Philips SPE3020CC 250 GB

Advantages: Price
Disadvantages: None

...Ritek have been making CDR media for several years. In the old days their products had many reliability issues. Nowerdays their products are very reliable, rated to 12x recording, and very cheap. You can buy their products in many disguises. They can be branded as Traxdata, Samsung, Nugen, Discplanet, Mirror, Diamond and probably many more. Are TDK, Sony, Verbatim and Philips discs better? Hell yes, but if they're are both capable of doing the same job in the short-term, (and most of us only use the discs we burn for the short-term) do you you need to spend twice the money to buy a big brand name?... Read review

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Advantages: Very fast great price
Disadvantages: needs a separate power supply

...This Philips SPD5100CC external hard drive does exactly as it says on the tin. I own this product and i have been using it for two years without a glitch. I love it .Let me tell you why. **ITS SHOCK PROOF AND PORTABLE** What would be the use of an external hard drive if you lost all the Data whenever it took a fall? This external hard drive comes in a tough but light aluminium shell. It makes it very robust . **IT LOOKS GREAT ON YOUR DESK** For those of you who are concerned about looks, i would say this hard drive is very good-looking its got this cool blue Led light that just makes you want to look at it. my three year old stares at it for hours on end! it has a very small form factor, this means it doesn't take up a lot of the precious real estate on your desk. Its like having a book sitting permanently on your desk. ** IT COMES... Read review

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Advantages: Neat, slim and reliable
Disadvantages: Took some adjusting initially

...to do though. It comes with a CD-Rom which includes an electronic instruction manual and a handy card for quick reference to initially install the monitor. The pixels are 1280 x 1024 and it is video compatible. This product is rated as having 20% energy savings over the industry standard, but I have to be honest most home users would be hard pushed to measure this. The contrast ratio is 450:1 and the brightness is 250. I haven't gone into great technical detail about this product as that is all easy to come by but I do know that several websites quote this monitor as being "the smart choice". I definitely think it was for me. It doesn't come with speakers, although some Philips models do, but the price reflects this.... Read review

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