Save $100 on the Gigabyte Aero X16

If you’ve been waiting for RTX 5070 laptop for editing photos and photos, I've found a great deal on the Gigabyte Aero X16, now $1500 (was $1600) at Best Buy.

This one caught my eye for content creators and students who need desktop-class graphics performance in a slim 16-inch chassis - it's one of the strongest RTX 5070 deals I've seen.

The Aero X16 pairs AMD’s Ryzen AI 7 350 — an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 chip with a dedicated NPU for AI acceleration — with Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070 laptop GPU with 8GB VRAM, 32GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 1TB SSD. It’s also a certified Copilot+ PC, meaning it meets Microsoft’s on-device AI performance requirements for the latest Windows 11 features.

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Expect top-line performance from this laptop, from clock speeds to frame rates - which is why I'm championing this as a creator-driven laptop.

The 165Hz WQXGA display is a genuine highlight. At 2560×1600, it offers meaningfully more screen real estate than a standard 1080p or even 1440p panel, and the factory color calibration makes it a credible option for creative work. The only point I'd note here is that it has 100% sRGB color accuracy, which won't be broad enough for professional video editors using it as the main machine.

A standout feature for this creator laptop in this category is upgradeability. Both the RAM and SSD are user-accessible, meaning the 32GB/1TB configuration here is a genuinely solid starting point rather than a ceiling — if your needs grow, you can add storage or memory down the line rather than being locked into the original spec.

The Ryzen AI 7 350’s integrated NPU and Copilot+ PC certification mean this machine is built for the next wave of on-device AI features in Windows 11 — Recall, Click to Do, Live Captions with translation, and Cocreator in Paint, among others — all processed locally without relying on the cloud. For buyers who want a machine that’s positioned for where Windows is heading rather than where it’s been, that’s a meaningful bit of future-proofing on top of the immediate gaming and creative performance.

At $1500, the Gigabyte Aero X16 offers a genuinely well-rounded package for creators.

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Bryan M. Wolfe is a staff writer at TechRadar, iMore, and wherever Future can use him. Though his passion is Apple-based products, he doesn't have a problem using Windows and Android. Bryan's a single father of a 15-year-old daughter and a puppy, Isabelle. Thanks for reading!