I'm a writer and can't be without a computer. When my laptop decided to die on me, I transferred my external hard drive to this little guy and it worked perfectly. Just had to download Microsoft Office and away we went. I did buy a regular laptop, but used this small one until I got it. Keeping it as a travel companion and backup computer. The screen is vivid and crisp. The keyboard feels fine, and my external drive just plugged into the usb drive opening and I was good to go. This computer doesn't have a whole lot of memory, so unless you're going to store your large files on an external drive, this isn't that great. For just getting online and doing regular things you're not storing on it, good to go.