Logitech G9 Laser Mouse

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Performance

Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick Silver Black

Take complete control with the Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick. Its 12 fully programmable buttons give you an incredible amount of flexibility and performance for the gaming-edge you’ve been looking for. The precise twist handle (for rudder control) includes an 8-way rubber hat switch that is similar to ones found in real combat aircrafts. Throttle controls rotate smoothly for extraordinary control. And the stable, extra heavy weighted base keeps you firmly grounded. The sleek design looks hot, too!

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars improved my game dramatically
Very easy to use. I had no idea of what joystick to buy. I’m very happy I bought this one.

4 Stars great for my uses
i dont like how thin the base is cause i use it on my lap, but everything else works great, calibrated perfect, works with all my gta series great!

5 Stars It is well worthy! Nice to play with!
I have already had a experance about this joystick before! I am a student pilot,I found it wooks well.With flight 2004,I can take it as a simple simulator.It has force feed back and the rudder control !

5 Stars a excellent joystick
The Logitech Extreme 3D Pro is a large, sturdy and precise joystick. You cant find a better flight controller in this price range. It has 10 programmabe buttons, a trigger, a button for rockets or missiles, a 8 way hat switch and a dedicated throttle. The handle also has one more function and that is to twist left or right for which I use for rudder control. Overall it is fun to use, easy to learn, assign functions and excellent in normal flight or aerial combat.

4 Stars Logitech Extreme 3D Pro
Great Joystick for the price. This is my second one. First one after several years lost the handle twist action functionality, but otherwise worked great. And at this price I don’t mind buying another occasionally.

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Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2 with Vibration Feedback Black

Experience the freedom and eliminate the clutter with the Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2. Logitech developed 2.4 GHz Cordless Freedom technology specifically for gaming… 30 feet of freedom with no lag! With its two vibration feedback motors, you’ll experience every turn, bump, dip, and crash. And it feels great in your hands with its familiar button layout and all the controls you need to dominate.

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Does not work with most games
Every game I tried with this controller did not let me use it. This made me very upset. I did extensive research to see which controller was best to buy, and this one seemed to be it, and little did I know that the games I play don’t work with tis controller. I would give it no stars if I could for compatibility.

5 Stars awesomeee
This is an awesome controller. IT works perfectly and gaming is quite a breeze with it..

3 Stars not that great, just comfortable….
This rumblepad is a nice game controller except that it is not as functional as it looks, it is comfortable because its weight and anatomic shape, also, is cordless (cordless means the rumble pad is not connected DIRECTLY to a cable, but you have to connect a receiver to a usb port to catch the controllers signal, so it is just more comfortable beacause you can move better, and it looks nicer) but the vibration isnt that great, not all games are compatible with it!! its not like a PS controller that all games vibrate!!!

1 Star wing type controllers worthless art racing games
Anyone with real experience racing vehicles will tell you quickly that only steering wheel controllers of the integrated types such as Logitech’s G25 are the only worthwhile controller. An accelerator, brake, and steering wheel set is the bare minimum.

F1 2002, Indianapolis 500 and such games require at least the minimum. And last but not least, make sure the controller works with your chosen game. Only Logitech posts such. The others are unknowledgeable, probably by intent.

5 Stars excelente opcion!!!
Bueno chicos no tengo ni que decirlo… nuevemante Logitech da en el clavo!!!! este pad es ademas de funcional muy facil de configurar, lo unico malo que podria decir es que una buena cantidad de juegos no son compatibles con este pad, ni con su antecesor, (unicamente con la …ierda del control del XBOX360), pero aun asi sigue siendo una buena opcion para accesorios para juegos!!!

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Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick Silver Black

Take complete control with the Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick. Its 12 fully programmable buttons give you an incredible amount of flexibility and performance for the gaming-edge you’ve been looking for. The precise twist handle (for rudder control) includes an 8-way rubber hat switch that is similar to ones found in real combat aircrafts. Throttle controls rotate smoothly for extraordinary control. And the stable, extra heavy weighted base keeps you firmly grounded. The sleek design looks hot, too!

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Logitech Extreme 3D Pro
Great Joystick for the price. This is my second one. First one after several years lost the handle twist action functionality, but otherwise worked great. And at this price I don’t mind buying another occasionally.

5 Stars It is well worthy! Nice to play with!
I have already had a experance about this joystick before! I am a student pilot,I found it wooks well.With flight 2004,I can take it as a simple simulator.It has force feed back and the rudder control !

4 Stars great for my uses
i dont like how thin the base is cause i use it on my lap, but everything else works great, calibrated perfect, works with all my gta series great!

5 Stars a excellent joystick
The Logitech Extreme 3D Pro is a large, sturdy and precise joystick. You cant find a better flight controller in this price range. It has 10 programmabe buttons, a trigger, a button for rockets or missiles, a 8 way hat switch and a dedicated throttle. The handle also has one more function and that is to twist left or right for which I use for rudder control. Overall it is fun to use, easy to learn, assign functions and excellent in normal flight or aerial combat.

4 Stars improved my game dramatically
Very easy to use. I had no idea of what joystick to buy. I’m very happy I bought this one.

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Logitech G9 Laser Mouse

Customize your mouse to meet your performance and comfort needs.

Performance

ColorMunki Photo Monitor Printer and Projector Profiler

ColorMunki Photo is the innovative way to bring your photos from screen to print with color perfection. Designed for wedding, social, or portrait photographers, this color control solution delivers technological features for display, projector, and RGB/CMYK printer profiling. You’ll now be able to send your images to your clients, confident that they will be viewed in a calibrated environment, using the DigitalPouch communication tool. All this delivered in an all-in-one integrated solution with a streamlined interface, making the most of your digital workflow. All-in-One spectrophotometer means no separate devices needed to profile your displays and printers. ColorMunki lets you swing perfectly from screen to print with quick, easy, and accurate display-to-print match. Software guides you through whichever profiling function you desire. Select ‘Match My Printer To My Display’ and you’ll be completely guided through the profiling process for both your display and your printer. ColorMunki can calibrate multiple displays with ease and provides before and after visualization, as well as calibration reminder prompts. ColorMunki’s superfast scanning can rapidly measure test charts in less than one minute. With AppSet, ColorMunki talks with your photo and design applications to automate printer profile settings. ColorMunki automatically extracts the top colors, or you can go directly into your image and add any color to your palette. With ColorMunki’s PrintSafe checking capabilities, you’ll be able to preview your color palettes under different lighting sources or printing processes before you go to production.

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Not for photolab users/activation headaches
Being an event photographer, I was thrilled when I saw the Colormunki marketing literature. It seemed I would finally be able to affordably integrate both monitor and print profiling into my workflow. I’d had recent issues with my lab prints not turning out so well do to bad lab profiles. WRONG. This package is strictly for printers DIRECTLY attached to one’s computer.

You can not print a color target and send it to your lab to create a profile. I really wish I had known about this before purchasing. I feel the marketing of this product was a bit deceptive, at a minimum. Event photographers are specifically mentioned in the literature and Xrite knows very well that the vast majority of event photographers use labs to print. Also, the literature states that RGB printers can be profiled without noting that this is limited to RGB printers DIRECTLY CONNECTED to your computer.

The device must also be activated before you are allowed to use it. This also caused me a headache. The device kept showing up as disconnected (I was therefore unable to activate it) and it took me 24 hours of playing around and searching Xrite’s site to be albe to get it to work properly. If a company deems it necessary to include ‘activation’, they had better make the process transparent. I don’t want it getting in my way.

As far as the profiles I was able to create, I saw no issues. The profiles are very good (but not excellent.) I can live with that as I didn’t expect that at this price point I would get perfection. I now have highly accurate inkjet printer to print my billing invoices

This package might be great for someone that does ALL printing with a locally connected inkjet, but otherwise doesn’t live up to the promise of its marketing material.

By the way, when I called Xrite on the phone to mention the above deficiencies, the tech support guy actually agreed with me, but didn’t bother to offer me a refund for the product. I guess to his credit, he did say he would bring up these issues with the marketing department. Now I get to wait and see if Xrite marketing has a change of heart and decides to unshackle this otherwise good device.

5 Stars Five Star (except)
Don’t know what the negitive reviews are about. Just opened the box an hour ago and have both monitor and printer profiled. Was very easy, just follow the on-screen instructions. You do however have to have a good working knowledge of you printer and the application you are printing from. You must turn off the printers Color Management and be able to select the printer profile saved after running Colormunki in the application you are printing from.

The “exception” in the title of this review is that as so many others, I feel the license only being good for 3 computers is a concern, I like others burn through computers in about six-months. No indication from x-lite if there is an alternitive to buying a new unit and software after the three downloads.

To sum-up ColorMunki Photo works as advertised if you do your homework (like checking printer compatibility before you buy) and have the knowledge to use advanced settings for you haedware and printers.

1 Star Much Promise, But A Very Poor Payoff
I’m using Vista Ultimate, have lots of ram, an Epson 3800 and have experienced many “issues” with my Color Munki Photo. The problems started the first day I plugged it in over three months ago. The unit has been replaced by the manufacturer without avail. There are serious conflicts with Vista color correction (Microsoft has culpability here too), but it’s advertised to work with Vista OS yet I’ve yet to get good color corrections.

Support by X-Rite swings between helpful through downright condescending. I previously used a Spyder with few problems. I’m no color expert but I do understand the basics of color workflow. The feeling that I get from support is that the problems are all external to the Color Munki. I was told that my monitor was too bright (it’s a medium bright, 325 cd/m2, wide gamut LCD monitor), Microsoft, Adobe etc. Most offensive of all, X-Rite keeps trying to cross sell me on training!!! Why would I give them one additional cent?

This product simply IS NOT READY for prime time. I’m sorry that I didn’t return it when the support specialist told me that my problem would be fixed in a software release. Not to blame support entirely, the saying goes something like… “the fish stinks from the head”… obviously, the marketing people here got WAY ahead of engineering with the Color Munki.

2 Stars Do Your Homework First!
I’ve had the ColorMunki for a couple months now. I really hate to write bad reviews on what seems to potentially be a great product, so I’ve waited until I cooled down some. But this product has a variety of problematic issues and is not for the color management novice.

I bought it based on reviews I had read about it which were mostly very good. If, when you install the software and create a monitor profile and if it installs without problems, and if you can figure out how to locate and set up the new profile as your default profile, and if you can figure out that you will need to change all the manual settings on your monitor, and if you know what to do when your monitor finally looks great but your printed photos look worse than ever…then you may be pleased.

However, from start to finish (if you can actually finish, which I haven’t been able to do yet), I had one problem after another. It took me two days to get it to work on my laptop (Vista Premium) and another two days to get it to work on my desktop (XP). I will follow up later with examples of how poorly written the instructions are. The entire “manual” for installing the software and calibrating monitors, printers and projectors is not much more than 3-5 sentences for each type of hardware. Important steps are left out. The elementary school student drawings in the paper manual and online video tutorial, don’t always match up with the instructions. The instructions should not be followed in the order that they are written, but you need to figure out how to move forwards and backwards from page to page to figure out what you are really supposed to do in what sequence.

Their website is one of the most amateurish designed sites you have ever seen and trying to find trouble-shooting help information is a long tedious process and you get answers like “if you get error code you may need third party software”. That’s it! It doesn’t tell you why you get the error, what the error code means, or what kind of 3rd party software you need. You are on you own!

You can’t even use this $500 device unless they have your phone number. You have to be connected to the internet to connect to their website to get them your phone number but the registration form you have to complete first wouldn’t work on Windows IE. Before you can access their website for installation you have to select “ACTIVATE” but that button won’t function until you REGISTER and that keeps freezing. I had to uninstall the software multiple times just to get to their website and register there before getting the software to come up onscreen.

Also, you are limited to 3 “unique” devices. So, if it doesn’t work well on one of your devices, too bad, you only have two activations left.

If, the software doesn’t install correctly, or if the calibrator freezes up, you are told the problem may be that you need to change your Vista Premium settings and change them to Vista Basic. Then you are told you need to change your computer settings in different places from their high performance to lower performance settings. After doing all these changes you find out that they had nothing to do with why the installation wasn’t working and you have to try and remember all the changes you made so you can go back and restore them.

I emailed them for help (they even make locating their email support address almost impossible to find on their website). I got a response the next day (that’s pretty good) but their response seemed to be answering a different question than I had asked.

I replied back to their email and directly cited where their manual and their tutorial images did not match up and asked what I should do about one of the frequent error messages that prevent the color management calibration from completing. I haven’t heard from them since, that was two months ago.

Fortunately, I know a professional color management consultant who helped me get my monitor profiled. The result is really nice, it never looked so good. But, even he couldn’t figure out how to get my Epson RX680 printer to color match what I see on my monitor. (I use Photoshop). Although the color improvement in both my laptop and my desktop monitors looks very good, I have them sitting beside each other and the same image looks different on each one. So far, the two computers and the printer, all look nice but none of the different units match each other’s colors.

You should find their website, xrite.com, take a look at their “manual” and their trouble shooting “faqs” and especially their “video tutorials” and have a good laugh before you shell out so much money. Make sure that whoever you buy this unit from will take it back if you don’t like it!

I’ll try calling them and see if I get any meaningful help and will update this review later. I hope I’ll have better news to share.

5 Stars ColorMunki Photo
I just bought a ColorMunki Photo & Design and it does wonders. I’m very happy with it. I got it from:

http://www.colormanagement.com/store/PID1443

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Razer Lachesis 4000 dpi Laser Gaming Mous Banshee Blue

Equipped with the revolutionary 4000dpi Razer Precision 3G Laser sensor, the Razer Lachesis gaming mouse takes on the same lethal traits as its namesake that will send shivers down your enemies’ spines. Add 32KB of onboard memory, nine programmable Hyperesponse buttons, as well as an impressive 1000Hz Ultrapolling with 1ms response time, and you’ve got a formidable weapon in your arsenal of destruction. Victory beckons - move in for the kill.

User Ratings and Reviews

2 Stars Not for me
The shape of the mouse was at odds with my hand. Felt a very uncomfortable “pressure” on the hand after 15 minutes using it. Tried to get used it, but couldn’t shake off the bad feeling. So I returned it. Took a Death Adder instead, didn’t regret it. The Death Adder has a perfect shape for me. You should definitely try this before you buy.

The driver software interface is ridiculously ugly (but that’s true for all Razr products…).

5 Stars Razer Lachesis
The razer lachesis is pleasant a reprieve from the last razer product I purchased (lycosa keyboard). The people on here either bought too nice of a mouse, or don’t know how to read the manual. I am a high end gamer, that plays games at very high resolutions and am very satisfied with my purchase. This mouse is perfect if you have the right surface to use it on. You want a hard surface, preferably a razer mousepad. I have the razer exactmat and I love this mouse. If you have that, this mouse performs beautifully. The only thing that i could see causing a problem is the fact that the mouse is a little big for some people’s hands. The mouse definetly takes some getting used to, but once you calibrate it right, and can fully utilize it, it is amazing. It is by far the best mouse i have ever owned. If you aren’t an idiot and can calibrate the mouse right and accept the learning curve of how to use it, this is the mouse for you.

Pros:

Excellent smoothness in mouse strokes

Lighting on it is second to none

Many programmable buttons

on the fly sensitivity

Very precise

Cons:

Too sensitive if you don’t have the sense to calibrate it

Price is very expensive

Don’t believe all the morons that have reviewed this mouse, look at the review of the razer lycosa that I tore up, and believe me when i say this is a fine piece of equipment. I’m not just a razer “groupie”

5 Stars Awesome Mouse!
This mouse is awesome. I bought it as a christmas gift for someone and they absolutely love it. They said it’s super fast and flawless. It was definately a great investment.

1 Star NOT a gaming mouse, unless you’re a noob.
I’m 23 and I’ve been playing games as long as I can remember and have owned many other high end mice, especially other Razers. So when a mouse has flaws, I know it.

First and foremost, the left and right click buttons are so hard to click, that no matter how good you are, the mouse moves when you click them (unless have your mouse set on 800dpi and your sensitivity on 2/10 or something else ridiculously low, in which case you should be using a $12 mouse from walmart anyways).

Try shooting something when your mouse moves involuntarily every time you click the button. Try clicking a small dropdown menu. Try clicking a particular line in a document. It’s all the same, guaranteed the pointer will jump up 1 line above what you intended to click on.

This problem can be solved by using the mouse on a surface that has zero squish, because then when you have to use all your muscle to literally mash in the buttons, the surface will not flex and cause the mouse to move. Even Razer’s own mousepad, the Destructor, with it’s cheap foam backing and ridiculous $40 price tag, squishes too much. This leaves you 2 options, an Icemat glass mousepad, which is like playing on a piece of sandpaper because of the rough sandblasted surface, or playing on your bare table, which is not a surface that this or many other mice move well on.

It’s a very comfortable mouse and looks nice, I’ll give it that. Otherwise, it has zero positives. Anyone that likes this mouse is using it on less than 1000dpi and on a very low sensitivity setting and guaranteed is not playing any real games (Halo, CounterStrike, etc).

I play on a Windows mouse speed of 10, 4000dpi, and 7 in the Razer software. My mouse moves 1/2 inch to full screen, and I have 3 friends who play on even faster speeds than I do, so I know I’m not the only one.

My original Diamondback works better than this POS, it’s slower, but at least the buttons were easy to click and it didn’t move when you clicked them.

2 Stars Horrible version of a good mouse
I like the Razor mice, the basic ones are great, but unless you want to be the most frustrated person in the world, stay clear of this mouse. Why you ask? well I bought this mouse because of the 9 buttons. I’m a gamer, and my mouse died, so I decided to splurge and buy a nice expencive mouse that would probably last me many years. The problem, as others have pointed out, is there are 2 buttons on EACH side of the mouse. this means it’s almost impossible to click one button on one side without the presure of squeezing clicking the opposite side. These constant missclicks can be overcome by a lot of practice im sure, but take it from me, unless you really need 9 buttons for whatever reason, buy a different mouse. Again, the standard razor is pretty cool.

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X Rite EODIS2 Eye One Display 2

Reliable and affordable color starts here. The Eye-One Display 2, the next generation for monitor profiling, is a brand new, easy-to use powerful, solution that provides the best monitor profile quality ever! With enhancements to both hardware and software, you’ll achieve consistent, predictable color on all types of monitors - both LCD and CRT. The newest Eye-One Match 3.0 software’s easy-to-use interface provides an Easy Mode for great results with a few simple clicks, plus an Advanced Mode for experienced users to achieve individual and best possible monitor calibration. Ideal for photographers, creative directors, publishers and designers working in ad agencies and corporations. Easily attaches to both LCD and CRT monitors with built-in counterweight and suction cups Use at multiple workstations - no additional licensing fee Mac and PC compatible - OS X, Windows 98 / 2000 / ME / XP USB powered When you need additional color profiling functionality, use your upgrade voucher included in every Eye-One Display2 package, towards the purchase of any other Eye-One package

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars great product–worth the money.
easy to use and calibrated my Samsung LCD monitor fairly quickly. I would recommend this product!

5 Stars Great for home picture use and scrapbooking
I was becoming frustrated because when I sent my digital photos out to print at my local store I never knew if the color and exposure would turn out correct. I would have to re-edit them and sent them out for print again because my monitor was an unreliable reflection of the printed picture. The X-Rite EODIS2 Eye-one display 2 changed all that. It was really easy to use and my pictures turn out perfect. This device does not calibrate your printer so my pictures still do not look right when printed out on my printer. However, I use my pictures for scrapbooking so it is a must that they do not fade so I have to send them out to be professionally printed (For example: Kodak, Snap Fish, CVS, Walgreens). So for me, it really didn’t matter that my printer was not calibrated with my monitor .

Just remember to install the software before plugging the device or your computer will think it is a storage device and you will have to restore settings to previous date to get the Eye-one to work.

I wish I got the Eye-one years ago it would have saved me a lot of money in re-printed pictures.

4 Stars Excellent results despite clumsy user interface
The Eye-One Display 2 (designed by Gretag-MacBeth and now sold by X-Rite) gets only 4 stars because the user interface is clumsy, but it gets that many stars because it does exactly what it’s supposed to do. It calibrated my photo/graphics quality HP LP2475W monitor so that the photos on the screen matched the photos coming off the printer. I hadn’t been able to do that with an old Spyder calibration device I’d used previously on another monitor. Although there wasn’t a huge difference between the color balance settings I got with the Eye One vs. the Spyder, the Spyder couldn’t set luminance (brightness). The Eye One 2 can do that and it was critical in getting the prints to match the screen.

There are two adjusting modes - an automatic one and an advanced one. The automatic mode is very straightforward to use, but the software did not properly adjust luminance. The “advanced” mode is what you should use. But there’s one issue you need to be aware of. The printed instructions are so brief as to be useless, and the on-screen instructions for the advanced mode are not at all intuitive.

There are three linked modules in the advanced mode, one for adjusting contrast, one for adjusting color/white point and one for adjusting luminance/brightness. You have to page through the directions for each module by clicking on an arrow at the upper right of the program window, and then you start the module by clicking elsewhere, on a “start” arrow on the lower right. Once the module starts you open your monitor controls and adjust contrast to match the bar graph on the screen. Each time you make a small adjustment, it takes the software a few seconds to recalibrate the bar graph, so you need a bit of patience. When you have a match, click on Stop to return to the beginning of the next module. You then read the next set of instructions, one short page at a time, and find the start button to begin the color module. Repeat for the luminance mondule. This is very clumsy. The on-screen instruction should take you from the instructions directly to the first step of the actual calibration routine. When the first module is done, the interfact shoudl take you back to the instructions for the next module without having to jump back & forth between an instruction window, a separate start button, and the adjustment process. (If you start a module without finding the instructions, the software will run in an endless loop while it waits for you to open up your monitor controls and adjust the settings for each stage.)

When the “advanced” calibration process finishes you get a report on screen with a chart showing the color gamut of the monitor as it’s been calibrated. It takes about 20 minutes to complete. You can name and save the monitor settings and set a reminder to recalibrate in a week or a month, etc. (It’s a good idea to recalibrate often as monitors shift their output as they age. In fact that’s the reason why you buy one of these devices for yourself rather than passing it from friend to friend.)

To sum up, the Eye-One Display 2 is a very competent device with a non-intuitive, clumsy user interface for the adavanced mode. Buy it for its competence, not its elegance. The ability to calibrate luminance/brightness is a critically important ingredient and its not available on the less expensive “LT” version of this product.

3 Stars Good but not great
Firstly, this product shipped with basically no documentation on how (and what) SW to install — and no obvious installers to launch upon inserting the CD into your computer. Basically, the critical piece of software you need to install is the “Eye-One Match 3″. Recommend visiting xrite.com to get the latest version of the Match software and install that.

After I got the software all installed, I got started calibrating my Apple Cinema Display monitor - I’m on a Mac OSX computer. The software offers two modes - easy and advanced. Since I know about color, I thought I’d head straight for the advanced mode first. The software itself does provide instructions to walk you through the calibration process, so that was nice to see — given the absence of documentation. After following the on-screen instructions to the letter, my “advanced mode” calibration resulted in a very cold/harsh (heavy on the blues) color profile that was just obviously off. Figuring I had made some mistake, I tried it again — in advanced mode. Same result. Next time I tried the “easy mode” - which produced much better results. The only problem is that you’re stuck with the program’s defaults for gamma, white point, etc. In any case, the easy mode appeared to produce much better results — at least for me. In the end, due to the drastic differences between the easy and advanced mode, and essentially being stuck with the easy mode — I’m rating this product as three stars. Honestly, I think there are better products out there for this kind of cash.

4 Stars Good for non-pro level
This is a fine device for what it is. Using it in “easy” mode couldn’t be, well - easier. And, the difference will likely startle those who haven’t ever calibrated a monitor or laptop before.

But don’t get carried away with references to higher level systems. It’s true that the Blue Eye (which is just a re-branding of NEC’s pro displays) uses this as their measuring device (I’ve got one), but that’s the end of the similarity. The NEC/Blue Eye system is a two-way communication between the measuring device and the electronics in the display. During the calibration, the two devices do a great deal of sophisticated measuring and actual adjustment of the monitor itself, rather than just creating a passive profile for the computer to read. After the process is conmplete, the monitor then makes ongoing adjustments between calibrations to compensate for the inevitable color “drift” that happens on all monitors.

(This is the reason for the reminders to re-calibrate, by the way, and why, if you don’t do it at least monthly (regardless of brand), you’ll have wasted your investment.)

So by all means get one of these and move up a giant step towards “what you see is what you get”, but know that this is a prosumer level device.

By the way, this alone will only make your screen look better (realistic flesh tones, etc.). For printing, you’ll need to learn about and use printing paper profiles. This is part of “color management”, which is a whole topic by itself.

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Saitek Pro Flight Yoke with Three Lever Throttle PZ44

Precision. Realism. Control. The Saitek Pro Flight Yoke System is highly engineered to meet the exacting needs of the true flight simulation enthusiast. Stainless steel shaft, ergonomic controls, integrated chronograph and separate throttle quadrant ensure a smooth, accurate and totally realistic flying experience.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Good yoke and throttle quadrant
Good product, worth the money. Had a small ‘dead zone’ in the middle of the yoke when it first arrived in the mail, but that seems to have pretty much disappeared now. The advanced programming of the buttons does not appear to be too simple, but basic setup in FSX is pretty straight forward. Would definitely buy again.

5 Stars Helps secure the illusion
If you really want your flight sim to be realistic, here is a great place to start.

4 Stars phantom button pressing resolved!!!
this yoke is great, its a touch insensitive but will serve the avid flight sim operator greatly… i just got mine and logged over fifteen hours of flight time and no phantom buttons here!!! they must’ve worked hard to resolve it after so many bad reviews. good product for the money buy it!!!

5 Stars YES..!
This is a great product. I also purchased the extra throttle and the peddles. I love it all..!!! I didn’t have any issues with it at all. I installed them with my MS XP then reinstalled with Vista 64 and with both OS’s not a problem.. I have tried to program them yet but I am still happy.

4 Stars The best on the market!!!
Very realistic, lots of features. Almost no installation required. It could be perfected if the aircraft would move back to the center after you make a turn. Must be able to adjust the yoke’s mixture & rpm for the flaps, spoilers, landing gears. Overall a good product.

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Logitech Extreme PC Gaming Headset 980233 0403

Gain the edge you need in online gaming with the Logitech Extreme PC Gaming Headset. Its behind the head design stays comfortable even after hours of intense action. The 30mm stereo drivers produce high quality audio, and the noise-canceling microphone blocks unwanted background noise. Best of all, the ratchet boom lets you precisely adjust the microphone for optimal positioning… so that it stays put even in the heat of battle.PRODUCT FEATURES:Great for Internet gaming, voice chat, online conferencing, or voice command;Sleek behind-the-head design is perfect for hours of comfortable wear;Ratchet boom keeps the microphone in its optimal position;Dynamic stereo sound lets you immerse yourself in your games and music;Inline volume and mute control allow convenient operation;Noise-canceling microphone filters out unwanted background noise.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Great Headset with some Minor Irritation
This is an excellent headset for the price you pay. The sound quality is adequate, and the microphone picks up your voice, but the bit that goes over your ears takes a bit of getting used to. This headset is not designed for long-term use on a single day without some conditioning, as the ear supports start feeling a bit sharp after a few hours, and can cause blisters if you ignore it (this is from personal experience =P). If you only plan to use it for an hour or two at a time, this is a great headset, but if you’re a hardcore gamer with lots of time on your hands, go for something with a different design or more padding.

5 Stars Great product.
Overall great product. The sides can and sometimes do bother your ears and the sound could be improved, but otherwise excellent. Glad i bought it.

5 Stars Gaming headphones that are affordable and work
I’ve tried several expensive versions from Turtle Beach, Sennheiser, and others, and all have disappointed for various reasons. Spending $150 on something and not being blown away, having driver issues, dealing with power cords, etc… sucks. I bought these head phones, plugged them in, and was chatting away, fragging people in TF2 without any set up whatsoever. I recommended these to several of my friends and they have been using them without issue as well.

If you want a simple, stereo headset that works, try these. If you don’t like them, you’re out $15 - not $150.

4 Stars Bang for the buck headset.
The price can’t be beat. The quality of the design is great and it simply works. There are more comfortable headsets available, but at this price the Logitech Extreme PC Gaming Headset can’t be beat.

5 Stars Great Headset
I ordered this headset about a month ago and I’m very pleased with it. I’ve traveled across the country twice with it fairly precariously packed and it is holding up great. Due to it’s shape it’s a bit odd to pack. The mic doesn’t exactly fold away as it might with other headsets but it works well enough. The sound quality from the headset is great and from what I can tell the mic quality on the other side of the line comes out crisp as well. It is nice to have volume control on the cord (as well as a mute switch.) Fits comfortably for the most part (as comfortable as any headphones are.)

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