Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED

The amazing colours of OLED shine through in Gigabyte’s latest professional powerhouse.

With a 4K VESA certified HDR OLED panel at 400nits up front, it’s hard not to be wooed by Gigabyte’s Aero 15 OLED. Supporting this premium screen is one of three Intel Core processors, the hexa-core i7-10750H, the octa-core i7-10875H and the octa-core i9-10980HK, which are three of the most powerful laptop processors around. RAM ranges from 16GB to 64GB and you can configure it with any Nvidia GPU between the RTX 2060 to the RTX 2080 Super locally. This ultra premium range starts at $3,499 so it’s really only for those with the heaviest workstation requirements. Unfortunately this unit doesn’t perform quite as well as it should, lining up with Apple’s Core i9 MacBook Pro 16 on Cinebench R20 benchmarks and scoring 15 percent lower than the hexa-core+ average in the roundup on PCMark 8 benchmarks. It’s also a little more expensive than it needs to be considering the $5,699 unit we tested only offered 512GB of storage space, but at least some of this is going to be down to the OLED display.

The Aero 15 OLED also has a decent 94Wh battery that lasts 4 hours and 41 minutes in PCMark 8 benchmarks and 6 hours and 10 minutes in 1080p movie playback, even with the extremely powerful components and 4K display.

Graphically this machine is really solid with the 2080 Super landing in between the similarly specced MSI GS66 and the Razer Blade 15. The unit manages to come in at under 2cm thick and weighs less than 2kg, so gone are the days when power translated to a lack of portability.

A powerhouse ultrabook with an amazing screen and long lifespan that’s pricey and a bit light on storage.