This was purchased after a lot of research and customer reviews on performance, finally came to this decision.
It lives up to it's promise with a fast boot and excellent mouse/touch-pad speeds, I will not be using all the additional software that is inevitably bundled with named brand products.
This may be useful to others (Less "techy" folk) but I much prefer to install my own applications and I have to say, I really don't like other stuff/trial software, etc., being foisted on me.
It's totally unnecessary, and the Brands concerned obviously get kick-backs from the sponsored software, but I don't have to like it.. so it was all quickly uninstalled!
Rant over, but apart from that, the Notebook really is excellent and well recommended, being robust and well made.. with a good Intel CPU and ample HDD space.. Windows 7 is the business too!