As mentioned by others, consider this ultraportable after cleaning in software present by default. Indeed, it takes about five hours to predict remove unnecessary programs (and there are many) and move to the free upgrade of Windows 8.1. This process is relatively long because the hard drives of this type of machine is slow: it is quiet at least that's something. Once these operations carried out, we discover a very light ultraportable with a long battery life (4 hours surfing) and relatively powerful. Personally, I see little interest in using the touch screen that works great also. So I can only recommend. Finally, I chose to move to SSD in order to have a faster machine: I bought a 250GB Samsung EVO and I clone the original hard drive on it with Acronis True Image Premium: it took 17 minutes. The result is a boot in 7 seconds and an exit hibernation in 2 seconds is formidable. Launching heavy applications is a real pleasure, all without a sound, you happiness! PS: the SATA port SATA II, so the capacities of SSD are slightly amputated.