The good:
- Cheap as anything!
- Internal build quality seems decent.
- Decent screen for the money.
- Keyboard is nice.
- Touchpad is better than most Dell, HP etc... laptops I've tried, not as nice as a Macbook though.
- Runs well, very snappy, I boot to to my linux (Solus) desktop in about 2.5 seconds on average with full disk encryption (excluding me entering the password).
- Very standard hardware, Intel everything pretty much except the additional nvidia graphics card I'm yet to get working in Linux
The bad:
- The aluminium used compared to say the base model Macbook is crap, the slightest thing and it scratches / gets dirty.
- You cant upgrade the RAM.
- It's heavy, it's a lot thicker than the Macbook.
- Two annoying linux problems (regardless of distro, kernel):
1. Switching between integrated intel graphics to nvidia is a pain in the ass, even with bumblebee it's awful.
2. Wifi, looks like it doesn't work, but it does! Just keep enabling it in network-manager it'll take like 5-10 times and then it'll be on and fine.
Otherwise everything in linux such as sound, nvme, trim, etc... all works perfectly.