I bought this about 3 years ago, after having a Toshiba last for 10 years before dying.
Pros: For 3 years ago, this was one powerful laptop. I haven't had any speed issues, except when I try to play Starcraft 2, it lags a little on the lowest settings. Excellent for surfing the internet, or just taking around school. I have used it for Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator with no issues. This was my daily-use computer and generally didn't give me performance problems or blue screens. Generally.
Cons: Straight out of the box, the volume knob didn't work right. The hibernate function didn't work right either. After a couple months, the screen was messing up and a cord needed to be replaced (which Toshiba replaced and shipped the computer free of charge due to warrantee). After a few months, the mouse button chrome started chipping. After about a year the power adapter cord just completely broke in half. I have had some terrible heat issues after awhile. It would overheat and shut down while watching videos or playing games. All. The. Time. Even YouTube videos would cause it to overheat. Speaking of which, it can't play 720p HD videos smoothly. A cooling pad helped a lot, but didn't solve the overheating problem. I checked for dust in the fans, but there really wasn't enough to do this.
Also, really bad battery life. 1 hour max with normal(non-wifi) use.
A couple weeks ago it died. It straight-up won't start up anymore. It didn't have any viruses. It was some hardware failure. I don't even really want to find the problem because I am tired of dealing with the overheating issue and the overall poor setup.
That's my story of the life of this laptop. Hopefully I just got a lemon. You have been warned.
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