This is a great starter set. I was paying more than $100 a month for manicures and pedicures to look the part for my business-formal job's dress code. That is also a lot of time spent in the salon. I wanted something cheaper and easier.

Purchased this to replace an APC that kept claiming the batteries were non functional. Works great. I have a power hungry desktop, a cable modem, a router, 4 monitors, a macbook pro, and a mac mini hooked up to this thing and I can get 20-25 minutes of runtime during power outages.

I am NOT good at putting things together as a rule, however I did get this put together by myself. I struggled a few times getting the roof pieces to slide/snap together when suddenly as if by magic boom they were. Feels nice and sturdy once its all together. My dogs will go inside but I need to put some outdoor bedding in it for better traction. They don't like the bare floor. Very nice product for a reasonable cost and not terribly hard to assemble.

When I decided to upgrade to HD video, I figured I would just upgrade Roxio to 2011 Pro and I would have no worries. After all. 2010 had done fine with all my regular stuff and i was used to using it. I have a Canon video camera which records in .mts format. I called and double checked that it woudl work and they said it would. Well, it never worked right. It would hang up and crash and eventually would refuse to write to the burner. I called up Roxio and found out that it is NOT compatible after all. They said you can convert .mts to mpeg4 but that takes just as long as encoding a movie (about 4 hours for an hour movie) and THEn you have to load the movie, which takes another four hours. Not acceptable. I will be purging this garbage off of my hard drive and going with something that actually works. Terrible product. I do NOT recommend.