Gigabyte’s reinvented Aero laptops hope to fulfill creators and avid gamers

Gigabyte’s Aero line of laptops is meant for media professionals, those that want manufacturing energy in a comparatively moveable package deal. Or no less than they have been meant for that. The brand new Aero X16 mannequin that debuted at Computex 2025 hopes to string the needle between creators and avid gamers, each of whom want additional oomph of their laptops.

This new design goes with a preferred AMD CPU plus Nvidia GPU combo, topping out with a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and a GeForce RTX 5070 with 85 watts of TGP, and it may be disabled with a MUX change should you want extra battery life than sheer pixel-pushing energy. All of that {hardware} is shoved right into a 16-inch chassis that’s below 17mm thick and 4.2 kilos mild, an impressively smooth design.

There’s a plethora of ports, although just one is USB-C (4.0). You get three USB-A ports, full-sized HDMI and Thunderbolt, and an old style barrel charger if it’s good to recharge quicker than USB permits. The juicy bits for me are below the hood, the place you might have two M.2 slots for storage, two user-accessible SO-DIMMs for RAM, and a 76.1-watt-hour battery.

But it surely’s not all excellent news. PCWorld’s Adam noticed it in individual and wasn’t impressed with the 2560×1600 IPS display with 165Hz of refresh. That’s fairly good in gamer phrases, however creators won’t be glad. Adam says that even with a Pantone verification and 100% of SRGB protection, it’s missing full Adobe RGB coloration house. It’s an improve possibility Adam wish to see sooner or later.

Gigabyte can be refreshing its A16 and A16 Professional gaming laptops. The A16 is making do with older CPUs from AMD and Intel and an RTX 5070 card with a max TGP of 80 watts. Step as much as the Professional model and also you get entry to a more recent Intel Core 7 250H and an RTX 5080 screaming at 115 watts.

The Aero X16 is launching in June or July whereas the A16 ought to arrive in October. The beefier A16 Professional will probably be right here in August. We do not know what they’ll price… which could as nicely be the official slogan of Computex 2025. For extra on the most recent laptops, you’ll want to subscribe to PCWorld on YouTube. Try our weekly podcast The Full Nerd whilst you’re at it.