Great software let down by buggy hardware
344739
The biggest thing holding me back from buying a roomba was price and lack on integration, either with home automation systems or web control. This product basically solves both but with some caveats. The plate is easy to install and setup with the app, and once you set it up you can easily control it either by the app or webpage. My biggest issues is it's glitchy, either the status doesn't update in which they say it's confused of it's current state so you need to press the clean or spot button to get it to update. Second it occasionally won't clean when it's initiated it will do it's little melody like it's about to but stops halfway, the only way to get it to clean is set it to max clean. Third, it keeps making popping sounds through the roomba's speaker roughly every couple minutes for a while then it will stop. I've reset both the roomba both via the software and hardware method as well as removing the batter for a while and reinstalling it and no dice still continues. I love this product and enjoy that they are still developing it and adding features but at least the one I have drives me nuts to the point of almost just saving up and getting the current app enabled roomba.

Pros:
Great App and Web Design
Works with some Home Automation System (although I never could get it to work with homeseer or it was sporadic)
Simple to install and setup
Adds functions that even the current 1000$ roomba doesn't have
Continually adding new functions and bugfixing the app

Cons:
Gets confused and won't show status unless you press clean or spot
Won't clean sometimes unless you hit max clean
Causing popping sounds from the roomba's speakers
3987852
Beautiful piece of Hardware , Great idea , great product , but software needs to be improved . Sometimes lose the learning cvodes from some buttons (I don't know why , but nothing serious at the moment) . E-Control needs more develope hours to fulfill all the user's expectations . Also IHC (that needs a lot of work to be very functional as I write in another review in Alexa) . If the Broadlink strategy is to avoid IFTTT and go (is a good idea) with the Amazon Alexa approach , please put the efforts to include all the necessary interfaces and appliances to work under Alexa . Is not admissible that I have more than 15 appliances (via IR and another via RF) running on E-Control and the only support by IHC is TV and STB (and limited because of the problems about changing channels at least on DirecTV DVR) . You can not expect that Alexa Users are going to buy this very good Remote Control if you are limited only to handle TV , STB and a Couple of Smart Plugs . Neither you Alarm nor other Broadlink products can be handle via Alexa .Besides you new to re learn the codes and can not be imported from E-Control to IHC . (amazing)
So , please try to put more efforts in software development (Be fast , competitors are running and you are walking) . Thanks for listening .
762396
The Transformer TF300 disappointed me a bit. It wasn't the hardware but the software that was disappointing. The TF300 does indeed have great specs and its benchmark performance is high. Unfortunately, in the real world, things tend to work differently. My tablet suffers from random unresponsiveness and lag when browsing the web,  running certain apps or multitasking. I get the option to close the browser/app or wait for it to respond. Usually, right after selecting the "wait" option, it becomes responsive again. Using a different browser to at least remedy the web experience only makes it worse. Another issue plaguing the tablet is certain game apps not loading or crashing randomly. A re-installation of the app usually fixes this problem. These issues are unacceptable for a next gen tablet with such good specs. However, the tablet is still new in the market and I expect Asus to patch these issues in the near future.

I'm very pleased with the TF300's hardware and construction. Yes. You're going to get a plastic shell. This isn't Asus' Prime series and it's not an iPad. This is the Asus Transformer TF300 and sacrifices had to be made in order for the company to sell it at a lower price than it's competitors. Fortunately for the buyer, the TF300 doesn't sacrifice too much to keep its low price tag. If you compare it to its more expensive predecessors, it actually gains in some areas.

In conclusion, the TF300's performance is held back by it's poor implementation of software. Fortunately, this problem can be solved by software updates. I'll be keeping my TF300 because I'm hopeful that these issues will be patched and, once they are, I'll be one very happy consumer.

P.S. Would you like to see your problems fixed? We can ALL help get these and other issues fixed faster by letting ASUS know. Contact them via their webpage and tell them what's wrong. The process is very easy and they do listen. I did it:)

UPDATE (5/14/12)

I received a reply from ASUS concerning my tablet's issues.  They recommended a factory reset followed by a cold boot.  I did as they recommended and the tablet did in fact become more stable.  Occasionally,  I'll still get an unresponsive browser.  This mostly happens if I try to scroll the page before it fully loads so it doesn't bother me. Also,  some Tegra 3 optimized games crash from time to time.  This is no big deal as the games only need to be patched up.  There is,  however, one persistent issue that drives me mad.  Sometimes,  for no apparent reason, the browser will close by it self. I'll make sure to follow up with ASUS about this.

Update (5/24/12)

ASUS released an update for the TF300 on May 10th 2012. First of all, I would like to mention that this firmware update fixes the FLICKER issue that some of us have experienced. Since the update, I've also noticed a better web experience. However, I still suspect that the WiFi receiver is kinda weak. Also, it could still use some more tweaking. You can look over the fixes provided by the firmware on ASUS website. If your tablet didn't update automatically (mine didn't) do so manually under Settings/About Tablet/System Firmware Update. I'm raising the rating from three stars to four stars because of the current fixes and ASUS' quick response to consumer complaints. Keep it up ASUS.
266556
I was thrilled to get such a high-performance, inexpensive, lightweight computer.  I bought it right after Thanksgiving (2006) and immediately started having issues.  The computer is fast.  The screen is small but brilliant and clear and overall the responsivity of the machine was in the hardly better anywhere -- except that as you are typing or doing work suddenly, for no obvious reason you'll get a freeze -- the system will just stop responding.

At first I thought it was just a software glitch especially since the ZoneAlarm security software is about as intrusive a bit of irritating software as I've ever encountered.  But after removing in every case the system that seemed to be offending, I've come to the conclusion that it is just some fault with the computer.  It's made in China afterall.

My experience with it is just awful.  It freezes, it goes to a blue screen sometimes without warning, it says that it's lost registry entries on boot up but has recovered them, but this happens repeatedly.  I'm using it now to write this review looking over my shoulder waiting for it to freeze.

Maybe after they get the bugs out this will be terrific -- but right now it is a lemon.  If I was the only one I'd think it was a fluke.  But when I started researching the "freeze" I found other users with the same problem.

I'd avoid it for now.
UPDATE -- I took the first Averatec back to Staples where I bought it and the fellow there was very surprised saying that they generally had a good reputation.  So I thought, "OK let's give'em another chance."  I exchanged the first machine for another and gave it to my son for Christmas.  Well he was thrilled.  But in three days of use, heavy use since he was playing WOW on it heavily -- but then for no reason, no abuse, the video started misbehaving.  It refused to heal itself.  Two computers, two major issues, no abuse or misuse.  We took that one back and now he's checking out his new HP.  Meanwhile I'm pretty satisfied with my new Vaio although it's a little pricey by comparison.  If you get a good Averatec you're probably in good shape.  But 2 strikes in 2 tries is a surprisingly bad record.  I don't see any reason to be very optimistic about this beastie.  I probably should demote the thing to one star.
3938106
This could have been a great software program to own.  There are several useful forms no matter what your situation is and it is easy to use except.....it won't save certain files.  And if you get an error under a user name that user profile is corrupted so you have to start all over. I gave the product the benefit of the doubt, that I had possibly done something wrong, but when I tried the same files on a different user it did the same thing.  Even when I set up 2 new clean users it wouldn't let me switch back and forth.  I am ditching this version and getting the 2006 version hoping they have worked out the technical issues.
2946664
Camera and mike work great, but the software is a continuing problem.  Drivers have problems under Windows 10 ... even the latest.
3507367
This should be a 5 star product, but I'm taking off one point each for a flawed setup bug and the proprietary RAID implementation that at some point will come back to bite:

SETUP BUG: I had such high hopes for the 5N when I pulled it out of the box, but 3 hours later I was pulling my hair out in frustration and convinced I had a defect. It turned out to not be a defect. Instead, I realized I had managed to zero right in on a flaw in the setup process from the start. This is not mentioned on the quick start card or the instructions, so I'll try to save you the hassle: When turning on your 5N for the first time, LEAVE IT ALONE for a good 20 minutes. Don't click anything in the Drobo Control Panel. I found that as soon as I clicked another section in the control panel, I would get nothing but "Drobo detected an internal problem" errors. Of course every time I did a hard reset I would go right back to the same place on the control panel to see if I was still getting the error, so I was in an endless loop of hitting on this bug. I went back and forth with tech support on this until finally they provided the missing instruction: "Await completion of the initialization process, which can take up to 20 minutes." Once I did that, it worked beautifully.

PROPRIETARY RAID: This is an issue I read more and more about while researching my previous issue. After some thought, I came to the understanding that one day the Drobo hardware will fail. When it does, I won't be able to access any of my data until I purchase a replacement unit and transfer the drives over. This is because Drobo uses a proprietary RAID system that only their hardware can interpret. I have always used standard RAID and Greyhole systems in the past with the comfort of knowing that I can get at my data in many other ways if the hardware fails. Not so with Drobo. With Drobo, the choice is to keep a spare Drobo on hand in anticipation, or be without my data while scrambling to get a replacement unit. Let's just hope Drobo still makes the 5N or a compatible unit when this dreaded day comes, and sure as the sun will rise, the day will come when the Drobo hardware fails.
195528
The device by itself is amazing, but the associated software needs to be reviewed. I am using it on my mac through a windows 7 virtual machine. The USB driver doesn't work, this makes the fast data download from the GPS impossible, using bluetooth takes hours ! Also, travel recorders is not friendly and needs more option. You can't for instance, import data from a file, you have to import from the device.
4253736
Software is very poor - crashes all the time.  Also, I have a track log from one day of my trip that the program can't open and it shouldn't be any different from the other files?  Performance is also poor... Lost signal a lot.
136462
The hardware Vidbox converter works fine in conjunction with the included software if you are converting in Easy Wizard Mode (without editing). If you do wish to do video editing using the Advanced mode, be prepared. The program tended to be extremely unpredictable. I used it with a high-end PC and the program would continually lock up at random or it would not shut down cleanly after saving a project. Windows Task Manager had to be used many times to kill the program completely. Though it has a good looking interface, functionality in Advanced Mode is poor and it is evident that there was little User Acceptance Testing before it's release. Tools from menus were found to be either not selectable or did not seem to work correctly, if at all. After frustration and in the end, I kept the Vidbox, dumped the included software and went with another video editing package. No issues after that.
4043034
I have owned this product for about 2 weeks now and here are my experiences with it. This monitor calibrator is truly fantastic when it comes to its manin purpose - calibrating colors on your monitor - it is extremely accurate and the process is much faster than any other calibrator I've seen out there. I really enjoy the automatic profile adjustment feature based on the current ambient light conditions, kudos to that.

However, my review is 3 star only because the software is really, really buggy on OS X Lion. In order for the ambient light adjustment to work, there is a small utility called iProfiler that runs in the background. This utility (I've downloaded the latest version from X-Rite web site which is v1.2.0) has a memory leak problem - the memory consumption grows from 20 Mb to 800 Mb in less than 24 hrs (monitoring utilizing iStats). I have contacted X-Rite technical support and they are aware of this issue and have recommended turning off this feature. As such I cannot utilize this unit to its full capacity, and I am somewhat disappointed - for the premium price I've paid for this product, I would expect a premium quality software.
975135
I'm giving this product 2 stars because the hardware seems to be working fine. However, the backup software is an utter failure, at least when run on a Windows XP computer. The software sounded great - sure it takes a long time (18 hours!) to do the initial backup of your hard drive, but after that it just does incremental backups as needed. That's the promise, anyway.

Unfortunately, whenever backups are taking place the computer slows to a crawl, becoming virtually unusable. And for some reason it is backing up ALMOST ALL THE TIME, even when no files are being changed on the computer. There is no way to schedule backups for a particular time of day, and no way to stop a backup in progress. There is a "Disconnect gracefully" option in the tray tool, but it almost never works. If you click Disconnect while a backup is in progress (which is pretty much always) nothing happens for over a minute. Then a popup window informs you that it is impossible to disconnect at this time, and suggests that you try again later.

So I started booting up with the drive unplugged most of the time, and ignoring the plaintive little popup warnings. Every week or so I would connect the drive and let it backup overnight. At least I thought it was backing up. Then I started getting warnings that the drive was too full to do the next incremental backup. It's a 2 Terabyte drive, so this seemed pretty unlikely. But when I looked at the drive, it claimed to be more than 95% full. Most of the file system was hidden from me and I couldn't see any backup files at all on the part that was still visible.

So I decided to delete the Replica software completely, reformat the drive and just back up my files manually. Unfortunately, I did not have the drive connected to my computer when I deleted the software, and after that I was hosed. Windows would not reformat the disk. According to the user manual, there was a way to restore the disk with the Replica software tool from the computer, so I tried to reinstall the software.  The Replica setup files were still on the Seagate hard disk, but they refused to run. I copied the files onto my C: drive, but the setup failed there also, complaining about licenses.

I finally managed to reformat the hard disk by 1) deleting all the files manually and  2)rebooting the computer with the drive connected. Then I was finally able to start a reformat job going. It's in progress now. I hope that when it's done I will at least have a usable hard drive for the money I spent. However, I would under no circumstances recommend this backup software to anybody. It's possible that it would work better on a newer computer, but I wouldn't count on it.
1138635
Love everything about the hardware. The Android interface has a quirk that sucks. Trying to queu up a variety of songs doesn't  work well. On the far right hand side of song lists the menu (triple dot) doesn't active predictably or reliably. Hitting it works sometimes and doesn't  at all other times. So forget trying to queu up a series of your favorites. Bluesound needs to get in front of this as it is not something to be expected from a quality unit like the Vault 2.
4935216
The device is sleek, well designed, and the UI of the software is fantastic.  This device works extremely well with Xbox 360, PC, and classic gaming devices (even allowing the user to play Composite/RCA based consoles through HDMI as long as the software is running).  However, I attempted to record game play from my PS3 and PS4, respectively, and the HDCP kicked in immediately, even disabling the pass through to my TV.  Likewise the PS3 adapter failed to work with my device.

I don't know if other users are having this issue without the need of an HDMI splitter, but I feel the need to purchase another peripheral just to record gameplay is quite the redundancy.
4405581
The performance of this little tablet is amazing for its size. Its reasonably fast and responsive despite running a heavyweight OS, which goes to show how much faster the Atom is than its ARM competitors, not to mention it can run regular desktop applications. For the price compared to non-x86 tablets, this is a steal. Unfortunately it is not without problems. Most of these problems are software related and apply to all the Windows 8.1 touchscreen devices. Microsoft gave us the ability to run desktop applications, but then forgot that people might want to run them on a touchscreen.

There are a few newer desktop apps (Civ 5 for example) that have native touchscreen support and work great (with low graphics settings), but most of the windows library pretends that touchscreens don't exist. This is a given and is fine, but since there is no way to bring up the onscreen keyboard in a fullscreen program (huge oversight on Microsoft's part) and the way the touchscreen emulates a mouse click isn't compatible with many programs (minecraft for example) many of these desktop apps are completely unusable without an external keyboard and mouse. I've had programs that go fullscreen with no way to exit because I can't bring up the keyboard and I've had to use the task manager to kill them.

With a few small software tweaks , a lot more desktop apps would be usable on this device but as it stands now I would avoid the touchscreen only devices and get the 2 in 1 devices with some kind of keyboard and touchpad (like the asus transformer book t100) so you can at least use the desktop programs when you want to.

The lack of a full size USB port is annoying, the micro usb to usb adapters work but it is one more thing you have to carry. Also on my device the build quality was poor and the micro usb jack broke off internally so I ended up returning it.

I plan on waiting a few months to see if Microsoft (or a third party) will fix the broken desktop interface on a touchscreen so desktop programs will actually be usable without a keyboard and mouse. If you need one of these devices now, get one with some kind of keyboard case/dock and seriously consider getting the highest capacity model available. Windows programs are MUCH larger on average than android or iOS (the bundled office is 5GB by itself).

Overall this is a very promising tablet, although I would wait for software fixes and avoid Lenovo's products (at least their consumer line, the thinkpad variant might be better) as this is the second Lenovo device I've had to return this year due to poor build quality.
4180631
It's a comfortable mouse that tracks well. The software is easy to use, and no set up was needed to pair via bluetooth to my Mid-2014 MacBook Pro 15. However, and I think that this has been mentioned in other reviews, there is a software bug that causes the connection to drop periodically. If it doesn't drop, the cursor speed will change randomly (usually only happens when using Target Display Mode to my 27 iMac). I'm sure this is a fantastic mouse on a windows based PC, but there are software bugs on MacOS that prevent this mouse from working flawlessly. It's my favorite mouse to use, it's just a shame there are Mac bugs. Buy and use at your own risk mac users!
4887002
Converter hardware works as advertised. The accompanying software is buggy and incomplete: clearly rushed out and has never been updated. Crashed while converting a 60-minute video