Our venerable family laptop finally died after persisting in its usefulness for over a year after cracking its case. With all three kids doing a good deal of their (home)schoolwork electronically, I needed to end the resource contention ASAP, and I didn't want the tween to try to word-process on a tablet. This has, so far, been a pretty good stop-gap.Pros: Very, very cheap. Good battery life. Light and small. The touchscreen seems to be pretty usable. My 10 year old already has drawing programs installed and is making fun art.Cons: No-one is a great fan of the keyboard which is smaller and a little more cramped than they are used to. I cannot personally type very comfortably on it, although I suspect I would quickly adjust.This is our first chromebook of any description and it took some time to work through the OS issues, specifically figuring out how to have multiple users on the same device. While it allows you to set a PIN, your first sign-on of the day seems to have to be your password. They haven't been used to keeping track of their passwords, so this has been a bit painful. However, please note that this is an OS complaint, not a complaint that has anything to do with this model.