My 9 year old Dell desktop PC's HDD crashed and it was time for an upgrade. I've had good success with HP products over the years, so I decided to go with this model. I chose to upgrade to 32GB RAM, the 512GB SSD, and the 1TB HDD to accommodate future needs. My local repair shop was able to pull off most of my data and saved emails from the old HDD and loaded them on to the new HP laptop. I also asked them to uninstall any bloatware, anti-virus trial versions, Cortana, and OneDrive. I like to use Firefox browser, Thunderbird email, MS Security Essentials. I picked up a 128GB flashdrive and a 2TB external HDD for backup and recovery purposes.The only negative is minor. The screen is not an anti-glare screen. It's quite reflective. I'm going to apply an anti-glare film on it to cut down the reflectivity. Aside from that, I highly recommend this laptop. The 17.3" screen fills in adequately for my old 24" flat panel monitor and I intend to leave this laptop on my office work table and not tote it around. It can realistically be called a desktop replacement/substitute.