Thinking about buying one now I got rid of my MSI.

Clearly the QHD OLED EDR (HDR basically) touch panel is the big news here, easily the best panel on any notebook on the market.

i7-7700hq (doesnt look like the 8th gen is happening in a hurry)

16GB Ram (single stick so can upgrade to 32GB when needed).

1TB NVME drive

GTX1060

Killer wifi and bluetooth.

Id prefer the option of a gtx1080 to run such a beast of a screen, but the gtx1060 should handle QHD quite well for most games at this point, and in a couple years when it cant Im likely selling anyway or Ill just add an 11 series GPU via the AW EGPU.

Everyone I read about is blown away by the screen, so interested to hear some kiwi thoughts on it. Im blown away by the upgradeability in a market where nearly everything is soldered on.

It runs cool even under stress test, absolutely fantastic industrial design on the thermals.

Down side being a 10 series GPU, battery life is awful at 2-3 hours web surfing.

I got Dell down to $3k, but waiting for Easter to see if they chuck the preconfigured machine on special then Ill hit them up for another 10%.