We visited the Gigabyte product show case and got an early look at the company’s Aero X16. More importantly, one of the brand’s representative told us that we can expect to see the laptop starting June this year.
For the uninitiated, Gigabyte’s Aero lineup is the brand’s all-rounder and, to a measurable degree, thin-and-light form factor laptops. I say this because the Aero X16 that I had a chance to paw it, it was anything but light, and by that, I mean that it weighed in at 1.9kg. That may not seem like much but in the long-run, it hauling what is basically a 2kg laptop in your backpack can and will become exhausting.
Weight notwithstanding, Gigabyte is offering something of a beast with the Aero X16. Beneath the hood, you get an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, a mobile APU that we tested nearly a year ago and still impresses. Moving on, it can also be fitted with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 laptop GPU, while the display is a 16-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600) 16:10 IPS panel, with a maximum refresh rate of 165Hz, 3ms GTG response time, and peak brightness of 400 nits. On a side note, I did ask Gigabyte why it didn’t use an OLED with the laptop instead, to which it said that doing so would have made it considerably thicker.
Aesthetically, the back of the Aero X16 no longer shows off the “Aero” branding; Gigabyte did away with the garish design in favour of a simple self-branding, while still maintaining that sleek metallic aesthetic. On a separate note, Gigabyte hasn’t provided us with local pricing but hopefully, that detail will be made available soon.
