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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
The Macbook Air of Windows Laptops
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This is a sleek and premium feeling laptop with a great screen (especially because it isn’t an OLED display). The trackpad feels amazing! The color feels refreshing when looking at all of the other black and silver laptops available. The speakers are probably the weakest point of this laptop, but they are still perfectly fine and won’t be an issue for the vast majority of users. I appreciate being able to replace the SSD dowwn the road since it it replaceable if you have some technical experience and are comfortable “operating” on your laptop. The processor is snappy and I have found that most major applications work fine on it. Google drive is one exception, but the web version works just fine. This is NOT a gaming laptop by any means, but it can play some games decently well. Don’t expect to be playing Ray Traced Cyberpunk at max settings, but playing at 1080p low-medium settings on moderately intensive games is just fine. I have been able to play Civ VI, Crusader Kings 3, and Sims 4 with some playing around in the settings to get a smooth 60+fps. Not every game will work and those that do might not hit max graphics without being unplayable or without it being an old game. The battery life is great and I find myself not needing to charge during the day unless I am playing an intensive game on it. I would easily recommend this to anyone except people looking for a desktop replacement or someone looking for a heavy gaming computer. I dont know if this would be good for programming or engineering (or similar tasks) because I dont know enough about that to give an opinion.
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Lots to love...ultra premium build, great keyboard, fast. Even with 120Hz refresh rate the pixel response time is so slow that you get a lot of ghosting of the mouse cursor and when you are scrolling. It really takes away from the snappiness of the high refresh rate.