PRIME ENTERTAINMENT QX-5 Microscope From:Prime Entertainment , PRIME ENTERTAINMENT ,
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Prime Entertainment
EAN: 0851244000208
Weight: 260 hundredths-pounds
Label: PRIME ENTERTAINMENT
Manufacturer: PRIME ENTERTAINMENT
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 96 months
Model: QX5
Packaged Height: 764 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 1142 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 269 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 780 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows 98
Platform: Windows NT
Platform: Windows Me
Platform: Windows XP
Platform: No Operating System
Publisher: PRIME ENTERTAINMENT
Studio: PRIME ENTERTAINMENT
Feature:
- Simply connect this microscope to any PC and watch as the tiny things are magnified to incredible size -- and displayed on your monitor
- Up to 200X magnification for seeing the tiniest particles and microbes, bigger than life
- Requires USB port
Product Description:
The QX-5 Microscope is the perfect educational tool for children who want to learn about their world! Attach this electronic microscope to your PC and let children explore the tiny, hidden parts of their world.
Customer Reviews:
 Great hardware, not-so-good software, 2008-01-28
I love this microscope! My kids and I are having lots of fun with it. The best part is being able to take photos and videos of the stuff you look at. My son has used the photos for science homework assignments. My only complaint (and the only reason I gave this product 4 stars rather, than 5) is that the software is buggy. The software interface is fine and child-friendly, however it crashed one of my computers (blue screen). The microscope would work just fine, then out of nowhere, a blue screen of death and I'd have to reboot the whole system. So, I connected it to another computer and the software crashed when trying to save a movie to the hard drive. However, on the second machine I can just restart the program and it does save the movie and works fine otherwise, just a nuisance to have to restart the program every time I save a movie. Both of my machines are high-end computers, well-maintained running Windows XP. I emailed tech support via[...] regarding these software issues about a month ago and never got a reply. I did not try phone support. But not impressed with email support. I don't understand why a tech company would not embrace email support over phone support as I do, but anyway... aside from the software issues, I love this product and there is a good chance the software would work fine on a differently configured PC. Still, I'm hoping that Digital Blue updates the software soon.
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