As the title says: I am blown away.... but not in a good way. This laptop, for the short time I've had it, has caused me SO many issues. From the bluetooth not wanting to stay connected to a wireless mouse, to visual artifacts in NORMAL PROGRAMS (like Chrome), to programs just.... not wanting to open or taking a LONG time to open. Specs wise, I was expecting it to be a solid little gaming laptop for on the go, and maybe I just happened to get a lemon, but this laptop has left me well and far beyond frustrated! Watching movies and TV shows will sometimes freeze the picture in place, but the movie goes on under it which creates a Lovecraftian nightmare fuel. Gaming seemed......... mostly ok? I have a desktop PC with similar (but better) specs but this PC felt like a major letdown. With a 1:1 settings, the PC often has difficulty running otherwise easy to run games (like Warframe). I tried to push it to see how it'd handle RDR2 or CP2077 and BOTH GAMES HUNG FOR A SOLID 5 MINUTES after "launching". I guessed it was building shader caches the first times, but it happened every single time I loaded the games. The webcam is fine, again with a caveat: WHEN IT WORKS!!! I've tried to use the webcam many times, and various parties on various platforms (android, apple, chromebook, discord, etc.) and I think with each one I had an issue and had to end and restart the call to get it to work. The speakers are AWFUL, but this is a "gaming laptop" so its somewhat expected, but I'd suggest getting a portable speaker or headphones with this machine. The mic is also pretty bad. I asked each person I talked with about its quality, and the best I got is "Its fine, I guess" with the lowest being "Its really bad, you sound far away, tinny, and muffled". Regular programs like VLC, Chrome, Firefox, Steam, GOG, and others fared about as well. Sometimes they load quickly, but often they freeze up so long I force close them from task manager just to start them up again and this time theres no problem at all! I cant rightfully suggest this laptop to anyone, unless as stated I got a lemon and others of the same model would be fine. Read more