A:Answer I took notes in college for my 2nd Bachelors after the Army with the first Surface Book and not having to use paper was amazing. This is miles ahead of that. As far as accounting though, I've encountered it in certain areas of the software I have worked on and it didn't matter how powerful my computer was, the user wasn't grasping the concepts (ie it confuses me to no end). I'm not sure what you do for your core classes, but it would be helpful to download Microsoft SQL Server Developer Version (Free) and do some accounting stuff in there, and this laptop can handle a heavy workload. I use a chinese cooler from Amazon I found that creates a vaccuum by taking air in all the time and have the thermal settings on Ultra (noise doesn't bother me, but if something was rattling or lose that would).