I've been through a few 400 dollar cheap plastic laptops with horrible keyboards and noisy trackpads. Enough of those. For 500 bucks, this simple VERY well built laptop is the way to go. It's only an i3, 4Gb ram and integrated video but it has a 128GB NVMe SSD! It's quite fast and perfect for web/email/social/YouTube. Great keyboard and trackpad. AND lightweight, this is your travel laptop. Sounds good enough right there, BUT, it's a touchscreen, can use a stylus for drawing, folds all the way around in tablet form and also shows full 1080HD videos when set up in TeePee form!  For the price, you can't get a better "cheap" laptop. I work in IT, have a 2200 dollar gaming laptop and built my PC tower that for music production that cost 7000 dollars to build and weighs 65lbs. I know computers, THIS is your cheap laptop, best quality at this price point I've seen.