My husband purchased this laptop for me after my old laptop, which I had for almost 7 years, went out on me. He purchased this in April and I started having issues with it a few weeks ago. Took it to my brother who is a programmer and he said that the pc randomly shutting down on me, the laptop taking forever to load anything (which he did a speed test on and said the internet was fine), the screen shorting out and blinking on me was the PC failing on me. After 6 months. SIX MONTHS! I only use this laptop for work if I'm home, which isn't often. I've used it probably two-3 times a week for a few hours since I got it. I do not recommend this product at all.