Speakers were at 100 and you could barely hear it. Overheated with thirty minutes of use, the battery only lasted two hours max. Sent back for a full refund. Would not recommend this laptop.
The top most shell is metal, aluminum I believe, which is better than I expected. Overall good experience with this laptop, for the price I payed at 450 in May 2024. The battery can be improved though. Get the factory memory upgrade as you won’t save much by DIY. The memory is from micron in case you need that info.
I have been very dissapointed with the laptop. I replaced a 4 yr old laptop, that was made by a different company. I have been using more video conferencing, so I decided to upgrade my computing power. However, the laptop has been slower at every task. I have to wait for it to load every website, even ones I frequent. Sometimes 5 plus seconds. I might expect that if I had gotten the lowest budget machine, but this is a midlevel machine in which I upgraded the RAM and graphics.
I bought this laptop for my mom, and within the first day it was already glitching. It took quite some time for it to start. Sometimes the screen would freeze. Overall, I would have returned it but my mom didn't care to, it's not one I'd keep personally.