I have been searching for a low cost 15.6" laptop for over a month now.  I started with the acer aspire 5 and although it was a great machine the  trackpad was awful, I may go back to it but I wanted to try this computer first.  I read good reviews about this computer so why not?  The minute  I opened it , it seemed like a great computer, booted it up and thats where I knew the computer was not for me.  The screen is terrible!  The TN display is one of the worst that I have seen.  After windows booted up i noticed all the white was so cool that they were blue.  So I did some calibration and no matter what you do the screen looks terrible!  That's a deal breaker for me.  On to the next one!Positives:SlimAttractiveGood trackpadGood Keyboardfastup-gradableNegativesBad TN Screen viewing angle the worst out of sub $500 laptop