Gigabyte 15.6" FHD Notebook with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Graphics (Aluminum Black)

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  clean matte display; no major graininess issues, 2.5-inch SATA III + M.2 NVMe, great gaming performance, relatively easy to service, sharp chassis design, 3x video-out ports, removable battery

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  slight-moderate backlight bleeding; imperfect chassis construction, lid could be more rigid; imperfect construction quality, pulsing system fans; fans are always active, no Thunderbolt 3; crowded port positioning, cannot maintain full CPU Turbo Boost, no 120 Hz, 5 ms, or G-Sync options, 2 GB GDDR5...

A BUDGET GAMING LAPTOP THAT MAKES CUTS IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES NOWADAYS, GAMING LAPTOPS can generally be placed into one of three broad categories: the Mad Max power systems; the well-specced gaming ultrabook or those that belong in the bargain bin — which is never really all that ‘budget’ when it...

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  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, Intel Core i5-7300HQ 2.5GHz, Sound Blaster Cinema 3: Let Your Games Come Alive

In addition to the model on review here, there’s a couple of cheaper alternative specifications: The £949 model comes with a Core i5 processor, while the mid-level £1,049 machine has a Core i7 chip.

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  Fast in 1080p games, Better screen quality than rivals, RGB keyboard backlight, Slick design

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  Small SSD, Underwhelming battery life, Middling keyboard, Weedy speakers

I absolutely love using this laptop, i have held of for a while before purchasing a laptop because i wanted a mid price range laptop that was small enough and portable enough to still be an effective laptop while also packing a performance punch, this laptop provided me with all of those options and...

PLEASE NOTE: Gigabyte offers $20 Steam gift cards in exchange for reviews. I'm not proud to admit I took the bait and submitted a positive review after putting the laptop through only a few hours of use. I then encountered serious issues and came back to revise this review.

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  Good hardware for the price, runs most current games well. Looks very nice, has built-in RGB customization software. Surprisingly lightweight.

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  Minor: Lots of the usual bloatware. Text displays fuzzy until you tinker with settings. Many of the built-in software utilities are poorly translated.