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okay we got it we're good hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d and this is the arrow 14 from gigabyte so it's been updated with the gtx 1060 it's a relatively affordable thin and light yet powerful gaming laptop and I say relatively affordable because a lot of gaming laptops and this kind of form factor are significantly more expensive this starts at $1,600 give or take a little bit let's take a look these come in several colors this one's orange with a faux carbon fiber finish but they do have a more muted black version the build quality is good it uses a lot of aluminum but there are some plastic components so the screen has a little bit of flex to it it is engineered well and the overall finish and durability is quite good in terms of ports there are a couple of display outputs and a bunch of USB options including a US PC but this isn't a Thunderbolt 3 port there's also an SD card reader and an audio jack the speakers are down firing I don't love that they're loud and the upper frequencies are surprisingly clean but it lacks bass even for a laptop speaker the bottom panel opens up easily you can see the speakers on the side here it has upgradeable RAM this unit came with 16 gigs but I did notice one thing there's a sticker on this device that says 8 gigs or what looks like there should be 8 gigs but it came with 16 so I'm not sure if this review unit was mistake or if there are some 8 gig configurations available that would be cheaper I'm not sure but this one has 16 there's one drive Bay the previous version with the 970m had to drive bays but this time there's only one the stock drive they've included is a 256 gig sadist expedia mediocre it is easy to upgrade it to an nvme though the battery is down here it's a 94 watt hour battery which is actually huge for a thin 14 inch laptop you'll get around 7 hours of battery life with screen at around 250 nits this is with regular use and if you're playing games it'll be around 2 hours which is actually surprisingly long most gaming laptops are significantly less than that the backlit keys have a good layout so at first I found it to be a little springy I mean it needs a lot of pressure to get the keys down but it has good travel and once you get used to it it's a really nice keyboard to type on and it's great for games macro Keys on the side are spaced a little further out so I never miss click them overall it's a good keyboard the trackpad uses eland drivers so the size is good and the surface texture is really nice the button mechanism feels good too but the tracking is just not up to par it's not very good with precision tracking like when you move your fingertips really lightly to fine-tune your position it doesn't detect it properly now I almost always use a mouse so this kind of stuff doesn't affect me too much but if you're someone who needs a perfect trackpad this is probably not the machine for you the display is a 1440p panel it's not a touchscreen contrast and viewing angles are great but even after calibration and playing around with the software color accuracy was never perfect overall the screen is good I was just hoping for it to be a bit more color accurate the webcam looks like this it's a pretty standard 720p image now performance on this machine is excellent the 6700 HQ and the GTX 1060 are excellent for 1080p gaming you can easily play some lighter titles at the native 1440p but I always prefer playing in 1080p light and moderately demanding games will easily break 60 frames per second on ultra graphics at 1080p it's only heavier titles that you'll need to drop graphics quality down to maintain 60 frames per second but if you want to see more benchmarks of other games for this CPU and GPU combination there's a link below in the description thermals are comfortable in the keyboard area fan noise on idle is audible but it's still pretty quiet when it's under load though it gets loud you're going to need headphones the performance on this machine is really good and the heat is managed well there's no thermal throttling the trade-off though is fan noise but honestly I'd way rather see this then a quiet system with throttled CPU speeds the 150 watt AC adapter is relatively compact it has a USB pass-through for charging up a phone or something but on a device with four USB ports I don't know how necessary this is it is a nice touch though so with the arrow 14 you're getting an aluminum chassis with good build quality and several colors to choose from a 1440p screen that's great for games and has decent color accuracy the keyboard is really nice to type on and has macro keys the trackpad I'm not a big fan of inside the skylake i7 and the gtx 1060 deliver good performance and are very but fan noise can get loud when it's under load the RAM and the SSD are easy to access for upgrades and the 94 watt hour battery is a beast it'll last you seven hours of regular use so I really like this machine they took a high-performance system built it into a thin and light chassis and they charge a reasonable price for it what's not to like about that right the touchpad and the screen color accuracy aren't perfect but those are things that you don't care too much about a fantastic machine highly recommended thumbs if you like this video subs if you loved it it's been nice see you guys next time