Well the price is decent and I think many people my self included have had good experiences with Acer in fact I three LCD monitors all acer. The AMD Phenom II Quad-Core N970 is more then fine for general usage IMO and the HD6650M is actually quite a good video card considering its a laptop. In the price range its a pretty decent choice I would say for what you wanna do it will do it and for a fair price.