I bought this on Black Friday for a good price in 2020 and it's a great all around computer if you know what you're expecting. Unfortunately the laptop is plagued by performance issues when it gets too busy. Windows Updates are a majority of the laptops performance problems.When you update the computer all other functions slow to a crawl until they are complete. So if you want to make this laptop your primary device, I suggest setting up your Wifi connection as a metered connection and also doing the updates overnight as it's going to take a very long time to complete the updates.Also I defer updates for several weeks so this helps the laptops performance. Disabling the Windows Update service in Administrative Services (services.msc command in the search box) helps too.Now when it comes to gaming, sure, this laptop is not equipped to handle that by nature. But it can game on a reasonable level. I have run Serious Sam 1 and 2, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal II and some other 3D graphical games and it runs them fine with acceptable default settings.Of course you will want to purchase an external hard drive (make sure it's USB 3.0) in order to run the games as this computer only has a 64 gb SSD. You also can't upgrade to Windows 11 even though the laptop device manager says it has TPM 2.0 and I don't know why the graphics processor don't qualify this system to upgrade. Not willing to take the risk either to do an unsupported install either.Overall this is a nice little system if you know how to get around its technical issues but if you are not savvy with computer issues and so forth this may not be the one for you. Have owned it for 2 years and still working fine.