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I had the Watch Active 2, which in my opinion was much superior in terms of its design. It looked more like a real watch and the metal looked like metal. The touch "rotating" bezel on the Active 2 was much easier to use as it had a call function.

The Watch4 feels and looks like plastic. The strap had a large margin and it doesn't work without Google Play service, which forced me to switch from Huawei P40 lite to Samsung A52s.

The connection was very easy and thanks to the Google Play Store, I was able to install several useful applications. The measurements are good, you can do a lot of things, especially if you have a smart home with a home assistant. The battery lasts about a day, and a little longer with power saving mode. Many times when I'm away from home and don't have the charger, I switch it to watch only mode on the second day so it doesn't completely shut down.

The charging is quite slow, about an hour and a half.

In conclusion, for its price, it is very decent. It can do many things and the battery lasts a day, as expected. If you can, of course, go for the new Watch6 or the Watch5, which promises a longer battery life and will have support for more years.

Well, I have had the monitor for 6 months and I can say that I am very satisfied, amazing image, 165Hz refresh rate, 10-bit color (it's a bit fake because it's not true 10-bit, it actually changes very quickly between two colors to make it appear as 10-bit, but it does the job, but I don't recommend it for professional use where you pay six-digit numbers).

Positives:
- Very good panel, almost no backlight bleed.
- The stand is sturdy and made of metal.
- The menu is user-friendly, with the new update it has both freesync and gsync although I haven't used them.
- If you have your PC and work laptop, you can switch between them with a macro, but you need to run the OSD sidekick, it doesn't transfer mouse and keyboard but you can use a USB KVM for $40 and you're good to go.

Negatives:
- It has some issues with the settings, for example, if you run the Aorus program, it may change your saves for brightness or quick settings, so you have to adjust it again from the program.

Overall, it is a very good monitor, the only reason it has a slightly high price is the 10-bit color, which is not worth it if you don't do work or don't have a very good GPU.

The system:
CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x
GPU: Sapphire Pulse RX5500XT 8GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite V2
RAM: HyperX Fury 16GB DDR4-3600MHz
SSD: Patriot Viper VPN100 1TB
Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360mm AIO
Case: BeQuiet! Pure Base 500XD

I built it for professional use, specifically for the Adobe Suite (I will add another 16GB RAM stick to reach 32GB in the summer), and for light gaming as the graphics card is a bit old and only suitable for 1080p while I have it on a 1440p monitor (fortunately, I bought it last year for $200 for another project, today it costs $500...).

In terms of performance, the processor is excellent, its price is relatively reduced from its initial cost, and the absence of smaller and larger models makes it a wise choice. I haven't experienced any crashes and its usage in games is up to a maximum of 30-40%.

As for temperature, it depends on your luck. There is a chance that you will get good silicon and it will be at normal levels, or as many have reported, it will be like a boiler. For me, either I got lucky with the good silicon or the cooler is doing an excellent job. In Cinebench with 5 cycles, it reached 80-85°C, which is very good for 100% usage (I applied the paste with a card for maximum CPU/cooler contact).

In gaming or multitasking, it is up to 60-65°C, I haven't seen it go higher.

Be careful, if you get memory with high speed, such as 3600MHz, Windows will run it at 2400MHz. You need to enable XMP (eXtreme Memory Profile) from the BIOS.

Also, if you get a motherboard that came out before the processor, you will need to do a BIOS update, otherwise, it won't work. And because it is AMD, it doesn't have integrated graphics, so a GPU is necessary. I thought that my motherboard was burnt, but a technician told me that they mess it up a lot with the BIOS. Luckily, this one can be updated without the CPU, just with a USB and the button on the back, so keep that in mind when choosing a motherboard because some require the old processor for updating.