There's a small amount of flex if you grasp the screen corners or press the keyboard deck. At 0.78 by 14 by 9.8 inches and 4.4 pounds, it's comparable to the Dell XPS 15 and half a pound lighter than the Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition, to cite two other premium OLED-screen laptops, though heftier than the 3.6-pound, non-OLED MSI Prestige 15. Not styled like a swoopy gaming laptop, the Aero 15 OLED XB is a conservative CNC-machined aluminum slab with an illuminated Aero logo on the lid (and two tiny lights shining on another logo on the rear hinge). Other standard features include 16GB of RAM and a 512GB PCI Express solid-state drive bolstered by 32GB of Intel Optane buffer, though I'd vote for double that memory and storage for a machine in this elite class. This is also the first opportunity we've had to test one of these 10th Generation Intel H-Series chips. The Aero 15 OLED XB also flaunts Intel's new Core i7-10875H, an eight-core, 16-thread processor with a base clock speed of 2.3GHz and max turbo speed of 5.1GHz. This is the first laptop we've fully tested with one of the "Super" versions of Nvidia's mobile-ready GPUs, which come in RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2080 Super flavors. The screen comes backed by the spanking-new GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q graphics adapter with 8GB of GDDR6 memory. Each panel is X-Rite Pantone certified and color-calibrated at the factory. The display is a 15.6-inch OLED panel with 4K (3,840-by-2,160-pixel) native resolution, meeting the VESA DisplayHDR 400 True Black specification. It's a formidable performer with a drop-dead gorgeous display, a system any power user would be proud to carry, and an easy Editors' Choice as a top creative laptop. Instead, the Aero is a desktop replacement aimed at designers and content creators-or anyone interested in the latest, most powerful laptop silicon, since it combines a 10th Generation, eight-core Intel Core i7 CPU with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super GPU (in slightly detuned Max-Q guise).
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Its colorful RGB backlit keyboard would be at home on one of Gigabyte's Aorus gamers, and it's compatible with Nvidia's RTX Studio drivers that mimic independent software vendor (ISV) certification for specialized apps. The Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB ($2,699 as tested) isn't a gaming rig and it isn't a mobile workstation, though it comes close on both counts.