I purchased this laptop as a travel companion to my mac book. It worked well for a few months but about 7 months in it started developing sudden auto switch off issues and finally the motherboard gave in. I also noticed that the silver skin on the laptop started peeling after just a few uses. Looks like it was spray painted or something.With refurb items it's almost always luck when it comes to the particular unit you end up receiving. My unit clearly had more defects than I would have cared to have but that's like I guess. Just beware when purchasing these machines yes you save tons of money but you may very well end up going back for another machine.