The laptop, including the touchscreen, are great. The touch pad/mouse is responsive and easy to use. The laptop is fast. The startup is as quick as they say it is in the advertising. I really love the laptop. Windows 8, though, is another story. You can’t just jump from Windows 7 to Windows 8 and make a smooth transition. It is a whole different world. My biggest complaint is that I have yet to figure out how to have multiple windows open on my screen at the same time. The practical effect of this is most annoying when I am, for example, on my bank’s website and I want to pull up the calculator to do some math. In Windows 8, I haven’t figured out how to do that(and I have tried). So far, in fact, I haven’t seen any advantages whatsoever to making the jump to Windows 8 and, if I had it to do over again, I would get a laptop with Windows 7.although I really do like this laptop a whole lot.