I personally like the build quality, and the metallic airbrush finish. It's very sleek and very lightweight. It takes about 2 days to get used to the keyboard. I didn't mind the "glass" track pad. And the screen brightness is great in outdoor settings. Battery life, if you optimize for it, has been very decent so far too. Nothing crazy but 5 ~ 7 Hours of screen time depending on usage.

Got the first unit and I had some serious issues with it. The fans would randomly set to max for no reason. Didn't need to be cooled, CPU was barely running. And it would slow down to unusable speeds almost always in anything but performance mode. Tried all the updates and nothing worked. Got another unit and I've had no issues so far.

And if you're wondering if it runs Linux VMs , I've ran several simultaneously and had no glitches this far.

Good performance for productivity / web browsing and some very light CAD work. Screen is bright and 1080p is perfect resolution for the size. Speakers are decent too. Build quality is nice, it feels fairly premium and looks professional. Battery life is pretty good too.

Had some issues with the mic being very quiet, but it seems to have resolved? Not sure if it was a driver thing. Coming from Lenovo laptops with their very nice keyboards, the keyboard here takes some getting used to. The keys are smaller and wider spaced, with a lower actuation point than expected, so I need to be more deliberate with my typing. The trackpad is also centered on the notch used to open the laptop, but is not centered with the spacebar, so I have a few accidental touches on my right hand. It also feels a bit stiff compared to other laptops. There is also some pretty noticeable coil whine while the computer is running and also while charging. It doesn't bother me too much though

As a general purpose windows laptop for productivity/web browsing, this is perfect. For the price I paid ($800 on sale), it's hard to beat, and any other i5-1240P laptops will be slower, with worse screens and build quality. The keyboard and trackpad might take some getting used to, so I would recommend testing it out in person if you can. As others say, this apparently doesn't have Linux support, but I use Windows programs only so it's not a big deal for me. It does make me wonder how it would handle a linux VM...

I use it with Windows 11 mostly with trading software, streaming, email, browsing, etc. and I have no issues.

Sound isn’t great, I miss a bit more bass, but acceptable.

Great value for money when on sale I think. Nice build quality, not quite Apple but fairly close.

Excellent laptop. No issue whatsoever. I feel like previous bad review are due to user error.

- Well Built - Beautiful screen - Battery life is solid - No WiFi issues whatsoever. Disable band steering on the router and have a separate SSID for 5GHz band if you must have your laptop on 5GHz band

- Well built, unless it is defective, as my first unit was defective - Fast speed - Reasonable price - Good internet speed

- Windows only device. Intel intentionally and purposefully made it impossibe to install linux on it. Why? I communicated with Intel, that I purchased hardware, not software from them. - Caps lock key wobbles - Washed out pixels few - Taking out the bottom needs lots of force - Need Torx 6 screw driver. Why they don't just have Philiips screw driver? - Only one slot for NVME PCIe gen 4

Don't buy it, unless you want to married to Windows only.

Very well built. This thing is solid.

Beautiful IPS display with absolutely no light bleed. It gets very bright, suitable for almost any environment. Speakers are great as well. They lack some bass but the clarity and loudness without distortion is a welcome surprise.

Sturdy keyboard with no flex. Nice and tactile, no issues typing. Accurate trackpad as well.

Battery life is excellent. Depending use cases, I could easily get 10 hours+ while streaming youtube/etc.

Wifi card is a buggy mess, despite trying win 10, a new install of Win 11, and other diagnostics on the unit. 2.4Ghz bands yield barely usable results and the 5Ghz band was seemingly stuck capped at 10Mbps. Troubleshooting everything, including my own router provided no easy solution. I swapped out the card with a non Wifi 6E chip (AX201) which was better but still had some quirks. Changing the device properties to prefer the 5Ghz band as well as stop the computer from roaming between bands solved my issue. I'm not the only one with this problem. NOT COMPATIBLE WITH LINUX. I was very disappointed in this as I was hoping to dual boot. You'll run into 1 of 3 issues. Either your distro will refuse to boot into a live usb (only seems to be an Ubuntu based distro issue), the sound won't work, and/or the fans don't run at all. Stay Away if you were wanting to run anything other than Windows 11 on this thing. Lastly there is some coil whine whenever the unit is charging.

This device could have been so much better. It feels like it needed more time in the oven and some better quality assurance.