Needed this for down loading monogram fonts, watching at dvds and making cds. Works great for all of the mentioned purposes. It's fast. Has an awesome preinstalled Roxio DVD playing system. Making cds is a breeze. I download most of my mp3 tracks from Amazon. Everything runs smoothly. I am enjoying this laptop. Blinks black lines sometimes, but not a real problem. Froze up a couple times, had to reboot and it came right back up. No long term problems so far.