I've had this laptop for a little over a month now as I finally broke down and bought something to have in tandem with my work issued laptop as we work from home. I'm not putting it under hardcore use - just having something where I can have another screen to pull up online documents - and haven't had any issues with performance speed, nor boot up time. It's fast. No issues with battery life. It seems to be a fine computer - except for one (in my view) rather annoying feature - the CPU fan.Even just after starting the computer in the mornings, before opening any programs, the fan will be running hard. As I've seen in other reviews, it seems the exhaust for the fan points up, rather than to the side, so the noise is a bit more accentuated since it's pointed relatively toward you. Like other laptops I've had through the years, the fan has a few "settings" from a low to medium and high. Clearly, if I'm demanding a lot from a computer it's not a shock for the fan to be working hard to keep up. This computer is getting light use of just having Chrome open to view webpages (not graphic heavy) and the fan will click on to a medium/high fan setting - and when it's going like this it is not quiet. Comparatively, I have a 4 year old Dell where I do the bulk of my work where the fan is much quieter and is only triggered after a much higher performance demand. I will grant that the fan on this HP eventually ratchets down to a normal 'off/low' setting, but it can take 20+ minutes, without materially altering my usage (I literally keep only one or two windows open) - and then it will flip back on strong at the drop of a hat. I never feel as though the computer is in danger of overheating and I don't get to a point where I shut it off just to reset everything. It's just more of an noisy annoyance.