And all I mean by that is that, only a year or two ago, you simply couldn't touch a laptop with these features at this price.  What's "special" about this thing is all you get for an "entry level" price of $500 or so.Big, bright, full UHD screen.  Quad-core, 8th Gen Intel Core I5 CPU.  Decent size SSD (easily upgradeable to 1TB if you want/need), and comes with an extra SSD caddy, connector and spare screws to add a second storage drive.  High speed CPU/SSD/motherboard bus/interface (PCIe/NVMe).  Biometric security/ID options.  Nicely backlit keypad.  Decent number of input options.  The build is a little on the flimsy/plasticky side (only the top shell is aluminum, which is exactly where you want it BTW … to protect the most costly single part in the whole appliance:  the screen), but heck, that's "entry level" ... my laptop is at my workstation/desk most of the time, so that's no problem for me.  All my prior, trusty Toshiba Satellites had no aluminum on the outer case at all.This thing is sleek, lightweight, fast and very easy to set up/use.  Acer has taken all the most attractive advances in laptop tech from the past 5-10 years and figured out a way to streamline and squeeze them into a really nice entry level machine at a VERY competitive price.  The only thing I might grouse about on this laptop is the bare minimum 8GB RAM they put in it (the removable/replaceable part is only 4GB), but that can be upgraded to 20GB for around $60 if you need it.I've been using laptops as my primary work station for more than 20 years now, and every time I replace one, I marvel at how far they've come by the time I upgrade.  No exception to that rule here ... couldn't be happier with what I got for the buck in this one.  Only time will tell how it holds up.  Thanks Acer ... nice work, and thanks to Amazon and "Prime Day" for making my choice/purchase even easier.[P.S. to original review:  I had an unused spare HDD that I bought for my previous laptop a long time ago before converting it to SSD, and thought I might as well use it for extra storage space in this laptop.  It installed/worked fine with the caddy, connector and screws supplied by Acer, but I found that once I'd put the HDD in, the bottom cover was noticeably bulged over the HDD, and the edge closest to it wouldn't fully seat/seal, in turn, making the rest points on the bottom uneven/wobbly.  In short, Acer's case design is a little too thin for proper fit of an HDD in the internal secondary drive bay.  I ended up getting a new 2.5" SSD which fit just fine in the secondary bay, but I SHOULD also be able to put an HDD in there and can't, that is, if I don't want a bulge and uneven/wobbly rest points on the bottom of my new laptop.  But, since re-purposing of my old HDD was an afterthought with no bearing on my original purchase decision, and everyone knows that laptop HDDs are rapidly going the way of the dodo anyway, this issue falls into the category of, e.g., "minor annoyance."]