This laptop is a decent price for the specs and the current purchasing climate. It lacks an ethernet port and backlit keyboard, but those are things you can know up front before you buy. What you don't know before you buy it, is how terrible the keyboard is going to be. This laptop feels hollow. When you type on the keyboard you can feel the entire palm rest of the laptop moving up and down. If you just give a slight press on the keyboard you can see how there are seemingly no posts inside to give the laptop and internal support structure. The keys even feel really cheap when typing on them. They aren't solid and they have a slight wobbly feeling to them as you type. This is the sort of thing I expect to see on the cheap 3rd party keyboard replacements you can buy on here and ebay but not what I expect from OEM. If you have to do a decent amount of typing, don't buy this laptop.