I'm very happy with this purchase. Setup took under 1 hour even with a separate new monitor (I should have bought them together to get the $20 Amazon discount). And I was watching the winter Olympics during setup... We considered a Chrome Book, which I think is a good solution if you want a laptop, but my wife said that she would never move it off of her home office desk. This provided a LOT more computing power and storage per $ (I'd already ordered a monitor).  Two things to consider: 1 - It doesn't come with Office software. We bought Home and Student from Amazon (cheaper than getting it from MS), and we only needed 1 computer, so 365 was a more expensive rental than just buying it. 2 - It's designed to sit flat with rubber coasters. It works fine set on end as shown in the photo, but it was a little too deep for my wife's shallow desk when set flat, so we put it on the floor. In that orientation the CD/DVD drive is vertical. That's no big problem IMO, but some people may not like that. Performance has been excellent.