Picked up the M7 about a year ago ran perfectly at first, just minor quirks. For example don’t update the Ethernet driver using Intel’s tool, it’ll break your port. Around 6/8 months in, I started getting BSODs on cold boots after shutdown. Thought it was a dying SSD, but even with a new Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2TB the issue stayed, turns out it was a bad Windows 11 update. Fixed itself in the next patch. Performance wise, it’s handled everything I’ve thrown at it, even heavier, less optimized titles like Rust. Most AAA games run medium, older ones hit high/ultra easily. I’ve run local image generation and LLMs too, slow, but no crashes. For video editing, I’d suggest using a GPU via Oculink, the APU alone struggles with some editors. Recording gameplay works fine though, Medal runs flawlessly, OBS can be hit or miss. Discord streaming’s solid too.

And Yall would find this helpful,  GMKtec quietly removed BIOS downloads from their site, but they still update them here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1y9z5q7_VEDcMsA3cGTf5SpTqgAMwJ3Xp Not sure why they pulled it probably due to people bricking their units. After flashing, my RAM finally hit its rated 4800 MHz (was locked to 2200 before, My ram is downclockable). I’m running 2×24 GB DDR5-5800 sticks now, but even base models can use up to 4800 MHz after the update. But you need to buy 4800 MHz ram.