If you can get this refurbished or on a decent sale to compensate for the extra stick of ram then this is a great laptop.  With that said I wouldn't buy any laptop with 4gigs of ram and expect an enjoyable user experience.  It is fast, light, well built(for the price category) and will last 8-9 hours with steady use(this is not a gaming laptop).  Solid performer for productivity workloads(it is used for web development and office productivity which includes some minor photo editing).