If you catch this thing on sale, its an incredible deal for a great Chromebook. I got this thing to basically be a web browser I can carry around without being too worried about losing it (IE, its not a 1k+ laptop). Its portable, light, with a 9+ hour charge on my refurbished unit. And as an added bonus, its one of the few Chromebooks which has access to the Google play store which means it can run a large portion of the apps available for Android phones (so tablet replacement anyone?). The screen is a nice IPS one and even thou the resolution is low (coming from a Yoga 2 Pro, 3200x1600 13" screen), it never hindered what I was doing. Google does a pretty good job with resizing the icons so low resolutions don't have icons that eat up 50% of the screen (like running Windows 7 Bootcamp on non-retina MBPs @ 1280x800). The ram is enough for ~10 tabs on Chrome (maybe less depending on how much stuff is going on each screen) and it never really felt slow compared to computers that still run on old hard disks that spin. I haven't had hardware issues thus far with my refurbished unit. Probably the only real downer is the touchpad. Its not smooth at all and it somehow always makes webpages scroll like a stuttering machine. The click on the touchpad is also a bit stiff. Luckily, you can kinda get around it by using the touchscreen and the keyboard which thankfully work pretty well. I guess I can't complain too much given the price.