The performance and quality is quite nice for the price
588197
The performance and quality is quite nice for the price. Most importantly it's user friendly. Work from home and so far it definitely meets my home office high demands..
2365696
This is pretty much configuartion that I got and performance is pretty good with this laptop.
Lighted keyaboard had an impact on decission when I decided to buy this laptop and it is really nice and usefull feature that I was looking some time for it.

Pros:
- Very stable, no reboots and doesn't get frozen even when moving/shaking it
- Good metal construction --> no flexing
- Good set of connection slots for perrifferrals
- Backlit keyboard
- Very bright screen but not the best color rendering
- e-SATA external connector
- Internal Intel wireless 5300 AGN WiFi card is excellent

Cons:
- LCD display is somewhat washed out although very bright
- It gets very hot even just browsing internet after relatively brief period. Poor ventilation.
- Somewhat heavy for its size
- Average battery life (little bit over 3hr of usage when just browsing internet via WiFi with standard battery)
- Proprietary HDMI connector (need to buy separate pigtail adapter)

I have it almost for a year now and no crashes or some issues or glitches so far.
Overall very good business laptop.
2668289
I am quite happy with this product. The sound quality is good given this price and it was quite solidly built.
3317179
Quite good Quality as expected for the price.
1082628
Very good performance for the price. I have it two months and I've had no problems with it. And it looks nice too. I recommend it personally.
2285944
Performance of this laptop is impressive, thus far all games have performed flawlessly. The battery life is good and while it gets a little warm its never too hot to have on your lap. There are a few niggling issues though ; the Intel Dual band is temperamental and required updating drivers, as previous reviewers stated the finish is a fingerprint magnet and without the backlight the keyboard is unreadable in daylight. The sound is mediocre at best and even the amplified headphone isn't anything to shout about. The ethernet port was designed by a sadomasochist and the screen is also so-so. However the performance of the I7 and the Nvidia card make up for all  previous  shortcomings and combined with the price I am very happy with this purchase.
535116
Performance thus far has been impressive - though it tends to overheat and I am unsure as to why that may be.
2640559
Compact, good performance, and fairly priced.  Good value.
4203200
sounds very nice and high end ,can beat at its price range!
3083729
Excellent build quality and the performance exceeded my expectations.
4899251
This size was a little tight, but its performance is quite fine.
1485083
I purchased this ram to help breath some extra life into a friend's older Dell system that only came with 512MB or ram and not for purposes of overclocking or trying to push the envelope.  So far, for the price, it has more than exceeded my expectations.  The system is running without issue and definitely better than before.  That said, this is not a cure all, but if you're looking to stretch the life out of a computer than maybe you only use to browse the internet or do some word processing, this is a great item to look at.  At the time of purchase, this seemed to be in the sweet spot for price vs quality.
4621370
sound quality is great, happy with the performance
3259096
I'm giving it a 5 star review not because it's the best speaker on the market, but because it performs very well for the price range and is of a very decent quality. It seems to be sturdy and the sound doesn't often get distorted, but it has happened a time or two if the speaker and device's volumes are all the way up. I usually keep the speaker one or two from the loudest it goes. The sound is good for this kind of speaker and the battery has a decent life. Its pretty simple and straightforward to use.
545094
For the price, it has great performance, though the R9-285 for a handful of dollars more maybe worth considering, depending on what resolution you play at.

In the main, I'm not rating the specific performance at the price though, since that can change within weeks and you can get this card with a variety of GPUs from low to high.

I like the card because of Gigabyte's engineering and quality voltage control, requiring less use of Nvidia's recovery function - in addition to the fact that the installed triple fan cooling solution doesn't annoy me, like some other cards have.

The noise from the fans is a low woosh, without any of the whining high-frequencies that make many cards much more audible than the pure dBA measurements would have you think.

And I'm using it in a tiny case (Silverstone SG08) which is basically completely perforated for cooling and hence has no noise insulation whatsoever.  For a card to be pretty quiet under load in this case is an achievement.  One that happens to matter to me.

So there's 5 stars for the card's design and my recommendation to pick it with a GPU that suits your personal ratio of need-for-power vs drain-on-wallet.
2029291
The HDD is on the slow side, although this is a problem I was already familiar with. The build quality is quite good and the weight is nice.

i5 CPU is OK and the GPU is what someone might expect from Low-Mid range. The RAM can be bigger but 4 GB satisfy the normal user's activities.

I use this laptop with several virtual machines running on it at the same time. The laptop could take it :)

Overall, I recommend this laptop for the price conscious.
2039326
I received the Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD as a gift, and my early impressions of it are quite good.  The first thing you notice is the build quality.  Behringer got a bit of a poor reputation in guitar circles for putting out cheap plastic-enclosed clones of BOSS pedals.  But this interface has a solid metal construction with no immediately-apparent durability concerns.

I opted for the UMC204HD as an affordable all-in-one budget home recording interface with my iPad Pro.  For its price point, this unit packs in a lot of functionality.  I actually did have a variety of dongles and standalone interfaces to do digital audio conversion, 5-pin DIN MIDI, etc.  But it was impractical switching all of these in and out when you only have the single USB jack to work with using the Apple Camera Connection Kit.  Now I can record with guitars, line-level audio equipment (synths, drum machines, etc.), and even dynamic and condenser microphones all with one box, and it can also receive and transmit MIDI data using the ports in the back.  A good interface that solves all of these problems at once really does a lot to merge music hardware with the software instruments and DAW capabilities on the iPad.

On the negative side, I've heard (but have not experienced yet) some problems with low output if you plug a instrument-level guitar directly into the interface.  That might be a concern, though I plan on using it with preamp and cab simulator pedals that shape the sound before it even gets to the interface, so I anticipate being able to compensate for that issue.  Also, unless I am mistaken, there is no input for USB MIDI on the UMC204HD.  This is almost a nonsensical complaint on a PC, but with an iPad, it does require an external hub to use a MIDI keyboard, assuming that works.

That reminds me: the device is USB powered, so it did require an external USB2.0 hub to supply power to it, as the iPad Pro's power is not enough to run the device.  Frankly, I'm not sure I would want draw that much power from the iPad battery anyway, and I had a small hub already on hand.  The device seems to work as I intended it to, and time will tell if there are audio quality issues or other concerns I haven't thought of.  So far, I'm quite happy with it.