Epinions Recent Reviews for msandlie

Literally twice as fast as the P3 500

Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:22:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - I just purchased my motherboard and Pentium 3 1 gig flipchip a week ago and it really made a difference in speed comparing it with my P3 500. An experienced person would think you wouldn't actually see double the speed. I was surprised to see, and...

eBay: You can find anything off Ebay

Sun, 10 Dec 2000 15:31:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - You can find pretty much anything on Ebay. Once in a while, I will test Ebay by searching for something that is rare and I usually find it. Ebay's very easy and Convenient to use. There are a few things I do not like about Ebay. One thing is the...

Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 Ultra: Best performance yet

Sun, 10 Dec 2000 15:03:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - This has to be one of the best performing video cards I have ever seen. We purchased this for a computer at my work for a drafter using Mechanical Desktop 4. Being that Mechanical Desktop 4 is full of bugs and is a very slow performing piece of...

The Perfect Player for Everyone

Fri, 1 Dec 2000 00:39:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - Just after being a year old, my DVD rom drive on my PC went out and I had absolutely no way of watching any of my dvd movies. I use to run the S-video output from my video card on my computer to my TV. I then decided to treat myself to an early...

Great print quality but...

Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:38:47 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - We have one of these printers at work. It has real great print quality and very affordable for if you want one at home. I give this printer a 4 out of 10. Even though it has great print quality, It's very slow, with default settings, it will print 1...

Affordable and easy to use but slow

Wed, 4 Oct 2000 13:33:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - I bought this scanner for someone at my work and I have used it a few times. The scan quality is great, it picks up on the smallest things. One thing I do not like about the Umax 2000p is the fact that it's really slow and because of the recommended...

Great as long as you don't touch it

Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:28:53 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - A little about myself...I work in an I.T. Department. I do all the purchasing for 100 PC's, I do work with the telephone switch, and I do network administration work..

I've had nothing but problems with every Compaq computer I've run...

DO NOT USE THIS BOARD

Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:01:03 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - I am an I.T. Helpdesk Lead and I do all the purchasing, problem solving, phone switch work, and a lot of the NT administration for a company with about 100 PC's. Our drafting department decided that they wanted to upgrade their PC's to Pentium III...

Reality Fusion GameCam: Great for kids

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 03:02:38 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - Great for kids if you have the time. This camera takes a little time to install and configure. Another problem is that you will grow tired of playing the games using your image and then what? And it wont keep the kids interested long enough for it to...

Creative Labs Video Blaster WebCam 3: Creative Labs Video Blaster WebCam 3

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 02:34:45 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - If your looking for a descent camera for sending video over e-mail, or taking stills, this Camera would be perfect for you. The controlability for adjusting the camera is easy, you don't have to worry about it moving around by itself on you because...

A great challenge + a huge game (6 cd's)

Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:37:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - I purchased this game a while ago and finally got around to playing it...I'm the type of person you would probably consider a gamer...just ask my girlfriend :) I've played and solved all types of games for many years..from games on tape for the...

Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator: High Priced but Great Performance

Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:11:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - Although this video card is not the best out in the market, it is one of the top ten and still great for gamers. Running Quake III at 32 bit, this card performs at 78 frames per second, which matches the Erazor X2. This great all-around performing...

pretty good card for the money

Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:37:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - The Millennium G400 provides a realistic lighting effect and does a better job of keeping distant objects into view than other boards. The Matrox board provides a large software bundle including Micrografx's Picture Publisher 8 image editor and the...

could have been better

Fri, 7 Jul 2000 15:43:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - The initial trailers and previews focused on the meteorological anomaly that caused this weatherman’s fantasy of a storm. Secondary was the story of the three Gloucester fishermen who encountered it. The movie should have followed the similar...

painfully satisfying right to the end

Fri, 7 Jul 2000 15:12:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - Gladiator is an exciting, astonishingly well-made movie, one of those rare film experiences that lives up to its promise.

He escapes, but Commodus has his wife and son murdered. Maximus all but gives up on life when he’s made a slave by...

Realistic graphics. The best animation i've ever seen.

Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:56:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - Titan A.E. is a great movie. It’s a production bursting with energy and liveliness, with some great action and suspense sequences. The animation and settings are fantastic, and it’s the kind of movie that DVD buffs will like to have in their...

RCA DS2122RD Single LNB DIRECTV System: why better than cable?

Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:31:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - I just disconnected myself from cable that i was paying 25 a month for. The pathetic thing about the cable i was using was that 15% of the normal channels were missing like..."E", "cartoon network", and others like "the...

Lack of detail and imagionation.

Thu, 25 May 2000 20:49:37 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - I'm really into Science Fiction movies and stories. I took my girlfriend to this movie thinking it was going to be awsome because of the graphics and so on...IT SUCKED! What a waste of money, I think Barney movies have more imagionation than this. The...

Where's the Variety?!

Thu, 25 May 2000 20:19:44 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - I remember when MTV ROCKED! They played videos about 90% of the time, good music too! Now they a selected few videos more than once a day, every day. Is it me? or is MTV starting to pick people up off the street to play music and make video's for...

Not much of a game...

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:27:15 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - There isn't too much to this game. Basically all you do is go in and out of a chuch destroying monsters, and making money so you can buy better items so that you can survive deeper levels...basically you go to level 16 and kill diablo. This game was...

Dell Dimension XPS T500: DELL COMPUTERS ROCK

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:11:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - Dell computers rock :) There webpage is great, they make it so easy to build your computer online. There a little expensive, and you can probably find the same exact thing a little cheaper through a company who builds and sells computers in bulk, but...

Gateway Essential 400: this review is for all gateways

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:03:19 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - Gateway's are pretty good computers. They don't fail too often and there processors seem to handle and perform pretty well... I have a couple of gateway's at work and...well..there still working :) Although there are a few good things about gateway,...

eMachines eMonster: YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 21:39:16 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - This review is for any e-machine... There's a reason why e-machine's are so cheap...they use nothing but the cheapest parts, and they dont care about the quality of those parts...there processor is a cheap celeron and there pretty much stripped out...

Hewlett-Packard Ati Rage Fury: Was great...now not so great

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:54:59 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - When i first bought the Ati Rage Fury 32 meg video card...it seemd like a great card considering it has dvd onboard decoding hardware, and TV-out (s-video for today's tv's) Now i'm starting to discover that alot of games wont work properly with this...

AV-36050 What a great TV!

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:42:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author msandlie - I just bought the Jvc tv and i think it's a great tv. I especially like the s-video input for my dvd player on my computer. the screen is a darker tint screen, and i love the 3 different screen mode options. The PIP is pretty cool to...(for those of...