Excellent performance for a reasonable
350903
Long lasting blades that take a pounding. Excellent performance for a reasonable price
2296697
This is an excellent choice for both value and performance.  It has an lots of great features and high power output.  I would buy another if needed.
4619275
For what it is, and the price point, I couldn't be happier. The SSD drive makes it a great running machine. 8GB of RAM helps compensate for a decent but not high powered dual core Intel processor. It's not likely a gaming computer and it runs the full windows suite without issue.  It has a fine keyboard, very nice screen and a mediocre touchpad as its only detriment. I've given both my wife and youngest daughter one - neither are power users - and both are quite pleased. Compact and well-built, if you include a wireless mouse, it makes a fine machine.
2253300
I bought it on sale at $40 and the performance is outstanding.  The music is natural with bass and not metallic.  If you would like to obtain the true performance, search on internet "Right way to wear earbuds".  Wrong way to wear earbuds must lead to poor performance.  The two important terms affect the sound quality are wearing method and the reproducing equipment.  When I evaluate this headphone, I used tube pre-amplifier with tube headphone amplifier.
3705717
I'm reasonably happy with the performance (and Amazon price) for this machine. It can be very powerful specially if you switch to nozzle mode (which really stings like a needle against the skin!) Even the spray-fan mode is fairly powerful for most jobs. I've used it mainly for cleaning out the driveway that had nasty tire-stains and oil marks, as well as a wooden fence that appeared "new" once cleaned. A word of caution- in the needle-nozzle mode I could carve the wood on my fence. So watch out with the pressure.

My only concern was with the initial setup. This machine has "full auto-off" that means that when you release the trigger on the spray gun, it will power down the motor as well. That's all great once you are up and running, but if you don't realize the mechanics of how this works, you can be frustrated initially. When you start this up for the first time, the pressure in the tubes is low, and so the "auto-off" does not kick in till that pressure is built up (which can take 5 to 10 seconds) During this time (and right after you switch the unit on) the motor runs and builds up the pressure and then switches itself off because you aren't using the spray-gun. This almost makes it appear that you did something wrong since the motor revs up and then shuts down. Once that part is done, whenever you squeeze the trigger the unit will rev up and perform as expected. I wish they had explained this part in the manual.
970459
Product works very well!  Great performance for the value!
1461716
Excellent performance, high speeds. I use it for games and this hard drive has helped improve performance. For office or studio work speed is significant, although not as much as an SSD, the cost-benefit ratio is excellent.
901106
I have purchased 2 of these so far and have been satisfied with the performance of both.
2733990
Out of the box, I was impressed with the performance, considering the little 4gb of ram and a 5400rpm HDD. The Pentium is snappy even with the default setup, but being the tech junkie I am, I decided to buy hardware upgrades that arrived with the laptop..

I installed:
an 8gb 1.35mv stick of crucial ram (about 70 on amazon) and a crucial m500 240gb SSD.

After successfully cloning the HDD and booting from the SSD, I noticed an immediate increase in performance - a night and day difference.

I clocked cold bootups on the HDD around 32-35 seconds. After installing the SSD, cold boot time is anywhere from 4-7 seconds.
The multitasking and HD video is average with the default HDD and 4gb ram, but after upgrades and I can watch stutter-free HD video with the processor underclocked to about 1.3ghz (accessible under advanced power management).

If the processor was an i3, this laptop would easily be categorized as an ultrabook.
The Pentium is actually nearly identical to an i3, it just doesn't have Hyper-threading, which isn't even noticeable on an i3. But the i3 was not upgraded to haswell, so this little penitum is much more battery-friendly than most of the other, more powerful haswell intel's.

Overall, I have no complaints other than fantasies of a backlit keyboard, which would make this product even more premium than a MacBook air, but that's a minor spec and a luxury that just isn't a deal-breaker.

Looking for something powerful enough for school but battery-friendly enough for long stints away from the charger?
this little bad boy will do the job very well.

Good luck and enjoy it if you get it.
4383090
I use these for my home pc installation with Ultimate Support stand  JS-MS70 and Behringer mixer-audio interface Xenix 302USB.
It has superb performance. First of all I found out that these speakers give much more details than such pro headphones as Audio Technica ATH-M40, believe me! I have checked it on my digital piano - Privia PX-150, these indicated a flaw in a bass note, when the headphones didn't. I have checked twice involving PianoTeq. To get the right sound one has to configure the switches on the rear panel. And.. these speakers are active and as a result they have self noise - some little hiss and buzz.  Have no exaggerated bass response. Well-built and I guess - reliable, I have used them almost a half year.
3349209
Excellent performance for the price. Slightly blurry dot. I can completely cover a small target with the dot and have a little play in where the bullet hits. At 20 yards though it's bright and fast to acquire, easily assists a decent group at that distance.
4584823
I find this product to perform exceedingly well at what it was designed for, no issues and it is usable with Linux.
3694677
I bought this item from eBay for about $2300. I don't think I can find a better performance for this price. If you are planning to buy an expensive item from eBay, check if seller has sold same item before, and read the feedbacks.

Graphics Performance is outstanding: I was not expecting to be able to play a game like Need for Speed Underground 2. I assure you, the game is running like it is on fire. I increased graphic quality, there is no delay or lacking in the game. You can have all road+car reflections, glows, tints, motion blur, fog, incredibly high world details (even check the store shopwindows). The only problem is when you increase the anti allising a lot, screen goes to dark. Graphics card + Processor + RAM expose a great graphic performance.

MATLAB performance: I am working with MATLAB for my research. Matrix calculations are very fast in MATLAB. I am working on 15000x1000 dimension matrices. Process time for my classification program in this computer is: 2.5 seconds. I ran same program in my other Compaq laptop that has 1.4Ghz Intel Pentium IV Mobile processor (with 512K L2 cache memory) + 768mb RAM. Other laptop's process time was 17.5 seconds (7times slower than A290).

Internet performance: Internet speed is mostly based on your internet provider, however, a high performance computer allows you to surf internet a lot faster. Wireless capability is very efficient (it does not take a matter of time to search and connect to wireless networks).

Windows performance: It takes about 65 seconds to open and appear windows desktop (this can differ according to number of installed programs in your computer).Program windows are popping up without any delay. Windows did not freeze yet, and it seems the computer is good enough to handle memmory usage and allowance for Windows.

Long time performance: After hours of study (or after a Need for Speed game) processor heat increases,which cause a slight decrease in the performance. Its fan good enough to cool down the processor in a small amount of time (after I quit from 2-3 hour game, it takes 2 seconds to lower the fan speed). Even the highest fan speed does not make annoying noise (very quite).

Durability: Definetely a Sony high quality item.

Battery life: It is not good as other computers, because of 17inch screen. However, you almost have 2:30 hours of battery life.

Size: Size is almost optimum for a 17inch laptop. Dell 17inch laptop looks a lot like a dumb next to this Sony. Screen and image quality is also outstanding. Weight is unexpectadly low.

Negatives: There is no Bluetooth (you have to buy an additional USB bluetooth adapter). You can't upgrade the RAM memory randomly. You can only have a total memory of 256mb, 512mb, 1GB or 2GB. You just have 2 slots. You don't have the choice to plug 512mb on one slot and 1GB on the other (LAPTOP will not start if you do that).

Extra features: AV dock amplifier allows you to enjoy the sound with two SONY speakers (extremely pure sound quality but don't expect a lot of bass). AV dock also enables to connect your laptop with TV, DVD player, antenna. You can even connect your DV camera (old cassette camera) and convert the movie to a digital mpeg movie. You can also plug a Sony microdrive (even PRO Duo s) directly into the slot on laptop (that's a faster way of copying files instead of connecting your digital camera).

I definetely recommend this computer to a friend.
3261510
I love its performance, looks and the nice clear  metalic sound it has. It's very responsive to blowing.  I use it for blues and country music, though is excellent for any kind of music. Thank you very much.
2264350
reasonable price.  great performance.  flexible rpm options built in, toggle LED.

white LED is bright, it what I wanted to keep my desk area fairly lit for late night sessions.

using two of these on Enermax's white CPU cooler running 4.3ghz on AMD FX-6300 (stock 3.5ghz).  keeps the chip cool and moves all the hot air out the exhaust on my nzxt phantom 410.

virtually silent on low, somewhat of a hum on mid, and air is really moving on high setting.  you can hear it, but not to the point that it would be annoying.

even in push/pull on cpu cooler they don't make much fuss.
4761576
My Yamaha RX-Z9 receiver lacks HD radio capability, and the Sangean adds additional music programming options to my system. Specifically, I can now access the 24x7 classical music offered on channel 2 of our Wisconsin Public Radio station. The Sangean has performed flawlessly and provides audiophile-grade performance appropriate to the HD format. Connection was straightforward to an existing line-level input on the receiver and coax to the FM roof antenna. I appreciate access to subscription free music via reliable over-the-air broadcasting. The controls and remote are intuitive and easy to use.

The HDT-1X is well made, offers a variety of output formats, is reliable, and sonically acceptable.

While HD lacks the uncompressed audio quality of analog FM or CD (I run a Magnum Dynalab MD-100 for analog FM w/roof antenna), that is the fault of the medium, not the tuner.  For background music and for the occasional need to "crank up the volume" when a favorite selection is being played, this tuner is very adequate to the task.

In short, for audio performance versus price, it is an excellent value. Highly recommended.

DaveM
3982024
After reading the reviews on Amazon for the Libretto W105 and after getting one myself I really don't understand how this wonderful UMPC got the reviews it did. Toshiba has put some serious thought into Windows 7 navigation with their add ins. The processor is zippy, and the ssd keeps pace nicely. Aesthetically this is a beautiful machine. As of now I've got it loaded with MS VS 2010, Enterprise Office 07, Blender, and Eve Online. All of which run perfectly. To give this device anything other than a 5 star rating is to not understand the product. This is not meant for the mainstream mass, but for those individuals who value portablity and performace, as well as the cutting edge. Honestly the fan is loud (but not that bad, some have real issues with this.) and the battery life is not as long as would be convienent. (Lasts about 2.45 hrs)Given it's size and form factor, these are not real negatives jsut a reality of current technology limitations.