Pros: It's ram. It works.

Overall Review: I've noticed no speed difference from the original memory it replaced, except for when I'm using the extra capacity. The extra capacity obviously makes things better when I am using it.

Pros: Sounds good, when it works

Cons: I've lost a channel

Overall Review: Loosing one of the smaller speakers is unreasonable for a product in this price bracket. I've confirmed through moving around the plugs the issue is in the sub's circuitry. I've just plain lost the ability to hear right side audio. I've learned my lesson. No more mid priced stuff. Either buy dirt cheap and don't care that it fails or spend more and get a proper setup.

Pros: 1 TB external USB3.0 drive that works as expected. Measured about 100 mb/s transfer speed for large files on to blank drive.

Cons: None

Pros: This thing is fast. The high amount of ram makes running virtual machines not something that affects your other usage of this machine. The screen is also great. The back lit keyboard is also extremely nice. Other than the enter key all of the keys feel the same and are consistent.

Cons: It is hard to set up a linux based operating system on this machine due to multiple nvidia graphics cards hence the virtual machines being more important than normal if you don't want to change your work flow. Thankfully the machine has plenty of resources to make this an acceptable compromise for quite a while. The volume buttons also can not be operated with one hand due to the distance between the function key and the arrow keys, where the volume control is.

Overall Review: This thing is quite heavy. Not only is the laptop heavy but the power brick is huge. Many have complained about the touchpad, but after a few days you get use to it and it becomes a non-issue. As mentioned earlier the enter key often feels a little different from the other keys, but it still works reliably and is easy to pres, but it does bother me just a bit.

Pros: Looks great and was reasonably priced.

Cons: None

Overall Review: If it ever says "invalid input" or something to that effect changing the screen resolution on your desktop and trying again seems to fix it.