| Date | Thing | Best for its price or your efforts | Reason | Second follow up
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Nov 2007
| LCD Monitor
| Acer AL1932 | MVA matrix, mature 19 inch technology (vs unmature wide matrices) | Benq 91GP | the same
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Oct 2006
| PDA | Asus A636N
| 40 hours on single battery, convenient controls, the best sensitivity of GPS receiver | N/A | |
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| | Server OS | Debian Linux
| Deb package management, amount of precompiled packages, long maintenance cycle (install and forget)
| Ubuntu | More packages,
more whistles, included 3D drivers for desktop, short release cycle less suitable for busy admin
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Jan 2008
| Desktop OS
| Windows XP Home
| More mature desktop applications, more intuitive and productive explorer experience than KDE or other graphics managers. | N/A | No frameworks for RAD tools on linux competitive to .NET or Delphi, WINE does not support all win32 applications |
| | Development IDE | Visual Studio 2008 | Integration, all in one, excellent GUI designer | SharpDevelop/MonoDevelop | |
| | Programming platform for office/home software
| .NET/Mono | The best for thick GUI app, convenient RAD tools, universal (including server side apps with light clients)
| Java | suitable for heavy portable server side apps with light clients, embedded, mobile devices |
| | GUI Grid Component suite for .NET
| DevExpress XtraGrid suite
| Very rich feature set, you need only to learn (instead of do it your self), all components are highly integrated | N/A | yeah, I tried C1, Infragistics and would not place them here because they lack many unique DevExpress features |
2007
| Satellite receiver | Metabox 6
| SPDIF, Component out, stable sharing, the best emulator like Diablo | N/A | Nothing near Metabox price of $120
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| 2005 | CMS (Content Management System)
| PlainBlack WebGUI | Feature set, admin GUI aproach, architecture, price $0 (free), actually it would be unbeatable even if its license would cost a couple hundreds of USD | Typo3 | may be sometimes something comparable in asp.net will appear
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| Jan 2008 | Video Card | Geforce 7900 GS | Best performance for its price of $120, better than geforce 8600GT, excellent linux support. Geforce 7900 GTX is only 1.5 times faster than 7900 GT or GS while 2-3 times more expansive
| ATI X1950
| no linux support |
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