Let me explain what the use case was hete: my partner uses a laptop for writing, grading, internet research, listening to music and the occasional movie, fairly light applications. However, they use it 6-8 hours a day, public transit commute with it, travel with it, and use it at home, so heavy use in that sense. We were hoping that since their requirements were minimal a cheaper laptop would work.Unfortunately, out of the box the thing chugged. Internet explorer had trouble starting. A partially closed screen put the laptop into black screen limbo where it was on but the screen wouldn't come back,  forcing a hard restart. It was light, and it ran, but it became clear that every little thing was going to be slow and take a fight. For a machine that was going to used 8 hours a day it wasn't going to work.  We returned it and got a cheap surface book instead.Now, that said this is a specific use case. The laptop works (maybe not as well as advertised, certainly not as well as some of the glowing reviews indicated) and it's $200. If you don't mind it being slow and don't need it do much heavy lifting it could work for you.  But that is my review based on this use case, I hope it's helpful.