For anyone on the fence about a ChromeBook, ket me help. If you're looking to buy a ChromeBook, first do yourself a favor and buy a model with at least 4GB of RAM. It'll serve you much, much better in the long run as for performance over any 2GB model, even if they can be cheaper. This particular Toshiba model benefits from a nice 1080P HD screen, so if you like watching YouTube videos or movies on your laptop, you may want to invest in this model to experience a better resoultiopn for all tasks. Cheaper ChromeBooks usually suffer from much weaker screens, but are still workable. Its all based on your preferences and goals for the laptop. Now as for performance, this question is asked a lot or thought of when it comes to using a CrhomeBook and replacing a traditional Windows or Apple computer. I personally have a Microsoft Surface Pro 3, built desktop with 32GB of RAM, Dell Venue Pro 8, laptops, etc etc. use a wide variety of technology and have been very impressed with this Toshiba ChromeBook 2 and would definitely recommend it to anyone. To understand its use and whether it'll fit your lifestyle you must ask yourself whether all your needs are online or if you need to programs available offline. And by offline I mean, not connected to any internet source. If you use things like nine bill paying, social media, YouTube, Plex, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, then this laptop will work perfectly for those tasks. Since I've owned this I've used it to help me throughout the day as the Tech Coordinator for my job, remote deskptop functioning to my home computer, printing and document creation. If you are an avid Microsoft Office users you are still presented with the ability use Office Online and later sync those documents through the cloud for access later on any device. This offers you a lot of flexibility. If you want to keep it simple Google Docs is available offline as well for quick documentation. What you CAN NOT do on this laptop is install any application, as you normally would on Windows. IF you go to a website that runs an installer to installer a program, you be presented with a dialog box stating it being incompatible. One rule of thumb to remember is, if its not available in full firm/function online, its not going to work as an installed program on this laptop. So, no iTunes, Photoshop, etc. Everything else works great and the performance is very, very good.