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HP ENVY Desktop: Increase your productivity with this HP Envy desktop PC. Boot up immediately on its 128GB solid-state drive, and store your most important documents on the 1TB hard drive. This HP Envy desktop PC is equipped with an Intel Core i7 CPU and 16GB of RAM to handle the toughest applications.
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5
Very Fast Machine!
on March 20, 2017
Posted by: ORBlackFZ1
Verified Purchase:Yes
So far, this is a very fast machine! The SSD is amazingly fast! The computer arrived on time and in perfect condition. The packaging is very well designed and manufactured. Every thing works as expected! Lots of ports and expansion capabilities for the future. This machine is used for a home office and is connected to a private ethernet network. We added a 4K 28" Viewsonic to the workstation and the graphics are very fast. Video viewing is just as nice as our 4K TV.
My Best Buy number: 0585465584
My Best Buy number: 0585465584
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Windows 10 Home Operating System: Stay productive with a new web browser that lets you draw notes directly on a web page, and with Cortana, a personal digital assistant that helps you browse for information, write emails, and more. When it's time for gaming, stream your favorite Xbox One games directly onto your Windows 10 PC, laptop, or tablet.
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3
It is made by Microsoft
on March 20, 2017
Posted by: ORBlackFZ1
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Windows 10 is made by Microsoft....that should be enough for any review. From this end-user's viewpoint, very little has changed to make me more productive. I purchased Windows 10 to update a Windows 7 machine, that I had missed during the free Windows 10 update period. I had been using Windows XP successfully since it came out, but some of my applications are not available on XP any more, so I had to update all the computers in the house to one OS. I still have some "legacy" applications that won't run on Windows 7-10, so I still keep one computer running on XP for those applications.
My Best Buy number: 0585465584
My Best Buy number: 0585465584
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Stream content wirelessly from your Apple® iPad®, Mac or other compatible device to a projector through your Apple TV with this Belkin AV10145BT HDMI-to-VGA adapter, which converts digital HDMI output to an analog VGA signal for a crisp image.
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5
Worked as Expected
on March 20, 2017
Posted by: ORBlackFZ1
Verified Purchase:Yes
The Belkin - HDMI to VGA Adapter worked as I expected. My wife purchased a new HP Envy. She thought that her 10+ year old 21" VGA Gateway monitor would be fine with the new HP. So we purchased this adapter to go between the new HP Envy and the VGA monitor. After using the new HP Envy with the old Gateway monitor, she decided to replace the Gateway monitor with a new 4K 28" Viewsonic monitor that has an HDMI port. We returned the adapter after purchasing the new Viewsonic monitor.
Moral: When upgrading old computers, update the monitor too.
My Best Buy number: 0585465584
My Best Buy number: 0585465584
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Enjoy your favorite media on the expansive 28" display of this ViewSonic VG2860MHL-4K LED monitor, which showcases images in arresting 4096 x 2160 resolution. MultiPicture support lets you simultaneously view content from up to 4 sources.
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5
Excellent Monitor!
on March 17, 2017
Posted by: ORBlackFZ1
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I am no expert on monitors, but I have been around them for the last 30 years. This one is used by my wife (a retired 24+year intel employee) for her daily retirement computer activities. I finally got her watching some TV broadcasts with it, she couldn't believe the clarity and color! The monitor replaced a 15+ year old Gateway with VGA. So, the picture is really fantastic! We found a couple of 4K demos to view and we were both amazed.
The unit was packaged very well with the Viewsonic packing and arrived without any damage.
Now for the downsides:
1) The cables provided are very interesting. An HDMI to HDMI, a USB 3A to USB 3B and a DisplayPort to mini displayport. We are using the HDMI to HDMI and all is good. I am still not sure what to do with the USB cable. I suppose I could set the monitor up as a USB hub, but the USB ports are not easily accessible for day to day plugin/plugout operations.
2. The monitor controls are hidden buttons on the bottom of the front edge of the screen. You have to first look for them and then after you know where they are, you can feel for them. It would be nice if there was some way to tell what the buttons do before you press them. We will probably take a silver marker and mark them for reference.
1) The cables provided are very interesting. An HDMI to HDMI, a USB 3A to USB 3B and a DisplayPort to mini displayport. We are using the HDMI to HDMI and all is good. I am still not sure what to do with the USB cable. I suppose I could set the monitor up as a USB hub, but the USB ports are not easily accessible for day to day plugin/plugout operations.
2. The monitor controls are hidden buttons on the bottom of the front edge of the screen. You have to first look for them and then after you know where they are, you can feel for them. It would be nice if there was some way to tell what the buttons do before you press them. We will probably take a silver marker and mark them for reference.
I rate this monitor as a highly recommended (with the caveat that I don't have a lot of experience with other monitors except for my limited internet research.)
My Best Buy number: 0585465584
My Best Buy number: 0585465584
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Snap photo after photo in the right light with this high-performing Canon Speedlite camera flash. It won't sustain damage from dust or water, and it withstands the demands of travel and action photography. Fifteen custom functions and six personal functions give you total creative control of this Speedlite camera flash.
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5
All the features I could ever need!
on February 23, 2017
Posted by: ORBlackFZ1
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Hey....Its a Canon Speedlite! I purchased this after my 20+ year old Speedlite 380EX stopped fully charging (probably because I haven't used it enough lately). The Canon - Speedlite 600 EX-RT has more features than I will ever need. I used it at an indoor party last week and the facial skin tones turned out simply amazing! There are no flash reflections on anybody's face! I will have to spend some time learning more about it, but so far it works flawlessly. I am using it on a Canon Rebel T4i and a EF24-105 F4 IS USM. The flash was flawless through out the full range from wide multiple people shots to close up individual ones. Thanks again to Canon for a wonderful product. (Now, if Canon could only design their software downloading applications to be as great as the hardware.......)
My Best Buy number: 0585465584
My Best Buy number: 0585465584
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Windows 10 Home Operating System: Stay productive with a new web browser that lets you draw notes directly on a web page, and with Cortana, a personal digital assistant that helps you browse for information, write emails, and more. When it's time for gaming, stream your favorite Xbox One games directly onto your Windows 10 PC, laptop, or tablet.
How much spying does this OS do for Microsoft and is it possible to turn everything off?
Windows 10 does a lot of spying with a clean installation. During the installation, you have the option to turn off most of the spying. ( Of course, Microsoft doesn't call it "spying", but it really is. Microsoft calls it "feedback", "research", "user enhancement" or some other terms that some people will fall for, but let the buyer beware, Microsoft wants your personal data.....I refer to it as "Telemetry") There are a couple of other options that have to be turned off after the installation. This particular build loaded a lot less spying apps than the free Windows 10 upgrade that was available thru June 2016. That build loaded a lot of applications during startup. I just finished finding and disabling them all. The last couple took some research and tracking. This current build installation had a couple spying apps that I disabled, but nowhere as many as the "free upgrade" build had. I didn't have to change any Registry entries on this build to stop the spying.
I did have to modify the registry for a couple of other issues. 1) When the monitor is turned off and then back on all the open application windows were being moved to the upper left corner of the screen as well as being resized for a 1024 by 768 resolution screen, even though I am running 1920 x 1080 resolution.
2) If you find you are having in home network permission problems and you are using a Microsoft Account...good luck with that. I had to disable the Microsoft Account and get rid of the passwords and PIN to allow access to any home computer, printer, file server, etc. And Microsoft lets us think that a newer OS is safer.....
Google has become a computer users best friend, when you are finding out ways to disable all of the Windows 10 spying.....
I did have to modify the registry for a couple of other issues. 1) When the monitor is turned off and then back on all the open application windows were being moved to the upper left corner of the screen as well as being resized for a 1024 by 768 resolution screen, even though I am running 1920 x 1080 resolution.
2) If you find you are having in home network permission problems and you are using a Microsoft Account...good luck with that. I had to disable the Microsoft Account and get rid of the passwords and PIN to allow access to any home computer, printer, file server, etc. And Microsoft lets us think that a newer OS is safer.....
Google has become a computer users best friend, when you are finding out ways to disable all of the Windows 10 spying.....
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Stream content wirelessly from your Apple® iPad®, Mac or other compatible device to a projector through your Apple TV with this Belkin AV10145BT HDMI-to-VGA adapter, which converts digital HDMI output to an analog VGA signal for a crisp image.