For the purpose I need it for, web browsing , light media editing and programming, it works sufficiently. I really love the large more than average brightness screen where I can display two windows at once, for media and documents.
The speakers are average though, so better have a wired headphone if you want great sounds.
There is a connector inside for an extra hard drive but it doesn't have the cable in it. And the space for the hard drive was occupied by what seem to be a more than average size battery 44Whr 11 volts. So I'm buying a cable and an SSD to micro sd adapter so I can fit a storage drive in there.
For this large screen , the battery life is 7hours50mins for 50% brightness , 4hours 30 mins for max brightness, while doing light stuff like web surfing.
It could be charged through the barrel jack or the usb-c if you have above 66 watt charger. Anything lower and it will charge intermittently or when turned off.
It's heavy, but expected for something this size. But the finish makes it look classy and businesslike. I just wish they expanded the keyboard layout on full horizontal, there like 3 inches with nothing on it, and it would make the keys less squished together like the numpad section(I type a lot of numbers).
On light gaming I play guildwars 2 . I'm surprised it was doing well on medium settings since it doesn't have a dGPU. It will make the fan loud though, so I set it all to minimum and that reduce fan noise by half, pretty reasonable.
It's pretty useful while waiting on airports or for traveling. If most of what you do is microsoft office and web browsing.
Since the model I bought is 8GB ram I just bought another similar 8GB memory type to double the ram to 16GB.
It doesn't have backlit keys but the screens I used are mostly white or bright colors so the screen reflection illuminate my keys on dark room areas.
| Standing screen display size | 17.3 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 Pixels |
| Processor | 2.3 GHz ryzen_5 |
| RAM | 8 GB DDR4 |
| Hard Drive | 512 GB SSD |
| Graphics Coprocessor | AMD Radeon Vega 7 |
| Chipset Brand | AMD |
| Card Description | Integrated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 8 GB |
| Wireless Type | 802.11ax |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 1 |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 2 |
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 9 Hours |
