If  you want a great budget laptop that can handle anything you do as a daily user then I suggest this laptop. It isn't going to play the high-end games or perform heavy video editing but it can do everything else without a hiccup.  To make sure it was going to run as fast as possible I did a few things to keep the speed up.1- I HATE the new "S Mode" that Microsoft sets up their operating system in as it is purely a marketing ploy to make you have to use their apps instead of apps that work the best.  You want to opt out of that ignorance immediately after powering the laptop up.2- I did a fresh install of Win10 from the MS site after the unpacking process was finished.  This wipes out all of the Acer-based utilities that are a waste of resources.  A fresh install guarantees an operating system without bloatware or manufacturer nonsense.3- I ordered an 8GB stick of RAM at the same time I ordered the laptop so after my fresh install was done updating I shut it down and popped in the extra RAM.  That made 12GB of RAM which will handle anything I ever want to do.  While in the back of the laptop (to install the RAM) I noticed the SSD was the M.2 style!!  SSD's are faster than the old HDD drives but many budget laptops use a SSD that is little more than an HDD with RAM memory inside.  This original SSD is still slowed by using a SATA connection, which is unable to handle true SSD transfer speeds.  This laptop has the M.2 style drive that is directly connected to the motherboard using a PCI bus!  That allows the SSD to transfer data much faster than the older SSDs.  What a great surprise!4- I also found room and the hardware to put an additional drive in the laptop so I grabbed a HDD I had on the shelf and put it in.  That gave me a TB of mass storage for the files that eat up space (photos, videos, music), and now the 156GB SSD will never be filled up by my files.The little budget Acer laptop that I bought for a few hundred dollars became a super-fast beast that can hold all the file I could ever put in it.  It is free of the garbage that came on it, and is my favorite PC now!  (I have 4 other PCs around the house)This laptop is a great little machine out of the box but with a little 'know how' you can make it as nice as anything at twice the money.  The only reason I dropped down to 4 stars is due to the 'S Mode' that turned on by default.  Such a money-grab by Microsoft.......