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Aorus X9 Laptop

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LET’S BE HONEST, this laptop is a lot of dollar. No, seriously: 3,650 of the smackers straight from your wallet and into a not-so-portable 17-inch, RGB-lit, behemoth of death. That aside, there’s good reason for the high price tag, and Gigabyte’s Aorus has certainly garnered a reputation recently for being quite the premium brand around the gaming sphere. Aorus is to Gigabyte as Shelby is to Ford. Well, maybe that’s being a touch too generous, but you get the gist. The X9 is currently one of the world’s better specced slimline-yet-powerful gaming laptops, featuring dual GTX 1070s in SLI, a quad-core Intel Core i7-7820HK CPU, 32GB of DDR4, and a whole bank of PCIe solid-state storage to boot. But the big sellers reside with the screen and the keyboard (see below). Available with either an IPS 4K panel or a 1440p 120Hz VA panel, it’s entirely your choice as to whether you want a faster refresh rate or crisper visuals.

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