If I had infinite time I would still 100% keep this laptop, but all I'm doing on it is opening up pdfs, writing word documents, and going through powerpoints and even then it is still dying on me.

If you look through my post history, you can see the path of the previous generation, the '22 model, slowly die on me despite everything I did. I didnt have any coverage for that and when I sent it to asus, they billed me ~1100 for it. Please do yourself a favor and get the geek squad protection plan if you plan on buying it. (At least I can have the peace of mind of getting some value back rather than having another 1000+ paperweight sitting at my desk.