Epinions Recent Reviews for MajorWombat

Fantastic device - does more than you think

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:32:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - While trying to think of a simple synopsis for my iphone 3g, the only thing I could think of was the word "yes!" I am not an early adopter sort (note my lack of the first iPhone) but when something is useful enough to warrant the money and does a job...

A mixed bag, but still an HP

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:40:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - A few weeks ago my trusty HP48SX, which has served faithfully for 16 years, vanished. And so it was that I was in need of a new calculator with at least the same power as the old one. And so I purchased a brand new HP50G through Amazon.com Okay...

Very nice little Sedan

Sun, 9 Apr 2006 14:01:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - This is my ownership-earned experience with the Honda Civic EX. When my VW Scirocco finally cost as much to maintain as to replace, I started looking around at other cars. I am (or was) a VW gearhead, but I was quite unhappy with the quality of the...

More like Hemmeroid

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:06:35 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - Worst DVD player, ever! I bought one of these for my daughter's room. It worked for 2 weeks and then stopped working. I took it back to the retailer, who exchanged it for another. It didn't work out of the box at all. The units have trouble...

Lousy in all ways possible

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:37:20 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - My mother's laptop never had good connectivity with the original Netgear 802.11b card. And since she has a G network, I got her a version 2 of the Netgear WG511 card. Previously, I've had problems with a netgear router. The infamous WGR624, now...

Lost nevermore

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:47:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - I bought my wife an Ique M5 for Christmas. And it has been a wonderful little gadget! I wish I had one of these for myself. The M5 is a general purpose Pocket PC, with Word, Excel and a few other programs already installed. The computer will keep...

Now that is an HDTV

Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:34:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - I just retired my 50 inch LCD projector set from Hitachi. h
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Near SLR ability with PointNShoot price!

Mon, 16 May 2005 01:24:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - I just bought an S5100 at CompUSA. I compared a number of cameras and didn't really include Fuji in the comparison. Fortunately this unit was on sale and I added it to my list. I say fortunately because the S5100 is awesome. It's difficult to find...

How quickly a good company can turn bad.

Sat, 14 May 2005 19:43:20 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - Netgear has for a long time been a big name in home networking. Well, I now have another name for netgear - poo. The netgear WGR614 was my first wireless router. A wireless router allows you to have all the benefits of an Ethernet network - printer,...

From an owner: actual experience; revision at end

Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:12:53 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - This is my review of the 50V500 by Hitachi. First of all, if you are considering this HDTV for your house, congratulations! You have taste and an eye for quality. As you can probably surmise I'm quite pleased with my purchase. But it took some...

Infernal Broken Media 60GXP

Sun, 21 Jul 2002 18:05:39 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - I'm a big fan of IBM drives. That is, I was, until I tried to upgrade my computer to a new 20 gig drive.

The drive in my computer is a 12 gig EIDE drive from IBM. It has worked flawlessly for the past 2 years. I've used Ghost to back up and...

Rio never sounded this good

Tue, 21 May 2002 00:33:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - The RioVolt PSX100 is a fine bit of workmanship. I've had it since Christmas and I think it's one of the better gifts I've ever gotten.

The RioVolt appears at first to be just like any other portable CD player. There are buttons on the...

IBM US Online Store: Shockingly Bad, especially for IBM

Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:13:23 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - 1800SHOPIBM - sold defective product, gave me a 6 week runaround trying to replace it (still unresolved), can't find orders, can't find something is simple as a power cord in their inventory or their computer system. Don't rely on them if you need...

I'd rather count out pennies than deal with Citibank credit cards!

Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:44:02 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - We've all, no doubt gotten those card ads in the mail. You've probably had months where you get 40 ads for credit cards that you've never heard of before to every "good" piece of mail in your box. One of these ads is from CitiBank for their credit...

My first; you never forget your first

Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:34:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - Hearing all my friends talk about their DVD players, you'd think they'd found the keys to Nirvana or something. Several had Apex; others, Sony. Shortly after Xmas, my wife asked me if there was anything I really wanted that I didn't get. I explained...

Adaptec Easy CD Creator: Easy? That depends...

Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:13:35 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - This epinion covers Version 5.0 of Easy CD Creator from Roxio (adaptec)

I purchased this piece of software because it provided an improved version of Direct CD, a program which makes CDr and CDrw work like a 650meg diskette. The requirements...

Cannot fathom under the sea

Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:55:34 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat -

This is a review of "Atlantis" now playing in movie theaters around the country.

I went on Saturday to see this movie, along with the most cruel and merciless movie critic I know; my 4 year old daughter. Seeing the lines queued up to...

PrimeCo Mobile Phone Service in Houston: Primeco is the Prime Cut

Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:47:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - I've been a Primeco subscriber for 2 years now. I've taken the dualband phone I purchased through them from one side of the country to the other, out of their service area and back in again. I've taken it into deep buildings where the moles won't go...

Don't toy phones have strings attached?

Wed, 30 May 2001 19:06:24 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - I purchased one of these phones for my wife last Christmas. Living where I do and as much driving as my wife and I do it made perfect sense for she and I both to have cellphones. My Sony cell (they quit the biz, unfortunately) has performed so well...

PSST! Wanna save money on great sound?

Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:53:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - One tradition in music reproduction that seems to have vanished faster than the tube-tester in the local drug store is that of modifying stereo gear to give you that "perfect" sound. Once upon a time people tweaked their amplifiers and built their...

Worth 10 times the price

Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:58:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - This will be a short review, since everything that can be said about this game, has been said already. But I just wanted to tell everyone what this game has meant to my 3 year old.

First of all, the game is a wonderful educational tool...

Home on the wide, wide range

Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:18:47 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - Houston. You know, as in Texas. An interesting blend of old-west and high-tech. Where else can you find longhorn cattle grazing beneath a real Saturn V rocket?

It's a decent city to live in. It is large enough that there is probably...

Nothing else will do

Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:13:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - I've been using HP calculators since I was a young mump in High School. My first calculator ever was an HP32E. For a while I was confused by how the calculator worked, which is common enough when people encounter their first RPN (reverse polish...

...are soon parted

Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:28:09 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat -

Some of you may be enjoying one of the greatest

economic uses of the World Wide Web by purchasing your

books, music and computer software online. I myself do so

on occasion. But when it comes time to look for a new book...

Incredible Amp

Sun, 6 Aug 2000 01:00:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MajorWombat - Okay. So, I've not been keeping up with stereo technology like I should have been. It's been 7 years since I bought my last amp, and it finally got to the point where I could not stand it anymore. So with checkbook in hand, I began looking at the...