The right has a MicroSD card slot, two USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A ports and an air exhaust vent. On the left we’ve got a Kensington lock slot up the back, air exhaust vent, USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A port and separate 3.5mm microphone and headphone jacks. Keyboard flex was only minor when pushing down hard, it feels quite solid, there was some flex to the lid but it is on the thinner side, it felt sturdy enough.
The weight distribution felt good, allowing for one finger opening, and the screen goes a fair way back. It does a decent job of hiding fingerprints and dirt as it’s not matte black, and the smooth surface makes cleaning easy with a microfiber cloth. The glass precision touchpad is smooth and worked alright, but I’m testing the larger 17” at the same time and that one just feels much better. I liked typing with the keyboard, it felt nice and tactile. There’s 4 levels of key brightness which can be controlled using the keyboard shortcuts or software. The keyboard has 4 zones of RGB backlighting which lights up all keys and secondary functions. As the camera is down the bottom your fingers do kind of get in the way a bit while typing, and you’ve got to push the screen back to actually get yourself in frame. There’s a 720p camera below the display in the middle, and it’s got IR for Windows Hello, though you have to tilt the screen back so it can see you to unlock. Backlight bleed was minor, I never noticed it when viewing darker content, but this will vary between panels. My panel was right on 300 nits at 100% brightness with a 520:1 contrast ratio, so although quite low for the contrast I can’t say I noticed it and brightness was average. I’ve tested the screen with the Spyder 5, and got 98% of sRGB, 71% of NTSC, 76% of AdobeRGB and 76% of DCI-P3, decent results for a gaming laptop.
It’s one of the best response times out of the laptops that I’ve tested and only just below the 4.16ms needed for a 240Hz screen. I’ve measured the average grey-to-grey response time at 4.6ms.
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