Long Story short, would I buy again?- Yes.Do I regret buying this laptop over others?- Not at all.Pretty much well rounded, great material quality, great performance balance between work and play.For reference, I use Visual Studio 2017, Adobe CC Photoshop/Illustrator, Autodesk Maya 2018.4, and Mudbox 2018.2 to do different types of development, mainly Game Development with my own tools and software. It handles each of the applications I've listed very well, so transitioning from my Desktop to this Laptop with work is a good experience. I only play games occasionally, but the hardware specs suit my development and gaming use very well.After some setup it's proven to be a wonderful laptop, it's definitely not ready right out of the box, or even charged for that matter, that was the case for mine at least. For my programming, the text by default is scaled 125%, so setting it to 100% for me made it much better, because at the 125% scale, text is noticeably blurry.In hindsight, the only things I would want different with the hardware is there to be 2 RAM slots, and I'm fine with having a single M.2 SSD, although having two M.2 SSD's would be prefect. Also maybe a higher capacity battery, although I don't know where they'd be able to fit it, would be cool if there was a matching external battery pack for this laptop.Pros:- CPU is fantastic, it's a great balance between work and gaming on a laptop.- GPU, well it's a 1070 under-clocked with some less features than a regular 1070, but it handles gaming quite well.- Display is beautiful, even though it's only 100% sRGB. I haven't tested the refresh rate yet, so all I can say is it's good so far, haven't noticed any screen tearing in games yet.- Keyboard is smooth and silent, the keys do require a bit of a heavy typing hand to function. I also like the keyboard layout along with the space between the F4 and F5 keys, since I use the function keys quite a bit with development. The Print Screen button is in an unusual position next to the right Alt key.- The Touchpad + Numpad I was at first skeptical about, but it's not a bad experience actually.- RGB Lighting looks pretty nice, gives it that extra quality appearance, haven't played around with the lighting too much, mainly just wanted it so I could see the keyboard if I'm not in a well lit environment.- Very solid materials, gotta give ASUS props on the materials used for this laptop.- Webcam is actually comparable to a Logitech C920 Webcam. I have only tested in the Skype video settings preview and not full screen yet, but I've seen much worse image quality on other laptops in the same Skype video settings preview. I have not tested the Microphone yet either, so we'll see how that turns out.- Wireless Adapter works very well, on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz it's been steady, stable, and strong. I haven't noticed any defects or issues with the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. So even though there's not an RJ-45 Ethernet port, I don't see it having any stability issues with online gaming or even with streaming, although I'd trust using a USB Ethernet Adapter more than Wi-Fi for streaming anyway. I ran a speed test which gave me the maximum up/downstream of my internet service subscription. (attached image)- 25 GB's of Dropbox storage, not really a benefit for me since I don't use Dropbox, but whatever, free GB's I guess.Cons:- Runs a bit hot and loud under medium-high load.- Kingston SSD, would be nice if they put a 1 TB in since they're going with a cheaper brand SSD, it's decent though, and I'll probably end up replacing it later on since that's not enough space for having multiple games installed and doing work. The actual size of the drive ends up being 476 GB, not very close to the 512 GB it's labeled as, I believe that's due to the drive reserving space for performance and durability purposes.- Not really that bad, but the light bleed is noticeable if the video output is all black. Although, it's not anything noticeable with normal scenarios.- Battery Life can range from 5 Hours to an hour or less, depending on what you're running and your power settings.- Gets Dirty very easily, like most laptops, but this one if you're OCD like myself, you'll spend a lot of time cleaning it up after each use.- On-Board 8 GB RAM, instead of having two slots so we can upgrade to 32GB of RAM, there's just one slot which you can put a 16 GB stick in to get 24 GB's, unsure if it supports a 32 GB stick in the one slot though, my guess would be no, but I haven't seen or read anything that says any higher than 16 GB's for the one slot.- Claiming the Call of Duty - Black Ops 4 game made me lose a bit of respect for ASUS on this one, they made it such a painful experience, it was almost not even worth it. To obtain the code for obtaining the serial key to obtain the game, you have to run the MyAsus App and run the Update to get the ASUS Promotion App, which gives you the code to register and obtain the serial key, where you have to post a picture of the packaging and your invoice, that just seemed a bit too over the top for my liking, but whatever, finally got the game after waiting about 10-20 minutes for a response email after submitting the form and pictures.- Candy Crush, and other bad promo stuff preloaded without a straight-forward way of removing, I'm actually not even sure how I removed mine, I ran the Powershell in Administrator mode with "Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.*" (without the double quotation marks) and it turned up with nothing, now I don't see Candy Crush Saga and Candy Crush whatever it was in the start menu anymore, doesn't make any sense, but whatever, as long as there isn't candy crush.- Windows 10 Home, for this price and compared to other laptops with Windows 10 Pro in the same price range and specs as this laptop.Notes for the Attached Images,- The game screenshot is Call of Duty - Black Ops 4 with whatever optimal settings GeForce Experience set by default.- The spreadsheet is the output of getting the Physical Device Limits from Vulkan 1.1.85.0, between the GTX-1070 with Max-Q Design and Intel HD 630 that are part of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus S GX531GS. I've got a GTX-1060/1070/1080 that I haven't ran the code on yet, I may update this review later and add another spreadsheet image with those values added in comparison.- CPU-Z windows stacked next to each other for reference, on the benchmark - I had two instances of Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop, and Discord+Skype running during the benchmark.- Task Manager Screenshot is just because I like seeing all those logical processor graphs.- Speedtest results on 5GHz, on 2.4GHz I got around 130 Mbps Download, and 12 Mbps Upload, Although this is a Speedtest.net result, I tried testmy.net and the test was just taking forever, possibly because the ISP throttling those test servers or the servers themselves, who knows.. (Internet service package tested is rated at 250 Mbps).**UPDATE DEC 5, 2018**I found out that the typical Alt+NumPad [Key Code] shortcut doesn't work, from testing different combinations I found that to do this, you use Alt+PgUp+NumPad [Key Code]. So just remember to press the Alt Key then PgUp or PgDn (both work) before typing the key code.(e.g. Alt+PgUp+NumPad [0169] = © "copyright symbol")(e.g. Alt+PgUp+NumPad [0153] = ™ "trademark symbol")