I bought this for some specific purposes, mostly to be a quick and reliable computer for word-processing and using some large Excel files.  So far, the computer has performed very well.  I feel like it was a bargain at the listed price.  It's also light-weight, but not flimsy.The negative:  Loud, high-pitched fan noise.  On my other laptops, I can keep them running and don't notice this one, but with this one, I have to turn it off or the high-pitched noise gets to be annoying.