Can any of you guys tell us if 15R have bad temperature design? Last thing i want is overheat. Also is 15R same as rest difficult to access HDD? I don't know if the HDD ventilation is good or not, normally what's the min/median/max temp you get on your HDD?

Thanks for the input, 15R now comes with nvidia 525M 1GB, it's around same price as Asus A53SV & N53SV but they come with nvidia 540m & 500 & 640GB HDD instead.

The 15R 500GB ver comes with 7500rpm HDD. Was thinking about N53SV til i hear some hibernation & keyboard complains, but now i hear 15R fan is loud & some saying temp can be quite high. Why can't they make laptops perform like they were with focus on reliability & stability instead?

Is the fan always on or depend on the temp? What kind of bearing does it use as fan replacement is really a big challenge & expensive. And usually it's the 1st few components to break down.

just curious the fan sound, is it annoying or just like normal fan sound. Does it have different pitch or strange noise every now & then?