I bought this laptop for around £900 and really loved it - I used it for everything and it was very capable for all of these functions. For the first couple of years I owned it, it was the best laptop I have ever had, it ran quickly and efficiently. The screen was large and bright therefore perfect for playing games and watching films/TV shows. The graphics card was also good enough to be able to load most of the games I wished to play which is better than most laptops I have had before.

However, the laptop was incredibly bulky - partially because the screen was a 17'' - this means that it was difficult to carry around/take anywhere really defeating the point of having a laptop in favour of a desktop. Linked to this, after a short period of time it became necessary to leave the laptop plugged in full time. This meant that I could not take it anywhere unless there was guaranteed to be a plug rather limiting the places that I could have it! Another problem is that the laptop easily overheated - enough that I could have cooked something on it! Which even if didn't cause direct problems, it was worrying.

Eventually, the laptop starting blue screen of death every time I tried to turn it on, which was apparently a common feature in the model. I never found out the cause of the problem and even after sending it to be fixed got an inconclusive result and I had to replace it. So all in all, I would not buy it again as the customer service - particularly for this model - was awful and there were more problems than benefits to owning the laptop for such a short time at such an expensive price!