I bought this computer back in 07 and it started out pretty well. Untill a year later where it crashed about 7 times in two weeks. My hard drive failed and my DVD drive fail. Since it was out of warrenty Gateway refused to help but wanted me to pay like sixty dollards for a phone conversation on how to correct the problem. I already knew what had be done. I bought a New DVD drive that does for dirt cheap on ebay and then installed it. It's been working fine ever since.