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2.0 out of 5 starsSix months later, all hell breaks lose. Beware - I fixed the issue but ?
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2020
REVISED AGAIN: After finishing the transfer of files, I put the laptop back together, was very careful with connections, to make sure everything was the way it was supposed to be. Fired it up and it worked. I ran a bunch more tests and diagnostics, etc. Even the windows logs said nothing was wrong or for that matter; anything even happened! Not sure what to say, but I am glad I have a HD reader, it saved a ton of hassle. Last word: Not sure what to think of this. Besides this, it has been a beast, and has performed well. But 6 months in and I am tearing the computer apart to make it work??? If it was a 500 dollar computer, sure... it is not. So take this for what it is worth.
REVISED: Today I went to log on to my computer and it froze at the loading screen. After a bunch of hassle I finally get the windows screen. The D: drive is now missing. Have no idea why. After Bios, boot setup, running diagnostics, etc. I took the secondary drive out, and I have a drive reader. Its perfect. Nothing wrong with it at all. I am now transferring all my important files to another drive just for safe keeping. For this expensive of a laptop, to have an issue like this just 6 months in... you might want to look elsewhere. I will update this as I go along, but the transferring is taking forever.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
I have been searching for a laptop that can handle Adobe Premiere, Photoshop and play a few games too. I have been using this laptop for a week and it is outstanding. Most of the builds I found were similar but had something I didn't like or was missing a key component not to mention they were easily priced 200-300 more.
REVISED: Heating is a serious issue with this laptop. Even just surfing the next, the fans will kick on and the bottom heats up. I bought a fan cooling system to go underneath and that has helped a lot. The performance so far is excellent, but boy does it get hot quick.
I needed: A great processor, and the i7 that is in this machine does a great job (so far). Easily took care of Photoshop files, didn't even flinch when I was scrubbing on 1080p videos.
Dual hard drives. The SSD boot disk is just what I needed and the 1TB storage drive was a must with videos, games, programs I have to load.
The graphics card is what I have in my desktop so needless to say, its more than I needed but it is real nice to have.
The 16GB RAM was a bit disappointing, but in the next year I will upgrade to 32GB.
All the extra's like customizing your keyboard color, metal plating on the cover, the design is outstanding, and just the overall speed is what I was looking for.
The only CONS would be that it gets warm, and when I was rendering a video, boy did it get warm. The fans are good, and when they kick on it cools off almost immediately. But another CON is the fans can get pretty loud. See note above, had to buy a cooling system... the heating is an issue.
Other than that it is a purchase I feel very comfortable with, bought the 4 year warranty with it so I have worry free computing over the next 4 years.
