Yeah, it doesn't have an optical disk drive, or even a bay for one. That was the only thing i was second guessing before purchase. But now that i have it, i couldnt care less. Why? Because im getting over 60fps @ 1080p with everything on ultra (minus hairworks) on The Witcher 3! On a freaking laptop! If you're a laptop gamer like me you know how awesome that is. Plus this beast has a port on the back that allows you to hook up a Graphics acceleration box (sold separately) that you can put a full sized desktop GPU inside to use instead of the on board 980m. Not that i have any money left now, but when this thing starts chugging along and getting to that dangerously low <30fps state years from now, i can just upgrade the GPU and keep on trucking on this thing! No more dropping another 2k on a whole new system every 3-4 years! The speakers are top notch (Powerful little subwoofer inside), the LED bling is customizable is tons of ways, the large SSD makes loading times minimal. Even in Fallout 4! I loved you ASUS, but this time, Alienware had the hardware i needed for my price range. Just buy this thing, and you'll be glad you did too :)