Review of a little monster I bought

RenRev

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I have to start with disclaimer that I work for IT and have worked with a lot of fancy tech, so I do have a lot of biases that potentially could not be fair.

I bought ryzen 9, 32 gb ram laptop, nvidia 3070.

Pro’s: Its fast, performance seems great as expected.

Cons: I never expected it to be that loud. When I play high res games it feels like airplane taking off. Will be really awkward to work in cafe.

Turn on button needs to be pressed quite strong. For few hours I thought it is broken, then realised it just needs to be pressed stronger.

Keyboard isnt as sensitive as other high end laptops. When I lightly touch the buttons, they dont register. They need a bit of force applied, definitely not suitable for business type of application where you write lot of word documents. I do fear by the feel that keyboard wont last long. It doesnt feel really high end to me.

Windows 11 (not hardware related) - second day and it had bugged out. I lost start bar on home screen. Have to do so many workarounds. Dont take windows 11. Its not ready. Probably should have gone with 10 and waited to update. Now I suffer for my optimistic approach.
 

Martinr36

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Windows 11 (not hardware related) - second day and it had bugged out. I lost start bar on home screen. Have to do so many workarounds. Dont take windows 11. Its not ready. Probably should have gone with 10 and waited to update. Now I suffer for my optimistic approach.
You could always, download and install W10 using the windows media creation tool
 

barlew

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I have to start with disclaimer that I work for IT and have worked with a lot of fancy tech, so I do have a lot of biases that potentially could not be fair.

I bought ryzen 9, 32 gb ram laptop, nvidia 3070.

Pro’s: Its fast, performance seems great as expected.

Cons: I never expected it to be that loud. When I play high res games it feels like airplane taking off. Will be really awkward to work in cafe.

Turn on button needs to be pressed quite strong. For few hours I thought it is broken, then realised it just needs to be pressed stronger.

Keyboard isnt as sensitive as other high end laptops. When I lightly touch the buttons, they dont register. They need a bit of force applied, definitely not suitable for business type of application where you write lot of word documents. I do fear by the feel that keyboard wont last long. It doesnt feel really high end to me.

Windows 11 (not hardware related) - second day and it had bugged out. I lost start bar on home screen. Have to do so many workarounds. Dont take windows 11. Its not ready. Probably should have gone with 10 and waited to update. Now I suffer for my optimistic approach.
Can you post the specs for your machine from the order page please?
 

RenRev

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Chassis & Display Recoil Series:
15.6" Matte QHD 165Hz sRGB 100% LED Widescreen (2560x1440)

Processor (CPU)
AMD RyzenTM 9 Eight Core Processor 5900HX (3.3GHz, 4.6GHz Turbo)

Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair 3200MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)

Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 3070 - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st M.2

SSD Drive
1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W)
 

RenRev

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You could always, download and install W10 using the windows media creation tool
Yeah, I know, but don't want to go to W10 wait while they fix all the bugs and return to W11.
I will do some technical work and would need to re-do so many settings.
Too lazy to go that path.
 
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