I bought this to replace a dying low end laptop, and with 16 gig of ram installed it's a very nice little computer IF you're not trying to run games or nuclear simulations.I usually have a couple of web browsers, a few Cygwin terminals, and VMware Player running a small Windows 98se virtual machine (Running CivII) going, feeding a 25" 2560x1440 monitor (I had a second monitor at 1920x1080 hooked up for a while). While I have to restart the web browsers from time to time (since I rarely reboot unless Windows does it automatically), the unit runs adequately.