Good day folks!
Although it is late, maybe there is someone who is searching for refurbished units so i would like to give my two cents. I've owned this laptop for 4 years and 5 months now, and in summary I am MORE than satisfied with what it had to offer.
The spec I have is with i7-6700HQ, GTX 960M, 8Gb RAM and only 1 HDD drive with 1TB of storage.
Firstly I would like to mention that I am a casual gamer and occasionally do photo editing.
So, let's get started. First of all the build quality is decent, but the trackpad and screen overall are a bit trash in my opinion. I would highly suggest getting a 60-90Hz external monitor with a better quality (I promise you won't be dissapointed).
As for overall gaming it's decent, not great, not terrible. You can play games in 2020 at Med, occasionally High settings. But this is possible due to the fact that I've added a M.2280 120 GB SSD, and recently replaced the HDD with a 1TB HP S700 Pro SSD and added another 8GB RAM stick, to make a total of 16 GB.
As issues, and i've seen this common to for this product, my motherboard died 1 year and 10 months after the purchase, but thank god I had warranty and managed to get it changed under warranty, otherwise the cost would have been around 580 EUR to replace. And that's kind of it. Everything else still works flawlessly.
Overall satisfied with the product and I still plan on keeping it 2 more years since I don't have that much time anymore to game and it satisfies my necessities for the time being.
Also, probably it is worth mentioning that if you travel alot like me with the laptop, it is pretty heavy to have it on you the entire day and also if you opt for a backpack, go for AT LEAST a 17.3 inches one because this bad boy is prettly large and will barely fit or not fit at all in 17 inches ones.
Also, as a price reference, speaking now from Romania, prices for this spec ( or 16 GB RAM versions) are around 400-450 Euros, so in my opinion a good value for money if you want a gaming rig with good (not great) overall performance.
Cheers!