I use my laptop for both work and personal needs. I work entirely from home on it. This has been a great laptop. It has the longest battery life of any laptop I have ever owned, despite having a powerful processor and being faster than most. It is not a full fledged gaming laptop, but for a medium to high end experience this is wonderful! Streams well, can watch TV on it, etc. Can play most games just not newer ones or ones that need a high powered video card. For the money a steal!