This is an expensive laptop, and it feels like one. I couldn’t produce any flex on the keyboard, and the slight amount of flex I found from the display required more force than I’m comfortable with. In terms of build quality, the Aero 16 is a tank. It’s in a middle ground between workstations focused on mobility like the XPS 17 and full-on gaming notebooks like the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro. It’s lighter than Dell’s XPS 17 by a hair, but the Aero 16 is still thicker. It has super-narrow bezels, but it’s a sizable 0.88 inches thick - and it clocks in at just over five pounds. It’s going for the look of a thin and light but not the feel. There’s a small handle to open the machine, which is where the webcam lives, along with an Aero logo on the front that lights up when the machine is running. It’s aluminum all around, but Gigabyte still subverts this tired design. This device, like most creator-focused laptops, takes a lot of cues from the MacBook Pro. The design of the Aero 16 is a little off, but not in a bad way. If you need a laptop that can accurately represent colors and detailed images – and for gaming, you care more about visual vibrancy than high refresh-rates – then the Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED is a powerful and portable designer's tool that comes at a fair price.Does Dell or HP make the best 16-inch laptop? You might be surprisedĪMD’s latest GPUs almost arrived with troubled 16-pin power connectorĮverything you need to know about buying a GPU in 2023 There aren't really any dedicated "design" laptops that are comparable to the Aero 15 OLED (although that's soon to change, thanks to new product lines like Acer's ConceptD), however you can get gaming laptops with similar specs for up to $400 (£400, AU$700) less – you’ll have to sacrifice a little on portability and battery life, or settle for an 8th generation CPU in the process, though. The Aero series is just 0.79in (2cm) thick and weighs just 4.4lbs (2kg), so it fits neatly within the ultra-portable creative workstation or gaming laptop category. The Aero 15 OLED has extensive connectivity options, including full-sized HDMI 2.0, three USB 3.1 Type-As, Thunderbolt 3 (Type-C), DisplayPort 1.4 (Type-C), Ethernet, UHS-II SD Card reader and a 3.5mm audio jack. In other words, there's enough here that you can moving between workstations and connect to external displays, peripherals and wired internet without needing a separate dock. (Image credit: Future) Features and verdict If you increase the resolution to 4K, you'll see these frame rates drop to a "just playable" 23fps and 33fps respectively, so while gaming at the screen's native resolution on new titles isn't out of the question, you will need to dial down the quality.įortunately, that OLED display still looks excellent at 1080p resolution, so Aero 15 OLED models with the GTX 1660Ti will still benefits from the panel's great colors – however if you're aiming for 4K gaming, you'll definitely want to opt for an RTX 2070 or RTX 2080 configuration. The Aero 15 OLED XA includes with an RTX 2070 GPU, and in games managed averages of 66fps in Total War: Warhammer 2 and 78fps in Middle Earth: Shadow of War, respectively, using 1080p at ultra quality settings. If the thermal management really is that much better, there should be a decent bump in the Core i9 CPU performance. We didn’t get a chance to test the 9th generation Core i9 model this time around, but Gigabyte has said that the cooling system has been re-engineered with new fans, heat pipes and vents that combine for 30% better cooling. Those last Aero 15 units we tested had some thermal issues on the highest specced models, which meant there wasn’t much of a performance bump between the Core i7 and Core i9 CPUs.
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