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The Glorious Resolution: Feast your eyes on 5 HiDPI laptops

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Gigabyte Aorus X3 Plus

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Most gaming laptops focus on frame-rates rather than resolution, but the new Aorus range from Gigabyte packs in plenty of pixels along with its gaming power.

Gigabyte Aorus X3 Plus

The standard Aorus X3 model provides a 13.3-inch display with a more than respectable resolution of 2560x1440, but the X3 Plus that we tested steps up to a 13.9-inch display and a full 3200x1800 resolution. It’s not an IPS display, and it can’t quite match the near-180-degree viewing angles of some of its High-DPI rivals, but the image is very sharp and clear, with strong contrast and a welcome matte-finish that helps to reduce glare and reflection.

Gigabyte screen (click to enlarge)

It’s also admirably streamlined for a gaming laptop, measuring 23mm thick and weighing a sliver under 2kg. It packs in some heavyweight power though, with a quad-core Haswell i7 running at 2.4GHz (3.6GHz with Turboboost) along with 16GB of memory and a pair of 256GB solid-state drives that are configured as a single RAID volume for maximum performance. That combination produced scores of 3064 and 2923 in the Home and Work suites of PCMark 8, putting it right up with the best High-DPI laptops that we’ve seen so far. The £1,550.00 price tag also includes both integrated Iris Pro graphics and a sturdy GeForce GTX 870M to handle the 3D action.

Gigabyte Aorus X3 Plus

Battery life is also good for a gaming laptop such as this. You’ll get around 3.5 hours of action when using the GeForce graphics, while switching to the Iris Pro will stretch that to about 5.5 hours for more routine tasks such as web browsing or streaming video.

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