Gigabyte's New 4K OLED "Creator" Laptop

a 15-inch, which features an OLED display

and a 17-inch, which has an HDR display. They've got a couple of features

that would be really useful to me as part of their creator lineup for content creation

They have Thunderbolt 4, which is, I mean, that's a thing that we use all the time

fast transfers, if you're unfamiliar. It's Intel technology. We have the latest Intel chips in here as well

So real powerhouse stuff. I'm curious to contrast and compare the OLED display

on the 15 inch model with the HDR display on the 17 inch model they have a couple of different

attributes the 17 inch model has a 500 nit brightness let's go ahead jump in here and see

what the latest from gigabyte looks like so I'll kick it off with this one which is the arrow 15

OLED so this is the smaller of the two models probably a box in a box scenario just a guess

yes it is okay so we have a uhd display so 4k just under 4k uhd inside of a 15 inch display that is

some serious pixel density that's going to be decent to look at this also has an rtx 3080 so

even though it's targeted at the creator individual because they can utilize some graphics power

obviously but also you could game on it no problem there uh it has an i7 11800h chip inside latest

generation intel chip 8 gigs of ram x2 so 16 gigs of ram on two chips m.2 pcie ssd1tb so lots of

ssd storage as well so this is a fairly well specced device

All right, so here, ooh, actually, fairly thin. I can tell without even taking this external wrapper off

fairly thin and light. This is gonna be your charger, power extension cable

230 watt power adapter, and this is something you'd expect to see with an RTX 3080 inside the laptop

Here is the Aero 15 OLED. You can see the styling. I've looked at the Aero lineup in the past

It's got this kind of understated stealth look to it. This one has a carbon fiber esque pattern

Aero logo over here. Some other little touches on the back. You can see these grills over here Some cooling another Aero badge Let look around the side of the device So over here we have a full size HDMI port This looks like a display port USB type A port

We have an og audio port for a headset or microphone. There's also an ethernet jack for a wired connection

Over on the other side, we have our power adapter. There's an SD card slot

This is a must in the creator community. Highly appreciated. We also have our USB type C connector

but that's actually Thunderbolt 4 capable. That's gonna be very fast transfer speed

but also the ability to connect to external docks and things that support even more inputs

because you have so much throughput on Thunderbolt 4. Two more USB type A ports over here

So lots of connectivity on there for all your various peripherals. The other thing I wanna show off is over on the bottom

Again, they could have put just like a generic shape to this grill on the bottom

but they even stylized that to kind of tie it all together. So what I like about this is it has some personality

but it's not overwhelming. All right, we lift it up. It is a slim bezel along top

Now they've been able to achieve this by placing the camera down here. This is kind of a controversial location

but I don't mind it. It is there. You can cover it when not in use

But the benefit here is you get this incredibly trimmed bezel at the top, which is where you do spend all your time

on your laptop is staring at that. I also of course like the mechanical switch

to cover up the camera. Removing this portion, you can see the track pad over here

and the keyboard as well. I like this almost mechanical looking font

Of course, we have Intel Core i7, GeForce RTX. It is part of their studio line

And let me just give this keyboard a little touch. So obviously a backlit keyboard as well

You've got some fairly decent travel in there. They've even been able to slam in a number pad

on a 15-inch laptop, which you don't see all the time. Oh, the HDMI port is HDMI 2.1

so that's 4K 120Hz video output, which is a nice little bonus as well

if you happen to have a gaming monitor or something like that that supports that, and it also has DTS audio built in as well

I presume the audio is gonna be delivered up here. And another thing I'm noticing

the fingerprint scanner built into the trackpad right there. Okay, let me put this to the side for a moment

and let's go ahead and check out the 17 inch model. So the name on this one is the Aero 17 HDR

It's not OLED, but it is very bright. In fact, it has a higher brightness rating

than the 15 inch model up to 500 nits of brightness. We have some different colors on the packaging

This one has an orange theme going on and my specification is over here once again

UHD this one packing an RTX 3070 Of course there plenty of specifications available to you depending on how you want to configure yours whether it the 15 or the 17 It got an i7 also got 16 gigs of RAM

You have that one terabyte M.2 storage as well, just like the other model, Windows 10 Pro

So yeah, it's actually a fairly similar spec. A lot of this decision between these two

is gonna have to do with form factor, whether or not you want a 17 inch footprint

or 15 inch footprint, and then whether or not you want absolute brightness

or if you really wanna have that OLED. Once again, it is maybe thinner

than you might expect to find in this particular specification. It's actually pretty thin

even with the cover still on there. And let's check out this power adapter

It should be the same maybe? Yeah, 230 watts. Okay, so styling remains

We have that same carbon fiber looking pattern here. The shape is ever so slightly different

and a 17 inch footprint. I mean, you really see the difference when you look at it like this

Like, okay, that's, maybe the shape isn't different. It's just scale. I was just looking at this curvature on the back

Either way, very similar styling. Let's go ahead and check out the ports on here

See if that's the same. So USB type A, Thunderbolt 4, DisplayPort

full size HDMI 2.1, power. On the other side, we have dedicated audio ports

a dedicated output for 3.5 and a dedicated input for a microphone

Two USB type A, the layout is just a little bit different over here

Still have a full size SD card slot and an ethernet port. Cool

Both very capable and flexible from a diversity of ports perspective. All right, so we lift this one up

Once again, incredibly slim bezel along top. I am noticing that this display has a matte finish on it

compared to the glossy one that's on the OLED over here. Audio layout looks a little bit bigger here

Could be the grill, could be the actual audio. Keyboard layout looks pretty much identical between the two

Of course, you have a little extra space on a 17-inch model, so it doesn't go right up to the edge

And the remainder of the features are the same. So this choice is gonna have a lot to do with the display

as you probably already can tell. So the key to this decision is comparison between these two is going to really come down to this display and your preference in displays

And honestly, it's a really hard choice for me. So on the 15 inch, you have this OLED and I am a sucker for OLED

I love OLED. It's got these. I mean, the black is just straight up black and the colors are incredibly vibrant, but it's also got this glossy finish to it, which may not be to some people's taste

Well you have this 17 inch option as well which has the matte finish on it and it has that 500 nit peak brightness so it still vibrant but it pulled back ever so slightly from OLED characteristics Now for me I probably going to select the OLED model out of the two but I like having the options and I sure you would too Of course form factor also plays a role Covering a couple more features here Gigabyte is claiming that either of these models is capable of all day battery life

Of course, it's also got Wi-Fi 6 built in for faster connection speeds

Thunderbolt 4, this is basically the fastest throughput you're going to get right now over the USB Type-C connector

And then as far as the processor goes, you have this choice between the i7-11800H or you can go all the way up to the i9-11980HK if you need even more performance

And you can see some of those specifications on the screen right now. Up to 5 GHz on 8 cores with 24 MB of Intel Smart Cache

The 11th gen Intel Core processors are capable of editing 4K footage, which is a must for us in our workflow within this environment

And either of those 11th gen Intel Core processors are more than capable of handling the 4K footage that we record and edit here in our studio

Now looking around the design a little closer, you can see it's got a sort of stealth fighter approach with the angles

and this is carried between both models the 17 and the 15

so here's a quick demo of the fingerprint scanner which in this case is built right

into the trackpad it just puts it in a location that's fairly convenient and you're probably not

going to miss because it's sitting there on a trackpad which is a place you already put your

finger in order to track around so the operation is identical whether it's a 15 inch or the 17 inch

model now since gigabyte is a company that is manufacturing gaming laptops as well as creative

focused laptops workstation laptops like these ones they're bringing some of that gaming keyboard

expertise into what they're delivering over here as well so you do have that rgb backlighting

and you have a kind of key travel on there that gaming laptops normally receive and that's a good

thing i promise you because often when it comes to creator style laptops the keyboard can get

overlooked so these two laptops are very similar and also different as i said when it comes to that

display choice which i think is going to be the key characteristic so there you have it it's the

latest from gigabyte the aero 15 oled and the aero 17 hdr let me know down in the comments which of

these two you would choose