So I was a little weary about buying this laptop as some of the reviews on here were not the best. I have to say that I'm glad I didn't listen to them. I did a lot of research and I felt like this laptop was the best one for me. I wasn't looking for anything to game on (I have a pretty powerful gaming desktop that I built), but I did want to be able to game a bit when I go on vacation or are away from home. I'm going to go over a few categories taht are the most important to most people.Software:The computer runs Windows 10 home edition which I personally like. It's way better then 8 and has a lot of features that 7 doesn't have. The only issue I had was that I was trying to update Windows and it wouldn't do it because it thought the computer was in battery saver mode (it wasn't). I ended up having to use Microsoft's Windows Upgrader Tool to reinstall Windows. This was an easy enough thing to do and I didn't lose any of my data, but the average user wouldn't know how to do this. Luckily I had a similar issue with Windows upgrading on my desktop, so I already had the tool on that and just transferred it over. I never used OneDrive (Microsoft's cloud services) until I got this laptop and I'm happy to say that I love it now. I can throw something in a folder on my desktop computer and within about 30 seconds, it's on my laptop as well. This is great because I go back and forth for and do a lot of school work on both computers. There is not a lot of bloatware on the computer, but I did notice there were a bunch of windows apps that kept updating (some that I didn't want like Minecraft). These were easy enough to uninstall.Hardware:When it comes to hardware, I am very happy with this computer. It is solidly built and it looks and feels great. The screen is a little small for my liking though. I wish they had made it an inch bigger and taken away some of the bezel. The bezel is massive and that's one of the only complaints I have with the computer. The other one is the fingerprints. I knew this was going to be an issue from the reviews that I had read, but there has to be a way to change the coating to make this less of a problem. I'm planning on getting a skin for the outside, but because Razer changed the position of the logo in the newer model, there aren't any skins out there that fit it.Usage:The fans get pretty loud when they spin up, but this is only when the processor gets up to 90 or 100 percent. Surprisingly, this happened quite a lot when I first started using the machine. I'm fairly certain it was doing a large amount of updates and things in the background to get up to date. I haven't seen it get that high in a while. I did notice what some people were saying about the whine of the processor. This is very minimal and wouldn't bug me, but I did fix the issue by setting the processor to only go up to 99% instead of 100.Display:The display is pretty nice. The colors are good and the high resolution makes things crisp. The touch screen is not the best. It's not terrible, but it often doesn't recognize my lighter touches. Putting the display at 100% takes a big toll on battery, but I don't find myself needing it that high. I have it right now at 25% in my room with decent lighting and I can see everything just fine.Keyboard, Trackpad, and speaker:The keyboard isn't too bad. The key travel is very shallow, but I don't find it too much of an issue and it doesn't take very long to get used to it.The touchpad is mediocre. It's not as good as a macbook trackpad, but it's far from the worst I've used. I recommend going into the Synaptics settings and changing it to your liking. Also turn off the tap to click setting as I found myself hitting this constantly.The speakers are alright. They get loud enough and sound pretty good even at high levels, but there is literally no bass. I can't blame them too much though as they are laptop speakers.Keyboard lighting:I thought this needed it's own section because it is one of the coolest things about this laptop. It's not something that you are going to use all the time ( I have it turned off right now to save on the battery), but it is really cool to show friends. They have many presets for colors such as a wave of all the colors, fire (dims and brightens different shades of red and orange. This one is my favorite), or stars (the light up random keys a certain color). You can also make your own presets and set them to keys. I have about 5 presets including the American Flag one I made in the picture. There are a ton of options, so I recommend messing around with them.Battery Life:This is one area that I can't say the computer is great on. If you have the display dimmed to 25% and the keyboard lighting off, you can probably get 9 or 10 hours out of it listening to music and writing an amazon review. But if you crank up the display to 75 or 100%, you are going to cut that time out significantly. It's not as bad as the Razer Blade would be. The reason I got this one is because I didn't want that Internal Graphics Card killing my laptop in 3 hours. Overall, the battery life isn't terrible and the plug is small enough that you can bring it with you if you need to. It would easily fit in a purse for a woman or a small backpack pocket. I was actually pleasantly surprised at just how small the charger is for this thing.Gaming:Like I said above, I didn't buy this laptop for gaming, but I do enjoy gaming with friends so I decided to try a few games. The graphics on the Kaby Lake processor aren't the best, but I can get most games to play at at decent frame rate if I put them at 720p with most of the shading and extras turned off. I got decent frame rates at 1440x900 on some games including (Left for Dead 2). While this is an older game, it's still pretty fun. Rocket league I had to put at 720 to get playable frame rates. Being as this is one of my favorite games, I'm kinda sad about this. But this is for minor gaming. I have my desktop for the bigger stuff. Don't expect to do a ton of gaming with this, but it is fine for moderate games at lower resolutions.Conclusion and Final Thoughts:Overall, It's a great laptop and I'm very happy with it so far. The port selection hasn't been a problem for me and I'm really glad they included the 2 USB 3 ports. I think USB type C is soon to be the standard, but many devices still use USB 3. The fingerprints is a bit of an issue especially if it's warm and your hands are sweaty, but a skin should help this issue greatly and I would definitely recommend getting one. Let me know if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer them.