Really solid, very professional laptop. Performance for standard tasks and light gaming is amazing. I haven't pushed the AI features yet, but will soon. The display is stunning, the sound is excellent and highly configurable. The addition of the extra ports and the number pad are HUGE conveniences, however the off-center keyboard and track pad are taking a little getting used to. I also love the illuminated keys, though I admit, I wish they were brighter... but that said, it's far better than no light at all (and I like the colors as well). It is lighter than I expected, much more solidly built than I expected, and seems extremely sturdy. Key travel and key feel are really good, though the keys are oddly a bit big coming from both a Dell and a Surface Pro. I read a lot of reviews where the "professional" reviewers nagged about the screen aspect ratio, but I really don't get their angst. I'm not having any issue with screen real estate and frankly this feels to me like a big screen desktop monitor compared to my Surface and my work computer. Setting this thing up was an absolute dream too, if you have MS 365. The entire process was completely hassle free. The one thing that gave me pause was when Asus pushed a driver update and my perfectly working computer started acting really weird - giving me a dialog box saying I needed to plug the computer in and... it was plugged in... but clicking the box had no effect, it wouldn't go away, the driver update didn't appear to be moving on... I nearly shut this thing down. And while other drivers were installing there were no progress boxes, just hints of them flashing on the screen for .2sec and vanishing. It looked for all the world like my computer had failed completely and wasn't coming back. Fortunately I decided to just let it sit while I tried to figure out what to do and eventually a dialog box with a progress meter did show up, so I relaxed... but man, that could have gone sideways really fast because I was this close to shutting the computer down. Asus, you might want to put some work into that one. Beyond that, though, after 3 days with this computer, I am 100% satisfied I made the right call. This does everything I wanted it for, does it well, fast, and I really like how it looks (in spite of one reviewer calling it "boring"), the sleek, professional design is nice but the lighted keys, the sound, the performance, and OLED display are anything but boring.
