Bought this machine as a replacement for the rather crappy laptop I had before; and what an improvement in my game-play; my FPS stayed plenty strong on the games I do play (WoW, DCUO, SWTOR, TERA) haven't tried it on BnS yet, but I d plan to in the future.As for the movie side of things, I had read that the screen on this particular machine has some screen bleed, where it looks like the edges of the screen were screwed too tight, so light shows through on parts of movies on the outer edges, especially if the movie is dark; not a deal breaker for me, but it may be for some people.Speaker placement is horrible; they face towards the bottom of the machine.  Again, not a deal breaker, as most will use external seakers or just use headphones, but it is annoying.The one thing that will annoy some is the fans; it has dual fans, one for the CPU and one for the GPU.  While they do their job perfectly well, they are LOUD during times where the machine is stressed.All in all a great buy, but if you need a machine that stays somewhat quiet, I would look elsewhere.