I have this laptop and I like it. Got it refurbished for 860 with tax, but with 32gb ram and 1tb ssd. Upgraded ssd to 2tb, but there's only one slot so that's it for me. Also Ram for both is soldered so keep that in mind. Couldn't get the keyboard to work with mint Linux so just kept it with windows. Workarounds I found online didn't work for me but arch linux did have some info that makes it seem like it'll work on their platform. Not the best for transferring data to/ from external drive (my msi gs65 was two times faster for same info and my desktop was like ten times faster)- tried all the ports too, so I don't know why it was so slow. Ended up copying drives with my desktop and then installing to save 20 hours of time. Internally data transfer are great and fans hardly are used, which I like. Also very light and screen size is similar to my 15.6" msi even though it's 14" because of the aspect ratio.