I'm probably being stingy only giving this four stars:  the truth is I just hate that you don't really own something that you pay $300 for.  They won't let you even use this thing if you're not signed on to a WiFi AP connected to the Internet.  And then you need a Google account.  Yeah, I can fake yet another one, but I shouldn't have to.  So I sort of have a grudge against the OS that won't allow me to give this five stars.But the truth is, the latest iteration of Windows is so bad now that I can't say it's really any better.  Microsoft has jumped on the Google/Apple bandwagon with their own app store, misleading apps that are free until you go to use them, wanting to track your every move, restarting your machine and installing updates without your consent, etc.Truthfully, though, I like this a lot better than I expected, including the OS.  It is surprisingly much like Windows (I guess MS had most of those basic UI things already figured out).  And it mostly works.  I mean, this is like a secondary machine just for browsing the Internet when the real computer is in use.  I'm not trying to go this lightweight...I mean, you could with a good NAS, but it's not super smooth to get network shares working as well as they do with Windows.But browsing is snappy and quick.  But you're stuck with Chrome, I guess, which mostly is fine, but why can't I really get it to take me seriously that I never want notifications from any website?  Ever.Enough about the OS.  Everyone is talking about the screen.  Honestly, I went into this with a bias because so many people were complaining about it, but I just don't see the problem.  In fact, I forgot all about it until my third session or so.  I wonder if the complainers are trying to watch movies on it from across the room while laying in bed or something.  Call me old fashioned, but I have a TV for that.  Yes, if this was a TV, it would be super annoying whenever you're not looking at it square on, but when I'm just sitting like a normal person with this on my lap or on a table in front of me, it's just fine.  If I'm constantly adjusting my position height, then it might start getting annoying, because it does lose a lot at an angle.Oh yeah, if you want to watch movies with this, there is an HDMI port.  Use a TV...What is great?  The touchpad.  This is the fist computer in years - maybe ever - that I haven't turned off the tap to click feature.  Even being this big, I haven't really had any false positives with tapping.  It does have a "button" built in (you can physically push down on the lower left corner), but no right button, so you have to do the two-finger tap for a right click.  I mean, I guess that's not really my preferred method, either, but I'm not complaining because the touchpad is super smooth.It almost seems like for such a thin computer, it would feel smoother if it was smaller length- and width-wise, but then of course the monitor would have to be smaller.  Regardless, as is, it's still a fantastic browsing computer.  There are still some issues with it wanting to act like a phone (an example being that Teamviewer won't let me access the lower portion of my remote computer (the taskbar), presumably because it thinks the Chromebook is a phone.  Another thing is that Plex wants money for its app to work because it thinks it's a phone...not that I want to watch movies on it, but that was part of my test).Anyway, my only qualms with this thing are related to the OS and the software, privacy, and ownership issues because of the OS.  And even I am more okay with all that stuff than I thought I would be.  The hardware is very good and the monitor doesn't bother me at all for normal computer use.  I am actually impressed.There was a sub-rating feature here to rate the touch screen.  There is no touch screen.  Who is QAing these product listings?