Gigabyte Aero 15 Studio in the test: OLED laptop with smart user support

According to their own statement, Gigabyte is the only manufacturer to use Microsoft’s Azure AI on a laptop: Artificial intelligence is supposed to improve speed and battery life locally or through the cloud. Combined with a 4K OLED panel, eight CPU cores, and super Geforce graphics for creative people, this sounded so interesting that Taiwanese sent us a sample of the current Aero 15.

The laptop is a study device because it meets Nvidia’s requirements. This includes the appropriate graphics drivers, at least 16GB of RAM, and a calibrated display. The Aero 15 doesn’t look like a typical gaming laptop either, but it stays simple – only the accent and white-lighted lettering look a little aggressive. Less pleasant: we leave fingerprints on the cover.

At 356 x 250 x 20mm and 2.1kg, the Aero 15 is slightly less compact than a Razer Blade 15 (2020). Gigabyte has a full-size keyboard with arrow keys and most of all a numeric keyboard. We welcome this as a unique detail of the equipment in daily work, because it is missing in other 15-inch flat models.

Gigabyte Aero 15 Studio OLED (Image: Marc Sauter / Golem.de)

The feel of writing with a fairly smooth pressure point is decent, but it doesn’t keep up with a Thinkpad. Gigabyte has preset two-level white lighting, whoever wants can set RGB colors for each key. Precision Clickpad works perfectly, Windows Hello fingerprint sensor in the upper left corner does not interfere. The 720 webcam is located below the screen and is centered behind the power button, making video conference participants view us from a frog’s perspective. After all, we can simply take out the camera with a rigid aperture.

To the left of the Aero 15 is an HDMI 2.0b and a 1.4 mini display port, plus there is a USB 3.2 Gen1 Type A connector (5GBit / s), a 3.5mm audio jack, and a RJ-45 for Gigabit Ethernet. Realtek (Killer E2600). On the right we find the power connector, a USB-C port for Thunderbolt 3 (internal PCIe Gen3 x4), a medium depth UHS-II card reader and two additional USB 3.2 Gen1 Type A sockets. As on the left, it is they are positioned very forward and can interfere if a mouse is used.

On the next page we take a look at the excellent display and hardware inside as it speeds up applications like Adobe Suite.