A great laptop, but all that power comes at a cost...
High-performance laptops generally come in two flavours. There are MacBook Pros, and there are Windows gaming laptops. The latter can do just about anything the former can do, but do it with a flashing RGB keyboard, obnoxious branding, and a battery life of about three hours.
As you can tell from the name, the Creator Z17 isn’t a gaming laptop but one aimed at the more creative end of the market, those more used to wielding a stylus instead of a gamepad and running Photoshop instead of Halo. As a result, it comes with Nvidia’s Studio drivers installed for the GPU instead of the Gaming ones. There's very little difference, except the Studio drivers aren’t updated as often and tend to prioritise stability rather than supporting cutting-edge gaming features.
The trackpad is central, broad and smooth, and with a surprising amount of travel when you click it in. The four 2W up-firing speakers sit between the F-row of the keyboard and the screen, but there's still space on either side of the keyboard that could have been used to make it a little wider. The speakers aren’t going to win any prizes, but are surprisingly not bad for laptop noisemakers.
There's Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 for your wireless connection needs, and a combo jack for a headset. There's a fingerprint reader at the front of the keyboard near the trackpad, which feels like a slightly odd placement if you’re used to using your thumb to unlock things, and
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