Summary: This remote is nice for those wanting a cool gadget to brag about. It looks very nice and doesn't look as big as it does in the pictures.

The setup is very easy. It didn't take me more than 20 minutes to setup my AV receiver, HD cable box, HDTV, and DVD player.

The only downside is that I find myself having to tap the screen more than once since it's not as sensitive as I want it to be. Also you need to navigate through many menu options in order to get to certain functions.

I like the fact that you can put your own pictures onto the remote as a screensaver as well as have a slideshow of your own pictures. The remote acts as somewhat of a digital picture frame in that sense.

Summary: When I bought the device I didn't think about the fact that with a classic remote there is a lot of tactile feedback - the button pattern is quickly memorized and you can snatch it up and begin selecting functions without ever looking at the remote. I took this for granted. With the touch screen, you have nearly no tactile feedback, so you constantly have to take your eyes off the monitor to look at what button you're pressing/menu you're on, etc. This kind of sucks. Even worse, the output power of the LEDs isn't even close to that of the other Harmony remotes, so I find that I have to hold the device so that the LEDs are pointed directly at my equipment. When I'm holding it in that fashion, I cannot see the screen at all. What would be \"natural\" is if one could hold the device like a book (so one can see the screen straight on) and then select functions - but if you do that, the LEDs don't have enough output to change the functions on your devices. As a result, you have to look at the screen, position your finger over a function, then tilt the remote down and point it at devices before pressing the button.

It's extremely awkward and unpleasant.

IMHO, they expect you to buy the RF repeater, which would solve this problem. But if that's what they wanted, why bother putting the IR LEDs in there in the first place? I'm very frustrated by it.

Another problem is that Logitech removed the XML customization options from the Harmony web set up program. I had done a lot of \"under the hood\" tuning of my older Harmonys, and I can no longer do so myself - I have to open a case to make such changes (and rely on the Logitech support engineers to get them right). Also, it's difficult to create macros that do more than one function with a single button press - for example, my receiver allows me to control a second zone, but on the receiver remote I have to push \"ZONE 2\" and then push \"POWER\" to enable the second zone, then \"ZONE 2\" and then the volume controls to control the volume, etc. I'd like to turn these into single button presses, but I cannot.

So as a result (of mainly the LED power and tactile feedback issues), this thing is gathering dust and I'm using my old Harmony remote. :(

Summary: The computer setup wasn't as bad as I had expected. It took a while to figure out the complexity of my home theater system, but it wasn't nearly as bad as using my older Sony remote. This product worked great on my MacBook Pro. The only negative I can think about is that it doesn't work 100% on all my components out of the box, rather about 90%.