the solid state is just awesome, quiet, no noisy fans. boots up in just seconds,  the only thing that disappoints me is that Acer only put 12 megs of ram. I run autocad, quickbooks, the real adobe publisher, also do some video advertising. 12 is a little too light for all that. Its so cheap to add memory  so not really sure why Acer wouldn't spend about $30 (their cost not my cost) to double their ram, really needed about 20 or more megs for small business professionals. If this machine were $1 or 200 more for double the ram, I would bought it sooner and been glad to pay it