excellent laptop for school work or general use. can run older games like oblivion or fallout new vegas decently. the size for me was the main selling point, it feels extremely well built and solid. thinkpads are the ak47 of laptops. remember to download the latest drivers when youre in the process of setting it up. i had an issue where the monitor screen had a low refresh rate and wasnt being detected properly by the computer, but it turned out i just had neglected to go download the latest drivers from the intel website and that fixed it. very smooth and solid little machine. perfect for school