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Bought it from Flipkart in March 2018. I picked it up from the warehouse myself but the packaging was decent. TL;DR: I'm a UX designer, and this is a pretty decent laptop for the tools I use. But the laptop has some keyboard and build quality issues along with the fact that it only ships with 8 GB RAM at the 90k+ price point. Things I liked: - Good performance - I bought the laptop with a performance and cost in mind and I believe it is worth it. - Really good screen w.r.t viewing angles and colour accuracy. - Decent set of speakers - The sound is not going to fill a hall, but the quality is good to watch movies in bed or play a little music while working etc. - The laptop is slightly on the slimmer and lighter side, but it feels a bit heavier than it looks maybe because things are so densely packed in a slim body. - Toned down red accents - this is one of the rare gaming/multimedia laptops without ridiculous red accents all over. However, there is the ROG backlit logo on the screen which I ideally wouldn't have had. - Decent screen hinge build quality - screen looks sturdy and is 1-hand operable too. Things I disliked: - Bad keyboard - not great feel, keys get stuck sometimes, gaming oriented space bar sucks, no dedicated END key (other than the one on the numpad which you can get only through NumLock - WTH?!), function keys offset from the numbers (e.g. F1 is above the 2 key). I would have rather had a non-full-size keyboard but with a proper set and layout of function keys. - Not great body build quality - the laptop creaks when lifted due to the quality of the easy access panel. I believe there will be breakage over time if not handled properly. - At this price point, 16 GB RAM should have been included, really. - Fair amount of bloatware - You can easily get rid of it, but why is bloatware even being shipped in 2018? Don't OEMs have usage analytics? Things I haven't tested the laptop for: - Games - But from what I read in online reviews, it isn't half bad. So, overall a really good laptop, but in some ways you've got to learn to work around the issues.
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