Not knocking a star off for this, but calling this a gaming laptop is not representing its capabilities accurately. It has a low-grade CPU (Intel N95, 4 cores @ 1.7 GHz. each) and GPU (integrated 1 GHz. Intel UHD with 8 GB (shared) RAM) that, simply put, won't play modern 3D games smoothly. It'll play solitaire just fine, but I fired up Minecraft just out of curiosity and with the default graphics settings that it launches with and no addons, it wasn't a smooth experience. FPS meter said 60fps if I stood still, but as soon as I started moving around I was getting framerate drops into the 20s as it rendered scenery and that framerate instability makes it a gaming deal breaker. OK, having said all that, this works just fine as a basic home or office computer for web browsing, office apps, and video streaming. The laptop has two USB ports, both USB-A, so new devices using USB-C will need an adapter. There's also a mini-DisplayPort port for attaching an external monitor. I don't have a mini-DisplayPort cable so I wasn't able to test the output of that, unfortunately. Integrated WiFi is 2.4 GHz. and 5 GHz. I connected at 5 GHz., a speed test showed I was getting about 215 Mbps download which is about the max I see on my home WiFi with any device. It also comes with a USB LAN adapter but mine wasn't worth using. The adapter states it's a USB 3.0 Gigibit adapter but it performed worse than the WiFi connection. When I connected the adapter into the USB 2.0 port on the right side of the computer, I only got about 85 Mbps on a 500 Mb cable internet connection, going directly from the router to the laptop. I then plugged the "gigabit" LAN adapter into the USB 3.0 slot on the left side of the laptop and got an even worse result at about 75 Mbps. A faaaar cry from gigabit (1000 Mb) speeds. I verified the connection was good with my Lenovo laptop and got about 560 Mbps using the same network cable. I have 500 Mb service so the Lenovo was getting maximum speed. Not sure if the culprit is the USB slot or the LAN adapter but that is not an acceptable result. I should have been getting the full 500+ Mbps, not 75-85. The hard drive that comes with the laptop is an SSD, but the way the drive was configured was just... weird... and I am knocking a star off for this one. It shipped with three drive partitions, C: D: and E: drives were each roughly 120 GB if I'm remembering correctly. I couldn't simply delete D: and E: drive and resize C: drive because there was a recovery partition in between C: and D: drives, which meant I had to download a partition manager (MiniTool Partition Wizard), delete D: and E: drives, move the recovery partition to the end of the drive, then resize C: drive to fill the whole drive. Not sure why they thought this was a good idea since a large amount of people may not even know any of that could be done, and would just be stuck with three drive letters. I ran a speed test on the drive, the speed is OK. I compared it to a different brand SSD of the same size and results in sequential reads and writes were very similar, but it fell behind a bit on random reads and writes. Being that this isn't a high-performance laptop, this drive should serve perfectly fine for general browsing/streaming/office work. Battery life is ok. Depending on your usage you'll get between 2-4 hours out of a full charge if you stick with the recommendations to not let it get below 20%. This recommendation isn't specific to this manufacturer, this is just the nature of the types of battery cells used in laptops. In summary, this is a decent laptop for basic home/office use. As long as you keep your expectations in check, this will serve you well. Read more