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Premium laptops have this problem that really annoys me. They come with super

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high-end hardware, but then they put them in a form factor that's thin and

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light, which, you know, that's cool, but it really kind of defeats the purpose of

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having that super powerful hardware inside. That's why I really enjoy the

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ASUS ProArt lineup because it really finds the right mix of premium feeling

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laptop, premium looking laptop, and premium performance laptop, which is why

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I'm excited Samsung Display sponsored this video so we can take a look at the ASUS ProArt 16, which features their

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gorgeous new tandem OLED that Samsung claims will blow your typical LCD

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screens out of the water. Oh, man, even the chargers look cool on the ProArt

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stuff. They really go all out on the design front. In the box, we get a 240-W

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charger that's in a pretty reasonable form factor for 240 W. Unfortunately,

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it's a proprietary charger, but thankfully, you can charge via the other

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USB-C ports on here if you are in a pinch. This generation is a bit more

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minimal than previous ASUS ProArts. This ProArt kind of logo here used to make up

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more of the back of the display, but now it is just relegated to a corner and a

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tiny little modest ASUS ProArt logo.

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It's pretty hefty. It's about 1.9 >> 1.9 kg or 4.2 lb, but it feels very,

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very sturdy with its metal construction and um kind of a very fingerprinty lid,

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but I'm also like a greasy a greasy green Grinch. In terms of thickness,

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it's pretty reasonable. It's not chungus like some sort of gaming laptop. Since

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we're looking at the side of it, let's walk through the IO. You have your DC

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in, HDMI 2.1, a USB-C 40 gigabit per

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second port, USB-A 10 gigabit, combo

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audio jack, and there's a full-size SD card reader

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that supports SD Express 7, so it's wicked fast, a USB-A 10 gigabit per

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second, and a USB-C at 10 gigabit per second. Would have loved to see another

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40 gigabit port on this side, but that's just the way it is. But, let's take a

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look inside now. Ooh, that looks pretty

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cool. On the inside we have a 10-keyless laptop keyboard with slightly cramped

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arrow keys, but at least they didn't fill in these spots, so it could be

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worse. We get upward-firing speakers, which is going to be really great for

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listening to any sort of music or audio while you're creating. We also have this

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large trackpad, or as ASUS calls it, the dial pad. You'll see this little

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circle right here, which can act as like a jog wheel that you can assign different tasks in different pieces of

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software. And this is where I guess where you turn it on and off. And of course we get the copilot button,

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everyone's favorite. Reinforcing the sturdiness of how built this thing is,

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there is like next to no keyboard flex. It is really great, and I think that the

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keyboard itself feels pretty good.

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Before we turn this thing on, I just want to remind you that it does come with a tandem OLED panel. That's right,

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tandem, meaning multiple emitting layers, in this case two. It might not

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mean a whole lot to you if you're just looking for the next spreadsheet workhorse to get you through the day,

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but creators and professional users will certainly appreciate it. And we'll talk

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more about that in just a little bit. But before we get into that, let's talk

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about the rest of what's inside this laptop. In here we have an AMD Ryzen AI

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9 370HX. Wow, that's a lot of letters, and it's

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also a super powerful processor. And to

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back that up we have 64 GB of LPDDR5X

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memory running at 7,500 MT/s.

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We also have a 2 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD.

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For storage in here we have two 2 TB SSDs. Both are 2280, that's full-sized

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M.2 SSDs. One caveat is that one of them is running at Gen4 by 4, and one of them

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is running at Gen4 by 2. So, if you're doing like a really big transfer, you

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might see like a really small hit to performance, but it probably shouldn't

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be too noticeable most of the time. And for the GPU we have an NVIDIA RTX 5090

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laptop. This is going to be a beast of a

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laptop. And look at the screen. It is

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very pretty. Now, let's talk about this display. The

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16-in display on this is an actual 16-in, it's not 15.9, and it is a 4K

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tandem OLED display. What does that mean? Basically, it provides extra

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brightness without having to drive as much power through your display, so that

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reduces the risk of burning over time, and also creates a very bright image.

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This thing has a peak brightness of 1,600

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nits in HDR. That's dumb. And it's also very bright

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in SDR. We'll talk a little bit more about the display testing in just a

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moment, but this thing we recorded 691

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nits at SDR. That's super bright. You'll also get a 120 Hz

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refresh rate and a speedy 0.2 ms gray-to-gray response time, making it

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great for gaming, movies, and other fast-paced tasks beyond content

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creation. Naturally, with this being a creator-focused laptop, the display is

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going to have great color performance. It's very color accurate and has 100%

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coverage of the DCI-P3 color space, and it's certified VESA

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DisplayHDR True Black 1000, which is the

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highest certification level available from VESA. And the display is Pantone

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color validated. So, if you're somebody who's doing design or working in across

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different mediums, you can trust that like what you see on this laptop will

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reflect what you're going to see IRL. And what I'm seeing IRL is the webcam on

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the top here, and Windows Hello, love to

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see it, and let's take a look at the webcam right now. The webcam on here is

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full HD, and it's pretty serviceable. I might be a little

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bit washed out in this lighting, um, and there's a little bit of grain,

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but it's handling the, uh, brighter lights in the back as

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well as the differential from my hand stuff pretty well. I would, um,

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I would have no complaints to use this as just any sort of laptop webcam. It's pretty

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okay. I don't know how the mic sound, I guess you will be able to hear that, and

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let us know in the comments. Speaking of how it sounds, let's listen to the speakers.

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It's okay. They're pretty good. I've been so impressed by everything else on this laptop that I'm like the slightest

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bit disappointed by the speakers, but for laptop speakers, they're still

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easily on the upper half of the ones I've heard. Like they're they're good.

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Want to play a game or something? Yeah, I'd love to play a game. I'd love to play a game. We're in Cyberpunk and

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we're running at full 4K resolution and this 5090 laptop, one, it's making the

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fans scream. It is loud here right now,

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but it's also managing like 40 to 60 FPS depending on the scene and the HDR in

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the game looks so good. Like look at that guy. Damn.

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Now, this thing is a top-of-the-line laptop packed to the brim with top-of-the-line hardware, but

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high-quality OLED panels aren't just in these high-end laptops. Talk a little

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bit more about that later. In the intro, I was talking about how premium form

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factors often make some sort of compromise. There is no ventilation on

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the top side of the laptop. Oftentimes, manufacturers will put ventilation like

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kind of right here along the screen. It feels like there is nothing.

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All of the intake is here, outtake is down here. It's a lot of heat that it

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has to manage with just a little bit of space. But

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man, look at it. What are you running at for temps,

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though? 97 on the CPU now. That's um

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That's pretty toasty and it's pretty loud. It would be worth considering getting a dock. Let's take a look at

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some of the games that Labs tested. In Cyberpunk at 1,200 p medium settings,

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we're seeing the 5090 pulling a whopping 120 FPS average with 96 in the lows.

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When we up the resolution, we're seeing closer to 100 to 86, but still quite

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impressive performance on a laptop. In F1 24 at 1,200 p high, this thing is

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screaming at 173 average FPS and it stays screaming even at a higher

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resolution. Honestly, across the board, this is a powerful laptop and if you

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want to get some gaming done, you're not going to have too many problems except

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for maybe some of those thermals. And that excellent performance translates into our Puget Bench Suite of creative

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workloads like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve. All great performance

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from this laptop. In summary, this laptop is freaking powerful. But, I'm

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not really the target demographic. Let's get a perspective from somebody who

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actually does a lot of creative work, like one of our editors.

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My name is Peter and I'm an editor here at ShortCircuit. Sometimes. Sometimes

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I'm also an editor on LTT. Uh you know, it depends on the day. And today I'm

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going to be talking about editing on the ASUS ProArt P16. So, uh yeah, let's get

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into it. Okay, so we will set up a project, I guess. All right, we're going

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to move this onto the internal drive.

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I'm reading 263 MB per second. That's pretty fast, actually. And that's

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because it has a 985 MB per second SD

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Express 7.0 card reader. So, this SD card actually reads at 300 MB. So, we're

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almost getting the full 300 MB on this SD card. Most SD card like dongles, USB

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dongles, or at least the ones I have, they actually only read up to like 90 MB

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per second sometimes. So, that's actually really fast and really nice to

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offload footage. The screen's actually really nice, too. Is it OLED? It is.

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It's an OLED. Tandem OLED. Wow. I mean, even just Premiere looks so nice. I

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mean, I've never seen these grays so gray. I mean, playback's really good.

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This is just 4K footage, 30 FPS. Okay, we're going to open up Lumetri and we're

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going to actually put some color on this. We're just going to slap the Alexa

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LUT on there. That's not what we do for our videos. I mean, the colors on this

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look great. This is half quality and it's looking pretty good. It's a little blue. I think

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that's just from the LUT. Cuz the LUT is just a table and it just changes all the

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colors. But, for a preview, this is pretty good. Like, from what I can see,

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like, I don't see any crazy like hue shift or anything. My screen at home, it

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has a pretty big like red shift. I've already tried to like fix that, but it's

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kind of tough without like a color calibrator and stuff. So, having something right out of the box is

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actually really useful. It's definitely playing really well, like and there's no

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lag when I press the play button. Like it's pretty instantaneous. Um I mean,

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these files aren't humongous, but just to preview the render here, it's like

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about a 2-minute clip and it's rendering like

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full res previews at like I guess it'll take about 30 seconds here is what it

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looks like. It's pretty good. Uh so, here it is in After Effects. So, After

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Effects actually renders it like out frame by frame when you press play. So,

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it's pretty good. I mean, that's not real-time as you can see in this top

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right. It's about 16 frames uh per second instead of 30 frames per second,

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but I mean, that's at full res. I

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usually have to downsample. Even at half quality, it's like 20 FPS, which is

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still pretty good. Also, totally random thought, but the keyboard was actually

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really nice. Like there's actually a lot of travel. So, I'm going to try it out really quick.

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It's pretty quiet. It doesn't click that much. It actually has a fair bit of

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travel and honestly, I don't know. I'm trying to roto something. It is just

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it's gone crazy. I haven't even been paying attention. I've just been pressing buttons. But I think it looks

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good. So, what does Labs say? When it comes to display performance, the Labs

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tested almost 700 nits peak in SDR and

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over 1,600 nits peak in HDR up to a 10%

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window size. Genuinely impressive. As for color accuracy, SDR is great in both

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sRGB, DCI-P3, and display P3 modes with

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a Delta E2000 average of less than one for their respective targets. HDR

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measured an average Delta EITP of 27 and

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a max of almost 33 with the display brightness set to 100% and setting the

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HDR content slider to 100. However, if you turn your display brightness down

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just a bit to 90% reducing the display brightness overall by less than 20 nits,

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this thing got way better measuring Delta E ITP average of just over 10 and

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a max of almost 16 thanks to the slightly better EOTF tracking. Not too

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shabby. Anyways, back to you, Adam. Thank you, editor,

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and sorry in advance. Let's talk about battery life now. This thing, very

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powerful, but also has a large 90 watt hour battery. It's not the biggest

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battery you can cram in a laptop, but it is pretty big, and it does allow the

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laptop to get 7 hours and 40 minutes of video playback in our tests. It's pretty

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good, but in heavier workloads, you're going to want to have this thing plugged

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in still. With all that in mind, what is there to say about the ASUS ProArt?

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Well, it is a high-end premium laptop

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that's built really nicely, performs

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crazy well, and being a high-end premium product, it has a high-end price. The

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5090 variant that we're looking at costs a whopping $4,499,

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which, if this is something that you need to make money, could make a ton of

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sense for you. But, if maybe you don't need all of that power, you could

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consider the 5070 variant that comes in at $3,000 instead, which is a big price

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difference, and remember, you get all of the other awesome features of this. You

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still get the dial pad, the great display, a great CPU. Something to

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consider. Thanks to Samsung Display for sponsoring this video. They've been

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expanding their OLED lineup to make sure that everybody is going to get a chance

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to experience the amazing OLED technology at a variety of different

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price points. For example, you might have seen some benchmarks of the P16

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against an ASUS VivoBook S16 earlier. That's because we were sent one of

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those, too. Just to show an example that even in a more affordable model, this

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one isn't available anymore, but it went for around 1,200 USD, you can still get

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the OLED advantage of blacker blacks and higher color coverage. For more

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information about OLED technology, check out the links in the description, and

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