The Gigabyte Aero 15 features a 15.6 inch, 3840 x
2160 pixel display, but thanks to 5mm thin bezels around the display, the
notebook isn’t much larger than a 14 inch laptop. It measures 14″ x 9.8″ x
0.78″ and weighs about 4.6 pounds.
Gigabyte’s new laptop features an Intel Core
i7-7700HQ Kaby Lake quad-core processor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics, two
M.2 PCIe solid state drive, and two DDR4 SODIMM slots for memory. It has HDMI
2.0 and Mini DisplayPort for connecting up to two external 4K displays. And the
laptop features a 94.24 Wh battery and a Thunderbolt 3 port.
Like the Dell XPS
13, this laptop has a webcam placed below the screen instead of above it. That
can cause some rather unfortunate camera angles when snapping selfies or making
video calls. But I’m still generally happy to see another company cramming a
big screen into a laptop shell that would typically be used for a smaller
model.
Gigabyte says a model with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of
storage is priced at US$ 1,899, and the laptop is available with black, green, or
orange lids.
