I've only had this laptop for a couple of months, but so far it works just fine. It's a little old and bulky, but I love that it has a disc drive. My only major complaint is that the sound is very very quiet, even when I have it turned up 100%, the speakers just don't get very loud, which is a bummer because I wanted to use this for streaming tv and movies sometimes. But other than that, I feel like I've gotten my money's worth.