Review: Aorus X7 Pro

By Kevin Lee

Introduction and design

Thin gaming laptops, like the Origin EVO15-S and Digital Storm Triton, have made us rethink our expectations of high-performance machines. Thanks to more efficient parts, including Intel’s Haswell (and soon Broadwell-U) processors as well as Nvidia’s Maxwell GPUs, manufacturers don’t need to put rip-roaring components into a bulky notebook chassis.

No device proves this point more than Gigabyte’s Aorus X7 Pro. It’s a 17.3-inch gaming laptop equipped with two Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M graphics cards working together in SLI, plus a beefy Intel Core i7 processor. And yet, the machine is less than an inch thick. On paper, the X7 Pro sits on equal footing with the Alienware 18 and MSI GT72 Dominator, but has Aorus managed to squeeze the same amount of gaming performance into a smaller package?

Design

The Aorus X7 Pro is an unfathomably thin gaming laptop, considering the two GPUs and high-end chips it comes packing. With the lid down, the laptop closes down to an astonishingly thin 0.9-inch silhouette. Compared to most other gaming 17-inch gaming laptops – with the exception of the even thinner Razer Blade Pro – you could almost mistake Aorus’ offering for an oversized Ultrabook.

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Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac