Some context: I have also had the 128 GB SSD Acer Aspire, and no other laptops recently. I think that both this and that are good computers for everyday use where super-high performance is not essential. I currently give this the edge, for reasons I'll note below.The good:1. I've had this for a year now, and it still works about the same. No hardware issues, storage hasn't been an issue, and speed hasn't degraded.1. The 256 GB storage is plenty for most of the applications I could want.2. Price, duh. Cheaper PC's exist, but I chose this specifically on the basis of the storage.The neutral:1. Not lightning-fast, but fast enough for my needs, including some pretty compute-intensive machine learning work. If you want to play fancy new games, get a different computer. If you want to train massive neural nets without waiting ages, rent a GPU.2. Windows 10 is a good OS, and it's easy to change the factory settings to allow installation of apps that aren't from the Microsoft store.The bad:1. The charger is big and clunky. It's harder to find outlets to plug it into because it needs like two inches horizontal clearance.2. The battery life is pretty bad - maybe 4-5 hours when I first bought it, and now down to maybe 3 hours a few months after I bought it. But most of the decline in battery life happened soon after I bought it.