I bought this laptop three years ago for university purposes and am still using it. I would consider it to be durable -- I've mishandled it a couple of times, had some minor spillages and it has been fine. The only problem that I've had was that the battery seemed to die on me quite frequently, but I can't necessarily attribute it as a actual technical problem or if I may have mishandled the battery. But I have since then changed my battery and all seems to be fine so far.

It has the normal features that you would expect of any other laptop, nothing particularly special to me. The keyboard is slightly noisy, but I am not bothered by it. Maybe the biggest thing that bugs me is that, when the laptop runs out of battery, it makes an annoying siren that will be a problem especially if you bring your laptop to meetings or into class. You might be able to turn it off but I haven't figured out how to.

I find the laptop a little slow for me, but having said that, I am a huge multitasker and I open like 20-30 tabs in my browser at a time.