I think the thing to understand the most about this laptop is that it is a refurb so there my be some left over glitches to work out. For instance I don't believe the battery in mine is quite up to snuff. But for the way I use it, that is just fine. It is a bit of a power hog on the battery anyway. It's processor is hefty enough to do some pretty heavy computing as well a moderately decent graphics card. I am not using this laptop for gaming but am using the graphics card for AI. I also split the hard drive and am doing a dual boot with Windows and Linux. 500GB for each operating system. It seems to work well.