Eurocom P5 Pro Review, Taking Devil's Canyon Mobile

Eurocom keeps the P5 Pro bloatware-free, but it preloads a few worthwhile applications. I like Eurocom’s choices, but if you don’t, you’ll find they’re easy enough to ignore.

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The main screen is just as barren as it should be, with a slick Eurocom background. The Apps page is equally free of clutter. The most interesting application on the system is the keyboard profile tool, which gives you a boatload of customization options. You can choose virtually any color (or colors) for the keyboard backlighting and you can save them (along with custom macros) to profiles. I’m not a huge fan of pulsing keyboard lights, there are plenty of options for those who are, though. The software has a clean, easy-to-use interface.

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The other application of note is the Killer Network Manager, thanks to the P5 Pro’s Killer wireless adapter. It lets you monitor and manage application activity and has a nice System Performance tool that tracks network usage, signal strength, and other stats. It also sends you to Ookla when you want to test your network connection.  

Joshua Gulick

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine.  A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family. 

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