Review: Aorus X9

Benchmarks: CPU

The arrival of Intel's eighth-gen Core processors now gives laptop manufacturers something to think about. At the higher end of the spectrum, do you choose the new, leaner Core i7-8650U or continue with the brute force of the existing Core i7-7820HK? Aorus has decided to stick with what it knows, putting the X9 on par with the X7 in terms of CPU performance.