Yes, it does have a powerful 8th generation i7-8750H CPU and it does have the fantastic GTX 1050ti GPU which provides excellent performance with low power draw, but with 256gb hard drive and 4gb RAM, it’s not going to excel at modern games, especially anything first or third person

Build quality is top notch, the FHD display is gorgeous and not reflective, trackpad and keyboard are quite good, and the CPU and GPU

You will of course want to be plugged in as much as possible, as the battery won’t last long when the CPU and GPU are working at their hardest

With an external 144hz display and an external GPU, I do believe this CPU could be powerful enough for high frame rate gaming, although I haven’t tried this myself, and it takes away a lot of the portability aspect of the laptop