So what's the verdict? FWIW a few days ago Amazon had a $1000 lightning "deal" on a 17" laptop. Tons of storage and RAM but only a 4-core i5, no GPU, and panel only 1600x900. Refresh rate not shown so presumably nowhere near your 144hz.
On the off chance you have an empty SATA drive slot, the $50 1TB Seagate FireCuda hybrid drive with adaptive 8GB flash cache might be worth a look for installing big games.
@Snarknado Mine has a 256 ssd drive,8 GB DDR4-2666 SDRAM (2 x 4 GB),Intel® Core™ i7-9750H (2.6 GHz base frequency, up to 4.5 GHz base with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, 12 MB cache, 6 cores) processor
Discrete: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 Ti with Max-Q design (6 GB GDDR6 dedicated) graphics card
8 GB DDR4-2666 SDRAM
1 USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-Câ„¢ (10 Gb/s signaling rate, Power Delivery 3.0, DisplayPortâ„¢ 1.4, HP Sleep and Charge); 1 USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A (HP Sleep and Charge); 2 USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A (Data Transfer Only); 1 HDMI; 1 AC smart pin; 1 RJ-45; 1 headphone/microphone combo
1 multi-format SD media card reader
17.3" diagonal FHD IPS anti-glare WLED-backlit (1920 x 1080) display
300 nits brightness display,whatever the hell that means
B&O, dual speakers
And I ordered a wireless mouse to go with it for 10 bucks
Total cost to me was $904,delivered.
Got it in a couple of days ago,and so far all I have done with it was charge the battery,turn it on to check the specs and discover I did not get the 144 HZ screen I ordered. I got the standard 60 HZ screen instead.
Everything else was up to spec,so I called HP,told them my order wasn't correct,and I was going to return it. The HP rep I spoke to on the phone told me I could call HP Tech and they could change my 60 HZ screen to a 144 HZ screen remotely somehow. I have had other things to do since,and haven't done that yet.
The only thing that troubles me is I have a copy of every chat I made with HP over the last couple of weeks,but when I called customer service,I discovered they have no copy of the chat where I discussed options and bought it,and neither do I. This troubles me because the page I was looking at while buying didn't show the Hz sceen rate,so I asked him on 3 separate occasions if it was a 60 Hz or a 144 Hz,and each time he assured me it was 144.
I can only conclude the salesman was blowing smoke up my butt to make a sale,and then discovered he was wrong after we disconnected,so he didn't forward or store the chat. Not that it is going to do him much good because I am serious when I say I will return it this week if they can't upgrade the screen for me online.
At any rate,if they can't or won't upgrade my screen rate to 144 Hz on line,I WILL be returning it. I cut back on the size of my RAM and SSD drive to be able to afford a laptop with the 144 Hz screen,so it is a deal breaker with me.