I bought the HP ProBook to replace my three year old Dell. I wanted to get a Windows 7 notebook. I found HP to have a good rating and looked at it more. The more I read about it the more I knew I would get this. It had the configurations I wanted - i5core, 15.6screen and of course windows 7. I have been using it for over two months now and have found it to be perfect for me. I have some my old softwares ( FrontPage) and some new ( office 2013) , and both work perfectly well on this. The keyboard is beautifully quite and smooth. I am still getting used the the numeric pad as I did not have it in my old Dell. The speakers are great! I recorded some audio on my power points and the sound came out very well. DVD player is great. I have not burned any cds yet, but I am sure it will be fine. It is a fast computer and starts up in about 30sec.really good! So far I have not had any issues with it at all. For me its a great buy.