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If you know what you want this tablet for and your expectations are reasonable, you will be happy. 1. Looks to be good build quality. Close to my 2012 edition Nexus 7. 2. Very little if any bloatware (what little there is, as far as I could tell, does not stop you from a simple/standard uninstall without root). However, note that there are actually about 20 non-common apps installed that a US user would not notice or have acceess to and do not appear to run in any way and are not even possible to easily activate for a US user. Some of them are intended for Japanese users, some perhaps Russian (Yandex maps, Yandex search, something for Japanese language comics, etc.). I did not not notice them other than in NoRoot Firewall - a nice app that you can use to block apps that you do not want to "call home" or using the interet from ever doing so). If you go to the Google store and search for each app in question, you will have the ability to uninstall it or install a usable version in the vast majority of cases. FYI, there are some other non-English non-activated full-blown apps pre-installed that even NoRoot does not detect (but I have seen no evidence that they ever activate or run or try to "spy" on me in any way). 3. What I got actually reports (internal settings) that it has a 1.7GHZ processor and not a 1.5GHZ. It appears some get a 1.5 some a 1.7. 4. It reports that it has only one internal sensor - an Accelerometer. I sort of new this before I ordered. It is enough to adjust for landscape vs picture mode but if you need/want a compass capability, a gyro, etc. for games and such (vs surfing the net, e-mail and media viewing), this may not be the right tablet for you. me - I do not care all that much. 5. I found the stock launcher less than great (I liked the layout, obvious access to widgets, etc. from my Nexus 7 significantly better). I installed Nova Launcher (took less than 10 minutes to install and do a bit of tweaking to the configs) and all is more or less what I am used to on the Nexus. I chose the "Lollipop" mode in the Nova launcher. 6. My sound works OK. Would like more volume. NOTE: from time to time, Dolby just STOPS working. When it does, sound is limted to about 50% and is very flat. Going into "Apps" then selecting the two Dolby Apps, clearing all memory and then stopping them and THEN re-starting the tablet seems to be at least a temporary fix (works most of the time - with me this issue happens every few weeks). It appears that Lenovo is aware of the issue and I would hope will fix it in some later update. 7. Setting the lock stcreen walpaper is less than obvious. You have to select the default app "Gallery" then choose an image you have downloaded (via a wallpaper app or otherwise), and then hit the three verticle dots on top and then choose the option to set it as lock screen wallpaper. Just make sure you align the tablet right (I think non-landscape) when you do it, as otherwise you may have an image on the top of the screen and black on the bottom (when you hold the tablet in regular non-landscape mode). 7. GPS menu is less than optimum. It does work. You may have to use the on/off pull down menu and THEN go to settings to choose if you want high or low accuracy and battery consumption GPS. 8. For some reason, using Google search on Firefox, there is a tendency that the first key press registers a double letter like as or bb or cc. Just Google that I can see and just the first key press. 9. As per my "answered question", Antutu benchmark 5.7.1 is, for me, on 1920*1200 resolution, 30758. Performance page says general performance surpasses 95 percent of other devices, game performance surpasses 60 percent, and battery performance is average at 50 percent. On the comparison benchmarks, a Galaxy Note 4 is around 48000, a LG G3 is around 32000. It is ranked between the slower HTC One and the slightly faster G3. I also ran a Passmark benchmark. I am listed as a benchmark of 4563 - http://androidbenchmark.net/passmark_chart.html - quite respectable for a non-elite & fairly inexpensive model. A Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014) is 5600 or 5397 (model depending) and a Nexus 7 2013 is 3482. 10. Battery is quite good/lasts many hours. Note: that it takes me about 1.5-2 hours to charge from 50% to 100% using a 1.8 amp (1800Mah) charger. Probably would take a bunch longer if you were using a 1.0 amp charger that comes with a standard old school smartphone or many hours using the 0.5amps that come from connecting a standard computer via a USB wire to a phone or tablet.