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expireddapersianboy posted Oct 17, 2021 10:32 AM
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GIGABYTE AERO 15 OLED KD - 15.6" UHD 4K AMOLED, Intel Core i7 11th Gen 11800H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, 6GB GDDR6, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Win10 Pro, Creator & Gaming Laptop - $1399

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1399 after mail in rebate ends 10/31. Dunks on any similarly priced Lenovo

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Oct 17, 2021 08:08 PM
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Oct 17, 2021 10:31 PM
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gjsneptuneOct 17, 2021 10:31 PM
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Please put the rebate in the title.

Also, it's almost 2022. I don't know how MIRs are still a thing, but they need to die in a fire. People should stop enabling them.
Oct 17, 2021 11:00 PM
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BlueWinter931Oct 17, 2021 11:00 PM
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Can someone with knowledge answer a question for me?

Isn't 4k at a 15.6 size just going to tax the GPU a lot and not really add much visual benefit? I was under the impression that 4k adds a lot more strain and also is less and less useful as a screen gets smaller.
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acmewidgetsOct 17, 2021 11:00 PM
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Quote from SorrowNightshade :
3060 isnt strong enough for 4k if you want to game. pass for gamers.
Can one down scale the resolution for gaming? Then upscale for entertainment such as movies?
Oct 17, 2021 11:01 PM
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okashiraOct 17, 2021 11:01 PM
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I think they could make the bottom bezel a little larger. Maybe squeeze in a 21:9 screen
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sarslolOct 17, 2021 11:09 PM
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Quote from BlueWinter931 :
Can someone with knowledge answer a question for me?

Isn't 4k at a 15.6 size just going to tax the GPU a lot and not really add much visual benefit? I was under the impression that 4k adds a lot more strain and also is less and less useful as a screen gets smaller.
You'd have to have pretty sharp vision to care, but just about everyone should be able to notice a resolution difference if they look for it. 4k with a 3060 will definitely tax the GPU but if you run it at 1080 due to 15.4 at 1080 being something most people won't care about, it should be fine.
This is a pretty average deal on a laptop with a lot of problems, going through recent 3 months of seeing this series of laptop you can spend a little more and get a LOT better. They're doing their best to stock clear these things, it's unfortunate that such a color accurate screen is on an otherwise relatively bad laptop. Low gpu wattages, horrible i/o placement, overheating from Intel processors, thunderbolt port and wifi failures, it's all just lesser when compared to the competition at around the same price point. Unless you're looking for an OLED screen, you can do a lot better for the middling price.
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AprilWatermelonOct 17, 2021 11:13 PM
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Quote from gjsneptune :
Please put the rebate in the title.

Also, it's almost 2022. I don't know how MIRs are still a thing, but they need to die in a fire. People should stop enabling them.
Agree 100% but unfortunately it's still a thing and even Amazon enables coolermaster rebates. Retailer has little (other than reputation) to lose here, they collect full tax, get the volume and get to market the "discount". It's not fundamentally wrong just the way MIR is handled is so 19th century

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AprilWatermelonOct 17, 2021 11:19 PM
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Quote from BlueWinter931 :
Can someone with knowledge answer a question for me?

Isn't 4k at a 15.6 size just going to tax the GPU a lot and not really add much visual benefit? I was under the impression that 4k adds a lot more strain and also is less and less useful as a screen gets smaller.
There's an objective answer to your question and online calculators to help. But you do need to provide viewing distance - that's personal. There will always be one or two replying in monitor deals claiming they can see more than avg ppl - they are not supernatural just sitting too close Big Grin
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bbqboyOct 17, 2021 11:25 PM
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Quote from BlueWinter931 :
Can someone with knowledge answer a question for me?

Isn't 4k at a 15.6 size just going to tax the GPU a lot and not really add much visual benefit? I was under the impression that 4k adds a lot more strain and also is less and less useful as a screen gets smaller.
I used to think that it didn't matter much but after using a Lenovo legion slim 7 with a 4k screen, the extra crisp text, videos and images are really nice. At 200% desktop scale things are much clearer than a 1080p screen at 100% scale in windows. Games also look good played at 1080p since they upscale cleanly to 4k. The only downside would be slightly less battery life.
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kakashisenseiOct 17, 2021 11:45 PM
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Not a good deal. This was $1249 after MIR a few months ago. I still havent received my rebate after 2 months, shows processing still.
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CrimsonFeather4345Oct 17, 2021 11:47 PM
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Camera is below the display. That's a deal-breaker for me.
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starcaptorOct 18, 2021 12:46 AM
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I love the OLED in my thinkpad (btw, all the 15.6 OLEDs are the same Samsung panel, and yes, theyre all 60 hz) It does add heft to the display and hinge, and it affects battery life quite a bit (especially if youre looking at a lot of white backgrounds...like the SD forums lolol). I had the same laptop with 4k IPS vs 4k OLED, and I lost probably about 15% battery, or around a half hour. It doesnt sound like much, but the laptop only lasts three hours!

I wouldnt call the 11800h a pile of junk; its a HUGE improvement over all of the 14nm+++ renditions. You get the 2021 goodies like PCIe 4.0, TB4, 3200mhz RAM, AVX-512, and overall lower heat dissipation. Yes, at lower voltages it loses to the Ryzen 7 5800h, but these are the kinds of machines that you use while plugged-in when at full-blast, and at that point, the Tiger Lake really starts to excel. I dont know about you, but I either run at CPU at 1% (idle) or 100% (mining, encoding, decompressing, etc.)

Yes, the 3060 is not going to light you ablaze, but it is quite comparable to last years 2070, and no one cried foul when they could get their hands on one of those! It runs at 105w (95w for max-q, with 10w boost). For comparison, I am running a Quadro RTX 4000, which maxes out at 80w (and you cant boost, or OC ANYTHING in Quadro-land). It runs like a 2060 super...and all of this on the same OLED screen! Even with a mobile 2080 super (the fastest card I could find in 2020), 4k gaming was not possible. Look at it this way...you can use the TB4 to add an eGPU...something you cannot do with an AMD machine.

All in all, it really isnt bad. Id take the OLED over a faster video card, because even when not gaming, youre looking at the screen, and youll love the deep blacks everytime
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Quote from acmewidgets :
Can one down scale the resolution for gaming? Then upscale for entertainment such as movies?
yes you can. Its not freesync though.
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kevinhOct 18, 2021 02:54 AM
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Quote from bbqboy :
I used to think that it didn't matter much but after using a Lenovo legion slim 7 with a 4k screen, the extra crisp text, videos and images are really nice. At 200% desktop scale things are much clearer than a 1080p screen at 100% scale in windows. Games also look good played at 1080p since they upscale cleanly to 4k. The only downside would be slightly less battery life.

This. 1080p scales perfectly with a 4k screen. You won't get that slight fuzziness that you get with odd resolutions.

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