Belkin BZ103050vTVL Mini Surge Protector w/ USB
May 23, 2008
I had this conversation in chat this morning…
He wouldn’t shut up about it, but I couldn’t get him to bother to write it all up for a review, either.
So, by the miracle of chat transcripts, here’s more-or-less a guest review — the hard way…
heh… just got this…
dude. it’s sweet
3 surge protected outlets and 2 usb ports
i shoulda bought two… 1 for travel and 1 for the imac
this belkin surge protector is brilliant… the 3 prongs can rotate 360 degrees to get you into pretty much any wall outlet configuration
bbiam. gotta shut this off so i can plug the protector in
absolutely brilliant… a usb charging hub and a surge protector…. with a lifetime warranty and will cover up to $75000 if it fails.
i shoulda bought 3… 2 for me, 1 for you
this is blog-able.
there are a number of belkin products i don’t like, but this one seems hard to **** up and if it does it’s job… i’ll be very happy.
damn. i am going to have to get another one.
just thinking back to that last trip and how much of a pain in the ass it was just to find an outlet… let alone find one where i could plug my phone and laptop and the cradle in all at once
i like the 2 usb ports… b/c i won’t have to carry around a usb brick for the phone or an ipod
Sounds pretty nifty, actually. Who knows, maybe he’ll actually get me one…
Belkin BZ103050vTVL Mini Surge Protector w/ USB
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Chuck Lawson · Filed Under Belkin OmniView SOHO DVI/USB KVM Switch Review
June 15, 2004
Well, there’s a mouthful of acronyms for you. For those unfamiliar, a KVM switch is a device to switch a Keyboard, Video monitor, and Mouse between several computers. DVI in this case stands for “Digital Visual Interface”, a standard for connecting computers to (mostly) LCD monitors, and of course USB is Universal Serial Bus and SOHO stands for “Small Office - Home Office”.
Regular readers may recall that a short time back I ended up replacing a dying old Viewsonic 19” CRT with the excellent Princeton VL1916 19” LCD monitor. Well, of course one thing leads to another, and I decided that it’d be convenient to be able to use this with both my desktop and my PowerBook.
I’ve used KVM switches in the past, but those were the dark days of the technology—not-too-bright mainly mechanical switches, usually with a lot of quality loss on the VGA signal. They were annoying, but handy under certain circumstances.
Times have changed…
