Pros: I ordered this computer as a Xmas gift for my mother. I know what she uses a computer for and I know what she needs. This computer packs the epic Sandy Bridge based i5 processor which still packs more than enough horsepower for everyday computer tasks. The computer was in excellent shape and looked like it had been hardly used. There are no dead pixels on the screen and the Windows 8 install upgraded to Windows 10 no problem. The battery holds a charge just as expected and my mom has owned it for about a month now without any problems at all.

Cons: The product took some time to ship from the retailer. I am pretty sure they were pretty busy due to the holiday season. Irregardless the product arrived on time and it was well packaged and safe so kudos to them; however, the length of time it took it to ship made me a little nervous.

Also - there is no finger print reader on the model of computer that i received. That is the only problem with the product that I received but I don't really care because my mom would never be able to figure it out anyways and it would be just one more thing I would have to trouble shoot for her as soon as she messed it up. I am removing one star simply because that part of the product description is wrong.

Other Thoughts: I picked up this laptop with a free carrying bag for 199.99 on a Newegg.com daily deal. For around 200 dollar shipped I was able to pick up a nice laptop that my mom is going to be able to use for years.

This laptop is also stupid easy to upgrade. I dropped another 4 gigs of RAM in it in less than 5 minutes. The entire bottom of the laptop comes off with the push of locking latch. Everything is right there - hard drive, DVD-ROM, memory, even the wireless networking radio is all open and easy to access for upgrades.

With the extra memory Windows 10 64bit feels fast. I will probably drop an upgraded solid state drive into it at some point (simply because I anticipate my mom will drop it).

I would definitely order from the retailer (Notebook Ave.) again.

Pros: Nice slim unit. Worked as advertised. Plug it in and away you go.

Cons: The cable is short. Really short. Like maybe twelve inches if that. I had to get an extension cable to run behind my desk to hook it up to one of my rear USB ports because I didn't want to take up one of my front ports. It only burns at 8 speed and reads at 8x because it runs on the USB 2.0 bus.

Other Thoughts: As long as you know what your getting this is a nice piece of kit. I decided to bail out on the traditional front mounted optical drive and I don't regret it for all the more I use an optical drive this unit makes sense. If I need an optical drive on another computer or ultra book I can use this drive if I have to. Its portable, its fast, and its inexpensive. You really can't go wrong.