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what's it guys Eber here with Harbor Canucks and in our previous noble ground-up video we compared three high end gaming laptops starting at $2,500 all the way up to 5k not all of us have the means to invest on such expensive machines nor do we need that much power so today we will be taking a look at the P 57 W from gigabyte the z9e oh by all means all the right features on a budget with a large windowed side panel 5 included fans and the excellent interior layout with super simple cable management get it now link in the description below it's priced a little north of $1700 which I would say it's a reasonable price bracket for a 17 inch form factor and specs but a smaller model the p55 W can be picked up for $1400 hardware wise I love the powerful combination of an i7 16 gigabytes of RAM 256 gigabyte m2 SSD along with a one terabyte 7200 rpm hard drive a gtx 970m and a 17.3 inch 1080p IPS display the above average price here is because of the faster CPU and a larger display it is IPS so viewing angles and contrast ratio are excellent it's also really bright at max settings and since its matte coated you can say goodbye to reflections and no backlit bleed detected thumbs up gigabyte the build quality reminds me of the p55 which is okay but improvements could be made the screen is pretty rigid thanks to the tough plastic material but prepare to clean it often as the surface tends to pick up a ton of fingerprints the notebook weighs about 6 pounds which in my eyes is very portable for a 17 inch laptop especially coming from the 8 pound msi gt72 and as you can see it's nearly half the size of that monster 4 ports we have a Kensington lock Gigabit Ethernet two USB 3.0 ports and SD card reader a separate headphone microphone jack on the other side we have our power input VGA output mini DisplayPort HDMI 2.0 USB 3.1 type C port and is Ingle USB 3.0 port at the front you'll find a blu-ray drive which is so unnecessary I'd rather have a slimmer profile but luckily you can substitute a drive in that spot for extra storage placement of the eject button though is totally annoying it's right underneath your thumbs so there's no way to avoid accidental presses the speakers are placed at the front they're okay to listen to casual tunes but you won't be blown away I would have preferred front-facing speakers as they project sound a lot better sadly I encountered issues with the headphone jack on our sample often times I had to plug it numerous times for the notebook to actually recognize the headphone moving on to the keyboard the typing experience on the P 57 was mm okay I really enjoyed typing on its younger brother the p55 but I'm not sure what happened to gigabyte this time keystrokes fell on Moshe with less tactile feedback and there was quite a bit of flex when typing as well it features two levels of backlighting and this can be useful in darker environments gigabyte in our experience have a poor history with trackpads and the same applies here the surface is pretty smooth for navigation but there's quite a bit of latency with tracking and the cursor was skipping frames the primary left and right click buttons are built into the trackpad no consistency to press across the surface and we prefer to have dedicated buttons but gave me aside you can't really do anything productive and I highly recommend picking up an external Mouse crack opening the notebook it's nice and well laid out the GPU and CPU are cooled by separate fans the m-dot to SSD is upgradable our model dished out a little over 500 megabytes per second on read and 433 megabytes per second on write with crystal disk mark and I want to hear your thoughts on this is it fast enough for our needs in 2016 let us know in the comments section down below the RAM is also upgradeable to 32 gigabytes the hard drive is easily accessible and overall gigabyte has done a fantastic job with the internal layout the 970m is a pioneer for the mid-tier GPU space with acceptable results so if you're looking to play medium to high settings 1080p you'll totally be content the division on this machine averaged at 47 frames per second watchdogs at high settings ran a little over 50 frames per second and for easy run titles like csgo getting over 150 frames per second is a satisfactory number temperatures were respectable to the GPU hovered around 71 degrees C at load and during idle it was sitting around 41 degrees Celsius battery life met our expectations for gaming laptop with a respectable 4 hours of heavy internet usage with max brightness lowering that will eventually yield more time it's interesting to see how these large gaming oriented notebooks are becoming more popular as they aim to close the gap between portable space and desktop replacements and let us know how likely you are to choose a 17 inch notebook over something smaller for conclusion the P 57 w was a good machine with a nice display competitive specs and great performance the price premium or the 15-inch variant is a tough sell though especially when the extra cost does nothing to improve the poor trackpad nor the speakers this notebook is a perfect example of how simple hardware specs on everything as there's nothing particularly interesting or exciting about the P 57 I think those wanting a 17 inch notebook wanted for everything it has to offer taking into account usability plus performance and we feel the user experience of this machine needs to be improved to stand out within the market today let us know your thoughts on this form factor and reasons why you would pick the 17 inch over the 15 inch given the same specs I'm Ebert with high reckon axe thank you so much for watching and we'll see you in the next one