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so today we're gonna take a look at a laptop from gigabyte which features a gtx 1070 max-q edition so these things are designed to be extremely slim and also use a lot less power than their desktop variants and now speaking of the power consumption when we're in games for instance pub G playing with ultra settings at 1080p this whole machine even with the monitor on full brightness with the mouse connected was only juicing around a hundred and thirty five watts from the wall extremely impressive considering the performance figures and speaking of those performance figures this is a 1070 that does perform a little bit less than a desktop variant 1070 but it still does beat out at GTX 1066 gigabyte desktop Edition so let you guys take a look at the performance figures then we'll take a more in-depth look at the error 15 so the error 15 does perform really well with the i7 7700 HQ turbos up to 3.8 gigahertz on a single thread and also with its multi-core performance you get 3.4 gigahertz so in a Cinebench run it did score quite high getting in the 700 point range and also when you're going to use this for rendering videos it will do an absolutely fine job as the temperatures measured on this CPU and a stress test went up to around about 80 and then closing in on 90 degrees even when gaming so this is acceptable for a laptop like this keep in mind this is in 28 degree ambient temperatures and also the ventilation of the top and rear of the laptop is doing a great job of exhausting hot air so it's not gonna come near your face or blow on your face like some other laptops I've tested in the past however as you did here before the noise can get quite loud especially when the GPU is being fully stressed but one cool thing about the Max akyuu design is it does share the GPU cool with the CPU so if you are doing some CPU intensive tasks even if you're on battery life for example then it will take some time for those fans to RAM pins so if you are doing some quick work on the computer crunching numbers or doing something very intensive for even a couple of minutes the noise will remain still very quiet they're more into the hardware side of things taking off the backplate reveals two slots for ddr4 memory so dim it comes with two eight gigabyte sticks in this case you can upgrade this to two 16 gigabyte sticks for a total of 32 and I believe there may be another edition of this laptop that comes with a single channel 16 gigabyte stick I'd probably prefer that as if I got something like this personally I'd love to use it for a video rendering on the go and also playing some games if I got some free time the monitor itself is an MVA panel 1080p 60 Hertz it's got great viewing angles and it looks very good it also features the X right color calibration now x-ray are a company that do make color calibrators for monitors so if it's calibrated by them then you know it's going to perform very well if you need color accuracy from the get-go as soon as you open this up so if you may have seen with some of the shots already the error 15 packs in extremely thin bezel it's actually probably the thinnest bezel I've seen on a laptop to date egg you buy it states that this enables the error 15 to perform and function more like a 14 inch laptop but with that biggest screen and when I compared it to the Alienware laptop that I picked up for $50 here it does come in close to the size though not exactly as small as a 14-inch laptop though speaking of the dimensions the depth is 22 millimeters high and this is because of that max-q design you get a very thin laptop and of course it's 350 millimeters long by 250 millimeters tall so it is quite a small laptop for its features you do get an all alloy construction on the body as well there are some bits of plastic around the memory card for example but for what it's worth most of the laptop body is constructed from alloy does give it a very good finish and also a very sturdy feel now when we're looking at the weight of this unit 2.2 kilograms and also the adapter itself 450 grams so if it's one thing to focus on when it comes to positives on a laptop it's the size and the power and this thing has a both though also the adapter itself is very thin and small too it's a 150 watt adapter it also has its own little port for charging USB devices which is very handy to has an LED indicator light as well to let you know when the device is charging and it's on and also with that it's very lightweight coming in at 450 grams as I said before so carrying this thing around in total 2.6 kilo roughly and that's great for travel if you need to keep the weight down now another impressive thing about this laptop is it does come included with a 512 gigabyte Samsung S m9 6-1 nvme SSD there is another slot too for another nvm s to see if you want to double up on storage or just get another backup for editing videos however with that said the performance on this thing is extremely impressive over 2500 megabytes per second and reads rights for over 1500 megabytes per second the SSD school was very impressive too though keep in mind one thing I'll have to critique about this is out of the box these settings slowed down the right speed so you will have to turn off that buffer flash caching in the options if you want to speed this thing up which I highly recommend is you're missing out on some big write speeds which are of course important if you need to do very intense writes now on the right side of the basis unit you get two USB 3s in on the left you get an additional one of those USB to make a total of three USB 3 ports and also on the side you get a thunderbolt type-c connector which can to support extra displays as well coupled with the mini DisplayPort 1.3 and also the HDMI 2.0 out you can support up to three displays externally on the air 15 and there's also a handy SD card reader included and right below the monitor and above the keyboard there is a 1080p HD web camera with a sensor next to it - so very odd position for a web camera though it did work pretty well in practice and did give out quite a decent picture so it is good for doing Skype calls or business calls though you will get an angle that's kind of looking up at your nostrils and below that is the power button and also another very important feature of the aro 15 and that is the keyboard which is RGB backlit and you can change the speed combinations individually back like the keys assign macros as well and even control things like fans from the keyboard itself with the fusions software so the fusion software is very feature packed but you can also change the brightness - and it is extremely bright for a laptop keyboard I actually like the neon color combination the best and of course the static yellow looked pretty cool as well though when it came to typing on this thing the scissor type switches were very quiet and I did manage to score a decent score in typing test on my first run there for me personally I do prefer a mechanical keyboard with a wrist rest however this is one of the best laptop keyboards I've used Bar None and although the keyboard is quite good below that is the sensor pad which has really good sensitivity and it's sort of like an all integrated left and right click and movement in one though I did have a difficult time using this with two different fingers I do prefer the buttons to be segregated from the actual main movement sensor and with the movement sensor itself when you do set the option to plug in a mouse it does keep active so it is annoying to type on if you're using it with a mouse and keyboard style using the laptop keyboard though with that in mind when you did to disable this feature in the options and then unplug the mouse it remained disabled so that was very annoying I would like to see this bug improve with a software update though what about the sound and speakers the crosstalk was really good on this laptop it comes with two speakers left and right in stereo configuration and the sound was a little bit tinny though it was still pretty good to play games on I found playing pub gee I could easily discern left and right channels and of course plugging in a headphone you got very good sound coming out of that - and this is a hybrid port so you can plug a four pin in and still use a microphone - and now the last feature about the arrow 15 which is quite impressive is the battery life it features quite a big 94 watt hour battery that if you take off the back of the case you can see actually how thin and how wide it is and this does a very good job of keeping the air 15 powered on battery for around about three and a half hours if the brightness of the screen is on the lowest setting however upping the brightness to the maximum setting I only managed to get about an hour and 20 minutes of battery life and on both these tests I was watching movies and charging the battery itself takes a few hours and it does use about 50 watts from the wall so now its conclusion time with the arrow 15 from gigabyte and this is in my opinion how a laptop should be done if you guys want that high performance but still want something that's extremely small and doesn't use much power then this is gonna be the laptop for you an i7 7700 HQ CPU that goes up to 3.4 gigahertz expendability for up to 32 gigabytes of sodium memory you've also got one SSD an nvme 512 gigabyte included and the option to install more storage if you wish to makes this laptop a complete winner in my opinion it's got the forum it's got the function and also the screen as well is really good to boot 1080p nvm a panel the viewing angles were incredible and also the battery life is pretty good to boot and the included keyboard is very easy to type on to the build quality of course all alloy construction and this makes this a lightweight very sturdy unit however one thing we have to get out of the way with of course is the price if you're in Australia this thing will set you back around about 3100 AUD or if you're in the US about 2200 USD so it is quite expensive however like most things in this world unless it's the next 58 and at 6 core zealand you get what you pay for and without said guys i hope you enjoyed today's review if you did then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comments section below what you think of the error of 15 is it one of your favourite laptops do you think you would get one if you had enough money to afford one love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon and with that said gigabyte also send this out as a loan sample so I do have to return and unfortunately though I would love to keep it as it is a really nice laptop and I'll catch you in an I'll take video very soon peace out for now bye