Mine came with an i5 badge but it says i7 in the system properties, so that immediate urge to return it was relieved right there.Performance wise,  I ran windows on it just long enough to disable uefi so I could wipe it and install Linux on it which runs perfectly. All the hardware runs perfectly on Linuxwith no issues at all (rubbish hardware does not). I cannot say how well it runs on Windows though, but I would have loved to have had the option to buy this blank instead of paying for a windows license I would never use.