It's nice to get a little more room at the work station. I don't do anything heavy duty, just music conversions, emails and face book. This serves my purposes very nicely. I was actually hoping for it to come with Windows 7 but that didn't happen. Oh well. When I first fired it up it was a little noisy but with it in the horizontal position, it did eventually quiet down nicely. It's pretty fast. Noticeably quicker than my last computer. By the way, the last on just decided to not work anymore. I did manage to get it working long enough to print out my contacts list from my Palm PDA program before it died again. Of coarse like the last Windows 10, this computer won't talk to my Palm either so it's all manually input and the hand held never gets updated to fully match the computer. I wish my smart phone was as easy to use as my old Palm TX. I would buy this again and I recommend it too.