I have i5 8gb variant as 16 gb was out of stock.
1) performance is great for this price range is great
2) battery life is also good for an instance i started at 9 in the morning at 100% and it lasted for 2 pm.
In meanwhile i was continuously using it at 90hz 3 tabs were open in chrome and it was connected to wifi and Bluetooth display brightness was 50% as i was indoor.
3) Gaming I don't do heavy gaming but i played valorant on it at 1080p low graphics and it was giving around 50 to 80 fps . maybe 16 gb varient will give 60 to 90%.
4) Charging while using it takes around 3 hours.
5) speakers are a little bit low but i didn't faced any problem as i always use earphones or headphones.
6) heating i didn't faced any major heating issue.
I tried 4k video rendering and valorant but the temperature never exceeded 80°C . As i am coming from acer Predator it was really good because in Predator temperature is around 95+ while gaming or editing.
But after two days when i was doing a typing test its tab key poped out of keyboard.
So immediately contact Amazon and hopefully they raised an return.
This time i will wait for 16gb.