I paid $479 for the first one I bought, $120 off the regular price. It has a great size monitor and meets the household needs. I bought a second one on sale for $499 and that is still a good price for what you get. No issues so far after a month. All the reviews I see for this and other PC's are that people are complaining about windows 8, that has nothing to do with the machine. So far so good. Also if you miss having the start menu you can download stardock start 8 for $4.99 and it puts the start menu back and you can use it just like all the windows programs that came before.