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and videos max-q design GPUs have given us some really interesting laptops this year most of which have been laser focused on providing crazy performance in a size we haven't seen before gigabyte had a bit of a different idea sounds crazy but they were like what if you could just use a power efficient max-q GPU in like more like a regular laptop for maximum awesomeness well what you'd probably end up with is the Aero 15 X also maximally awesome by the way is today's sponsor Sennheiser you can check out the PXE 550 wireless headphones at the link in the video description the arrow 15x has a clean professional look to it that actually reminds me of older Dell or Lenovo business models except with a carbon-fiber accent on the back and RGB lighting on the keyboard to keep it from getting too boring and corporate it also has almost no bezels bordering the display and the feel of the whole laptop is really solid save for a slightly wobbly screen hinge at just under 20 millimeters thick and 4.6 pounds it doesn't quite qualify as a thin and light but for the power that it houses I would definitely call it portable it's rocking an Intel Core i7 quad core 16 gigs of ram and a gtx 1070 max-q making it suitable for anything from heavy gaming to light workstation use that is assuming that it's adequately cooled and adding to the portability is the fact that the i/o includes full-size USB 3/8 ernet and Thunderbolt 3 so there's no need to carry around any dongles if you don't want to back to cooling though obviously that's going to be a challenge for a device like the Aero 15 X with only the CPU loaded we experienced no throttling though and temps in the mid 70s with that said with a combined CPU and GPU load like gigabytes compact bricks gaming desktop the Aero 15 X's CPU throttled down significantly it seems though like this is something that they could fine tune with a future BIOS or driver update because under full load we could hardly even hear the fans gaming performance is really strong though a max-q 1070 isn't quite as fast as a desktop 1070 but in this machine actually ends up within spitting distance and given how slim it is I'm willing to forgive it a couple of frames here and there besides on its 60 Hertz display it won't be making much of a difference anyway which I guess leads us perfectly into our biggest beef with the Aero 15 X it hurts me to say this but 60 refreshes per second at 1080p really isn't enough it's not a bad display at all especially if you're into the gaming workstation angle since its x-ray color calibrated out of the box and in my opinion 1080p while not as crispy as 1440p or better isn't too bad for the size but with this kind of CPU and GPU performance we should easily be running at a hundred fps or more in many modern games and right now buyers of this device aren't getting the full experience unless they hook up an external monitor and I've got other issues as well the webcam placement you either get a view up my nostrils or if we adjust it you get to stare at my right hand oh right you're down there so when is like I don't know a magnetic like clip-on mic or something with just contacts in the top of the monitor coming that would be sick no bezels no privacy concerns and no viewing angle compromise moving down from the webcam though is lots of good news on the keyboard there's a pleasant travel distance and a solid feel to the keys with a fairly high actuation force so fans of Cherry MX blue switches will probably really like this one I found it awesome to type on some gamers might find there's a little more force required than they'd like I could see your left pinky getting a bit tired but overall really liked it and then going lower still we've got a perfectly usable though somewhat unremarkable trackpad it does what it needs to do with solid tracking and a clicky feel where the arrow 15x really shines compared to other gaming laptops especially compact ones is the battery life with almost six hours of unplugged productivity it is among the best battery life we've ever seen in any gaming laptop especially one with this kind of performance and opening it up which is pretty easy if you have the right bit reveals how exactly gigabyte achieved this feat it's beautiful manufacturers or at least gigabyte anyway are finally listening to me that is a ninety four point two four watt hour battery that is right near the legal limit for what you can take on a plane with you and I might cry a little here because it's also got sockets for adding more em to storage and upgrading your RAM instead of soldered solutions for either of those so that's all fine and good but like all the other max-q laptops we've seen it comes at a cost literally this version here will run you twenty two hundred dollars which means if your wallet is tight and your backpack is large you can get more performance for less but while the Aero 15x doesn't give you the best bang for the buck and really it doesn't excel at any specific task it also isn't the worst performance per dollar or for that matter it's not the worst at anything nothing else that i've seen yet gives you everything that it does all in one place portability productivity and gaming highly recommended great work gigabyte need to see a 120 Hertz display with g-sync next time speaking of things I'd like to see you next time your website on Scoob airspace Squarespace is the place to go if you want to build a website you just pick one of their gorgeous templates and you add some text you add some pictures it's all cloud-based so you can see the changes you're making in real time and boom you've got a great looking website that also works awesomely on any device thanks to their use of responsive design it starts at just 12 bucks a month and you get a free domain if you by Squarespace for the year and every site features tons of great features like an online store cover pages which lets you set up a beautiful one-page online presence in minutes 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