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hey how's it gone Dave 2d here this is the newly updated gigabyte arrow 15 X so it's running the six core 8750 h combined with a 1070 max q from Nvidia and it's a very powerful thin and light gaming laptop that's also really good for creative work so the design of this thing hasn't changed at all from the 15 X from last year or even the regular arrow 15 it's got this very industrial look like the lines are sharper and more angular than some of the more modern looking laptops but yeah I like the design the build quality of this thing has always been above average it's not like an XPS 15 or MacBook but compared to a lot of other aluminum paneled laptops this one feels good it's mostly aluminum there are some plastic components like the trim around the edge which makes it look and feel a little bit less premium but the overall build quality is good the screen Flex is minimal and same with the Body paneling it's just a very rigid feeling laptop it has the same width and length as the previous generation but it's actually a little bit thinner it's now an eighteen point nine millimeter thick laptop and they've done it by actually reducing the thickness of the screen they're using a new panel it's thinner it's lighter and it's a hundred and forty-four Hertz it's a really excellent display it's bright its color accurate is just a really good screen now one of the issues I had with the Aero 15 X from a few months ago was that they're repairing a gtx 1070 max-q with a 60 Hertz screen it just it didn't make sense to me it was like you're wasting the potential of that card because you're capped at 60 frames per second 144 Hertz on these new panels it makes a world of a difference gameplay is very fluid but even if you're not a gamer having your Windows desktop at a higher frame rate looks awesome just seeing your mouse cursor move around really smooth at 144 Hertz look so much better than 60 now this panel does not have G sync and I've said this before in previous videos but I don't think it's that important like G sync is really useful at lower frame rates at like 40 to 60 frames per second but once you go above that I just for me personally I don't think it's that important I will say this if you're a Macbook user or like a macbook pro user and you're interested in converting over to this laptop because it is like something that's geared towards creatives this screen is not as bright as a macbook pro screens it's more color accurate and I think it's a better screen overall but MacBook incredibly bright this one is like it's bright for a Windows laptop screen but it's not as bright as a MacBook Pro screen ok let's take a look at the ports it's got DisplayPort 1.4 HDMI 2.0 a bunch of USB and it's got Thunderbolt 3 and an Ethernet port but the most unique port on this thing is the inclusion of an SD card slot that supports UHS 2 speeds so if you're a content creator and you use SD cards you can offload UHS 2 cards super fast like 250 or 300 megabytes per second it's crazy fast for an SD card slot the inside is really easy to get into just a bunch of screws back panel removes right off and inside you get access to 2 RAM slots 2 nvme drives and the Wi-Fi card the RAM that they include is actually super fast and it's 16 gigs on one stick so if you want to upgrade this thing up to 32 gigs of ram it's more economical like a lot of companies will stick to sticks of eight and then you have to basically toss both of them before an upgrade up to 32 so this has one sick of 16 gigs the bad thing is that you're now running single channel memory and I don't think that's a big deal outside of like the memory benchmarks but that's up to you the battery down here is big the arrow 15 X always has a big battery this is 94 watt hours really close to that legal limit for flights and we're getting around seven and a half hours of battery life for the screen at 215 it's now performance on this laptop is going to be very good 6 core CPU it's a beast now I'll link a video down in the description if you want to see more details but the 8750 H is a really impressive chip for multi-core stuff it's just so much faster than the previous generation there's a bit of an improvement in gaming performance because of the CPU but the GPU does most of the work it's a gtx 1070 max-q really strong performer and most triple-a titles run extremely smooth on this laptop and that 144 hertz screen looks awesome the thermal performance is great there's no throttling in games and even in benchmarks were getting slightly better temperatures than some of its competitors and because the temperatures are good while running strong hardware this is an excellent device for content creation the last three videos of published on YouTube we're done on this laptop it's just a really nice device for powerful really color accurate screen and I was using the 1080p screen like I didn't really need 4k there is an option for it but you know color accuracy is more important than resolution for what I do now the fan noise on this laptop is okay so unload it's very acceptable it's not super loud or anything but I don't like the that when it's on idle like you're not doing anything there's still a little bit of fan noise it's not loud it's actually barely audible but there are competitor products that have the same kind of performance that just have completely silent fans when it's idling and this one doesn't so it kind of bugs me like if I was doing this video and this thing was on this microphone would pick up the fan noise very subtly but it would be there alright so I've focused on a bunch of stuff that I like about this laptop and I'm going to talk about some things that I don't like one of the weaker things about this thing are its speakers it's located on the bottom like a lot of the thin and light gaming laptops are but I just don't feel like it's as loud as it could or should be another thing I don't love is the keyboard and this is not a huge complaint it's pretty minor but I'm just gonna put it out there the layout is fine there's nothing I dislike about the layout but there's something about the keys that are just somehow squished together it actually took me quite a while to get used to typing on this thing so I've had this device for almost three weeks at this point and it was only like week two that actually got comfortable typing on it and it might be the keystroke itself it just takes a little bit more pressure than regular to activate the switch the trackpad is also not my favorite it's running eland drivers and it's not the drivers like the gestures are okay but the tracking feels a little off to me and I'm getting this occasional bug where the cursor stops moving for a split second I'm sure they can fix it with software and I'm sure they will fix it with software but it's just something that kind of annoyed me during this review process the webcam is also located at the bottom of the screen and this is something that you get with really thin bezel screens like this it's a beautiful looking screen but that camera angle is just not for me I don't use the webcam that often so it doesn't bother me but I feel like some of you guys are big on web conferencing and just having a good camera angle this won't give you that but yeah overall really good laptop I mean I feel like I had to nitpick on this device again it's one of those like really good devices what separates this from its main competitor the MSI G is 65 and I called the main competitor because it kind of came out at the same time and they're just like similarly specs and well I think we need to charge do we have a chart here's a chart okay the arrow has a better build I think that they both are well built but the arrow feels more sturdy it has better thermals it's easier to access with a bigger battery and has better color accuracy despite that smaller color gamut more ports and there's an option for 4k panel the msi has what I would consider to have a slightly easier keyboard to get used to not that it's like a bad keyboard on the arrow but this isn't easier keyboard to get used to I also like the design of the msi just looks more modern to me it also has better speakers and the webcam position is little bit better but overall the big difference is seriously the price tag this is $200 cheaper than the arrow which is like 10 12 % cheaper so it depends on what you need or what your budget is but I feel like both of them are appropriately priced personally I feel like the arrow is just a better product overall you're paying a significant amount more but it's just like it's just got more stuff going for it if you're a content creator I would probably go for the arrow I feel like it's geared towards professionals a bit more especially with that SD card slot but it doesn't matter what you do if you're gamer a streamer content creator this is a kick-ass laptop for any of that stuff okay hope you guys enjoyed this video 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