After setting up my sister's laptop with an SSD, I just couldn't go back to using an older desktop.  Going from pushing "on" to a desktop in 10 seconds?  Doing all of the windows updates it missed in 30 minutes, doing the latest 2 windows updates that took me 4 hours on my 5 year old desktop, took 10 minutes on this.  If you've never had a computer with an SSD, you'll be amazed.  When this arrived, there was one small problem.  After setting this up, I went to store some music and pictures and other data on the 1TB HDD.  The problem was the system did not recognize the HDD.  Thanks to the fine folks at Amazon, they sent me a hard drive to replace this one.  It's been a few years since I built my own computers, but the changes were manageable.  I could have bought this $100 cheaper from HP during their Black Friday Sale, but it was worth it to me to know when delivery would take place.  Nice to have the optical drive, but is not a very sturdy one.  Also nice to have a variety of ports to connect to. So far, I'm really happy with the purchase.