I bought this laptop in January to use in a coding class.  It has done some heavy computing for a few hours straight from the battery and has never given me any problems.  There was light wear and tear on mine, but nothing more than cosmetic and nothing that hindered the performance or screen visuals.  The hard drive was too loud and slow for my taste so I bought a 250 SSD for about 30 dollars and switched it out.  Easy process.  The touchpad driver was out of date when I first got it and was really acting up with windows 10.  Quick upgrade fixed that.  Honestly this has been a fantastic laptop for the price and I couldn't be happier.