When I bought this laptop during the Prime event in July of 2019 for $1000 (usually $1,100-$1,200 around the time before the sell) and its a pretty good value for the hardware even without the sell. Being a OTR trucker and missing my desktop at home, this was a pretty good laptop to pull out on 34 hour resets or anytime with enough downtime for my 3 hour gaming sessions. Played a bit GTA5 to see what it can do, as well a lot of Planet Coaster and Cities Skyline, Minecraft with modpacks and shaders, & X-Plane 11. Just what my desktop at home can do, this Helios 300 can do just as well. The only thing I haven't tried is VR.For the hardware, the 9th gen i7, GTX 1660ti, 16GB of RAM, metal body frame, back lit keyboard and the most important part, the screen! Having an ISP screen that can do 144Hz is a grate thing to have on a laptop. Now the weakest part of this laptop would be the audio and even that I would say its a bit above average, but would still wear headphones while gaming since it blocks out the fan noise.Also I added a 2nd nvme hardrive, easy enough to install, still have a 2.5" space for a SSD. I don't know how the battery life is, I tend to keep my laptops plugged in at all times.