Awesome laptop overall. Great buid quality and performance. Perfect general purpose laptop that happens to be good at moderate to heavy gaming. I would say if you are looking for a hardcore gaming laptop it's a good budget buy but I'd suggest investing a little more for gtx graphics card option but other than that it will run just about any games on moderate settings without a problem. Not the best "lap" top due to the amount of heat when you put it through the paces but to be expected if your gaming. The turbo button is great and very effective when needed just know as any machine would at full RPMs it's fairly loud. Mouse pad is very responsive and smooth, I like how it uses Microsoft driver's so you get their gestures which are standardized. Screen is the only downside with the lack of color gamut and brightness for direct sunlight use or digital creation but will still get the job done. The peripherals give you the option to connect a monitor via HDMI to mitigate this problem if needed. No thunderbolt connection but with the problems this port has I'm personally ok with not having it. I would desire an SD card reader because I use this machine for video and photo editing but that's just my preference. I run davinci resolve for video editing and haven't had a problem doing 1080p video editing, 4k is doable just requires a little more patience. Overall nothing bad to say about this device highly recommend for anyone wanting a gaming laptop at a reasonable price.