First off, the one I got had a 100-250 volt power supply, and a non-removable two pin European style plug. It said Brazil, had I looked that up I would have seen that Brazil used type N plugs with both 127 volt and 220 volt, in different areas. For $10 I bought a gadget from Walmart that was nothing but a plug converter, US Australian, european UK in to the same out, and only the hot wires, the ground pin was dealt with by having a hole in the female side that was plastic lined, connected to nothing, and on the male side there was a playing pin for UK and nothing for anything else.That got me running.First off this is an EX model. It has the right number of cores and windows identifies the name of the processor correctly.I ran Netflix and Hulu, they ran fine.I really don't care that much about edge performance. 30fps is just fine, but I do want resolution. So far, the two games I have run have worked beautifully...except...Sometimes the right stick works as a mouse... sometimes it does what I expect the stick to do in a game, and I'm not sure when the shift happens.[Edit: figured it out. I thought it would shift by app but I can't get that to work. There is a front panel button that brings up a menu that allows you to switch.]So, if you get one of these, it would be helpful if you had some arrangement to connect two european style pins (4mm in diameter, about, and maybe 18mm center to center) to an outlet of your choice. Conversely, if you had a 75-100 watt power supply or [don't do this it is a joke maybe], if you want to live dangerously, an old appliance cord and electrical tape) you can get up and running. You don't need a voltage converter, just a connection. [I guess this is because Brazil uses a range of voltages.]The ROG screen works like a windows touch screen. The fingerprint reader in the power button is brilliant, you click it and it knows you are you, immediately.It suffers the usual disease of windows hides information from you, but that is a windows issue.I've used it for a couple hours, just found drips and trying to get FFXIV running [got it], and the fan never came on. I have gigabit internet and my download ran up to 100mb/sec in parts, 30 mb/sec in others. That is a a lot of data to handle. With 16mb of memory and 16 cores, it is likely that the scheduler will never steal your processor...all that stuff means your experience will be smoother....and that is what I'm seeing.[I found that if I put it in economy the frame rate dropped to 17 or so and games looked jerky when just looking around, but no heat was noticeable. If I turned it to turbo it managed frame rates from 50 to a reported 100. The device got slightly warm. The power brick gets much warmer when the battery is charging.]So the only downsides are euro plug and that it does not quite know what it wants to be.The star was for not making it clear what plug it had. The indication was that it was an international model from a Brazilian Portugese area, I believe they use US plugs. The round pins were a shock. [Only because I stayed in hotels in Brazil and didn't notice the plug issues, and I went there almost 30 years ago. They do not, in fact, use US plugs, nor do they have a Standard country-wide voltage, but the same plugs are used for all voltages. Astounding.]