I use it as a pro for photo and video décemdre since 2009 at home and on the field, I work in video in full HD XDCAM, ie it is heavily used, I ' I never had any problems heating or crash ... I bought it used like new, it was a month and a half and therefore still under warranty. For my part, and in these conditions it has excellent value for money. I gave him added an external display and many discs 1T everything works for the better ... My G5 with 8 GB of ram is at rest since I have this laptop is tell you!
A powerful tool that I'm not ready to leave! I would do this all the choices he has the drive and integrated SxS field is perfect ... Clips or recordings of concerts, he never made me lurch.
Its limit ... The computation time in post-production effects and heavy on the color treatments ... But for this, no phone can match or even a G5 4 core XDCam HD 422 ...