Pros: Light, i5 Processor, Bluetooth, and numeric keyboard
Comes with windows 7 PRO installed, and is licensed for 8.1 PRO, although you must use an external CD to install it.. All for under $460...

Cons: No internal CD connector to add CD later, even though the laptop has the appearance of the CD module. No backlit keyboard, lots of HP and third party junkware (read other thoughts)

Other Thoughts: I created a bootable USB of the HP provided Win8 Disk. Booted from flash, and installed 8.1. The HP disk is almost perfect... it installs nothing but base windows. After booting to windows 8, Windows prompted to download the Bluetooth drivers...

Pros: Small and compact.. works very well in recording from up to 9 cameras, great for the price.

Cons: Poor playback. You can only playback 1 channel at a time. Requires software to be run from a PC or MAC to add the device to the mydlink.com cloud interface...

Other Thoughts: Why does it only playback one channel? It gives you the option of playing back more than 1, but then gives an error that the maximum number of channels has been exceeded. So don't offer me the option of choosing more than 1... if one is the limit.

The playback is very difficult to follow. If you know the time you want, it's ok... but to review an entire evening for example, to see if something happened on one of the 9 channels, would take hours..... so hopefully you know when it happened....

This hardware is basically the dlink camera software, which I didn't like either.... I expected better from a hardware device, but got the same result as it's the same software, just on a small Linux box.

I still haven't been able to register the box on mydlink.com as dlink forces you to use software on your Windows (or mac) PC to configure the mydlink.com connection, and it always reports that the device doesn't have internet access.... which it does..