This was my laptop when i went to matc. It helped me take notes in class, but i would usually use my main asus pc whenever i needed to do anything serious. I tried to replace its hard drive with an ssd with dos, it worked, but the trackpad makes things difficult, as every game defaults to it, also since then i've gotten better at hard drive cloning, so I'm going to put back in the old windows 7 drive and clone it to an ssd. This is a very slow laptop though, maybe partially because of that, but it was always a bit slow, that's one thing that motivated me to try dos with it. It has a slow processor, but maybe the ssd will help, as it did in the h500s desktop.