For what I paid for it, I think its a nice laptop. I disagree that the cooling is noisy. even with the fans ramped up to speed it's not that bad. I like the backlit keyboard. I like that it has room for expansion. I ordered a second pcie nvme wd black sn850 intending to dual boot ubuntu, and installed that. very fast drive. I also ordered a second 8gb of ram and installed that. and since I had the bottom cover off anyways I installed a 2.5"hdd that had a bunch of stuff I use already on it. It's been 2 weeks with it and seems to run pretty good.  I did have to spend a little more to make it what I want, but it's still a good machine before I upgraded it.