Pros: Sustained disk reads over 90MB/sec. Kills my gigabit LAN. Runs at 32 degrees C. Giant 32MB cache.

Cons: Maybe the price.

Overall Review: All manufacturers have the occasional bad drive get out the door. Drives can fail suddenly and without warning, despite SMART technology. That's why backups are so important. MAKE BACKUPS. You'll thank me later.

Pros: 4TB capacity Doesn't require external power

Cons: The first drive I got from Newegg began giving errors after three weeks. I sent this drive back to Seagate on RMA; the replacement drive began erroring out in _one_ week. I did a second RMA, and the replacement drive just got here. I unboxed it and started SeaTools on it, and it failed almost immediately!

Overall Review: Too late to return this garbage to Newegg so I'm probably stuck with it. I had avoided Seagate for years until this went on sale, and gave it a chance. Looks like I'm going back to avoiding Seagate.

Pros: - Inexpensive - eMLC gives reduced chance of bit errors and greater write endurance

Cons: - I have never gotten close to the specified maximum read speed out of this drive. 400MB/sec is about where I topped out.

Overall Review: If you're just trying to get cheap SSD capacity, this drive will work fine. But it will be a little slower than similar capacity consumer drives, because it's designed for enterprise use, and in particular it's designed for very long write endurance. Typically 3-10 times as long as normal MLC, and even longer compared to TLC. This drive excels in applications where it is being written to heavily; if that describes what you're doing then this is the drive you want. In a consumer setting, this drive would make a great Intel Smart Response SSD cache for your hard drives. It would also be good for developers, scientists and others who work with and write large datasets on a regular basis.

Pros: It does what it says on the tin. If it ever doesn't, Kingston offers a lifetime warranty. What more can you ask?

Cons: It wasn't free?

Overall Review: More RAM and an SSD are just the thing to get a few more years out of an older laptop. Before you buy this kit, though, be sure your laptop can handle 2x8GB; some laptops cannot accept 8GB DIMMs.

Pros: Arrived well packaged and in good shape. Very little cosmetic damage, not even a spot on the spacebar. No dead pixels. Came with a genuine Windows 7 Pro Refurb (OEM) license and the Windows 10 upgrade reservation went smoothly...after I reinstalled Windows (see below). My laptop included a built in DVD burner, both DisplayPort and VGA outputs, ExpressCard slot, FireWire port (yay I can finally get all the video off my old DV tapes), USB, eSATA, gigabit Ethernet and even an ancient vestigial dialup modem. It did not include a fingerprint reader; there is only a blank in the spot where it can be mounted. It came with a 250GB hard drive rather than the 160GB drive quoted in the specs. But I'm replacing it with an SSD anyway. If necessary the DVD burner can be removed and replaced with a second hard drive or SSD. Heavier than my old netbook, but doesn't weigh a ton either and is a whole lot more powerful. HP is still publishing BIOS updates for this model; the latest one was dated March 2015.

Cons: One of the two 2GB DIMMs was dead out of the box. Since I'm maxing it out with 16GB (2x8GB DDR3-1333 1.5V 204-pin) I really don't care enough to return it. The preinstalled Windows 7 Pro was botched. It wasn't sysprepped properly and it shipped with expired activation grace period and without entering OOBE. Some of the hardware drivers were missing and some of the free software that HP offers for the laptop was also not installed. You'd think that a Microsoft authorized refurbisher would know how to install Windows properly, but alas. I ended up reinstalling Windows. The poor excuse for a UEFI BIOS that HP offers is almost unusable. To boot anything other than Windows, after Windows has been installed with UEFI, you have to manually navigate to the desired .efi file each boot. It seems to completely ignore the standard EFI boot manager settings that you might set up with, e.g. efibootmgr on Linux, or that non-Microsoft operating systems attempt to set up at installation time. I suggest not enabling UEFI on this laptop if you can avoid doing so. Has a BIOS whitelist, which restricts what Wi-Fi and WWAN cards you can add into the machine. Fortunately at this late date the whitelisted parts are generally easy to find and about as cheap as their non-whitelisted counterparts. Did not come with Bluetooth. Not a major loss for me personally.

Overall Review: The UPC code on the box was covered up by another label, so I couldn't claim the rebate. A quick chat with Newegg customer service took care of that, though. Note that you need to install Windows with OEM media to activate with the Refurb product key. Dual booting with Windows 7 (soon to be 10) and Yosemite. The latter doesn't recognize the Intel Wi-Fi card that my laptop came with; I had to find an HP-branded Broadcom, part number 582564-001. Fortunately it was only $10, but unfortunately Newegg doesn't stock it. Otherwise this laptop is well supported by the community. As shipped, it's flawless on Linux as well.

Pros: Stable router, runs cool. DD-WRT and OpenWrt Barrier Breaker compatible. Detachable antenna.

Cons: 100Mbit Ethernet ports. Weak transmitter power.

Overall Review: This router is fine if you're on a budget and want something cheap to hack on with a third party firmware. I've been using OpenWrt Barrier Breaker nightlies on it for a year now. If you want range, though, you really need to add an external antenna or buy something else. With the built in antenna, it doesn't quite even go through two walls of my house reliably. Adding a 9dBi antenna, the whole house is covered and then some, even through the steel back door. With a 15dBi antenna I have been able to use it from over 100 meters away. Worth picking up if you find it for $20 or less.