Reviews by gaylem_16
Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW
Price: $889 - $889
Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW07/28/06
- Pros:
- great resolution
- Cons:
- kinda costly
great find
- Was this review helpful? Yes - No
- Report Problem
Nokia N91
Price: $ - $
Nokia N9107/28/06
- Pros:
- distinctive design
- Cons:
- display specifications are not acceptable for a top-model
distinctive design - made almost completely out of metal; Assembling quality is quite good; The functional keys are made in a traditional style and are quite convenient in use; The display’s specifications are fair; N91 is first model from Nokia which has hard drive.
- Was this review helpful? Yes - No
- Report Problem
ATI Technologies Radeon 9700 Pro
Price: $72 - $89
Radeon 970007/28/06
- Pros:
- LOVED IT
- Cons:
- ---
HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM IT:
key specifications of the chip and board:
-.15µ Silicon Process
-~110 Million Transistors
-325Mhz Core Clock Speed
-8 Rendering Pipelines with 1 exture sampling unit per pipe giving 2.6Giga Pixels / Texels Fillrate
-128MB of 310Mhz DDR RAM on a
-256Bit External Bus giving
-19.8GB per second actual memory bandwidth
-Up to 16 textures per pass
-4 Parallel Geometry Pipeline giving a peak Triangle throughput of 325Mtri/sec
-Dual Independent Display Controllers with two 400MHz RAMDAC's and Integrated TMDS Transmitter
Features:
-DirectX Version 9.0 Compliancy
-TRUFORM 2.0 Higher Order
-Surface Processor
-SMARTSHADER 2.0
-DX Vertex Shaders 2.0
-DX Pixel Shaders 2.0
-HYPERZ III Memory Optimisations
-SMOOTHVISION 2.0
-Up to 6X FSAA
-Up to 16X Anisotropic Filtering
-VIDEOSHADER Video/DVD Playback
-HYDRAVISION Display Software
- Was this review helpful? Yes - No
- Report Problem
Panasonic TH-42PX50U
Price: $ - $
great one07/28/06
- Pros:
- Remote, Built in non-detachable bottom mounted speakers, NTSC and ATSC (HDTV) tuner, silver Table top plasma TV stand
- Cons:
- none
Silver bottom mounted speakers, black picture frame, 42-inch HDTV Plasma Display, Widescreen 16:9 Format and Resolution: 1024 x 768 (HDTV). What more can I ask for???
- Was this review helpful? Yes - No
- Report Problem
Seagate Barracuda ATA IV
Price: $38.58 - $75
according to aljones07/28/06
- Pros:
- ---
- Cons:
- ---
The Seagate Barracuda series of Hard Disks have been going for quite some time now, but they keep reinventing the hardware behind the name to keep it up with the times. Recently I bought a new 80Gb disk, after realising that my 10Gb one was simply not big enough for everything I wanted to install.
So off I trudged to the Novatech website, where I purchased the Seagate Barracuda 80Gb Snowman Series hard disk, for a very nice sum of £151 including delivery. I choose it because at the end of the day, I was fed up with slow, small disk drives, so was after the fastest available for the IDE/ATA interface. And this appeared to be it.
It has a sizeable 2Mb buffer, which is 4 times the size that most other drives offer. The drives spins at 7,200 rpm, with a quoted access time of 7.9ms. Again, both these seemed pretty good, as most other drives were 5,600 rpm and 8.9ms, clearly slower. I didn`t know whether I`d notice the difference, since I have no newish drives to compare it against, but I certainly can`t complain about the speed, as everything loads much more quickly than it used to (though that may be partly due to the Win2K operating system which I loaded onto it, whereas I was running Win98SE before).
Also, one of the major deciding factors in my choice was the sound level. On many of my older computers, the HDD could get very noisy when it was in high demand by the system, and didn`t want to be faced with turning my speakers up louder just to muffle the sound of my new drive. No problem with this one, as it is reportedly one of the quietest drives on the market. The final deciding factor had to be the price and the brand name. I couldn`t really find any other drives with these performance figures for a similar price, plus the drive I was replacing was a Seagate, which had run trouble free with no errors for the past three years, quite impressive when you learn that about six times a year it was hurled into the back of my car for a 60 miles t rip between home and University, along bumpy country lanes. So I was happy with Seagate`s reliability, and so far while I have only had this one for a month, it has so far proved trouble free.
- Was this review helpful? Yes - No
- Report Problem
