MAY 2021 • TECH ADVISOR 23thatthescreencanoutput 100 percent
oftheDCI-P3colourspace– whichmy
tests with a DataColor SpyderXElite
colorimeter show to be true. This is ideal
for anyone working with video.
However, if you’re more into
graphics – especially print – the screen
could only manage 84 per cent of the
Adobe RGB colour space used by
Photoshop, Illustrator or likewise. This
isn’t uncommon – Apple’s latest 16in
MacBook Pro has similar specs – but
there are laptops on the market with
screens that can output 100 per cent
Adobe RGB, for example Dell’s XPS 15.
The screen is very accurate – though
not as accurate as the 16in MacBook
Pro. Accuracy is measured as delta-E,
which is how far on average the colours
output from a screen are from what
they should be. Most people can’t tell
the difference between colours with
a delta-E of 2 – though creatives will
generally notice differences more. Using
the SpyderXElite, the Aero 15 had an
average delta-E of 1.56 – well within
the average person’s tolerance but not
up with the screens of many creative-
focused laptops (the MacBook Pro
scored 0.72 for example).
There are some neat hidden details
in the Aero 15 – such as this logo in the
centre of the back edge of the base that
you’ll only notice when carrying it.
PERFORMANCE
The screen is only one of the Aero 15
OLED’s many powerful components.
My review unit featured a high-if-not-
top spec configuration – an eight-core
Core i7-10870H processor, 32GB of
DDR4 RAM and an Nvidia GeForce RTX
3070 GPU with 8GB of RAM. The Aero
15 OLED maxes out at an eight-core i9
processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX
3080, but this is where pricing starts to
get into money’s-no-object territory.
Here I’ve tested the Aero 15 against
a 16in MacBook Pro and an HP Envy- The MacBook Pro with an Intel Core
i9-9980H 2.4GHz (8-core) processor;
32GB DDR4 RAM; a 2TB SSD; an AMD
Radeon Pro 5500M GPU with 4GB RAM;
and a 16in, 3,072x1,800 screen – which
costs £3,789. The HP Envy has an Intel
Core i7-10750H (6-core); 16GB RAM; a
512GB SSD; an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660
Ti with 6GB RAM; a 15.6in, 1,920x1,080
touchscreen – which costs £1,499.
To test the performance of the
processor we use Cinebench R23’s
10-minuteThrottlingtest.This
repeatedlyrendersa scenein Cinema
4Dfor 10-minutes to measure not only
how fast the chip can run across all its
cores – but how the computer’s cooling
system can deal with sustained use.
The Aero 15 OLED’s score was
significantly higher than the HP Envy