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ForMore subtle designWebcam placement doesn’t suckResolution/refresh sweet spotSmashing battery lifeAgainstLags a little on batterySub-par keyboardCould do with more portsMoneys
ForMore subtle designWebcam placement doesn’t suckResolution/refresh sweet spotSmashing battery life
AgainstLags a little on batterySub-par keyboardCould do with more portsMoneys
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Out of the box, it wasn’t as ugly as I expected. The Aorus track record has seen me pulling out sharp-looking beasts with edgy aesthetics, but I was pleasantly surprised to see only subtle cyberpunky patterning on the back and minimal detailing where the screen meets the main body. Basically, no one’s going to know it’s a gaming laptop until they come up and inspect it.
The size, however, may be a bit of a giveaway. With a 17.3-inch panel topping it, the Aorus 17X weighs in at 2.9kg / 6.39lb. Meaning you really have to be committed to away gaming if you’re going to lug this around and call itportable.
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Otherwise, the design and port placement isn’t too bad. There’s a Thunderbolt USB Type-C port sitting on the right side with up to 100W Power Delivery, which doubles as a 1.4 DisplayPort. Sadly it’s the only Type-C port here, but there are three UBS Type-A 3.2 ports dotted along the sides with 20 Gbps data transfers. It’s a step down from the number of ports the old models had, but more than enough for everyday use.
Benchmark-wise, there’s hardly a thing to complain about. We’re talking rip roaring rendering performance, with stunning single core numbers in Cinebench R23; great load times on those NVMe drives; and lovely low max GPU temps as it smashes through our gaming ringer. And it does all this without piercing your eardrums with high-pitched cooling. But how does it stand up against gaming laptops of a similar calibre?
For around the same amount of cash in the US—more for the UK, again (so unfair)—you could nab theAsus ROG G16 Zephyrus. Sure, the 16 core, 22 thread Intel Core Ultra 9 185H, and super slim chassis give it the advantage for everyday use, but the 115W RTX 4090 holds the Asus notebook back as gaming benchmarks go. So of course as hardcore gamers we’re going to lean toward the Aorus. Go a little larger with theStrix Scar 17(also cheaper than the Aorus in the US) and while you may be fighting against noisy cooling, sub-par battery life and a bad trackpad, it absolutely wastes the Aorus 17X in gaming benchmarks. Still, I’d take the Aorus' quiet wins over the Strix Scar’s unnecessarily power-hungry performance.
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Buy if…✅ You’re in the UK:The stiffest competition—the Lenovo Legion 9i—is £350 more for us here in the UK. If that’s not a reason to consider this machine with slightly lower FPS, I don’t know what is.✅You actually want to game unplugged:This is a gaming laptop that I can actually call portable since you can use it unplugged for a good hour and 20 minutes. That’s far longer than most gaming laptops we’ve tested recently.
Buy if…
✅ You’re in the UK:The stiffest competition—the Lenovo Legion 9i—is £350 more for us here in the UK. If that’s not a reason to consider this machine with slightly lower FPS, I don’t know what is.✅You actually want to game unplugged:This is a gaming laptop that I can actually call portable since you can use it unplugged for a good hour and 20 minutes. That’s far longer than most gaming laptops we’ve tested recently.
✅ You’re in the UK:The stiffest competition—the Lenovo Legion 9i—is £350 more for us here in the UK. If that’s not a reason to consider this machine with slightly lower FPS, I don’t know what is.✅You actually want to game unplugged:This is a gaming laptop that I can actually call portable since you can use it unplugged for a good hour and 20 minutes. That’s far longer than most gaming laptops we’ve tested recently.
Don’t buy if…❌You need crisp 4K visuals:Gamers who are also movie buffs, or do high-fidelity design work on the go, might consider the Lenovo Legion 9i instead as it comes with a much more impressive panel.❌You need a lot of USB Type-C ports:The Aorus 17X only comes with a single one, and for those with no dock to split that 100 watts for charging several peripherals, you might want to consider something with more ports.
Don’t buy if…
❌You need crisp 4K visuals:Gamers who are also movie buffs, or do high-fidelity design work on the go, might consider the Lenovo Legion 9i instead as it comes with a much more impressive panel.❌You need a lot of USB Type-C ports:The Aorus 17X only comes with a single one, and for those with no dock to split that 100 watts for charging several peripherals, you might want to consider something with more ports.
❌You need crisp 4K visuals:Gamers who are also movie buffs, or do high-fidelity design work on the go, might consider the Lenovo Legion 9i instead as it comes with a much more impressive panel.❌You need a lot of USB Type-C ports:The Aorus 17X only comes with a single one, and for those with no dock to split that 100 watts for charging several peripherals, you might want to consider something with more ports.
But the real competition among portable gaming heavyweights is thin (pun very much intended). It’s the smaller, slimmerLenovo Legion 9ithat really gives the Aorus 17X a run for its money. With its glorious 4K mini LED screen and superb keyboard, it comes in at around the same price as the Aorus 17X and pushes past it in almost all of our gaming benches. The Legion 9i is a little more expensive for UK peeps, so it’s a lot easier to recommend the Aorus 17X to residents of old Blightey. But then, when you can push those pixels even at a crisp 4K, the Lenovo starts to look real tasty.
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