Awesome laptop as a sidekick to my gaming console but as good as a gaming laptop can be this product is pretty good for gaming and normal uses as it packs a similar punch to the gaming world, with pretty impressive specs to for high end uses to low end uses this product is pretty much the best laptop in this price range 500 gigs of hard drive and 4 gigs of ram is pretty decent for the laptop as you can extend it and play it to the fullest level of the laptop hp has always been a good developers of these laptops