Quick start-up and light laptop packed with a powerful processor that rival its desktop siblings. Vivid screen image and great sound card. Could play all dayblong without overheating.

A good computer when it is on sale. A bit heavy was the best complaint received (this was for somebody else) They are enjoying the graphics for their games on steam but the battery runs down a bit fast on high graphic games.

As far as the hardware is concerned, this is a good middle-of-the-ground laptop. It does every everyday household computer task you ask of it without pausing. However, I don't like the typical Hewlett-Packard practice of bombarding you with unwanted software trials, especially the pernicious McAfee antivirus product. Any experienced computer user will have their preference for antivirus software, so why not let them install their own choice without having to chop out the dratted McAfee product? Also, a minor annoyance is that the flash drive ports are located at the rear of the side panel, which makes it harder to insert flash drives.