For me to test my gaming pc I use the game of skyrim, with the creation kit. For a year now I have been 8 months now I have been playing skyrim on this laptop on ultra settings with no lag, amazing laptop and to top it off the Sw update is the best feature I have seen in a long time, downloading drivers from the manufacturer instead of windows
C: drive shows as 100% maxed out even doing the simplest tasks. I can't even view a web page or work in a Word document without sitting and waiting for a *long* time because one of the cores is *always* pegged. It's pegged now and I'm not even running anything on it. (I am writing this on another computer because the computer in question is unable.) I've tried many of the updates (to drivers, to BIOS, etc.) suggested by the many, many people that also have this problem with this product to no avail. I frankly didn't buy a computer to spend hours and hours trying to nurse it to functionality. I don't believe the hardware architecture works. (I believe the marketing phrase is Express Cache".) There have been several other problems like the backlit keyboard failing multiple times and requiring a BIOS update each time to fix, the wi-fi driver spontaneaously cutting out and having to be re-added even after updating drivers, and so much more - all also reported by many, many people as issues with this computer.This has been a huge time waster. The feature set and design of this for price point seemed pretty decent. But there's no way to take advantage of any of them. The computer is unusably slow. So it gets a 1 across the board, only because I cannot leave zeroes.
Cons: Poor quality, Did not meet expectations, slow, many updates to apply, updates are ineffective