Lenovo came oh so close on this one. I paid $940 for everything plus tax. While the GTX 1650 is enough for me, You can save $230 and get the Nitro 5 from Acer by giving up 2c4t. But for content creation the extra cores/threads is vital.
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The thermals are great. The turbo function hits 3.8GHz sustained and 4.0GHz Bursts. Easy to upgrade, battery life is meh. The screen isn’t great but it seems everyone is using 250 nits screens that are only 45% NTSC/CG but it is 120Hz for games like WoW, GTA V, etc.
The problem is, the Asus TUF A15 as originally reported by me overheats like a MOFO. I recanted my review because the my community said I was the only one experiencing this. Then Hardware Unboxed and several others recently came out and confirmed this to be true.
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Your review is actually why I bought the Lenovo 330s with the r5 2500 last year. Also the a15 offers a subpar cooling solution, which was apparent in the a15 r5 4600 reviews. I imagined the r7 models would be better but that wasn’t the case.
When I reviewed the A15 everyone said I was wrong. Then a month or 2 later other reviewers said the same thing, suddenly I am right.
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And instead of sticking to your guns, you gave into the fanboys and took the original video down, right? Just the kind of integrity I look for from my reviewers 
Well I didn’t have any real way of verifying what others were saying nor did I have the time. I’ve had to scale back my reviews because we are in the process of many other projects.
I didn’t remove the video, I delisted it and made a new video. Acknowledging that my unit was defective and could also be why my thermals were off. Then more reviewers reviewed the same laptop weeks later and reported the same issue. So I relisted the original video and delisted the edited one.