Disclaimer: I'm not a gamer (I have consoles for that) so I'm not rating game performance. I will say that even sitting idle, the CPU seems to run warm. It reached 45 Celsius quickly. So I wonder how it would do under heavy load...Overall, it's a decent machine for the price. Most other laptops in this range are underpowered. Build quality is decent. Not as fancy as my older MSI laptop which this replaced, but it seems good, and it's $600 cheaper than my MSI was. Unlike MSI, Acer (mostly) put the keys in the right places. (Ever use MSI? Super annoying layout and Fn key combos for a developer editing code.)The BIOS is limited (not much you can do there) and the components aren't really high end, just some obscure name. I immediately upgraded the RAM to 32gb (it has two slots) and the SSD to a 500gb M.2 NVMe Samsung. (Swapped parts with the previous laptop.) Then I made it a Linux laptop, which wasn't too difficult. It works fine with Ubuntu 19.10 and the latest Nvidia driver. No weird compatibility issues so far, even though Acer only supports Windows on this machine. You won't find Acer drivers or PredatorSense, but I've run this a few hours on Ubuntu without any issues.The screen looks good. There is very noticeable backlight bleeding on black backgrounds, but it's not an issue otherwise.Bottom line: you get respectable specs for the price. Battery life is terrible at about 90 minutes. Maybe 2 hours max, but no gaming laptop will run very long on battery. Still, I feel it should be a 6-cell, not 4. So just use it plugged in.