A NEW Level of Gimmick? Gigabyte Aero 15 x9 Review #Helpful Post

hen we last looked at the gigabyte

arrow 15 we concluded that it was the

perfect thin gaming laptop because well

at the time it was pretty much the only

thin gaming laptop that didn't make a

bunch of other stupid compromises in the

name of just raw performance but since

then the field has opened up a fair bit

with Razer refreshing the blade alien

we're bringing out the m15 and a sous

continually refining their zephyrus

lineup

so then gigabytes response to all this

mounting pressure ai ai ai laptop what

even is AI laptop oh if we get to that

later yeah no okay

so then AI laptop can a feature that we

called the worst demo at CES 2019

possibly make the Aero 15 x9 stand out

from the crowd and failing that is the

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looking at the arrow 15 the overall

design is reminiscent of the gaming

laptops of several years ago which I

guess makes sense since it hasn't gotten

a chassis update for about two years

with that said I can't really complain

about the ID from an objective

standpoint the screen bezels are super

narrow the chassis is nice and rigid and

the design is reasonably understated so

it won't give away how much raw gaming

performance is inside if you're worried

about that sort of thing in your board

meetings sticking with a more

traditional design also means more

traditional i/o quite literally more of

it along the sides we find loads of USB

Taipei's and HDMI port and even a full

sized SD card reader so you can go

dongle free if you want then they also

threw in Thunderbolt 3 if you're more of

a dongle embrace er so that's all pretty

normal so far but where the arrow 15 is

exceptional is under the hood ours comes

equipped with an Intel Core I 989 50 HK

yes that's the overclockable one and an

NVIDIA r-tx 2070 max-q meaning that it

packs considerably more punch than I

would expect and even in most cases

recommend in a chassis this slim like we

have seen much thicker laptops than this

fail to cool this CPU adequately and as

for how gigabyte fares

although the Aero does have a better

showing than the MacBook Pro it only

narrowly edges out the core i7s in its

competition in most tasks and

occasionally even gets straight-up

beaten all while hitting the thermal

limits of the chip so what this

basically means is you should buy the i7

model to get similar performance for

less monies it might not sound as sexy

and exciting but it will still be

incredibly competent at video editing

gaming and really whatever you want to

throw at it as for the RT X 2070 max Q

well since this is our first laptop with

one of these we can't say exactly how

it'll compare to other RT X 2070 max Q's

but what we can say is that it performs

pretty darn well

expect to be getting lots of frames in

your games with anything but the

heaviest triple-a titles with r-tx

enabled being capable of hitting the 144

Hertz refresh rate of the built-in

display many of them even on Ultra

settings perhaps more impressively is

the fact that our Aero 15 X 9 managed to

do this while maintaining a sort of high

but still very reasonable noise level

okay then what about the apparent star

of the show a I cannot make the core i9

cool through machine learning sorcery or

give our mirror artsy acts 20:7 t the

graphical performance of a Titan no

actually everything we've shown you guys

so far has been with AI enabled and

unfortunately contrary to the claims

that gigabyte was making back at CES it

does not give you any extra performance

but that doesn't mean that it's pure BS

either see the AI will optimize the

system based on what tasks you're

currently performing so if it sees that

you're playing a game it will optimize

for GPU performance and up the fans

during a render it will optimize for CPU

and then when you're just working on a

word document it will optimize for low

acoustics and so on and so forth now all

of these modes are available on

basically every gaming or a professional

laptop on the market but according to

gigabyte anyway 80% of users never

bother changing the modes which

basically means that having AI enabled

is not going to be giving you a hundred

and twenty percent performance it just

also means that you'll be getting your

100% ish performance at a lower power

level and/or noise envelope without ever

having to think about optimizing any

settings so then now that our

expectations have been adjusted those

really were some outlandish claims they

were making at the show it is much more

clear to me how this technology can

deliver a very real benefit to the

average user and the good news kind of

keeps rolling here gigabyte really hit

nail on the head with the display it's

144 Hertz refresh rate makes it

excellent for gaming and it's Pantone

color calibration makes it even suitable

for prosumer level photo or video work

the only other thing that I might want I

guess is G sync for the hardcore gamers

but for the eagle-eyed among you who are

bothered by the pedestrian 1080p

resolution you can simply go for the 4k

60 Hertz panel if you prefer it to comes

Pantone certified where gigabyte misses

the nail however and goes straight for

the thumb is the webcam thanks to its

spectacular placement below the screen

you're enjoying just a tremendous view

of my nose hairs and making matters

worse I lied

there's nothing spectacular about any of

it the image quality is unexceptional at

best and it doesn't support Windows

hello it's just not spectacular at all

and I know I'm harping on this a bit

here but holy crap stop doing this there

are plenty of other solutions the

trackpad is alright though it's

glass-topped

doesn't flex over much it's a decent

size and it uses the windows precision

drivers which checks all the boxes for

me putting it shockingly in like

second place for gaming laptop track

paestum that we've looked at recently

not not bad just don't screw it up and

it's all good

what isn't quite as good though is the

keyboard it's only fine the force

required to press the keys is a little

high

despite the switches having no real

tactile bump the key stabilization could

be better and the smaller right shift

key is a little bit awkward to hit

honestly though it was probably a -

material a couple years ago but nowadays

it's just a B+ since this is another

area where the competition has really

stepped up their game

another area the competition has caught

up is in the battery life Department

with alien wear and razor now boasting

large capacity batteries the 94 watt

hour unit in the Aero 15 x9 isn't quite

as impressive anymore

but given that 94 watt hours is

getting very close to the limit to what

you can carry on to a plane there really

wasn't a ton of room for upward mobility

for gigabyte here and be around six

hours that you get is still darn

impressive

honestly it only gets beaten by laptops

that have sacrificed performance making

this a very potent machine for people

that need both power and potency on the

go as for upgradability opening up the

Aero 15 we get easy access to both RAM

and storage along with that massive

battery which is pretty much all we can

really hope for in a laptop like this so

full marks there and all that means the

Aero 15 is sitting in pretty good shape

here standing up to basically every test

we could think to throw at it even if it

didn't blow me away at any point which

leads us perfectly into the conclusion

if money was no object honestly I would

take either the razor blade 15 or

alienware M 15 over this but

unfortunately for all of us money is a

thing and this is where the arrow 15 X 9

really flexes with our recommended

config coming in at a hundred and fifty

dollars less than the alien Ram 15 and

two hundred and fifty dollars less than

the razor blade with double the storage

to boot it's really hard not to get

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