What with COVID and lock downs becoming an ongoing thing, the need for our son to have his own laptop for zoom calls, doing school work through seesaw and google classroom etc was pretty important. Looking around we didnt see a lot of selection but this entry level HP. We've been surprised with how well it''s run, plenty of RAM to run most web based apps and enough to watch and or stream some content as well, more than does the job for my son. Solid performer!