This is a great value laptop as it has a Solid State Drive (SSD) instead of a hard drive There are loads of benefits to an SSD, speed, quietness, power consumption, robustness (as no moving parts), less heat etc etc Before rushing to buy on though you need to make sure that there is enough storage space as much smaller than your average hard drive Right click on your existing C drive to find out One other point to bear in mind is that this laptop does not have a removable battery (but neither does an iPad) Bottom line, great laptop that you will struggle to beat on value