Wouldn't purchase again

Not sure if it's just me but this laptop gives me hell. I nicknamed it Satan for the red backlit keyboard and didn't realize how accurate that nickname would be. Obviously it's faster and better than my other very outdated slow-as-molasses laptop, but in some ways the functions became worse. I can't even run some of the programs I used to, which is absolutely infuriating, because the firewall (I assume) is so aggressive even after I've turned it off. Not sure I can really blame the laptop model for that problem. But I can, (probably), blame it for constantly shutting off my wifi without warning and sometimes taking minutes to toggle on/off before it will fix itself. I can't get an explanation why it randomly decides to do this to me. Maybe just a windows 10 thing. But the worst problem which is distinctly a flaw of this laptop is when the entire thing crashes. It's only happened a couple times but when it happens it's Game Over. The keyboard stops responding, the screen freezes up, it makes a horrible screeching noise, and the power button does NOT work to turn off the computer. I'm not kidding, you can't turn the thing off whatsoever. It might be more bad luck or a deliberate design of the laptop, I'm not sure, but I can't even unscrew the back to try to remove the battery. The screw just turns and turns and turns and will never come out. Each time the laptop has crashed, I'm stuck with a frozen, endlessly screaming laptop and my only option is to stick it in another room where I can't hear it and wait for the battery to die. I'm just grateful I didn't have time-sensitive work to accomplish when the crashes happened, because it's already insanely frustrating. Fortunately, both times the laptop booted back up again just fine afterwards, and I can't be hassled to send it back. The funny thing is, I saw one review mentioning this problem and figured the odds were it wouldn't happen to me. Yeah. Don't be like me. Keep looking for something better, check the reviews, and spare yourself a lot of headache.

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