You get what you pay for bro, I repair computers on the side and see alot of HP & ACER computers, they have to much support software on them that just slow the computer down, plus they come with norton 360 which i think is just garbage, my friend purchased a HP laptop from bestbuy about four months ago and the harddrive stopped working already, its under warranty but 4 months, come on, toshiba or sony i would suggest for a good laptop, a mac if your rich, they only have 1 or 2 viruses reported in the world, i have a toshiba laptop for years know with vista, just run a good reg cleaner once a week (regcure and or ccleaner) and a good firewall & antivirus (trendmicro) you will have no problems. lol bros