I've had my Lenovo Y480 since September of 2012 and she's still chugging along. It's got a 3rd generation I7 and can definitely handle tasks but it's always been held back by the 5400 HDD. That bottleneck alone unfortunately slows down this workhorse collectively from running applications,programs, and of course boot up/down. With this it has immensely reduced boot up time from 40-50 seconds to 13-18 seconds now. Programs that would take 5 seconds or so do in under 2 seconds. Great price for this which I was able to get about $183 after taxes including a free installation of the SSD itself. Regarding the OS, I made sure to make a factory dvd backup which took up a total of 3 discs and about 1hour altogether. My Laptop is definitely good to go for who knows how long now. Too bad the screen can't be replaced as easily!