Depending on your performance/battery settings, you have to charge it pretty often, but it’s perfect for gaming (heavy-duty like COD, Warframe, Fortnite, etc.) and even SolidWorks if you’re using it for CAD classes or such while in college or after 👍🏻. You don’t really have to get a monitor if you don’t want to.
I am very pleased with the computer so far. I am not a big gamer but I do need something a bit more powerful to play the ones that I have. This computer works perfectly.
I originally bought an HP Victus just for use while traveling since I was quite happy with my HP desktop for home use. I was so pleased with the specs of the Victus that I bought another one for use at work. It's easily the best laptop I've ever had, and at a very decent price, too!
HP's online chat advisor was so helpful, I never questioned her recommendation regarding the Victus gaming model, although she had the list of major applications the new computer had to support. Gaming was definitely NOT in that list. Perhaps she was trying to address the photo and video-editing and design apps that require high performance and excellent graphics. Just wish it was possible to get all the gaming stuff out of the way. HP features are easy to use. Graphics are good. Online instructions are very helpful. Typically, laptop "mousepads" are annoying, but this one is very responsive and actually fun to use. Still learning all the nuances of when/how to use two fingers vs one finger to access menu and app functions. i.e. Just discovered using two fingers on a taskbar or start menu item brings up a menu that allows adding or removing that app from the respective pin location. Still don't care for having to reach over it to get to the keyboard, but most of the time will be using a Bluetooth full-size keyboard anyway. The real test will come when the afore-mentioned apps are fully loaded. Have not yet pushed the performance boundaries, but just waking the computer up has improved daily operations immensely over the previous 10-year-old HP desktop Pavilion! The increase in memory shows up immediately in handling all the background tasks that have to run in today's operating and security systems world.