hey there nerds guess what gigabyte has Intel's new 6th
core coffee Lake CPU - and none other than one of my favorite laptops from
last year this is the gigabyte Aero 15 + 15 X this particular one is the Aero 15
you know it and love it it basically has inside of it the previous I'd of it has
a 6 core Core i7 8750 H that's base clock 2.2 which
obviously is gonna be worst case scenario and up to four point one
gigahertz I'm gonna guess you know it's really
gonna be buzzing along at 3-5 mid threes all the time CPU of course is a big deal
6 cores unlocked which I did not realize is actually an unlocked processor in
here nice probably not gonna overclock in this platform it's not really made
for that kind of heavy duty thermals but that means other coffee Lake laptops
that have bigger heat pipes that are just larger might be able to overclock
in fact I'm told they get they're getting decent clocks out of some of
them this particular model graphics ID no real changes arrow 15 you get a full
tilt 1066 gig not a max Q part arrow 15 X you get a 1070 max Q but there are a
lot of changes besides the CPU in this laptop batteries still the same one of
the best features 94 watt hours which in my testing of the arrow 15 and the arrow
15 X gave me spectacular run time you're basically looking at all day use of a
gaming laptop for non gaming purposes fire up that GPU that battery would be
dead an hour but it really is a very usable laptop for other purposes if
you're not firing up the GPU screen also changed previous version had an MBA
panel this new one when you turn this on this new one isn't as a 10 1080p 14
1080p hundred in front of us get this right 1080p 144 Hertz IPS panel
so the previous version was MBA this one is IPS which of course is always gonna
be better and make sure there's nothing important on here
it is also 144 Hertz it also does have still has a Pantone X right calibration
so will come pre calibrated from the factory think about really says hey this
is a gaming laptop it's got gaming chops with a 1070 max-q
with a 1060 but we know your boss is not going to approve buying a gaming laptop
you buy this for work content creation that kind of stuff and you're getting a
great laptop there are six cores gaming GPU for consecration folks there's also
a UHS to card support which atom crowd tell you that's better right I don't
even know I don't do that stuff can't afford I buy the cheap stuff on Amazon
and I'm used to the good stuff basically a lot faster SD cards so besides the
screen what else has changed let's see the logo has changed right yeah the logo
has actually changed the arrow it's still arrow there's also now this led
which was there previously only controlled the brightness of the screen
and now also controls the brightness of the keyboard oh yeah so they can it can
crank it up or down and oh it's also interestingly the weight of this laptop
is down beside even though you're getting six cores at a pretty high clock
at ten seventy max you or 1060 it's actually a little lighter
apparently the previous version was four point six pounds this one is four point
four pounds it's also a little bit thinner that's about a tenth of an inch
of thinner than the previous version that's kind of like well where'd that
come from because you're getting more power more performance it's thinner and
lighter gigabyte tells me it's all in this panel apparently that mva panel in
the previous version was a little thick this one's thinner same vendor I believe
but apparently it is a true IPS as in they can call an IPS but I don't think
it's a sharp branded IPS panel I'm still sorting that out but it is definitely
different so we have type eight ports oh yeah let's go let's do the ports we get
to Taipei both of them are now ten gig we get
full-on Thunderbolt 3 which is a full buy for implementation if you want to
know you're that kind of person power brick 150 watts on the arrow fifteen
hundred and eighty watts on the arrow fifty next I believe looks like a king
Kensington lock here is your UHS two slot for your
content creators doing your video editing on your six core CPU you ain't
doing that and your macbook pro hdmi 2.0 meaning DisplayPort 1.4 previously we
had mini DisplayPort 1.3 another USB 3 USB USB 3 one full 10 gig in fact this
is in fact built into the chipset now that is actually part of the chipset in
the new coffee Lake laptops because Intel is added USB 3 110 gig support and
Gigabit e analog headphone port full HTML full a thern it that's that's full
Ethernet full full HDMI I'm going to point one thing out I really want to
talk about which i think is gonna be very interesting if you wanted something
to just argue with people about this panel is 1080p it is IPS it is a hundred
and forty-four Hertz it is not g-sync I repeat it is not a
g-sync panel the msi gs70 sync panel this one is not g-sync which is gonna
make you go wah why would you have high refresh without variable refresh
gigabyte says they did it mostly for power they're the last if you're gonna
run a g-sync panel generally the last thing you want out is hooked up to that
panel on this one you're using Optimus which is cooked up to the IGP
you of course can still use your graphics card to power that but if
you're running g-sync you really have to run it straight to the video card and
they're saying because they really wanted great battery life worse because
the Aero 15 the Aero 15 X has always been known for great battery life they
decided to forego jisuk that gonna be a deal-breaker I don't know some people
might go yeah I want you think hundred forty-four Hertz what good is that but
you know I gotta say if you're running 10 1070 max-q
with a 1080p panel 144 frames per second is not going to be hard to hit on a lot
of games so yeah it's an interesting design choice I don't know
also the Oh another big change the previous model the original arrow 15 had
problems when you press too many keys at once they basically didn't expect people
to do those a Photoshop Lightroom you know control all right shift our shift
commands and it would do weird things and didn't quite work right so the arrow
15 apparent 15 X kind of corrected it the new arrow 15 new arrow 15 X
completely fixes it the keyboards are fully NK and key unlimited key rollover
right and key rollover so basically you could press every single key on this
keyboard and you won't have a problem so those people who had keyboard issues
think about it says yeah we've relay it out everything it's fixed you're not
gonna have any problems here keyboard still of course perky lighting I love
the lighting on this keyboard how does the travel feel travel has always been
really good I like the keyboard I'm not I've never been a fan of this tanky
layout I worked in accounting the zero supposed to go here not supposed to go
there it's how it goes it doesn't work this is more like a telephone keyboard
which is not that useful it's a little cramp you know ten key maybe could go
trackpad I will say on the arrow 15 original one I did have some trackpad
issues eventually but overall it's okay mostly for gaming you're gonna be using
a mouse it's hard to say off if I don't want to get it the shell itself still
aluminium it's really funny because you think it's plastic a lot of people
thought it was plastic when they first got this it's actually full aluminum and
it is also serviceable well as you can open it up anyway it's very easy to get
inside of the arrow 15 series remove the screws pull off the bottom ddr4 266 two
sodium's I think this one probably only has one sodium in it there's a second
sodium slot you can use if you want also of course to m dot two slots to expand
storage what else Dolby Atmos audio and what you want to
know most important thing is price prices have gone up a little bit
obviously or CPUs all kinds of new stuff prices
have gone up a little bit 16 gigs 512 storage 1999 with the 10 60 full on 10
60 and the 6 courtship to move up to the max Q version it's $2,300 both of those
with the 1080p IPS 144 Hertz panel and there is a full 4k version for $2,500
coming out later in the air 24 but there is a bonus if you do buy the $2,300 max
Q version which doesn't seem so bad you actually get beats headphones so these
are the new aerobee tempo nice but dre yeah beats by dre who knew who knew I
thought these are actually an Apple only kind of item but apparently they let
other people do it the cool thing is you can wear this now and you can be a
sullen teenager with I'm just gonna wear this for jewelry there you go does it
come with monster cables monster cables on the beats cable maybe that would be
the cool thing so available very soon I believe is there anything else and we'll
go on in for testing you're going for testing uh I think that's all the big
specs basically you know the message on the arrow 15 has always been really good
battery life they're saying 10 hours of battery life which if you think about it
look we're talking full-on 1066 gig performance or 1070 max-q performance
with a 6 core Intel CPU 10 hours of regular use again you fire up a game
you're not gonna see 2 hours out of any gaming laptop but uses for outlook you
uses for Photoshop a lot of things that just general use you're gonna get all
day performance basically if you're gonna work all day play at night take a
good look at the gigabyte Aero 15 Aero 15 X