My kids are in middle and elementary school doing remote learning. I got two of these refurbished machines to cover them. They worked great. I suggest getting a usb wifi adapter for them since it seems most people will need them to connect to the local wi-fi. They don't have wifi built in. You will also need to buy a usb web-cam if you want to use video chat services for remote learning. I'm very happy with the purchase.They have mechanical drives so the boot up time is a little slow, if you are tech savvy enough you can buy a solid state drive and replace the main hard drive. I had no issue switching to a solid state drive which made the boot up take only a few seconds.These are business style machines so they are able to stream video, run video chats, and perform regular web tasks well. If you aim to do a lot of gaming then this isn't the machine for you. Gaming here will be very limited. However, if you are on a budget and want to run games there are options that will work well on this machine. Google has Stadia which does all the processing on cloud servers and streams them to your device. This process is not very taxing on your local device. I mention this one first because this one I've used and have been extremely impressed. Amazon also has a similar service that is very new; I have not tried yet. It's called Luna. It works the same way in that the game is rendered on a powerful cloud service freeing up your local computer to only have to process the video display and your button presses. Both of these services have gamepad support.