Decided to go with Illegear after a rather long consideration. Just to share, the whole decision making was separated into 2 parts.

1st, ITX vs gaming laptop, and I went for gaming laptop despite its higher cost and slightly lower performance. Bring along ITX and setting up monitor, kb and mouse at multiple places simply isn't pratical.

2nd, Illegear vs other established players. This is simpler as after some time of researching, Illegear seems to check all the points with one possible downside which is the inferior audio system.

Hopefully I don't regret my purchase as this is my very first gaming laptop, and I went with a custom builder

BTW, any good notebook cooler to recommend here?

Yeah both are different category I have both of these laptop Thinkpad T470 & Selenite ( actually I have 3 laptop another 1 is Dell Inspiron 7000 2 in 1  ) while Thinkpad T series just for me to carry around for business use, but not really a powerful laptop for heavy gaming or video editing, it's build to be durable it better suit for business and student with light gaming need and the T series with 32 Wh + 72 Wh battery it's very very portable   for you to bring to school/library/Workplace/Starbucks without charger easily last you a day. 

I end up picking selenite, mainly due to its 17 inch with a close to 15inch footprint, along with rtx 2060, 2tb hdd, others are all standard I guess (e.g. Intel i7, 512Gb ssd, mech keyboard.. Etc)

Thank you for the reply. Is there anyway to change the action performed when clicking on the brightness. Default action is cycling between 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. Can it be changed to 0%. 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90% and 100%?

Thank you. I know how to change brightness to a custom value. The Raven also features dedicated function combinations to change the brightness.

if I have to uninstall the synaptics pointing device driver, why is it installed in the first place?

Interesting. However to note that the Raven ships with "Raven Command Centre" opposed to "Illegear Command Centre". "Illegear Command Centre" is not installed and cannot be found any where in the disk. Meaning to say that the image they used on my Raven is exclusively used on Raven's only if not mistaken.

I have a complain on Illegear here.
Last week I took delivery of my Onyx notebook. Everything was as expected in terms of performance, thermals are a little high but still manageable. However 1 thing I'm pissed off is the SSD performance.

I opted for this option:
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It is supposed to be delivering me 1800MB/s on writes as advertised. That is not the case, I'm only getting 700MB/s in crystaldiskmark. I have attempted to repeat this test, still the same, 700+ MB/s only.

Now suddenly you have offer for free upgrade to a Samsung SSD on purchase. So are you trying to piss your existing customer ?

I wish I knew what is it .
I did asked the staff that was doing the spec check with me during delivery. When I asked him the same question he told me it is Illegear's own brand SSD.

I only know it has a Phison SSD controller. The NAND chips I cant see clearly and it doesn't look like those DRAMless SSD at all.

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It cannot be. Phison only makes the controller. There are only 6 NAND chips manufacturer on earth now. Intel, Micron, SK Hynix, Samsung, SanDisk and Toshiba.