Pros: Has light to light keyboard in dark.
4gb RAM
Dual core procssor
built in webcam + mic
hdmi ports

Cons: Battery lasts for like 2 hours.
no recovery partition or dvd, you have to make a system image to for later if you need to restore
laptop is very heavy
can't play many graphic games

Other Thoughts: I bought this laptop from another a popular online auction site and it was refurbbed too, except mine was 160gb hard drive and was $160 total with shipping. It's a great machine if you get it for the write price. It can handle games like Killing Floor, Left 4 Dead 2, and Torchlight 2 on medium settings with no lag. It has stereo mix enable so if you do any audio recording it will work.

Pros: Cools my sister's computer down very well. Her AMD Athlon x2 6000 with stock fan would hit 70c at full loads and with the cooler it's at a steady 35-40c . I can't complain.

Cons: does not come with good thermal paste

Other Thoughts: if you want the best, get arctic silver paste, remove the kind that comes with it and apply arctic5