The ASUS VivoBook looks great on paper and performs just as well as you would think, but looking at it isn't fun.One of the first things I was interested in was to see if I could get the laptop to thermal throttle and it performed remarkably well. While it looks sleek with few vents the cooling system is more than adequate to cool the laptop under all situations. A surprising and welcomed thought out design is that the intake vents are placed near the sides of the laptop, so even when the laptop is on your lap it never gets hot under full CPU load due to the vents not being covered up by your thighs.The keyboard is to my liking with multiple back light levels. There are multimedia keys on the arrow keys, something I wasn't immediately aware of.ASUS's trackpad is easy to use and an enjoyable experience.Battery life is something to be desired with three hours really stretching the limit.Once you look past the beautiful design and specs you look into the epitome of horror. The screen is still junk on this FHD version, while not being a complete train-wreck like the ASUS M580VD-EB76 VivoBook 15.6" FHD thin and light Gaming Laptop Computer (Intel Core i7-7700HQ, GTX 1050 4GB, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD+1TB HDD), backlit keyboard screen is, it's still bad. Blacks are slightly purple which throws everything off. It looks washed out even on lower brightness settings.In the attached pictures I'm comparing against an GIGABYTE Aero 15W-BK4 15.6" Thin Bezel FHD IPS 7th Gen Intel i7-7700HQ, GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, 16Gx1 RAM DDR4 2400, M.2 SATA 512GB SSD, Windows 10 Gaming Laptop (Black) Ultra Thin Metal Chassis that I am returning due to backlight bleed. I was hoping this laptop would be a decent step up in value due to arguably very good specs for its price, but even with it's screen issue there is no doubt which looks better. A quick look around any electronic retail shop would show there are many laptops below this price point with better screens as well.It's possible the 4K edition of this model will be better, but I can't imagine getting a laptop with any worse battery life near the end of 2017.UPDATE: 9/19/17Having used the laptop for a little while longer my unit has track-pad issues. It's not apparent at first since I usually have it hooked up to a mouse/keyboard, but the track-pad intermittently stops working for about a minutes a few times a day. The first few times it happened I thought it was from my heavy workload, but it occurs even when doing light tasks.UPDATE: 10/1/17Never did get around to actually shipping the laptop. The track-pad issue was solved by updating the display driver from Intel and not ASUS. Something I am now upset with is this laptop has no way to drive a HDR monitor. The USB-C Alt DP mode does support 4k@60Hz, but does not support HDR. It's one of those technical details that is hard to find.UPDATE 10/10/17The more I used the UDB-C Alt DP mode on this laptop (running a monitor through the usb-c port) the more frustrating this laptop is to use. Sometimes it works flawlessly. Other times, like as I'm writing this update, it refused to drive my monitor. No matter how many times you restart, I'm probably going to have to reinstall the graphics driver, AGAIN. Forget about using the usb-c port and HDMI port at the same time. That's a one and a million chance it will work. Knocking a star off, I so wish I had returned this thing.