New gaming notebook unveiled - AORUS X7

I should probably stop viewing this thread. The more I see and hear about this laptop the more I want one. And if they bring it out at a decent price point... well my wallet is going to be rather empty.

 

Very NICE!

Where did that laptop come from? It looks like it was painted actually. Possibly a pre-production sample not representative of final product (I sound like a lawyer).

If you look at the Linus Tech Tips video of it, it looks grayish too:

 

I got it from Anandtech.
AnandTech | Gallery - Gigabyte

This video shows that its black too
Vi klämmer på den tunna gamingdatorn Aorus X7 hos Gigabyte på CES - YouTube

I think that when you shine a very bright light directly at it, the reflection will be more greyish. But its black most of the time.

Personally I think it looks awesome as black.

 

Haha. That's so cheesy, I LOVE it.

 

Should be around $2000-2200-ish. It's a brand from China after all; doubt their mark-up skyrockets suddenly.

 

Gigabyte is Taiwanese.

 

Gigabyte calls it a "powerplant on your lap," and it'll arrive around March for $2,099 -$2,799 depending on options.

Gigabyte's dual GPU Aorus gaming laptop is less than an inch thick

 

here's hoping other vendors will follow suit with similar systems and/or better pricing/GPUs. It's a bit strange that they would include 2 HDMI ports though. At first I was hoping one of them would be HDMI input.

 

I think that price depends on SSDs and RAM mostly. The CPU and GPU are carved in stone.
Maybe you can upgrade the display too.


The stock display is by no means any bad though

 

Damn! there goes my interest in this laptop... that is waaay to much, not necessarily in dollars but the conversion rate to euro is going to be horrible (2100$ is roughly around 1550 euros, but they will probably sell it for the same 2099 but euro, I hate Europe for this, we get screwed so bad) I personally do not mind hefty laptops so I would without hesitation grab an Alienware 18 at that price point over this .

 

Good find.

About the pricing I thought. $2100 base model is probably with HDD and 8GB RAM. Everything else that matters will be stock anyhow: i7-4700HQ, SLI 765M, 1080p (hopefully matte).

I wonder if they will. Curious to see too.

 

One thing I'm trying to understand is gigabyte choice of always using a not enough battery.

What's going to happen is the same thing on the p series the battery isn't enough so they will throttle like no tomorrow under battery, and they will guarantee a poor battery life, like a clevo battery

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You can't cram all of that into a thin and light chassis without making compromises, but yeah I hear you, one would think OEM's would strive to make the perfect laptop, this couldn't be further from the truth, the less time, effort and money spent on a new design the better (points finger at MSI) .

I would love to meet the dufus who designed them fugly tribal backlit trackpads on last years Clevo's just to tell him how (bad/cheap/ugly/insert bad word) they look.

 

It's a 73WHr battery. Better get decent battery life. Depends on if you can activate IGP or not though.

 

Nope :cry:

 

Why so? The chassis is isolated from the hot components and heat exhausted by the fan. Not like an MBP where the laptop IS the heatsink.

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Release date says March 31, 2014. So that's March alright, but more like April or May perhaps before users get their hands on it.

 

With that cheesy robot commercial, that price point, and a release in March, they better bundle Titanfall with it

 

Hardware for Titan Fall included?

 

I guess the price point falls within the MSI and Razer 17" thin gaming notebooks except this one should be about 80% improved FPS. I was just hoping they would have dropped the price by a few hundred bucks and force the other makers to do the same.

 

Yeah they love that don't they that flashiness and all that.

What's the battery on your clevo? Ain't around that much? But you do have optimus

Given that clevo cant design power Sippers when under battery...

I take it should be around 5h of throttle tastic battery life

They wouldnt be forced you don't compete with price cuts in the premium market

It's usually done with features, exclusive services, bundles of products, ecosystem, hot booth babies and so forth

You can do witty commercials as well


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The battery in the W230ST is 62WHr, so this Gigabyte is a little better. I bet you can get 4 hours battery with it.

 

In my case, battery life is the one feature I'm not concerned about. I'd be fine with 60-90 minutes. There is generally an AC outlet anywhere I want to use a laptop, even on domestic flights these days, and I would not plan to run demanding applications or games on battery power.

With dual 765m graphics cards, however, I'm disappointed they didn't go for a more ambitious display resolution like 3200x1800 (available in models with much weaker video cards, such as Envy 14, Fujitsu UH90, Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro).

 

128bit cards would choke under those conditions.

 

im with your guess, Im just a little bit more optmistic

however one must account lack of optimus and the much larger screen.

Im concerned with battery life (I need at least 6-8h, the more the merrier), though I wouldnt buy this one, its too large and the design is childish

but despite my irrk against the design, i prefer understatement instead of flashiness, it should be a good notebook, with meh battery life and it truly put the badly designed razer blade pro to shame. if you guys have looked at the guts of it, you would understand why with so much wasted space

all in all I like the whole idea of this notebook, maybe not the choice of dual gpus, but yes the whole idea is really good, much like why i liked the idea of the blade when it came out and the gs 70.

now we need to know the cooling, battery life, build quality, performance and ruggedness

 

With SLI?

LOL. SLI kills batteries.

Look at Lenovo Y510p SLI vs non-SLI battery life. The difference is 2x.

 

Surely nobody games on battery? It chokes the clock on the GPUs.

Or are we talking Minesweeper?

 

No battery life without gaming still sucks on SLI systems because Optimus is disabled. Even when severely downclocked, those two dGPU's still suck up a lot more power at idle than an iGPU.

 

6.4 OZ

sweet! lol

*edit: they've since fixed the specs on engadget's website. Previously they were showing it as 6.4 oz instead of lbs, no SLI, and no Display Port. I wasn't sure at first if I could trust their specs with that erroneous info. lol

 

My notebook tells me otherwise

 

Good for you, but yours has a manual iGPU switch so the resulting battery life is atypical of most SLI notebooks, mine included.

 

It probably doesn't have to run on SLI all the time. You can hopefully idle one card. The Clevo P375SM 17" SLI notebook with dual 780m's could get about 2.5 hours battery life with 89WHr battery, so I'm confident this should easily beat 3 hours battery.

 

thats because you are muxed!

I still think around 5h

and yes the razer blade doesnt downclock much when gaming on battery

 

Even if you disable SLI, the second card is still on and consuming power at an idle state. You can't cut off all power to the second GPU short of physically removing it from the notebook, which is obviously an impossibility here with the soldered GPU's.

 

Asus G750 which lacks Optimus get 5 hours battery life. Its 87Wh so it is bigger, but two 675M downclocked will atleast give it 2 hour battery life.
Y500 get 3 hours with just surfing. Thats not sucky....

Plus X7 might have MUX. We don`t know yet.

So much negativity. Sigh.

 

Only AMD run zero core, we will need to wait for full maxwell and its arm core to see similar behaviour.

 

2h, 3h of battery life is... just... terrible. which also kills part of the appeal of a thin and light gaming notebook... if you arent mobile... why a thin and light? and why not a desktop?

only gamers accept that. because even workstations now will give you more, sometimes much more

anyway, as i said its a good idea, its packing great power, we just need to see the pros and cons aside specs, because specs arent everything

 

Clevo P177SM get 3 hours
Alienware 17 get 2.5 hours
Both have Optimus.

It is to be expected when you buy a gaming notebook and not a silly iPad or a workstation or one of those crappy APU notebooks.

You can`t have it all.

 

it is to be accepted you mean. you guys accept that.

and as far as Im aware the 2012 model of the m17x had 4-6h of battery life.

tell that to the enterprise class that is sporting also 30h of battery life.

you can have a good notebook with good power, chassis, battery life and quality construction.

 

but but but...you are buying a gaming laptop...to play games on it....with the ac adapter plugged in...why in the world would you compare a gaming laptop with a corporate one?

 

3 hours without plugged in should be enough for gaming notebooks. I totally agree, you don`t buy a SLI notebook with 2 fans, with 47W CPU, to sit by the fireplace and read newspaper on it. Sure you could, but you should have bought the $700 APU notebook instead if thats what you prefer.

There are also compromises to be made when you make a thin notebook thats mostly made out of hardware. You can`t just slap in a 90Wh battery like you find on the M17R4. Which is way too thick.

 

how bout we look on the plus side..... since most optimus enabled laptops don't support 3d vision via HDMI, this baby can play 3D without a doubt (i guess)

 

Similar costs, I imagine.

 

workstations can also dub that as well.

i also forgot that only people that game dont work, and thus have no need for the mobility that sometimes come with it, or dont study and thus need the mobility that comes with it.

but i guess if i should have a machine dedicated for only one thing

 

You low battery life apologists crack me up. 2-3 hours of unplugged time is unacceptable in this day and age especially with a Haswell CPU. Not everyone buys a gaming notebook to only game. If you game 24/7 you have no life and need to seek professional help. If I'm gonna be dropping two to three grand on a notebook it better not have any glaring weaknesses or usability issues, and I can think of a bunch of different work, school, and just everyday life scenarios where 2-3 hours of battery life is problematic. Even something as simple as watching a full movie is an issue. This thing may be a svelte powerhouse but mobility still sucks if battery life can't keep up.

 

Well, if u use the official info: "Taiwan officially the Republic of China..." (see here). To skip the political talk which I did not intend to start, "Chinese brand" meant that their products are made/assembled in a factory physically located in the territory of China, which allows cutting down the cost of the resulting product. Gigabyte has several factories in Taiwan and mainland China :hi2:.

On topic, the release date of the machine is in March; Nvidia's GTX800M series release is also in March, so technically Gigabyte will release a gaming machine with prev. gen. tech...

 

Apple products are manufactured at Foxconn which is in China. Does that make Apple Chinese?

 

i think the slim part was just to make easier to transport, but it is kinda funny if they do have horrible battery life, also it could come with a manual switch or something new that lets you switch between the IGPU and DGPU ....

 

its called mux and it isnt new, but it is rarely used

 

Well so are Asus, MSI, Compal and Clevo Taiwanese companies, just to name a few. You're on NBR and you don't realize what a major player Taiwan is in mobile electronics? And even go on to suggest that Taiwanese brands are, by their Chinese association, somewhat cheap or inferior? Better watch how you talk to the locals..

 

Pretty much *all* computers these days are made in China/Taiwan, so calling one of them inferior just by brand/model is pretty crazy, imo. I mean, Latitudes/Thinkpads/Elitebooks are also made in China/Taiwan, but they're highly regarded in terms of build quality. Really, the only computers I can think of off the top of my head that are built outside of that area are the Rasberry Pi (UK), Toughbooks (Japan, iirc), and a very limited number of Thinkpads (Japan).