The online description of the laptop said touchscreen was optional but gave no further information. I am disappointed that it does not have touchscreen. Otherwise the new laptop is working fine but it came with no printed set up guidelines. Since it wasn't my first rodeo, I could figure it out.
I needed a laptop for both personal use and work purposes, and I have a limited budget. This laptop is ideal for my needs. It has a large screen, good weight and feel, and plenty of ports for oonnecting external devices. I had enough in my budget, because of the affordability of the laptop itself to either add an additional storage drive or more memory. I opted for the storage, since the macine comes with 8 GB memmory and I plan to upgrade that later on when chip prices go back down.
Great affordable laptop for my mother in law, does everything she needs to, for Word, PDF and streaming video. Battery seems alright, streaming a video for 10 minutes was about 3 to 4 % battery life