Archive for February, 2010

Logitech Gaming Mouse G500

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Depending on if you are a hard core gamer, web surfer, or MS Office user, this mouse should help you. Ten programmable buttons and a scroll wheel that can be set to high speed are some of the features this mouse has.

Other features not seen in other mice are extra weight you can add to give it ‘just the right feel’ that you want, and onboard memory to save your settings. Other features consist of on-the-fly dpi adjustments (Make the mouse go faster or slower across the screen) , and a frictionless scroll wheel so you can fly through your friends posts on facebook.

Priced at $65, you might think this mouse is expensive. But if you spend a lot of your days (or nights) with your hand on a mouse and this can help you to be more efficient, then it might not be so expensive after all.

Logitech Gaming Mouse G500 (Black/Silver)

Living with the OCZ Agility SSD

Friday, February 5th, 2010

We all know that SSDs are super fast, especially from the mountains of benchmarks performed by reviewers. What about after a several months of actual use?

I installed the OCZ Technology 120 GB Agility Series SATA II 2.5 Inch Solid State Drive (OCZSSD2-1AGT120G) in my main system about 5 months ago. Everything else in the system is speedy (quad core Intel CPU, 6GB RAM, etc), but as we all know the real enemy of speed is a bogged down install of Windows. Runnings Windows XP x64 and after many months of installing, uninstalling, updating software I have to the conclusion: this SSD is still fast.

Boot time, application load time, etc, are all still zippy (even with anti-virus running!). I recommend the OCZ Agility.

Buy: 30 GB, 60 GB, 120 GB, 250 GB