Reviewing a gaming notebook is always a fun process—how many people get paid to play video games?—but there's extra excitement involved when that notebook has a hot new slice of silicon in it. Like the rest of you, we've been anxiously following rumors of Intel's Coffee Lake processors and waiting to see when they'd make their debut in laptops. The wait is over, though. Thanks to Gigabyte, we've had our hands on one of its Aero 15Xv8 notebooks with an eighth-generation Core mobile chip inside well ahead of the launch of today's fresh batch of Coffee Lake CPUs, and we're ready to share performance results.