, Looks good • What’s Bad: • It's a gadget, Light tactile trigger points like on mouse scroll wheels would be nice. • At university there …
Sennheiser PXC350 Review
Review by Product: • Sennheiser PXC350 ($299 USD) (company site) • What's Good: • Good noise-cancelation, strong sound, comfortable • What's Bad: • Relatively large, expensive. • I get pretty bad headaches when I fly, largely due to the incredible amount of high-volume white noise in an aircraft …
Vantec NexStar MX Dual Enclosure Review
Review by Product: • NexStar MX Dual SATA Enclosure (400MX-S2) (company site) • What’s Good: • Easy to use, Single Cables • What’s Bad: • Stand, Very Loud Fan • I have been a fan of the NexStar3 harddrive enclosures and own two of them. The only problem is each one requires its own power and USB …
Samsung SCX-4500 Multifunction Printer Review
Review by Product: Samsung SCX-4500 • (company site) • What’s Good: • Sleek design, very quiet, quick. • What’s Bad: • Shiny black finish collects dust and fingerprints, annoying sound alert • Samsung Canada contacted us and offered complimentary use of this printer if we’d be so kind as to try …
Apple's Mini Wireless Keyboard Review
Review by Product: • Apple Wireless Keyboard (company site) • What’s Good: • Quiet, Small, No Numeric Pad, Key Layout • What’s Bad: • No USB Version • When I bought my first Wacom Tablet about 5 years ago, my biggest complaint has been the width of keyboards and how it felt like my hands were …
Logitech VX Revolution Review
Review by Product: • Logitech VX Revolution (company page) • What's Good: • accurate, comfortable, configurable yet simple, compact-ish • What's Bad: • need a dongle, not recharable, expensive • After tiring of the terrible performance and mac-unfriendliness of a Microsoft Bluetooth mouse I …
Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 8000 Review
Review by Product: • Microsoft Laser Mouse 8000 (company page) • What's Good: • neat indicator light design, included replaceable rechargeable battery lasts a long time, easy to use docking station, Bluetooth connection with no perceptible latency during normal use • What's Bad: • no tactile …
Lexar JumpDrive Sport USB Flash Drive Review
Review by Product: • Lexar JumpDrive Sport (company site) • What's Good: • Small, durable, hasn't failed once after 16 months of daily abuse. • What's Bad: • Only holds 1 GB. • I hate carrying a laptop around. It's big, heavy, and you're always worried about damaging it. 99% of the time I'm …
30 GB Apple Video iPod Review
Review by Product: • 30 gig Apple Video iPod (company site) • What’s Good: • Slim design, comfortable to hold, lots of storage space • What’s Bad: • Doesn’t come with power adapter/charger, scratches easily • In November of last year, i finally gave in to the ever present “cool gadget purchase …