I’m a final year medical student and I was really struggling to use my 7 year old laptop. I was hoping it would be good enough to just study for my last board exam before graduating but it couldn’t even open web pages reliably! And literally took 5 mins to just turn on.I found this laptop on amazon and watched a ton of review videos. It was super cheap so I was wary, I was concerned it would be unreliable. But ultimately I went for it, and boy was that a great call.It comes with a free year of office so in my head I knock $80 off the price because I was paying for office anyways. So that knocks the price down to $190 for this laptop. At $190 this is an incredible value proposition!It has a monster battery life and it’s great for.- Webpages- Osmosis- Boards and Beyond- OnlineMeded- Uworld- NBME practice exams- Anki, without the media files though- MyEras and everything else regarding license applications and residency. You can open a ton of tabs at once with no issues at all.- I definitely suggest buying a small SD card and using that to store everything off the actual emc thing.Some minor issuesIt’s $190 so it’s not gonna be a MacBook Pro or anything. But the issues are minor if you’re just looking for something to study with and take care of basic computer work.- trackpad gets a bit stuck occasionally but nothing that causes a major issue.- keyboard isn’t backlit but that’s not something you can expect at this price point.- it’s most useful in S mode I think, I haven’t tried to take it out of S mode because I’m not sure how well it would handle it. And it works well now so I don’t feel the need to try.When I was looking for reviews I was worried about the compatibility with the programs I would need to use. If you’re in med school and you just need something cheap and reliable to study. I give this a 100% endorsement for the price point. I’m very pleased with this purchase, so much that I’m writing my first review!I think this would work well for most other uses as well but as I’ve never used it in any other capacity I can’t really speak to that.I’m definitely a big fan of Asus now!