For bang for the buck, it would be hard to beat this unit.I couldn't be happier with this laptop. Good battery life, fast, gets the job done, and for the price it was the best thing out there.I purchased this computer because I spend a great deal of time in the hospital and will continue to. I had one laptop stolen when I was taken out of the room for a test (about 20 minutes). I got back and it was gone...and it was an expensive one with all the newest tech (core i7, 16 GIG RAM, Blue Ray Player and much more).. I was lucky that my insurance replaced it and I had remote software on it so as soon as they turned it on near a hot spot, it wiped the hard drive clean. It even geo located where it was but by then who ever stole it figured out what was going on an dumped it.
I decided that for hospital stays i wanted an inexpensive computer and this one fit the bill. While the case is clearly plastic, it feels sturdy. The screen is really clear. 4 GIG of RAM and a 500 GIG hard drive. Separate numeric keypad, webcam...all the basics on a machine around today. It was also only around $400 total. Since I backup my PCs to the net, loading it up took less time than getting the preloaded mountains of trial software off.
If this laptop is closer to me than my more expensive one when I am home, I don't think twice about grabbing it to do any basic task from web surfing to typing (it has a very comfortable keyboard to type on raised "chicklet" style keys with a good feel and bounce back after being depressed. While it is only running an AMD dual processor (I prefer Intel quad core processors), the dual core processor in it is more than sufficient for the things I would use it for in the hospital like web surfing, watching TV, etc.
I would definitely recommend this computer to anyone. If asked I would say that it would be best used as a 1st computer (and expect that it would be around for a long time; as I said, it clearly is plastic but still feels well constructed) or a computer for school (if being used for college note that it doesn't have an HDMI output port to connect it to a TV which is becoming more common these days). But it has the overall power to do any reports or papers that need to be done. Keeping in mind that you'll need it plugged in somewhere because also like most of today's computers the battery life is about 2 hours. I have seen a couple ads for this computer claiming that can run up to 5 hours but don[t believe that for a second. Real world is about 2.
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