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Pretty lightweight, great price point, and enough ports for my college-aged daughter to do everything she needs to do at college. I put Bazzite on this one, integrated with nextcloud and she's had zero problems. It all just works, and works nicely.

Works well plays game smooth So far Plays dune awakening on ultra settings

The Ryzen 5 8640HS CPU is very powerful for the $400 price range, and is a 6 core/12 thread CPU with an itegrated Radeon 760M graphics processor that is more in line with a low-end dedicated card than what many think of as "integrated graphics" For intel fans, it would be more like the Arc graphics in a Core Ultra chip than the integrated intel graphics in earlier chips. I upgraded the system with an 8 GB DDR5-5600 RAM card to bring the system to a symmetrical 16 GB DDR5 RAM. Despite the listed specs on New Egg, it is DDR5-5600 RAM, not DDR4. The 8640HS is a Zen 4 chip. It was easier to open than a Dell Latitude to upgrade the RAM but it still takes patience to open the tabs. The build quality looks decent, especially for the price. I got it for travel, but it seems capable of light gaming too. It won't handle something demanding like Witcher III, Cyberpunk 2077, or Baulder's Gate III well, but Alien: Isolation and Subnautica seems to run well. Older less demanding games like Skyrim should too. Full disclosure, I am running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS testing the games, so "mileage may vary" on Windows 11. Fan will run higher gaming of course. I read 72-76 C while playing Alien Isolation wandering around the ship at the start. This Ryzen 5 has a max thermal throttle temperature of 100 C like it's intel counterparts, so that is actually fine. It's meant more as a media/work laptop, and for the the laptop has more than enough power.

1) Fast initial boot and setup. 2) Solid build.

Ryzen 7 5000 series. Now my desktops and laptops match. Seriously, low wattage for a 7 cpu. It was a bit pricier than the Intel. But I rather support AMD this round. It is a bit more sturdier case than my older 8th gen Intel Acer. The old laptop had the fins break a bit. This model has the fans in a position where I can't say its good or bad.

The laptop looked like nothing was wrong with it, when I took it out of the package, but when I went to turn it on, the screen wouldn't work.