Great solid PC to have on the kitchen table. It does what we want well: internet reference, videos, email, youtube. We really liked our first Eee PC, but we made the mistake of getting the version with a solid state drive and the C partition was just too small to keep windows running so we decided to get a new one.

I wish I had known about these annoyances, to set my expectations to the right level, so I am sharing them here to help set yours in case you are looking at this model.

1. Windows 7 starter version is missing some features that I use with every PC I have ever purchased:
a. Cannot set the desktop background picture or colour!
b. Cannot change the default sound settings for (often annoying) system beeps and events (so I just turn the speaker off most of the time).
c. Cannot do a fast user switch to allow one user to keep their applications up while the other user logs on (the first user must log off first).
2. The boot boost (fast boot) appears to only allow wired internet connections. So to get a wireless connection, you must boot up Windows. This more or less makes fast boot useless for us since we pretty much only use the wireless connection.
3. As I am typing this, I am finding the touchpad very (nope, just got to extremely) annoying as I keep accidently brushing a thumb on it and it jumps my text cursor to where the mouse cursor is positioned. It happened about 20 (now 25) times while typing this review.

Given all the above, we will still be able to make this PC work for what we bought it for. However, I now know some things to be careful about for future computer purchases.

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If you are looking to change yourself to become an even greater gift to the world, then I can recommend no greater books than the ones written by Dr. David R. Hawkins. And yes, I have read Chopra, Dyer, Myss, Ruiz, Tolle, Walsch, Williamson, et al. and found them wonderfully helpful, as well as "A Course In Miracles" (which Hawkins highly recommends).

The greatest gift we can give the world is to raise our own level of consciousness. In an average lifetime, a person will raise their level of consciousness about 5 points. Simply by being exposed to this material, a person's level of consciousness will raise on average about 35 points. This is equivalent to 7 lifetimes of personal growth.

My own subjective experience of this is that it is true. My family members and friends have shared with me feedback indicating that they see the difference in me of the positive shifts that have happened since I started working with this material.

"Power vs Force" is difficult to get through in places, as I and some of my family members and friends have found. "The Eye of the I" had a great positive effect on me and I have read it a number of times. I very rarely read a book more than once. "I" had a hugely positive effect on me and I have read it many times. "Truth vs Falsehood" is an interesting book, helping me put the world and "everything outside of me" into perspective. "Transcending the Levels of Consciousness" is an amazingly practical book that is helping me to understand and see where I am on my journey to enlightenment, and to help me avoid pitfalls along the way. While I wait for the next book, the DVDs, files available in the Yahoo groups, and discussion with my study group, are helping me to keep focused on changing my perspective of content as it expands closer to context.

If you too find it difficult to get through "Power vs Force", consider jumping to "The Eye of the I" and then "I", and come back to "Power vs Force" if you feel drawn to do so.

Metta.