The laptop itself is sleek and stylish with a fairly decent light-up keyboard. I had to upgrade the ram in the laptop and change it away from a version of windows that can be changed to normal for free. (Look up a walk-thru on Youtube if you need help.)The plastic is flexible and the only part that is made of metal is the part behind the screen.Here is where the However part comes in.The cheap plastic is too weak. The plastic around the screen has come undone at the hinges of the screen since the hinges themselves are fairly stiff and stronger than the plastic holding them in place. I have never had this problem with my previous laptops.The longest i had a laptop was 3 years, a Toshiba Satellite. I've had this one for 1 and the problem started 3 months ago.I want to like this laptop but this hick-up makes me a little uneasy choosing the same one when this one inevitably starts to have hardware problems because of the cheap plastic holding it in place.Who knows, maybe I just got a defective one.