I bought the GT650 variant last weekend, and let me tell you this puppy is sweet.

One thing to note though, I bought the FreeDOS version and it does come with the driver CD, but OneTouch recovery will NOT work for this laptop.

Also, during first boot, do NOT boot into windows or DOS, but instead go to BIOS immediately because it will give you the Advanced configuration menu. Once you boot into any OS, the Advance configuration menu will disappear. We will need to wait for a modded BIOS hack to access the Advance menu (InsydeH20).

I got a 7.0 score on the Windows experience index, with a 5.9 for disk transfer rate, which kinda sucks, which is why I'm thinking of upgrading to an SSD.

Oh yeah one more thing, if you're planning to buy it make sure you get the PC1600 DDR3 and NOT the PC1333 DDR3. I got "free" RAM upgrade and they gave me the PC1333, and now I have to pay to get a PC1600 to sync with the original

The default RAM is PC1600 DDR3 it is labelled PC12800 on the RAM module itself (i.e. high performance RAM). If you got an additional 4 gb PC1333, then just download CPU-Z and see if that Apacer module will run on the same timing as the PC1600, if not, then get one that will.

I got the one with the styles and orange edge, it's the Nvidia GT650M model. Yours is probably the GT640LE. No offense bro, but the benchmark performance difference between those 2 cards are quite big (around 40%).

Now that you mention it, I do prefer the plain brushed metal design too