Tested: Gigabyte Aero 16 OLED Laptop
Don’t expect too much from the battery, though. The 88Wh power pack lasts for about five hours in an everyday work test,but only about two hours if you’re looking to strain the components. The MacBook, in particular, will perform much better.
Outstanding Display
The Gigabyte’s OLED display offers betterpunch, brightness and depth than any IPS or Mini LED panel, and is Pantone-certified for accuracy. It’s a 16:10 panel with a huge resolution of 3840 x 2400, so you’ve got plenty of space for examining details or opening multiple apps.
The self-lighting pixels mean you getperfect black levels and infinite contrast, and the rest of the benchmarks alsoimpress. The Delta E of 1.28 means colours are accurate, and the colour temperature and gamma results of 6,387K and 2.26 are good – not perfect, but not wayward enough to be causing any serious issues.
Gigabyte’s display produces 100% of the sRGB gamut at 164.9% volume and 98.1% of the DCI-P3 colour space at 116.8%, and it even rendered 95.2% and 113.6% of the Adobe RGB gamut. Those results are excellent, and it mean that the Aero’s OLED screen can produce almost any shade needed to satisfy a creative workload. You’ll only get noticeable improvements on an expensive desktop display.
On the debit side the panel only adheres to VESA DisplayHDR 600, so it’s not really capable of displaying HDR media. And while the OLED screen is bright and vibrant, IPS panels still have more muted and, arguably, more realistic imagery. If you’d still prefer IPS, that technology is available on the Dell XPS 15, but that would mean going for a cheaper rig with a lower resolution of a 3840 x 2400 panel in a £2,999 variant. Apple’s MacBook has a Liquid Retina XDR screen that can’t quite match the Aero’s OLED panel – but it’s still great.
