First off. There is absolutely nothing to complain about except for the old 5400rpm hard drive! seriously? not even 7200? Anyways since m.2 pcie ssd's are still pretty high in price for low amount of storage. I bought a 500g samsung 850 evo for $148 on another famous site(take a guess). It makes the laptop SOAR! The 5400rpm hard drive is almost an insult! DO NOT JUDGE it on a 5400rpm hd! I went from an almost 2min boot time to maybe a 15sec boot time. I really haven't calculated the boot time with ssd but it's a mind blowing difference on boot. You need to put an ssd in this thing. You can always get an m.2 pcie 3 ssd down the road for it when prices come down...but AT LEAST putting an sata 3 ssd in it like the 850 evo is a MUST. I use that 5400rpm hd as extended hard drive for my xbox one now. ha. Gaming wise the 2gb ram on the gpu does kind of suck(i have a desktop so this isn't main gaming machine) but all I'm really playing game wise is wow, some battlefront, some rainbow six seige, and dabble in fallout 4. Wow is maxed and other games it plays them all just fine. Will even max if you are ok with 30fps but if you want to get at least 60- 75fps to get the full benefit of gsync just turn some options down. However lower fps with gsync doesn't feel as low as it would on a screen without gsync. LOVE GSYNC. Thank god for gsync though! I have 3x asus 1440p 144hz gsync monitors on my main rig and having gsync on a laptop is GREAT!!! I got no complaints with the screen as other reviews have said. The exterior of the laptop is simply gorgeous. It lights up, it's miles ahead of previous rog laptops in both looks and construction. the battery life is not bad. putting it on power saver and turning brightness down you can get about 2hrs of battery life with combination of gaming, internet browsing. This isn't meant to have awesome battery life...there is a 965 gpu and a powerful almost desktop like i7 processor inside...gotta compromise on that. Buy it, but dump the 5400 rpm hard drive immediately and clone it to an ssd.