First things first, a laptop will not work without a powerful battery, right? Dell's battery life is not at all pleasing as it renders three hours on basic computing, and two if you watch a video on it. If you want to upgrade the unit, which is tedious, you'll need to remove the system's module. The processor is a bit fast, yeah, but the Internet connection is quite sluggish. Is it Dell's problem or with my
DSL provider? I don't know because I rarely use the Internet.