Wow, Had I known that these chromebooks are so easy and fast, I would have switched from a windows laptop years ago. It all started with an old laptop just not performing any longer. Wait times with websites, shut downs, mouse locking up, I just couldn't take it anymore. Amazon's return policy on renewed computers  took away my fears of buying the wrong laptop. The extended holiday return period gives me extra peace of mind. The battery is good, but not 80% of new as listing promised, but I leave the laptop plugged in most of the time, so for now it's good enough. Google has a really good operating system, which I expect will only get better in time.