I bought this laptop for my husband for a reasonable price a few years ago after his old laptop simply decided to stop turning on at all. On a budget, I looked long and hard for a good laptop that wouldn't set me back too much money and this is what I bought.

Pros
After all these years, the battery life is still great, providing at least 3 hours. It has a big 250gb hard drive which is enough for most users photos and videos.
There are Three USB ports and nice big screen which is clear and easy to read
Unlike some laptops, this is light and not too big and doesn't get too hot on your laptop.
It comes with webcam and you can tell it has great build quality, as I've dropped it more than once and it's still running.

Cons
Speakers are awful, really quiet and tinny and I have to use plug in speakers to watch any films or TV. The keyboard is a good size, but not full size. Despite the 2gb ram it is often not enough to run games or to run a virus scanner with other programmes without slowing the whole system down.
The graphics are average, which is fine if you aren't a gamer, but it can cause problems with top end games. And although the screen is big and clear it awful in sunlight, you can't see anything for the glare.

Overall
All in all it is a good laptop, it is still running after a few years, it can be a bit slow at times, but it has held up well through constant use. For the price I think it is a very good buy and if you upgrade the RAM it would work better. As my husband mainly uses his laptop for watching films and iplayer, and playing games, more RAM would be useful as would better graphics. He also has to use speakers if he wants to watch films due to the poor speaker quality. But overall, it's a great quality laptop, with only a few flaws.