Pros:-Screen is bright and colors are good (in the product I got, I saw some people complaining about this so they might not have the best quality control)-The screen quality + size combination allows me to keep multiple windows open without feeling cramped or squinting-Battery lasts for advertised time (it's only about 7 hours with ~10 tabs and a VM running, but that's great imo)-The thing is light for its size/price-The thing is thin, which is great for sliding it into my backpack-The thing is perty (subjective, but I think it looks mighty fineCons:-The keyboard isn't the best I have ever used, but it's better than the keyboard on a Mac and it lights up-The F keys default to their laptop function (i.e. brightness, volume, etc.) so I can't refresh a webpage without pressing Fn + F5 (it's more annoying than you might think)-The fingerprint reader takes a couple tries sometimesThings that differed from what I saw in reviews:-The fan issues were INSANE when I first booted it up. But after I installed the updates they were gone completely and it doesn't get hot anymore, so that's nice.-The WiFi card wasn't amazing or anything, but it wasn't bad by any means. I can access the campus WiFi and the WiFi in my apartment easily from every range that I will ever need.-The CPU speed is fine. It handles multitasking well and will be snappy for web browsing, Microsoft Office programs, VMs, and the usually coding tasks. I swear to God some people expect a $500 dollar laptop to be a god tier workstation for their 69-dimensional rendering software that they use to make contemporary art.-It has 8 GB's of RAM, don't open 100 tabs and you will be fine. I honestly believe some of these reviewers have dementia and they open a new window every time they want to see what's happening on Yahoo! News.