I picked up this laptop on sale for $379, and what a steal. I bought it for my young son to use while homeschooling, but I put it through its paces before I gave it to him.First off, this device does not seem like a sub-$500 device. The build quality is solid, and the laptop has a hybrid metal/plastic construction that was much better than I'd expected. The keyboard is easy to type on, and the keys are quiet. The touchscreen is bright, and the image quality is, again, better than expected. The keyboard is backlit, and the touchpad is responsive. It feels like a device that should be a couple of hundred dollars more expensive than it is. Even the speakers are pretty good. Not Macbook Pro good, but solid.Performance-wise, you're getting a great value. An i3 processor isn't much for a Windows laptop, but it makes for a screaming-fast Chromebook. You will absolutely notice the difference between this as a Celeron-driven device. It's also got 8GB of RAM, which is extravagant for any Chromebook outside the Pixelbook Go, which is more than twice the price.Movies play well, and all my Chrome apps ran as fast as I'd want them to.** The rest of this review gets into some more technical stuff. If you're a techie, read on. If not, please feel confident in buying one of these devices. It really is a fantastic value **I'm a software developer, so I immediately had to see if this thing can be used to code. The answer is an emphatic yes. Enabling Linux in a virtual machine is one-click easy, and after a couple of minutes, you'll have a Debian Linux VM running on your device. ChromeOS even assigns six of its eight gigs of memory to the VM, so Linux apps run pretty well. I installed VS Code from the website, and it was as simple as downloading the .deb file and clicking on it. VS Code runs smoothly, and all the extensions I've tried work well. The Linux VM also comes with Python3 installed, so if you're a coder or you'd like to be, this laptop should serve well.Other Linux apps such as GIMP extend functionality further than I ever expected a Chromebook to go. Did I mention it runs Android Apps? At this rate, my son may never get this device back from me.In short, this may be the best sub-$400 system I've ever purchased. I can't recommend it highly enough.