"Under the hood, the system features appropriately high-end specs, including an Intel Core Ultra 9 288V CPU, 32 GB of RAM, a 1-terabyte solid state drive for storage, not to mention graphics courtesy of a mobile Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 GPU. This is one of the most decked-out laptops I've tested to date, and performance was solid, though surprisingly and disappointingly not even close to record-breaking on any benchmark I threw at it (including productivity and AI tasks)."
"It's nonetheless a delight to use. The keyboard is responsive, and I enjoyed working with the touchpad once I turned the haptic response level to maximum, which makes it more intuitive to tap and click on. The OLED screen is incredibly bright-near the brightest in the field-and the six-speaker audio system can really crank out the sound. At close range, it was painfully loud once I pushed it above 30 percent."
The system uses an Intel Core Ultra 9 288V CPU, 32 GB of RAM, a 1 TB SSD, and a mobile Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 GPU. Performance matched high-end business and creative laptops but failed to achieve record-breaking benchmark results across productivity and AI tasks. Gaming framerates with the RTX 5070 were disappointing and lagged behind competitors such as the Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI. Input devices are satisfying, with a responsive keyboard and a haptic touchpad at maximum feeling intuitive. The OLED display is extremely bright and the six-speaker audio can be very loud. Battery life measured about 6 hours 50 minutes at full brightness, boot times are very slow, and the unit experienced a severe thermal event with the underside reaching 144 degrees, necessitating shutdown.
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