Gaming laptops aren't a new phenomenon but manufacturers keep finding new ways to make them slightly annoying. It's remarkable, really, the amount of time and energy that's poured into making things a bit worse. In the case of the Gigabyte Aorus 16X this maxim has been applied to the keyboard: specifically the QWERASD keys. In the version sent to us for review, they are see-through with a white letter on top, while the rest of the keyboard is black with a lit keycap. This means the backlight—which is the usual pulsing RGB rainbow—makes the letterforms on top much trickier to see.