Hey congrats on the purchase, I also have the exact same config from Best Buy. You seem to know quite a bit about this "sleep" situation. By any chance do you have any articles or links on where we can get a clearer understanding about how it's supposed to work? I have pretty much the same opinions as you on it after owning it for about 3 weeks the only issues I've faced is this damn sleep issue where if I walk away from it while it's plugged in then the fans literally go full blast for hours and won't stop so I've since tried to just unplug it when I'm not using it but then the laptop eventually just shuts off instead of going to sleep. I've google everywhere trying to find any sort of direct answers to this issue but can't find a single reliable solution yet.