The machine is well build, great keyboard. Easy to disassemble. The keyboard is tactile and responsive, with things like a function key lock and num pad to make it much more productive than a macbook. The track point thing is awesome and having physical left/right/middle mouse buttons is a huge usability plus. The eathernet port and hdmi is critical to a good work machine, the macbooks got rid of this and requires a dongle for everything so good job Lenovo. Thinner isn't always better. Cons: the track pad is of much lower quality than a macbook, but I got used to it in about 2 weeks. For an i5 and 8G of memory, it is overpriced. The i7 with 8G of ram would have been a great deal at $800, or a good deal at $900.