I had a couple of G series laptops from Asus before, and they were pretty impressive machines, though at the time they were hobbled down by Windows Vista. They sure could get loud, so it is good to hear that this model is nearly silent. One thing I liked about Asus was their support. While working on a consulting job in Ireland, my laptop went through a user-caused power surge and I had literally black smoke coming out of the chassis. I called Asus, and since it was still within its 1-year global accidental whatever warranty, they fixed it up. They basically had to replace every component, but I got my laptop back. That was nice.