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Its about time to replace the Ipod
In, thanks for the chance :)
I bought a harmony one remote last winter from Circuit city's closeout sale for $150, and I love it.
Looks like a Razer Lycosa copy to me. Hopefully this trend of high end keyboards without all those useless multimedia keys continues. The main reason I purchased the Lycosa was for the fact that it was a high quality keyboard with a solid feel to it, with no extra crap jammed into it. Plus they did not screw with the keyboard layout or change any of the button sizes. Another nice perk, I was able to use the software to disable the caps lock key ;)

My previous keyboard was from Microsoft, while the typing was great I could not stand the size of it anymore. The keyboard was so wide that it hardly fit on my keyboard tray, and if I happened to bump it forward half a inch the feet would drop off the back of the tray. Every time you booted the PC up, the keyboard would set all the F keys to some alt functions by default, with no way to change this setting. It had all the useless shortcuts such as copy and paste, outlook, wordpad, IE ect. The only shortcut I ever used was the calc one, but it sems just as fast to hit windows+R and type calc, followed by the enter key. So in the end, I was set on the quest to find the highest end keyboard with no extra keys. For about a year or so, every time I went to a electronics store I would browse the keyboard isle loosely looking. Earlier this year I stumbled across the Lycosa, read some reviews and purchased one later that week.
Big enough? I'll pass....
I cancled with Sprint in January of this year when they changed some fees around, breaching their side of the contract. So I had a 1 month window to get out of my contract, and I was tired of Sprints over seas CS and my phone was not working to well anymore either. I had to argue with CS about it, and he threatened me saying that if I didn't cancel right now, I would be accepting the new terms and would not be able to get out ETF free. Now when I first called up, I was not dead set on leaving them yet, I was simply looking at my options. So with his attitude, I canceled my line with Sprint ETF free and moved to Tmobile.

Guess what showed up a month later? A ETF bill for over $200, I call them and they apologize for the mistake and note it on my account. I got two more bills before they finally fixed it.

I think their CS is terrible, and lead to their downfall. And then they removed some taxes that they could no longer pass onto the customer, and added two new fee's that amounted to a greater amount then the taxes they replaced for most customers. This change allowed several customers to drop Sprint without having to pay the ETF, I think this hit them hard.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I commonly need to boot a system from an external disc and take a snapshot of the host system. I also then need to burn a copy of the image to a DVD. While I can do it with two separate external devices, and two power supplies, and two I/O cables, it'd be nice to find a small dual-drive enclosure. It would need to have USB, eSATA, and FireWire. Either slim-line or half-height bay for the optical burner would be fine, and space for either a 2.5- or 3.5-inch hard disc. Any ideas?"
 

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