Aorus X5 V6

[Eason85]

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http://www.notebookcheck.net/Aorus-X5-v6-Notebook-Review.179321.0.html

Temps look good under load. Unfortunately, no TB3 + 3 hours battery life (gsync) kill it for me.

 

 

[L0veless]

 

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3 hours battery life (gsync) kill it for me.

 

 

Same. If only Aorus and MSI understood, just remove the 2.5" drive bay and add more battery cells ! Or at least have that as an option. Sata SSDs/HDDs are old news, if you're ready to spend 2.5k on this Aorus you won't mind paying a premium for a large NVMe SSD.

 

Apple already got this a few years ago...

[Pendragon]

Holy shit the panel is cancer. PWM on all brightness levels jesus christ. Good job Aorus. 2 steps forward, 1 step back. Temps are pushing it. It's like the GS63VR equivalent. Barely under thermal limits under Unigine. I don't like how P95 brings it to it's knees. Basically it still throttles from it's factory setting of 4ghz. But I guess it maintains the stock 6820HK boost clock. The fans are actually cancer though LOL (expected, but I don't understand how they can go up in noise from last year). Battery life is expected. 

 

Ugh. I guess CLU will solve alot of it. But jeez the screen and the fans. 

[Dackzy]

better than I would have thought, but holy shit, that noise and that screen. Nah m8.

They made it better, but it is still not a laptop I would recommend

[D2ultima]

9 hours ago, L0veless said:

 

 

Sata SSDs/HDDs are old news, if you're ready to spend 2.5k on this Aorus you won't mind paying a premium for a large NVMe SSD.

 

Apple already got this a few years ago...

You honestly have no idea what you're talking about... the whole M.2 slot format is still mediocre at best. Less longevity and less performance under sustained loads; barely better 4K random read (about 80% or more of most operations), fills up your chipset's data throughput (USB ports, etc all get bandwidth starved)... and what, you get better sequential and 500k read/write speeds? Your OS boots faster; that's it? And Legacy/CSM can't be used well on NVMe drives last I saw; Windows 7 without UEFI is basically worthless... the things take like 5 minutes to boot. And please don't tell me we should all be on the cancerous collection of bits that passes itself as an OS called Windows 10.

 

And Apple doesn't make good machines.

[L0veless]

1 hour ago, D2ultima said:

You honestly have no idea what you're talking about... the whole M.2 slot format is still mediocre at best. Less longevity and less performance under sustained loads; barely better 4K random read (about 80% or more of most operations), fills up your chipset's data throughput (USB ports, etc all get bandwidth starved)... and what, you get better sequential and 500k read/write speeds? Your OS boots faster; that's it? And Legacy/CSM can't be used well on NVMe drives last I saw; Windows 7 without UEFI is basically worthless... the things take like 5 minutes to boot. And please don't tell me we should all be on the cancerous collection of bits that passes itself as an OS called Windows 10.

 

And Apple doesn't make good machines.

High and mighty are we ? Must have a nice view from such a high horse.

 

Fact is for 99% of normal people, M.2 will do just fine. People don't need their SSDs to last a decade. Considering current laptops, something else will die first. The other stuff you talk about might be right but honestly, do you think that's an issue for many ? The few for whom it's an issue can just go and buy something better, meant for pros.

 

Oh come on. Apple doesn't make good machines ? Really ? Yes Apple machines have issues but really, you'd call them bad ? The MacBook kinda sucks, yeah. But everything else is good even if not perfect considering what else is on the market. Not to your crazy high standards it seems but for mere mortals, they're good. Overpriced but good.

A huge number of pros use MacBooks for creating content, from 4k video renderings to RAW editing. Yeah I'm sure you'll have great arguments on how there's better out there (I know there is btw), but come on no need to act like some hipster calling all Apple machines bad. 

[D2ultima]

Just now, L0veless said:

High and mighty are we ? Must have a nice view from such a high horse.

 

Fact is for 99% or normal people, M.2 will do just fine. People don't need their SSDs to last a decade. Considering current laptops, something else will die first. The other stuff you talk about might be right but honestly, do you think that's an issue for more many ? The few for whom it's an issue can just go and buy something meant for pros.

 

Oh come on. Apple doesn't make good machines ? Really ? Yes Apple machines have issues but really, you'd call them bad ? The MacBook kinda sucks, yeah. But everything else is good even if not perfect considering what else is on the market. Not to your crazy high standards it seems but for mere mortals, they're good.

A huge number of pros use MacBooks for creating content, from 4k video renderings to raw editing. Yeah I'm sure you'll have great arguments on how there's better out there (I know there is btw), but come on no need to act like some hipster calling all Apple machines bad.

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I'm high and mighty for speaking the truth? Your statement was full of holes in supporting information and logic. You literally did not know what you were talking about. But I'm high and mighty?

 

Even for 99% of normal people, you're paying more for an inferior product, and most laptops don't have heatsinks required for the overheating M.2 slot controllers. I don't understand why this is something people would want.

 

Yes, apple makes garbage for laptops. My standards aren't crazy high; everybody else's are just too damn low. Do you even understand why Macbooks do so well for content creation? Because they run pure hardware acceleration on everything. Their internal cooling system is so shit if you stressed their CPU in a weak benchmark you could thermally shutdown in 5 seconds. They aren't even designed to use half the damn CPU they put in those things half the time, and most of their notebooks come with a PSU that can't handle the CPU and dGPU (if one is present) being used together. Final Cut rendering? Adobe editing/rendering? All OpenCL accelerated. The CPU barely does jack. It's designed that way because they can't cool it if it does jack. They can't cool the GPU if it does jack. They designed garbage systems that LOOK good and because Mac software uses hardware accel it doesn't have to stress the components hard.

 

If you hacked the programs on Windows to use hardware acceleration too (because Apple buys the rights to it; windows is fully capable of using it) you would get far better performance with content creation. Adobe doesn't use CUDA or OpenCL in Windows, at all. Even if you tell it to, it doesn't. If you modify consumer nVidia drivers, boom! CUDA works and you can do what you please. Modify it so AMD OpenCL can work? Sweet Jesus cut the Macbook rendering time in half on a flimsy AMD APU.

 

They are bad machines, and cost a lot, and are anti-consumer as all fuck. Their ONLY saving graces are that their support is pretty top notch (if you're in a first world country; in mine they don't give a shit) and that the machines look and feel nice to the touch (and that's still an opinionated benefit; I prefer sleek black machines with sturdy plastic compared to thin aluminum).

 

I don't care about companies, or have any loyalty to any. What I care about is people getting value for their money and not being screwed over by corporations, which is most of what is happening lately. Intel, nVidia, Apple, Razer... the kings of screwing over their consumers with price and business tactics. The former two have hardware that there is no alternative for, and the latter two have cult followings that defend them to the death. And Microsoft has a special place in hell for its current actions to consumers too. Nobody reports on the crap they do, but I'll say it plain as day. When these companies want to do better, I'll give better opinions/reviews/statements about them. When the companies doing better do bad, I'll bash them too.