Pros: Had it since 2008, has been using it constantly since then; is more reliable than most of my other drives, even though I was expecting problems due to the large capacity. Also due to the high data density, it is pretty fast.

Cons: Due to the large capacity, takes a very long time to defragment when there is a lot of data on it. (Not that big a problem because the way I use it, it doesn't tend to get too fragmented)

Overall Review: This drive is $80 now, but in 2008 when I bought mine it was $190. I don't use it as my Windows computer's C: drive, but it is still kept in pretty constant use with hundreds of large torrents that are either active or standing by & such.

Pros: water cools your graphics card RAM chips

Cons: Might not install properly

Overall Review: It is sold with a clip for use with a Zalman GPU waterblock. It does hold that side of the graphics RAM down, but leaves other parts of the RAM waterblock lifted up off the RAM chips. Needs to be sold with 3 of these clips instead of 1 to hold the whole thing down. Using with a BFGTech Geforce 7900GTX.

Pros: Performs great. great value for the price, SSD makes it fast and works well for general use and gaming. Pretty decent battery life when just using it as a normal laptop and not gaming.

Cons: touchpad isn't that easy to use, touchpad briefly freezes sometimes. Overall not so suitable for running Linux for several reasons. It seems like Asus intentionally chooses to use parts that it's hard to make a driver for in Linux. In Linux, unless a better driver exists, touchpad is virtually completely unusable. Only some distros can even boot without setting some very limiting kernel parameters

Overall Review: Setting it up to dual boot win10 and linux, what I finally got it to almost acceptably work is: Seem to only get it to work with specific distro Linux Mint, if during install, using kernel parameters in the grub boot menu: nomodeset and acpi=off. Installed, upon first boot continue using those parameters until you install the proprietary nvidia driver. Must use usb mouse; touchpad pretty much completely unusable. It won't use the low power intel GPU so it runs hot and makes for poor battery life. If you set the nvidia driver to allow intel GPU usage, it bricks the OS and I haven't figured out a way to set it back except by reinstalling. But, it kind of works.

Pros: Audio hardware wasn't actually bad. Great laptop, really nice, really powerful. Even faster than my watercooled desktop PC due to its SSD C: drive. When casually browsing the web, it barely gets warm even when on a soft surface such as a bed or carpet. Battery life is sufficient. The secondary 1 TB hard drive is nice. For a laptop, I don't think I'll ever run out of storage space.

Cons: The keyboard is a little weird. The Home & End keys are accessible by either turning off num lock or using Fn-PgUp/Fn-PgDn. The arrow keys don't have space around them so it is too easy to accidentally press other keys even though the laptop is big enough for a bigger keyboard to alleviate this issue. Some keys squeak slightly. There is no key/switch to disable the touchpad so it is difficult to type because my palm often mouseclicks interrupting my typing. Wifi temporarily drops out frequently intermittently briefly. It has done this with the 5 different wifi networks I've tried. I think it is more reliable on the 5 GHz networks. drivers not properly installed on the OS preinstalled on the hard drive. Most of them you have to reinstall to get everything working right.

Overall Review: Audio hardware wasn't actually bad. I had called ibuypower tech support and explained that I reinstalled the audio driver, but I had mistaken the Sound Blaster Cinema software for the audio driver. It isn't. The sound blaster install is in addition to the Realtek driver. After messing with those drivers, it had seemingly begun to work on its own after having completed submitting an RMA, so then it was no longer necessary to send it in. With at 17.3" screen, I couldn't fit it in most of the bags/laptop cases I had; had to buy one designed for such a huge laptop. The Case Logic VNB-217 is pretty nice.

Pros: Mine has been dependable for 4 years, even though I have it at 51°C and continually in use pretty much 24x7.

Cons: none for me

Overall Review: The other reviews that I saw worried me shortly after I bought mine, but it has never failed me. Next month I will have had it for 4 years and it has been in nearly continuous use and at a relatively high temperature. I had bought it for $193 at the time. I may be replacing it soon due to the need for even more capacity.

Pros: Has proper "feel", USB interface works well.

Cons: Fn and Ctrl keys should be swapped, would prefer backslash to be between enter and backspace, but is in good enough position. Expensive for a simple keyboard.

Overall Review: We have about a dozen of this model keyboard. Some XP computers tend to turn on number lock automatically, making this keyboard almost useless until you turn off number lock each time you boot the computer.