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They have their shortcomings but it's all worth it to have pro-sumer hardware, in my opinion. I just can't bear to give my money to consumer-hostile companies anymore.
There's plenty of cooling capability. This thing has two fans that can get to sounding like a jet engine if it gets that hot. And it's ventilated enough that it actually cools it down.
If anything, it's loud as hell under heavy load, but cooling isn't a problem either.
Under heavy load. If you saturate any CPU and GPU, you're going to have it heat up quickly, and depending on your cooling profile, your fans will ramp up.
What the noise actually says is that the fans make noise, and the laptop body doesn't do much to dull the noise.
Battery life was shit at the start, but now it's pretty reasonable. Can't tell for sure what the difference is. I'm just starting to investigate again, after all the pre Christmas stress is over