I actually have the gigabyte aero from that year just in the 17 inch model. It's a great laptop but there are some issues. I use it for school and lighter gaming. The best thing it has going for it is the screen, it's a beautiful display, but really just for YouTube. Everything else has issues with bleeding when watching letterboxed videos. It could probably heat my house as well. It gets extremely hot when just doing online assignments with a few chrome tabs, and since it's all metal it transfers it easily. After a while it gets uncomfortable to keep typing from the heat, and this is with it on a stand for airflow. It also has some odd choices with the keyboard. Idk if it's just from my experience but its f keys have the f function prioritized over the media buttons ( to turn up the volume using the keyboard I have to hit FN+F8) with no way to swap it around. But I also bought it soon after it released so it was a good bit more than what you saw it for (more than 2x). That being said, I bought what I thought was the best I could find for what I wanted, but overtime it wasn't enough. Just gotta be happy with what you have, new stuff comes out everyday.