My older PC in the back bedroom had died due to video interface failure.  I got this as a new "high end" system.  I built a USB3 thumb drive to install windows 10 from.  The installation?  a couple of minutes.  Incredibly fast.I had to use another system to download the drivers for ethernet and AC wireless.  Once done, the connectivity was solid in all rooms in the apartment.The lack of Cuda cores will mandate an external video card at some point. (All the current editing software really wants the cuda cores to improve performance while rendering and the like.  That said, loading up Adobe Premier and the rest of that suite was easy, and the encoding program renders high def at better than real time.. roughly 2 minutes to render a 5 minute video.  This is gobs faster than my I-7 based laptop.