I bought this laptop in September 2019 for my son who is going to University next fall. He was looking for a Mac Book Air, but after I compared the specs with the air and this Dell 15 5000 series it was clear that the Air was old technology at double the price. I’ve owned countless Dells over the years and have never been let down. So he was convinced to buy the Dell 15 5000 with touch display. Four months later he loves it. It’s fast, no lag for any office products or media, everything is instant. He likes the finger print reader, the silver sleek look and overall design which is more modern looking than the current Air, which has giant plastic bezels around the screen, who does that these days. The Dell is edge to edge glass. And his friends who have Air’s are astonished and jealous that his Dell has a touch screen and theirs doesn’t. He’s also rough on everything, and the Dell has held up. If you’re looking for a gaming powerhouse choose the XPS line, but if you need a well rounded, great performing, great looking laptop this one is excellent. In my opinion you have to get the touch screen as it’s really nice to have and you MUST get the SSD HDD. In today’s day and age not sure why regular HDD still exist. The SSD HDD get’s the Dell booted up really fast and performance is great. The only reason I took off one star for performance is because if you want higher end video card / gaming level power you do have to move up to another line. But of course you’ll pay for that extra performance.