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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
January, 2008

$183.00

Pros

Very good at Over Clocking
Low Heat using stock coolers
Excellent for gaming
Works with most modern mainboards

Opera
January, 1996

Pros

Fast rendering
Download manager
"Speed dial" favourite page thumbnails

Cons

Not supported by all sites
lacks Firefox's extension pool
Integrated torrent client not as resource efficient and functional as some dedicated torrent software

Casio PAW1300 Pathfinder

$300.00

Pros

Also comes in black and titanium versions.
Much smaller than previous Pathfinder watches.
The barometric pressure graph is wonderful-- like having a weather station on your wrist!

Cons

LCD overlay for compass, altimeter functions as in previous Pathfinder editions was removed to reduce size.
Alarm sound is a bit puny.
The thermometer is mainly intended to compensate the silicon barometric pressure sensor, so it shows wrist temperature unless you leave the watch off for 20 minutes or so.

Mozilla Firefox
November, 2004

Pros

Extensive functional add-ons (extensions) and plug-ins
Tabbed browsing
After a crash can "Restore session" which reopens all tabs

Cons

Websites designed with proprietary IE/Active X code may not render correctly
Windows returns an error if you close Firefox and try to start it up right away "Firefox is still running"
Takes up an inordinate amount of RAM

Casio G-Shock GW-9000-1JF

$200.00

Pros

Great backlight
Very comfortable

Cons

Keys are hard to press

Casio G-Shock MTG930DA-8V

$88.00

Canon PIXMA MP480
August, 2008

$100.00

Pros

Small footprint for an All-in-One
Reasonably priced
Separate ink cartridges for better quality prints

Cons

Slow print speeds
costly to run (high ink usage / cost)
slow to start up

uTorrent
September, 2005

Pros

Small CPU and memory footprint.
Totally free with no ads
Let you select which files inside a torrent to download

Cons

There is no Linux version
Bandwidth choke when not configured properly
Cannot select which files to download off a torrent in the OS X version.

NewEgg

Pros

Great Prices
Great product detail
Fast shipping

Cons

Canadian store has poor prices and limited selection compared to American counterpart and other large online Canadian retailers
Watermarked photos
Doesn't ship international

VLC media player
February, 2001

Pros

Supports lots of codecs
Does not use much memory and opens quickly
Available for Windows and Macintosh

Cons

Artifacts sometimes appear when skipping through some filetypes.
Can't handle dynamic soft subtitles as well as some competitors.
Can't select multiple objects and have them play in succession

Winamp
June, 1997

Pros

Extensive plugin support
Not a computer resource hog like WMP
Great UI, with easy to access library, playlist, EQ, visualization, etc.

Cons

Windows Only
owned by AOL
default installation includes a lot of useless bloat

Media Player Classic

Pros

Lightweight compared to competitors
Very stable
Uses GPGPU to decode H264\MPEG-4 videos and offloads cpu

Cons

Poor playlist support
Playlist interface (6.4.9.0)

Windows Media Player

Pros

Mini-player
comes bundled with Windows
has all the bells and whistles you would expect

Cons

Will not play licensed media without internet connection or licence
Awful library management functions
Player tends to freeze, pause, etc with lots of codecs on the machine

Badaboom
November, 2008

$30.00

Pros

more features than AMD/ATI's Avivo video converter
can also be used with Nvidia's last generation graphics cards (8000 series) unlike ATI's
considerably faster than CPU-based transcoding

Cons

costs $30 while Avivo video converter is free
expensive shipping to anywhere other than the USA
requires a fairly recent Nvidia graphics card

NowTorrents

Pros

Fast searching of torrent websites
Clone of YouTorrent features and usability
Searches "all" torrents

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