Gigabyte shows off its Aero 15 notebook with thin-bezel display

[Redaktion]

Unveiled earlier this month, the Aero 15 is the centerpiece in Gigabyte's professional notebook lineup at Computex. The laptop's most noticeable feature is its nearly bezel-free display, which measures 15.6 inches yet fits into a 14-inch chassis.

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[Iwanttoknowthings]

Probably the best all around laptop. I am wondering if anyone knows about the display specs of the 4k version. Will it be glossy or matte?

[4004]

If only it had a 1070

[dthrp]

We need bigger batteries. Regardless of the 100 watt-hour airline limit.
Driving a high-res display and dozens of PCIe lanes with a quad-core processor + a separate dGPU has its limits.
I don't care how they do it. Maybe put a 100whr internally and add same amount or more as hot-swappable, I really don't know.
But god dammit, just cram in more Li-pol until they come up with something better.

[Joe]

We need bigger batteries. Regardless of the 100 watt-hour airline limit.
Driving a high-res display and dozens of PCIe lanes with a quad-core processor + a separate dGPU has its limits.
I don't care how they do it. Maybe put a 100whr internally and add same amount or more as hot-swappable, I really don't know.
But god dammit, just cram in more Li-pol until they come up with something better.

The problem with huge batteries is not just the 99WHr Airplane limit, the other main problem is weight.

[dthrp]

@Joe:
Indeed it is. These days, some people are willing to sacrifice battery life for a thinner laptop. But then again, the opposite speaks true for so many others.

A well-made 9-cell 100 Whr external battery is pretty compact, only weighing around 0.22 kg. And If they manufacture them using the same nano-tube tech as LG has accomplished with their Gram line of laptops, it potentially could be even lighter. This means that the Aero 15 with a 300 Wh battery (100 internal + 200 external) would come in at 2.6 kg at most. That's the same weight as my Lenovo Thinkpad P51, which I carry around every day with no problem at all. And since I'm a scrawny Asian guy who barely works out, I doubt a few extra grams would be noticeable for average folks.

The current market is perfectly capable of making this a reality, only the laptop ODMs are too apprehensive that the high costs associated won't pay off very well. What a waste of potential. Maybe in the future that will all change with a new electrode or something.