WEBVTT 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:14.000 Buy an unlocked Intel 4th gen Core i7 or Core i5 processor and get a free copy of 00:00:11.840 --> 00:00:18.240 Rome 2: Total War. Click now to learn more. Welcome to my unboxing of 00:00:16.240 --> 00:00:21.119 something a little bit on the different side. Well, I'm not really unboxing it. 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:27.119 It's here in the boxes here. They've already been unified, but anyway. This 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:29.760 is the Aoris X7, which is one of the 00:00:27.119 --> 00:00:33.440 most interesting gaming notebooks that I've ever had the pleasure of checking 00:00:31.439 --> 00:00:37.320 out. So, let's start with the general specs. It's got a Haswell 4th gen Core 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:42.879 i7 4700HQ. That's a quad core that's 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:45.200 clocked at 2.4 GHz nominal and up to 3.4 00:00:42.879 --> 00:00:51.760 GHz with a single core running at maximum boost. It has 16 gigs of RAM and 00:00:48.559 --> 00:00:55.280 is configurable with up to 32 gigs of 00:00:51.760 --> 00:01:01.760 RAM. So, it has four slots. It has dual 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:04.799 GTX 765M 2 gig graphics cards and a 17.3 00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:06.720 in LCD display. So, that's 1080p. It's 8 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:13.360 millisecond response time, LED back lit, all that good stuff. For storage, it has 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:17.040 two 128 gig MSA SSDs running in RAID 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:18.720 zero and a 1 TB 5400 RPM drive. So, that 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:24.560 is a 2 and 12 in standard drive. So, that's up to three storage devices. It 00:01:20.720 --> 00:01:28.159 uses wireless 802.11 AC and it has 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:30.560 Killer branded gigabit onboard LAN. 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:34.759 There we go. So, that has their um prioritization engine and all that good 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:41.040 stuff. And then finally, it has a 73.26 WH lithium polymer battery. 00:01:39.119 --> 00:01:46.079 Fascinating Linus, you might say. That's an awful lot of specs, but they're not 00:01:43.759 --> 00:01:51.600 that amazing. Well, they are a little bit amazing when you consider that they 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:53.600 are crammed into a 22.9 mm thick 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:59.119 chassis. So, that's only marginally thicker than the P34G that I liked so 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:04.560 much. And it's actually quite similar to the GS70 from MSI. It's 2.9 kg, making 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:11.480 it lighter than your standard gaming notebook, but not super light due to the 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:14.160 sheer size of it and the all aluminum 00:02:11.480 --> 00:02:16.879 construction. It's got uh okay, well, I guess we'll do like a bit of a port tour 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:22.879 here. So, on the left hand side, it's got the aforementioned gigabit Ethernet, 00:02:18.959 --> 00:02:25.120 HDMI, a first HDMI port, VGA, one USB 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:28.800 3.0 port, and headphone and microphone ports. You've also got a speaker grill 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:32.480 here on the lefthand side. On the front, you've got a whole lot of nothing. Then 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:37.840 on the right hand side, you find another speaker grill, an SD card reader, two 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:41.040 more USB 3.0 ports for a total of three, 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:42.560 another HDMI out, and DisplayPort out. 00:02:41.040 --> 00:02:46.879 So, that's kind of cool. Moving around to the back, we catch a glimpse of one 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:52.879 ventilation hole. We've got another ventilation hole, two more USB 2.0 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:54.720 ports, power in, and that pretty much 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:58.959 rounds it out. On the top and the bottom, you will, as normal on a 00:02:56.160 --> 00:03:03.440 notebook, not find a whole lot of IO. Now, the speakers, they're using Aurora 00:03:02.239 --> 00:03:08.000 Aurorus, I don't even know how to pronounce it, Aoris Plus branding. So, 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:12.319 there are two two watt speakers in the front and then there are actually two 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:16.319 woofers on the bottom. It in practice sounds much better than most notebooks, 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:21.040 but of course, here are these speaker ports on the bottom. They're not going 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:25.360 to blow your socks off or eliminate the need for a proper desktop speaker system 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:28.800 by any stretch of the imagination. And in fact, there's one thing that I would 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:32.080 have liked to see changed in the audio implementation, and that's maybe put the 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:35.760 speakers up here instead so that they're somewhat pointed at my ears. I found 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:39.519 that if I had my head like on the same plane as the bottom of the notebook, 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:43.519 that was where the best listening experience could be had. The touchpad is 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.799 a little bit unique. So, we can make our way to the inside here. And that is that 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:52.720 it is a glass touch pad. It is completely smooth, which actually would 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:56.879 have bothered me not that long ago. I'm I'm used to it now because of 00:03:54.560 --> 00:04:01.760 smartphones and I think I'd still prefer a frosted glass touchpad, but it tracks 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:04.959 well and that's the most important thing and it doesn't actually bother me. It's 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:09.200 a bit of a fingerprint magnet, but not as bad as I necessarily would have 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:12.799 thought. The keyboard is automatically backlit, although you can manually 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:19.199 override it with function space, so you can have off, 50% or 100%. And it is a 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:23.040 chicklet keyboard, which is not necessarily my favorite, but as far as 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:29.680 chicklet keyboards go, it's about as good as it gets. There is absolutely no 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:32.240 flex to the entire keyboard area at all. 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:35.919 Again, due to the metal construction of the notebook. So, in spite of its size, 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:42.479 really, really impressed there. It's also got some other cool features. So, your full complement of keys, including 00:04:40.080 --> 00:04:46.919 properly laid out arrow keys, a full number pad, all the function hotkeys 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:53.280 that you could possibly want, and finally da programmable macro keys. So, 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:57.759 there's a color-coded G up at the top here, and you can use the included 00:04:55.120 --> 00:05:01.360 utility to program any number of different functionalities to each of the 00:04:59.440 --> 00:05:06.000 five keys. And then you have five different profiles for all of the five 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:10.560 keys combined for a total of 25 functions. Not least, but definitely 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:14.800 last is the fact that the keyboard also supports anti- ghosting. So, you're not 00:05:12.479 --> 00:05:19.840 going to have any accidental random triggering of random keys, even in a 00:05:17.039 --> 00:05:22.639 gaming scenario. Oh, actually, no. The true last thing is that it does have a 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:25.600 Windows key lock, but that's actually done in software as opposed to being 00:05:24.320 --> 00:05:30.479 done in hardware, which is a little bit of an unusual thing for me to see. Now, 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:34.479 of course, you go, "Okay, well, it's super slim. It's an SLI gaming notebook, 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:40.000 but come on, Linus. What are the temperatures like?" Honestly, I am 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:41.680 incredibly impressed. At idle, we 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:46.320 weren't able to measure temperatures that were above, you know, like normal 00:05:44.479 --> 00:05:52.880 skin temperature. The thing barely felt warm to the touch, only around 22° max. 00:05:50.320 --> 00:05:57.919 And it was actually quite quiet. I mean, there my mic is here. The exhaust fan's 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:02.000 right here. It's very, very quiet at idle. Under load, yeah, the fans do 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:06.000 start to ramp up a little bit. You can actually control them manually. you can 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:09.039 set it up to go, okay, well, no, I want 40% fan speed max. And there's a couple 00:06:08.080 --> 00:06:15.759 different things you can do in the software, but under load, it did get a little bit um louder, but what it didn't 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:19.360 get was much warmer. Even though this room is only about 18°, so it is a 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:24.720 little bit on the cold side, it is still very impressive to see a dual graphics 00:06:22.400 --> 00:06:29.680 card gaming notebook deliver temperatures under 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:32.160 27°, even directly above where the GPU 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:36.000 heat pipes are. or not is partly due, well probably entirely due to their 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:39.759 unique cooling setup on this thing. So there are two fans here and here at the 00:06:38.080 --> 00:06:44.000 back. You can actually see the intake grills here. And then rather than having 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:49.759 restrictive exhausts like you would find on most notebooks, there are two full 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:53.360 sets of exhausts for each of the fans. And you can feel the heat really coming 00:06:51.520 --> 00:06:57.520 out of them. The fans are very effectively cooling it to the point 00:06:54.800 --> 00:07:01.759 where it doesn't get noticeably warm. And this was the hottest spot I could 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:05.759 find up here on the keyboard itself toward especially towards the bottom. 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:09.840 It's just barely warm to the touch. So that's really really impressive and 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:14.880 probably probably the coolest thing about this notebook, so to speak. All 00:07:12.880 --> 00:07:17.440 right, so who's the competition for a product like this? I'm going to fire up 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:22.160 Crisis. Actually, maybe I'll give you guys some idea of what it sounds like 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:26.160 under load here. So we'll go ahead and There you go. Can it run Crisis? Yes, 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:31.039 absolutely. that is maxed out crisis at 1080p uh running at about 75 frames per 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:36.240 second in a fairly non-demanding environment. But don't worry, that'll give you a very playable experience. And 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:41.360 that is of course those speakers that are quite loud. Uh there you go. Anyway, 00:07:39.599 --> 00:07:45.199 so who's the competition for a gaming notebook like this? The obvious ones are 00:07:43.039 --> 00:07:51.199 going to be the Razer Blade Pro and the MSI GS70. Now, the Blade Pro has an 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:56.000 offset touchpad that drove me absolutely crazy. And regardless how of how awesome 00:07:54.000 --> 00:08:00.319 the display on it might be, that is a dealbreaker for me. The GS70 is a much 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:04.879 more interesting option to me personally and is actually quite comparable to this 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:09.280 one. It offers similar storage options, fewer memory slots, however, only two 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:14.960 memory slots, but it is in a slightly slimmer form factor. The big difference 00:08:11.919 --> 00:08:20.240 between the Aoris and the GS70 is on the 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:22.720 GPU side. This guy contains two GTX 765 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:27.440 2 gig graphics cards whereas the GS70 contains only one. So I would go as far 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:31.199 as to say based on the ID of this overall, that is to say the industrial 00:08:28.960 --> 00:08:34.399 design and the performance. I haven't seen pricing yet though. So guys, you 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:39.120 can check out the link and once this thing is actually available somewhere that'll be live. I would say if you're 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:43.599 looking for the ultimate thin and relatively light gaming or workstation 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:48.640 notebook for maximum bragging rights, this actually might just be it. Thank 00:08:45.839 --> 00:08:53.440 you for checking out this unboxing and overview of the Aoris X7. Like the video 00:08:51.680 --> 00:08:58.240 if you liked it, dislike it if you disliked it. Leave a comment and let us 00:08:55.600 --> 00:09:02.720 know how you feel about thin and light gaming notebooks versus regular gaming 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:06.959 notebooks, which tend to be very uh brick-like in their overall form factor. 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:11.760 In fact, I have one here that I can just grab and hold up for comparison. I mean, 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:17.920 here's a more a more classic gaming notebook side by side with the Aoris X7. 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:21.200 Do you would you consider a gaming notebook if they were all slim like 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:24.000 this? Would love to know your thoughts. And as always guys, don't forget to 00:09:22.640 --> 00:09:27.740 subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer 00:09:25.680 --> 00:09:38.179 videos.