it always crashes and we thought it would be great based on the specifications
345218
This computer is horrendous. It's slow, it always crashes and we thought it would be great based on the specifications, but honestly, it's terrible.
4211397
If it would stop crashing that would be great, it's fast tho.
1212410
Very unstable, I think not only because of the lack of screws, but also because of the chips. Even though it is fast, it often crashed in the middle of the task. Not recommended.
4804360
My kid was ecstatic when he opened this on Christmas Day. Unfortunately I can't even get past accepting terms and conditions without it crashing back to the home screen. After about 90 minutes and a few dozen repeat attempts we gave up and played two other games that actually worked. I'm sure this might be an outstanding game but my initial customer experience has been abysmal. I have never written an Amazon review, but NBA2k14 inspired me to try to save other parents some headache and buy something else. Happy to revise this review when developers fix the problem! I hope that's soon...
1205539
I've never written a review on this site before, but I did think it was important to put up a warning about this DVD player. I bought one nine months ago. The first sign of trouble came that night, when it stopped playing a disc halfway through. That was a slightly scratched disc, so I thought nothing of it. Weeks went by with no problems, and the return time elapsed.
Then it started getting bad. It often stopped playing in the middle of the disc, often when a new chapter tried to start. This would result in the screen freezing, then displaying digitized static. More often, it wouldn't read discs at all. I would put in the disc, it would whir for half a minute, then it would give up and report "no disc." Sometimes it would load the FBI warning, then crash before the movie or the main menu loaded. This happened about 60% of the time when I put in a new disc. Sometimes I could get it to read if I kept inserting the same disc, sometimes not. Also, the player routinely crashed when trying to play special features.
I haven't damaged the player at all. It's sat in the same place since I bought it. I see that other people have given positive reviews and said that their players are flawless, and I'm glad for them. I just wanted to report the problems I've had with mine.
450274
The product software crashed every computer we tried.  Could not get it to work.  Seems like a great idea and we intended to use it for a party but we were never able to hook it up.
3648984
Can you give negative stars?

Hard to like a product crashes during the first installation question.

I gave it one star because the installation program actually launched BEFORE crashing. (it could have crashed during launch. I guess thats worse)

It was functional until I chose to change the default installation directory. (Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.10240.16430,Exception code: 0xc0000374, Fault offset: 0x000d5c0c).

I gave it another star for installing properly if you accept all the defaults.
I gave it a third star for being easier this year to understand which version to buy. (Still causes heartburn)

I should have taken away a star because updating ttax will torture you with 5 prompts to approve installing updates with elevated privileges, but i do buy it every year so it must be at least okay.

In hind sight, I should have waited until April 16 to purchase. By then the glaring bugs should have been fixed.
423391
It is great when it decides it wants to work. There is no rhyme or reason as to when it will work. It looks great and it feels very sturdy. If it actually worked every time it would get 5 stars.
310163
This PC was fixed under warranty, but even then it never worked right. you can hear the hard drive spin up to super speeds and then it crashes.
4924004
This may or may not be a fantastic toy, but unless the app starts working we will never know.  The app just continues to report server issues.
3973099
The thing crashed after only having it two or three weeks.  I really need to trust my hardware devices and be able have them last for a long time.
2782980
Being a Dell owner for more than 14 years, when that machine finally died, I bought a brand new Dell Inspiron 5758 in November 2015.  The hard drive crashed in March 2016 under warranty, and then the Dell warranty replacement crashed in September 2016.  At that point, I bought two stock Seagate basic drives at a local electronics store -- one to use and one to keep on hand -- and the first crashed in December 2016.  The second of the two has been running for 7 months, but has gotten sluggish and we found drive errors (bad sectors) last week.

At the time of the December 2016 crash, I purchased the WD Black as our backup replacement drive.  I installed it yesterday, and the speed is noticeably better.than both the Dell drives (which I believe were Seagate) and the store-bought Seagate drives. Granted, the specs are better and it *should* be better than both of those drives, but some reviewers are saying it's not and/or not a noticeable difference.

For those wondering "what the heck are they doing that their hard drives keep crashing?!" ... this laptop sits on a desk all day.  It may be taken to a client's office once every few months.  It runs Windows 7 and MS Office, Adobe, and Corel programs mostly.  It runs maybe 12 hours most days, but it doesn't overheat.  No harsh treatment and not even any gaming.  We run "checkup" programs regularly. Dell claims it's fine and can't/won't tell us why it keeps crashing.

We backup files (robocopy) to our own cloud (NAS) and a WD external drive daily and run a system image on the first of every month. FYI: If a system image won't finish, it could be a sign of bad sectors -- run chkdsk [at your own risk] to confirm your file and drive integrity is in good order.  If your system is running slow, you should defrag and run chkdsk (which really should be run regularly), as well.

It's only been 24 hours, but so far, we're pleased with the speed. We'll check back in and let you know how many months we get out of this one. :)
4780095
This is the second one I ordered.  The first one crashed the third day I had it.  It seems to always have to be updated.
61509
If it had worked, would have been terrific. Amazingly thin and light, super fast. But, bought refurbished and crashed constantly. Blue screen, even windows sometimes didn't load on startup. I reloaded clean version of windows from MS, updated drivers, ran diagnostics and fixes. Really wanted this gorgeous laptop to work, but had to return.
505748
Works great until it crashes! It crashed with out any warning! I will not buy another maxtor drive.
3270179
Despite all the warnings on Amazon and on the product support pages, I gave this charming puppy a home long enouth to load about 16 cd's.

Then like i'd been warned  --the crash.  Recovery?  no problem.  Just spend a couple of days in recovery mode till you give up all hope and join the others who bought and returned this first run at a great idea.  Do-over permitted Creative, because of your design, feature advances, and demonstrated sonic abilities.  But try to keep version 2.0 off the market until you include tested hard drives.

Charleston has hope
4173240
Like they fixed it up to work for a few weeks then only to let ya down by crashing.. Dissapointed