Gigabyte Aero 15 Review: No Bezels, No Worries

[Julio Franco]

The Aero 15 is the best laptop I've ever tested from Gigabyte. It's a reasonably portable 15.6-inch laptop with great internals (Core i7 quad core + GTX 1060 + M.2 SSD), making it suitable for both workstation and gaming use.

Read the full article here.

https://www.techspot.com/review/1399-gigabyte-aero-15/

 

[psycros]

I'm amazed there's a numpad. This may be the first no-compromise, high-end gaming laptop I've seen for under $2000. Quite an achievement.

 

[MannerMauler]

That lego collection o.O

Pretty cool collection!

 

[ET3D]

I'm waiting for a Dell XPS 13 with Raven Ridge.

 

[Darth Shiv]

What the hell? Single channel memory? Why??? Very disappointed in that.

Hmmm ok reading the article the dual slot is free for another 16GB... not so bad then.

Toss up with the 1070 in the Asus for me but thinking I'd want a Sammy NVMe SSD in them.

 

[bexwhitt]

I can't see any reason why the bezel at the top could be bigger for the camera with the bottom bezel being correspondingly smaller, aping Dell is not a reason

 

[ForgottenLegion]

What the hell? Single channel memory? Why??? Very disappointed in that.

It doesn't make a big difference in the real world when using a dGPU.

 

[oldikes]

I was super excited when I saw this laptop announced and im glad to see it held up to the expectations. I wish more laptops went for this route. Although id rather pay less for 14" in the same chassis, a smaller SSD, and 8GB.

 

[Oshyan]

Strange, all the options I can see for purchasing this thing are coming with an M.2 drive, not NVMe:

https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-Aer...071NQGNN7/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834233205

Did Gigabyte ship the reviewer a nicer model or what?

 

[Oshyan]

Strange, all the options I can see for purchasing this thing are coming with an M.2 drive, not NVMe:

https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-Aer...071NQGNN7/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834233205

Did Gigabyte ship the reviewer a nicer model or what?

Correction: of course m.2 drives *are* NVMe. What I was seeing was reports of non-Samsung SSDs with much lower performance. See reviews on Newegg for example (2nd link).

 

[Bao Nguyen]

What the hell? Single channel memory? Why??? Very disappointed in that.

Hmmm ok reading the article the dual slot is free for another 16GB... not so bad then.

Toss up with the 1070 in the Asus for me but thinking I'd want a Sammy NVMe SSD in them.

Actually their decision here regarding RAM is absolutely perfect for consumer, allowing us to freely upgrade to 32GB without throwing away the installed RAM like other OEMs, save us money.

Additionally to that, they also left a second empty full length M.2 slot, I would say Gigabyte has truly exceed my expectations as a consumer here.

 

[Darth Shiv]

Actually their decision here regarding RAM is absolutely perfect for consumer, allowing us to freely upgrade to 32GB without throwing away the installed RAM like other OEMs, save us money.

Additionally to that, they also left a second empty full length M.2 slot, I would say Gigabyte has truly exceed my expectations as a consumer here.

Not many consumers get value from 32GB over 16GB but as you'll note from the second paragraph of my post, I was happy about the 32GB option.

 

[Orangetang]

Strange, all the options I can see for purchasing this thing are coming with an M.2 drive, not NVMe:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071NQGNN7/?tag=httpwwwtechsp-20

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834233205

Did Gigabyte ship the reviewer a nicer model or what?

Correction: of course m.2 drives *are* NVMe. What I was seeing was reports of non-Samsung SSDs with much lower performance. See reviews on Newegg for example (2nd link).

Not sure why nobody has responded, but no these laptops ship with a standard SATA SSD in M.2 2280 form factor (at least in my case. Perhaps the review unit was pre-production, as notebookcheck reviewed a model with an NVMe Lite-On drive inside. That said, the laptop itself will accept either NVMe PCIe X4 or SATA drives in either available slot, so put whatever you want in it.