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Well, I usually never review anything I purchase but figured for once I should give back a little since I am always scouring the internet before buying anything.

I have a software engineering background, work a lot with computers, and have a custom built PC back at home.

I plan on continuing to update this review as I have this laptop. I just purchased it two days ago as of today.

The S400 Touch by Lenovo:

Picked this up from Fry's for their 1-Day deal for 400$, seemed liked a pretty good deal to me since it was pretty cheap for a touch screen and I have been looking for a new budget laptop. Expensive laptops are great, but I work in a chemistry lab a lot and like to not worry about breaking my stuff. Breaking a 400$ Lenovo is much better than breaking a 2000$ MacBook Pro. Also, insurance is for suckers, they make a profit off it, that's why they sell it to you.

Anyway, I use the laptop for school and my own personal work. So far I must say I am pretty pleased with the item. The touch screen isn't bad and the keyboard is your usual Lenovo (IBM) comfortable keyboard. I enjoy typing on it. I used to own a T61 Thinkpad before and a W520 as well. A Toshiba before that, and the others I can't remember. The screen is nice for the laptop size.

Aesthetically, the laptop looks great as well. The only thing I don't like about the look is it seems like they tried to squeeze the already small battery in there. So there's this lump near the screen that looks kind of funky, and causes the upper end of the laptop to be a bit more bulky. I originally purchased the Yoga but returned it for the S400 Touch. Frankly I was not THAT impressed for a laptop that cost me 600$ more without much of a performance increase. Yeah, the processor is better, but if I wanted power I'd be getting a desktop replacement laptop, and the Yoga doesn't have 1080p or independent graphics.

Why do I bring up the Yoga? Well to be honest I am pretty pleased with this new purchase. Saved 600$ and I can't flip my screen. Still have the touch though, which in my opinion you need for Windows 8 unless you want to hate yourself.

Also, missing an SSD, but hey, you can always replace that yourself, no biggie. Once again, this was a 400$ touch screen laptop.

I am going to give this laptop 3 stars for now because I am a pretty tough critic. As time progresses and I continue to be pleased it will make it up to 4 stars unless I find some major issue. If you are looking for a budget laptop that works with windows 8, I would recommend this laptop. I plan on keeping it for a while.

Thanks and good luck.

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The computer starts up every time and seems to get all the jobs done that I need it to however a bit annoying to use:

If I forget to turn of the mouse pad it inevitably will highlight all that i'm writing and erase it (and windows 8 has no "undo" function in the email app:-( ). MOST of the time the kill button for the mouse pad doesn't work which is super lame.. I have to hit it over and over and then finally it wakes up. I'm very disappointed in how ALL other key/mouse pad functions work sporadically. (I MEAN ALL OF THEM) The mouse pad has two finger scrolling for example.. only works sometimes.. I wish it didn't have the feature if its not going to work.. I'd rather have the scrolling on the side of the mouse pad at the very least but it doesn't have that because it has the "two finger works when it feels like it" feature... Over all i'm not all that impressed with Lenovo and wouldn't recommend this nor will I ever buy one of these again. I previously had a Toshiba and it was soooo much better.. I'll go back to them on my next one as I had it for 6 years never had a problem, and all the features worked all the time. I'm guessing it has something to do where these products are designed. I live where the Lenovo is designed and its very much like many things there, 7/10ths. Almost there, but skimping on that last 3 of the 10 is what makes this computer okay and not great...

But on the plus side its light, it was cheap and the battery life is pretty long (more than a couple of hours).

I have my qualms with windows 8 being super dumbed down but that has little to do with the computer so i'll spare you needing to read about that..

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I bought it as gift for my god son who is in college. He loves it. He was so excited to learn that it is a touch screen. This is a lot of computer for the price.

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This thing is awful. I admin IT for our company. We bought it for the office because we needed a Windows machine and it's hilariously bad. Slow as hell, can barely handle the Windows 8 nonsense. Screen broke within weeks--returned. New machine doesn't have a working WiFi card. There were literally a pile of returns of this machine at Best Buy. Lenovo's ThinkPad legacy is long gone. Avoid at all costs.

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I am a college student and this computer does everything I need it to do for all of my classes, and more! I am so very pleased with this product and everything it does!