Aorus, while not quite a well-known as Alienware or MSI, has been making excellent gaming laptops since 2014. They’re a subsidiary of fellow Taiwanese hardware giant Gigabyte.
The company prides itself on making not the biggest and beefiest gaming gear, but rather slimline models that offer more portability and sleek looks.
Price, availability and value
The X7 v6 is part of the sixth generation of Aorus’ laptop fleet, and it’s the largest of the group at 17.3-inches.
It’s accompanied by two smaller machines, the very good X5 v6 (with a 15.6-inch screen) and the rather wonderful X3 v6 (13.9-inch).
This isn’t the most powerful machine they make, that mantel goes to its sibling the X7 DT V6. That has an Nvidia 1080 GTX tucked inside along with an optional 4K screen, whereas here it’s a GTX 1070 and two choices of non-4K screen (more on that later). The lack of 4K makes sense here as the 1070 probably wouldn’t do it justice.
It should be noted that the DT costs considerably more at around £3,000 ($3740, AU$4800), whereas this is looking at around £2,200 ($2,760, AU$3,580) depending on which configuration you go for. For the money you’d spend on …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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