Wow very nice specs on that machine, matte screen and even backlit keyboard, good speed ram, great CPU and GPU, speedy mSATA primary drive and room for a 2nd drive (although I'd remove the 1TB mech drive supplied and drop in a SSD instead) this is a very well thought out machine. Nice overclocking options, will be interested to see how it handles the heat, my little machine (see signature) gets pretty hot when clocked up and powering through a demanding game. 8lbs is completely reasonable for a gaming laptop, especially one of this size and caliber. I'd expect battery life to be around the 2 hour area at most if gaming heavily - until battery tech improves, that's the one problem with powerful gaming laptops. 4k screen on 17" is wow.. great for gaming, although lol text is going to be tiny with non-gaming use at native resolution! Awesome job right out of the gate EVGA, and if this is your first effort, I see good things ahead! BTW, is this a customized rebranded Clevo/Sager or something like that? Beautiful. A free Torq gaming mouse too! If EVGA made a cordless mouse it would be even better - I have never been able to get used to trackpads and always carry a small cordless mouse with my laptop, my Mrs is the same. Price from EVGA $2,699 which is what I'd expect for such a top machine, if not higher for those specs. Looks like a win all round. No CD/DVD drive, but you can pick up new USB ones dirt cheap these days, and not often you need drives these days anyway, most stuff is digital downloads.
