I've seen lots of reviews that made me think hard about this purchase. However I went for it. This laptop is serving as my son's school laptop. We received it ahead of schedule so that was awesome. This one came with the front facing camera and the driver installed to run it. The computer itself runs smoothly and even with the customization my son has made to the desktop layouts it has plenty of RAM to run the background programs as well as anything he needs to run. I'm very impressed. Worth the risk on a "renewed" laptop.