AORUS 15P XD - 15.6" FHD IPS Anti-Glare 240Hz, Intel Core i7-11800H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU 8GB GDDR6, 16GB Memory, 1TB SSD, Win11 Home, Gaming Laptop (AORUS 15P XD-73US224SO)

This one has one the highest performing 3060 in the market right now.Performs on par with most 3070 laptops due to it being 115w vs some 90w 3070's out there.Arous Control Center is a mess and the AI features are annoying as hell.It detects Visual Studio as a high performance tasks and revs the fans up 200% ridiculous.Everytime you launch a game it goes into gaming mode and shifts your keyboard to rainbow puke.Give yourself some time to set it up correctly or disable it entirely.After some tweaking i was able to set control center to my liking.Battery life is great considering its a high performance machine.

This laptop runs everything I throw at it with rapid speed. The video card runs games smoothly, the SSD is blazing fast, WiFi 6 works nicely, DP port outputs to 4k 60FPS on my TV and so far I've only had some minor problems that are software related I had to fix. I'll admit the Gigabyte software isn't the best but once I fixed this issue it works fine. One thing annoying was it would reset the keyboard led back to the rainbow effect after you change it in the control center. To fix this I went into task manager in the startup tab and disabled FusionStartUp so now it keeps my changes. Not sure what FusionStartUp does because everything seems to be working great in the control center now. If you want a gaming laptop but don't want to shell out over $2000 then this is a great choice. I do wish they placed the power plug in the back instead of on the right side, but not a huge deal breaker. Maybe it's there because of the cooling fans inside since the fans can get fairly noisy, but it's better than having the GPU throttle etc since it's a 130 watt GPU. I would recommend this to anyone seeking a good gaming laptop in this price range who wants a 130 watt 3070 instead of a 3060. I've seen many laptops that were close to this price range that only had a 3060, so I figured I had to give it a chance and cross my fingers. I'll update my review if anything changes, but for now I'll give it a good review as I'm happy with my choice.