I had just bought the comparable Acer model. I liked it so much I decided to give it to the wife and buy the Lenovo for myself. I chose the Lenovo because it was a few dollars cheaper, same ram, same power, and advertised as more durable.It arrived well packaged and fast. I did not think the build quality was that robust. A little slimmer than the Acer. I was pretty pleased overall till I tried google voice and skype. The microphone was no where near the clarity or volume of the Acer. I decided to return it as voice communications were most important. I also noticed the keyboard was not as responsive as it should be with having to press keys twice to get a response, occasionally. Still a good machine for the money.This machine will run linux just fine using Crouton or Chrx. Skype works fine in linux on these machines. I normally wipe out the proprietary OS and use Linux but with Playstore coming to these things I'm thinking these machines will rock.