Good laptop, but is pretty noisy. I run Maya, UE4, and other heavy-running applications and this desktop handles this well. I never ran a hardcore game, so I don't know the limits of the laptop. I also appreciate the large amount of available space for memory. The speakers could be a lot, a lot louder. You would probably need to buy some.I got this laptop because my laptop was struggling to run the programs that I use often and a reviewer said that he/she was able to run heavy applications.