I have bought Asus before and it was great! When shopping for a new laptop I only looked at Asus. Wow what a headache this paperweight is. I bought it for gaming and I'm playing a ten year old game. A simple game that was on playstation 2. Every half hour its crashing and I have to shut it off. I plug in headphones. Headphones. And it doesn't recognize it. I had my sound card deleted and took an hour trying to figure that mess out. I spend a grand on this thing and I curse it daily. I do not recommend it to anyone looking to play games, surf the internet, or have fun in any way. Maybe just maybe it can play solitare but I'm sure it would freeze and I'm not willing to find out.