Just purchased this Lenovo for our 13 year old grandson. Everything seems to be working just fine. Boot-up went fine. WIndows 8.1 is a bit different from the WIndows 7 that I have on  my computer, but seems to work fine. I had no difficulty in setting up the grandson's account with parental controls. We also loaded and updated Wizard for him. The computer comes loaded with other applications as others have noted. We will probably uninstall several later. We did load Google Chrome to use as the primary browser. Processor speed seems just fine. This laptop is lighter in weight than my Toshiba and should fit nicely in his backpack. My son, a graduate mechanical engineer, recommended the Lenovo with the AMD quad core processor. I have always been partial to Intel processors, but the AMD is working nicely. I think this Lenovo is a good value.