This is my first time buying refurbished and I’m a pretty disappointed. It is slow and runs lines of code on the screen for a few minutes before starting up every time I turn it on. It is also loud, making annoying electronic buzzing and scratching noises constantly after booting up—I have to use noise canceling headphones to use it so that I can focus on studying. The cursor is choppy moving across the screen as well. It is much cheaper than buying new, but in this case I feel like I got what I paid for.