Gigabyte Aero 15 X Gaming Notebook With GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q Graphics

Welcome Baloney. It was already good having Atom80 on hand to provide information and support and that would appear to be a lot more than other manufacturers can claim. Now that we have a second representative from Gigabyte's team that can only help to further increase the support on offer.

Thank you Gigabyte, I firmly believe you are on the right track both with your latest products and your attitude to your customers. What makes this so special is that so few manufacturers take the same approach so Gigabyte will gain more loyalty and a greater market share which is good for all of us!

<edit> still have no issues with my aero 15x 8750h, very content with it.
 
JimboJet said:
Welcome Baloney. It was already good having Atom80 on hand to provide information and support and that would appear to be a lot more than other manufacturers can claim. Now that we have a second representative from Gigabyte's team that can only help to further increase the support on offer.

Thank you Gigabyte, I firmly believe you are on the right track both with your latest products and your attitude to your customers. What makes this so special is that so few manufacturers take the same approach so Gigabyte will gain more loyalty and a greater market share which is good for all of us!

<edit> still have no issues with my aero 15x 8750h, very content with it.
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Glad to hear that. We truly realized our target audience (like you) is quite special and all of you deserve excellent & prompt technical support and that's the reason why I am here
 
JimboJet said:
Thank you Gigabyte, I firmly believe you are on the right track both with your latest products and your attitude to your customers. What makes this so special is that so few manufacturers take the same approach so Gigabyte will gain more loyalty and a greater market share which is good for all of us!
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+1 to that.

I think it's safe to say, at this point, that my problems have all gone away and I couldn't be happier with my 15X or the support I've received here.
 
JimboJet said:
Welcome Baloney. It was already good having Atom80 on hand to provide information and support and that would appear to be a lot more than other manufacturers can claim. Now that we have a second representative from Gigabyte's team that can only help to further increase the support on offer.

Thank you Gigabyte, I firmly believe you are on the right track both with your latest products and your attitude to your customers. What makes this so special is that so few manufacturers take the same approach so Gigabyte will gain more loyalty and a greater market share which is good for all of us!

<edit> still have no issues with my aero 15x 8750h, very content with it.
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baloney said:
Glad to hear that. We truly realized our target audience (like you) is quite special and all of you deserve excellent & prompt technical support and that's the reason why I am here
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YeWhoEnter said:
+1 to that.

I think it's safe to say, at this point, that my problems have all gone away and I couldn't be happier with my 15X or the support I've received here.
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So sweet, I am blushing :)

Thanks for comments @JimboJet and @YeWhoEnter , and also thanks to @baloney, for just being here really :)

Glad you are both still loving your AERO's :)

Fop anyone "waiting" or maybe considering and poised to buy a similar product, stand by.....The first wave of inventory vanished pretty swiftly, but we expect stock to start landing and being properly available within the next week or so.

Have a good weekend all,

Regards,

Atom80
 
Lovely spec, lovely price. Great job. It would be an instant buy for me if not for the blocky side profile and the massive GIGABYTE logo on the back. Something subtle like HPs approach would have been so much nicer. I’m sure it’s fine for gamers but I wouldn’t want to bring it into the office.

Looks like I’m getting the Razer Blade 15 and skinning it, which is a shame as it’s overpriced and gets a little hot.
 
WantoN said:
Lovely spec, lovely price. Great job. It would be an instant buy for me if not for the blocky side profile and the massive GIGABYTE logo on the back. Something subtle like HPs approach would have been so much nicer. I’m sure it’s fine for gamers but I wouldn’t want to bring it into the office.

Looks like I’m getting the Razer Blade 15 and skinning it, which is a shame as it’s overpriced and gets a little hot.
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HI @WantoN - Lovely post :-)

You say "blocky",,,, we say "retro" :-)

The logo on the lid really isn't Mahoosive,,,, but these things are personal taste, we understand that. However the design is really not "gamery" in the slightest, and has been tailored towards the professional, power user rather than being a full on gaming rig.

We are confident (as we have spoken directly to them) many users on OCUK forums have purchased AERO15s' and use them in work and office environments and have not been faced with "raised eyebrow reactions" in the corporate world because of the chassis, or logo.

Appreciate your comments, and of course we would much rather welcome you to become Gigabyte customer, than see you purchase a unit that you seem reluctant to, and clued up on its' short comings.....

Regards,

Gigabyte UK NB Team
 
Atom80 said:
HI @WantoN - Lovely post :)

You say "blocky",,,, we say "retro" :)

The logo on the lid really isn't Mahoosive,,,, but these things are personal taste, we understand that. However the design is really not "gamery" in the slightest, and has been tailored towards the professional, power user rather than being a full on gaming rig.

We are confident (as we have spoken directly to them) many users on OCUK forums have purchased AERO15s' and use them in work and office environments and have not been faced with "raised eyebrow reactions" in the corporate world because of the chassis, or logo.

Appreciate your comments, and of course we would much rather welcome you to become Gigabyte customer, than see you purchase a unit that you seem reluctant to, and clued up on its' short comings.....

Regards,

Gigabyte UK NB Team
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Nice to see active reps on the forums, they often just pop in with some benign advertising spiel never to be seen again.

It’s unfortunate that retro was the choice given the precident set by some of the beautiful equipment around, however there’s definitely a considerable amount of comparably garish laptops on the market.

Looking at the pricing you’re about the same as the Razer, or am I missing something? What other advantages would you say the Aero has over the Razer?

EDIT : I’ve also been looking at benchmarks for the device, and the single channel memory choice seems to impact productivity: 5-30% drops in performance compared to devices with the same processor and dual channel memory. Many games also seem to be impacted, again from 5-27%, although a handful don’t seem to be affected. Do you know the design teams reasoning on this? As another stick of memory is going to push the price up significantly.
 
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Atom80 said:
We are confident (as we have spoken directly to them) many users on OCUK forums have purchased AERO15s' and use them in work and office environments and have not been faced with "raised eyebrow reactions" in the corporate world because of the chassis, or logo.
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I had to use mine in an interview recently, because the one they gave me had a page-up between shift and left-arrow, where I'm used to rolling down from one to the other to highlight code (one of the reasons I didn't like the look of the Razer is that the right-shift is beyond the up-arrow, which is going to destroy my productivity as I move between that and a Filco keyboard). I didn't get the impression anyone thought it looked like a gaming machine.

I love the look of the Aero chassis but, if I could completely design it myself, I would allow the user to turn off that glowing Gigabyte logo on the lid.

Still, considerably less embarrassing than walking into an office with a laptop that says "Republic of Gamers" under the screen.
 
YeWhoEnter said:
Still, considerably less embarrassing than walking into an office with a laptop that says "Republic of Gamers" under the screen.
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It is one thing I do like about these models - while any purchase is something I've in the back of my mind depending on future plans - but it was one of the big downsides for me with the MSI and Asus models in the past - none of their high performance models would be remotely suitable to taking into a business environment while I'd have no problems with most of the current GB line up.

EDIT: Though looking now Asus have a wider range of more subtle looking ones in the higher end gaming capable range than back then.
 
I fully agree with the comments above about the logo and the inability to dim it or have the backlight switched off entirely. I will however say that this is the first and only performance/gaming laptop I have seen that doesn't have the typical styling features seen on other gaming laptops and is a massive leap in the right direction. I've been following the Aorus/Gigabyte range since their first offerings and the Aero 15x (and lesser specced Aero 15) are truly the first acceptably "mature" styled machines made available. They are close to perfect, but aren't there yet even with the Aero15x v8. I've been quite vocal about the styling on the Aorus line, particularly the garish Aorus trackpad logo which as a design decision just baffles me entirely.

I think the gaming laptop manufacturers need to understand their target consumers more than they have done until now. Thankfully, Gigabyte appear to be getting there. The 30-45 yr old age group are people typically the higher earners, brought up with atari 2600 games consoles, spectrums, commodore 64s, Super Nintendos etc, (ie the pioneers of computer gaming as we know it today). They've been weaned on games and many have not shifted the habit and see gaming as a good way to relax away from the pressures of the office environment (or the wife etc!). At the same time they have seen design style icons such as Apples various under performing notebooks and no doubt have a requirement to use their personal devices in their office environments. Employers in a lot of cases have managed to shift themselves away from the financial burden of providing staff with company sourced machines, passing on the task (and financial pain) to their staff. This group to me is the intended target audience for these high end devices, most of which still need to keep an eye on budgets so will be very picky about where their money goes.

The gaming styled devices are fine for lesser specced machines around the $700-$1200 mark and I'm sure there is demand for these devices but above that, I firmly believe discretion is king and manufacturers offering "sleeper" laptops will do well. I suspect Gigabyte is already seeing that with sales figures for their Aero 15x.


Case in point, I would have bought the previous Aorus machines had it not had the trackpad logo and I was very close to going for the MS surface book 2 i7 1060 machine over the Aorus/Gigabyte offerings even knowing it had a much reduced spec simply for it's sleek professional looking design. That was of course until we discovered that the machine was flawed with an under performing power supply and less than expected performance due to heavy throttling. It would appear from the comments in these forums that I am not alone in my views.
 
WantoN said:
Looking at the pricing you’re about the same as the Razer, or am I missing something? What other advantages would you say the Aero has over the Razer?

EDIT : I’ve also been looking at benchmarks for the device, and the single channel memory choice seems to impact productivity: 5-30% drops in performance compared to devices with the same processor and dual channel memory. Many games also seem to be impacted, again from 5-27%, although a handful don’t seem to be affected. Do you know the design teams reasoning on this? As another stick of memory is going to push the price up significantly.
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@Atom80 Any response to this mate?
 
@WantoN I feel like the reasoning behind that was discussed somewhere earlier in the thread. Essentially, if you get 1x16Gb and want the performance gains of dual-channel (which I honestly don't think you'd even notice without a benchmarking tool), you have the option to buy another chip, but if you get 2x8Gb and you want 32Gb total, you have to replace 2 chips.

Most of us here thought that was a good design choice.
 
YeWhoEnter said:
@WantoN I feel like the reasoning behind that was discussed somewhere earlier in the thread. Essentially, if you get 1x16Gb and want the performance gains of dual-channel (which I honestly don't think you'd even notice without a benchmarking tool), you have the option to buy another chip, but if you get 2x8Gb and you want 32Gb total, you have to replace 2 chips.

Most of us here thought that was a good design choice.
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That’s fair enough. I’ve looked into benchmarks and it’s impacted performance as per the values I posted earlier.

Thanks for contributing mate.
 
WantoN said:
I’ve looked into benchmarks and it’s impacted performance as per the values I posted earlier.
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It's a significant cost in memory throughput, but memory throughput is very rarely the biggest bottleneck on a computer. That's why you'll see a few games where it hurts and many where it doesn't.
 
YeWhoEnter said:
It's a significant cost in memory throughput, but memory throughput is very rarely the biggest bottleneck on a computer. That's why you'll see a few games where it hurts and many where it doesn't.
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Quite. But when I’m dropping over £2k I don’t want any bottlenecks ;)

I’m not knocking those who’ve got it, I’m sure it’s a great machine and you’re having a blast. For me it’s a shame, I don’t need 32gb. For others it’s a boon and that’s fine.

Was just hoping the rep would chime in.
 
WantoN said:
Was just hoping the rep would chime in.
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I believe the reps have already explained it, as it was explained recently. It is to allow upgradability and also lower the cost. The equivalent MSI laptop has 2x8gb ram and costs £100 more. The performance impact is so tiny, it is an unimportant trade-off.

Versus, for example, the razer. This laptop is far more serviceable. You can ad an addition stick of ram, there is a spare M.2 port etc.

The question is whether you care about 0.5% higher benchmark scores or actually enjoying and using your computer in real life.
 
Prozn said:
I believe the reps have already explained it, as it was explained recently. It is to allow upgradability and also lower the cost. The equivalent MSI laptop has 2x8gb ram and costs £100 more. The performance impact is so tiny, it is an unimportant trade-off.

Versus, for example, the razer. This laptop is far more serviceable. You can ad an addition stick of ram, there is a spare M.2 port etc.

The question is whether you care about 0.5% higher benchmark scores or actually enjoying and using your computer in real life.
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As I said before mate, performance impact goes from negligible to 5-30%, it impacts performance depending on the load. And when I’m dropping more than £2k, I’d rather have no bottlenecks.

As I’ve also said, I’m not knocking anyone’s who’s bought it, I’m sure they’re enjoying their laptop.

Some people seem to be viewing this from a defensive, rather than objective standpoint; it’s odd.
 
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