it had a couple small issues when I received it, but two minutes with a screwdriver and a HDD upgrade fixed both. As is, I am very satisfied with my choice. The 120 hz glossy 3D screen makes much more a case for itself than I thought it would. I am not convinced with the headphone amplifier thing (I never get even close to maximum volume on a normal laptop anyway) and repasting it in a couple years might be a massive pain in the ass, but we will see. Gaming wise I have only started to scratch the surface, but I am basically very impressed with the 770M even with ASUS' obsolete drivers. My final opinion will depend on how well it will handle next gen console games such as watch gods and witcher 3.

Pros:
VERY solid feeling (except the disk drive), it hides its thickness well, screen, trackpad is huge and the buttons are quiet, metal palmrests, matte bezel, battery life, double storage bays allow me to get 9 second boot times with an SSD AND store truckloads of media.

Things I would change:
I wish my model came with ac WIFI.
I wish I could have a dummy battery cover to prevent dust from getting in and to protect the contacts since I'm always keeping the battery out unless I need to move it around.
I wish the blueray drive were slot loading or more solid when closed, since I hate grabbing the laptop to carry it around and feeling the tray flex under my left fingers. it makes the side of the laptop feel rather flimsy.
I wish it had a fn key somewhere on the right side of the keyboard too, since adjusting the volume is very hard to do one handed (and I have BIG hands) and using the media functions of the arrow keys IS impossible to do one handed. FYI, I'm using Sound Volume Hotkeys to bind ctrl+up and down to the volume controls.
I wish the JX had at least one msata slot.