This laptop has simply exceeded all of my expectations for this price range of laptops! The 16 GB ram ensures everything runs smoothly, even with a large number of applications running at the same time and when high performance is required from the cpu, your processing power gets boosted to 3.4 Ghz with 8 logical cores (4 physical cores) with room to overclock! You simply couldn't ask for more. I've only found two downsides so far, the hdd's rather low rpm and the short battery life, which is expected from such a powerful computer. Overall I would recommend this laptop to anyone :)
