perhaps this particular sample or something prevalent in all the notebooks , but much of the heat made its way up and through to the keyboard surface . Given that many people use the common WASD configuration for their keyboard and mouse gaming . This may not be an issue as the “ heat bleed ” is from the center to the right . It is something to be mindful off and perhaps could be better dealt with going forward in a v3 model for example .
With that out the way , we get to what makes this a compelling notebook , in a sea of identically spec ’ d machines all vying for your hard earned cash .
It will certainly not be the dimensions which make this attractive , it is 2.8cm thick , so nowhere near the MSI GS series 1.9cm profile , but you again , aesthetically it ’ s easy on the eye and does a lot to hide its girth
It ’ s a solid pieced of machinery and for the price you ’ re paying , you can ’ t really take issue with what GIGABYTE is offering . There ’ s nothing surprising about the Skylake 6700HQ , it is the go to CPU for this kind of computer to there are no brownie points for that . That also goes for the GTX 1070 GPU which is potent beyond sensibility . Paired with DDR4 2133MHZ in dual channel and a fast M . 2 drive , together it starts to become a formidable configuration and notebook . The things that are included with the notebook that
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