I haven't bought a laptop since freshman year of college, so I was a bit out of touch. This is a powerful little laptop that's great for everyday use and multitasking, and even some gaming! I was surprised how well it works with Xbox cloud gaming, but that's entirely up to your Internet connection. It can handle some downloaded games, but with the integrated graphics I wouldn't push it too much. For example you can push it to 720p for windwaker on dolphin and that's about it.The whole thing is snappy and easy to use with Windows 11. If you want a gaming laptop, I'd probably get one with a better graphics card, but I wasn't exactly planning to use it for that specially. As a school or work from home laptop this is ideal.I kind of forget this has a touch screen, I never use it, as the keyboard position is fixed so it just doesn't feel right, but it does work and is rather responsive.The speakers are on, I'd never listen to music solely on them, but for random YouTube or a TV show where the sound isn't all that important it does the job.My only complaints are that my power adapter started buzzing so I needed to replace that, and I was having an issue with the fan turning off but I resolved that with googling. Also the battery life is not great really at all. With power save everything on, I get about 2 hours, so I just plug it in while using.