lowrider130

Mine has been really solid. I use it for work and side projects right now.

Switching video cards has been my biggest issue. The Nvidia sucks battery so there are times I want to switch to the integrated Intel. The switch works, but switching back hangs the machine. It happens in the logout or shutdown part of switching video and the login (MDM on mint) never loads. It doesn't matter which card I switch to or from, just the second swap every time. Mint 18.2 is using LightDM which I'm hoping will work better, but I haven't tried yet.

I haven't had any cooling issues yet. I accidentally put it in my laptop bag when it was running and I thought it had gone to sleep. It was exceptionally hot when I pulled it out, but I powered it off to cool.

For build quality I like my Razer Blade (late 2016 build), but support is not perfect out of the box. I'm running Linux Mint 18.1. The WiFi was not supported by the live disc, but works after install. Switching between the NVidia and Intel graphics has been a problem that I haven't yet resolved.

The pros are a quad core i7, NVidia 1060, a better keyboard than MBP (my opinion), 16gb RAM, option of 4K glossy or 1080p flat panel. I chose the 1080p so I don't have glare.

I have a large (24TB) RAID6 at home and backup all my files there. It's large so I have room for all my DVDs, BluRays, and developer VMs. I have a smaller (6TB) RAID1 in another state at my parents house for off-site backup of important files. Both are running mdadm and set up to email me with any events. I have a cron job that runs rsync once a week and emails me the result. Both systems are on an UPS. I have tested to make sure they are working as expected. All my systems are running Linux, so I can access with sshfs or sftp using ssh keys.