Gigabyte's Aorus line holds a long history of chunky, funky gaming laptops with zero chill. These aren't the kind of gaming laptops you whip out for a quick Stardew Valley session. Gigabyte Aorus machines are brutes with frame rates to match. But, as with anything where all the design focus lands on gaming power, there tend to be drawbacks. You either get a teeny-tiny NVMe drive, a sub-par monitor resolution to make up for a monster refresh rate, a camera that looks right up your nose, or a battery life shorter than Donald Trump's list of bad things he's done.
The Gigabyte Aorus 17X AZG offers oodles of speedy storage, hits the sweet spot for monitor refresh and resolution, doesn't point the camera at my double chin, and still manages to deliver great frame rates. But of course I'm going to find something to complain about.
-copy-29e15046.jpeg?w=600)
