Knew I wasn't getting a top of the line laptop, but couldn't beat the specs for the price.  All components were as promised except the hard drive.  The drive that came with the HP Elitebook 8470p was a 320GB IDE drive. Yep, welcome to 1999. I don't care if you have 4,000 cores on a 200GHz CPU with a Petabyte of RAM, if it's sporting a dinosaur HD you're going to be waiting a while at boot and ANY read/writes to the drive.  My boot time as shipped was 2min and 37 seconds. From double click to application opening was an easy 2-3 second delay.  I IMMEDIATELY went a got an SSD and cloned the OS and files from old drive to new SSD.  Boot time is now 6-7 seconds and applications open almost immediately after clicking.  I have to give credit to Amazon though.  Even though they are limited in assistance when it's a 3rd party seller, I was still able to get a partial credit back to my account.