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so last year's arrow 15x was one of the best laptops he could get for content creators it was a very powerful system in a very small package and it's been updated by gigabyte this year so it's now running RTX hardware it's got the RT X 27 T or the 28 Emacs q the 28 e the one I have here is a solid 25 to 30% better in graphical power compared to last year's 1070 max Q so if you're playing games you're gonna get incredible performance out of the 28 Emacs Q now last year I was very lucky to have access to a lot of the thin and light gaming laptops including the Aero 15 and the thing I like the most about this system was the fact that I had excellent thermals there is something about the way that they've built the Aero 15 that allows a ton of air to go through it the fans are loud but I don't think that's the only thing right you can crank the fans up on a lot of systems these ones do get quite loud when you max it out but the thermal performance on this chassis is excellent and that's actually the main reason why I use this device more than a lot of the other ones last year because it was just such a good performer so having used this for several months straight last year I just have slightly more experience with this device than some other people that are doing reviews on this thing I will say though that as much as I liked the Aero 15 there are a few things that I dislike about it the first one being the keyboard this is a keyboard that I mentioned in the review as being quite difficult to get used to and it is but even after using this thing for several months I never got really comfortable on it there's always something about it that just felt kind of off to me the layout is fine but mechanically the keys feel a little stiff and kind of flat to me and it's also got this cramped fields of keyboard I don't know what it is like visually it looks fine but I can never type super fast on it another thing I didn't love about it were the fans so I just mentioned how I loved how the thermo forints was excellent but the fans to get to that excellent thermal performance we're super loud and this is just you know manual control to bring it up to that speed but I just wished that somehow it was quieter at the top end but it is quite loud and another thing that bothered me were the speakers so these speakers are quite poor they package it with software to tweak around with the sound but it's a very flat sounding speaker and relatively quiet in fact of all the thin and light performance gaming laptops that last year I would say that the arrow 15x had had the worst speakers of the bunch and obviously this is something that's not going to affect everybody some people don't care about the speakers at all but if you do these aren't great okay the thing that bugs me the most about the air 15x though was actually its design aesthetic it's thin and light but it's not a particularly good-looking laptop to me and it's not that it's super ugly it's just that there are devices out there that have this kind of price point and this kind of performance they just look so much better and when you're spending this kind of money for some people like myself you just want it to look a particular way you want it to look good and when you have devices out there that look like the razor blade this just looks less attractive to me and again this is only for people that care about the design aesthetic of their laptop because not everyone does I get it okay so there's other things that I really like about this device and I'm gonna go through those the first one is the screen the panel on this particular unit is a 4k panel and it's awesome like the one I had last year was the 1080p screen that looks really good already the 4k panel looks amazing like if you're doing video or photo work regularly I would highly recommend this screen if you can afford it if you're playing games though I don't like the look of the 4k panel it compared to a 144 Hertz screen stuff just looks a little choppy er so depending on what you do you're gonna have to choose between the screens another thing I really like about this device is the SD card reader so this one on here is a UHS 2 compliant one it's super fast so a regular SD card reader will cap out like 85 maybe 90 megabytes per second this thing's triple the speed if you frequently offload footage from an SD card for like video work or photo work this thing's nice there's also a good selection of the other ports there's three USB a s and two you species there's one on each side and you also have an Ethernet jack on the left which is nice the AC adapters on the right and it's a 230 watt a CE adapter it's a standard looking unit the trackpad has been improved that used to run eland drivers is now a Microsoft certified Windows precision touchpad which I like and the in terms of this laptop are also still easy to get into it's a bunch of screws on the bottom and this is still one of the very few thin and light gaming laptops that supports two nvme drives it also has a huge battery still 94 watt hours and on this unit with the 4k panel screen at 215 its I'm not getting amazing battery life it's five-and-a-half hours but that's with a 4k panel I think with the 1080p like 144 Hertz screen you're gonna get significantly better battery life last year I got around 7-7 a half hours I believe on the regular 1080p screen now this device the Aero 15 is running this new feature that they're calling AI integration with Microsoft Azure and the way that they explain is that this laptop can supposedly speak to Microsoft as yours database to kind of figure out what applications you're using and then it'll adjust your CPU and GPU usage depending on that application and I tested this with what I'm assuming as a relatively early version of this software and when it came to gaming regardless of the title like super light titles are very demanding titles I was getting the same frame rate but when it came to premiere like Adobe Premiere there is a noticeable difference but it's slight so I guess my take on this whole AI integration thing I don't like the name of it I feel like by using the AI in the title like it's almost disrespectful to people that are actually doing work in artificial intelligence feels like that's some serious stuff this to me is not AI I do feel like there is a little bit of a benefit like it's not making my render slower it's not making my games run slower but I don't know how beneficial it is for most people now pricing on the Aero 15 isn't cheap I've been told it's gonna start at 2,400 bucks for the 2070 max-q model it's expensive but that's kind of the president to pay for top of line tools in professional content creation okay so the arrow 15 this year fantastic hardware awesome hardware for gamers awesome hardware for creatives that 4k panel in particular is something special I will say though that the thermal performance on this thing just it surprises me this thing's running an AI 928 Emacs Q and still just rock solid performance with great temperatures okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs have you loved it see you guys next time