1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,520 The ASUS G16 and 14 are some of the best gaming laptops 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:08,880 on the market, but what if they have one feature that you really want? 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:15,040 A touchscreen, well that's what we've got here today. This right here is the ASUS ProArt P16 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:20,040 and it is basically the G16, but in professional makeup. 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,400 Let's have a look. And this video is sponsored by AMD. 6 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:30,920 How much power is AMD going to get to consume? Well, apparently 200 watts according to the power adapter, 7 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,760 just powered with ASUS's proprietary rectangle connector thing. 8 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,080 It's like USB Type-C, but more efficient and less convenient. 9 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,320 Let's see, does this tell me to plug it in and turn it on? Yep, there we go. 10 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:47,320 Plug it in, press the power button. Hell yeah. Where your story begins. 11 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,480 Not a single thing happened until you got an ASUS laptop. 12 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:55,320 Well, my first impressions are this is one slab of laptop right here. 13 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,800 There's not a whole lot going on design wise on the back. 14 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,520 I guess coming from the G16 that might be kind of nice 15 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:07,120 if you don't want like a big LED animated display back here. 16 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:08,680 Does really like fingerprints. 17 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,920 The P16 comes in at four pounds or 1.8 kilograms. 18 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:21,400 That is pretty darn good given the power that I know this thing has inside of it. 19 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:26,160 Also the IO is very solid. Headphone, microphone, combo jack, USB Type-A, 20 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,000 USB4, HDMI 2.1, and on the other side, 21 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,240 full size SD card reader. I love to see that. 22 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:38,760 So many others are going to the small ones. This is fantastic if you're doing stuff like photo shoots 23 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,760 and you want to be able to just quickly throw your SD card reader in there. 24 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:47,400 And of course, another USB Type-A. Around the back there is only exhaust. 25 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,920 Actually looking at the specs, it's only 17.3 millimeters thick, 26 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:55,640 which is pretty darn good. Normally expect something to be more around 20, 27 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,000 not that two and a half millimeters is really going to change your day. 28 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:04,000 All right, opening it up here. It is very similar to the G16, 29 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,280 which does share the same chassis. I need to move this off of the mat here, 30 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:15,160 but this is one hell of a stiff chassis. Like I am properly sending it here. 31 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,320 And like I can't quite tell when it's the laptop moving 32 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:24,160 and when it's the table underneath it. They're pretty similar in stiffness. 33 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:34,160 Yeah, this keyboard is fantastic. It doesn't get full, full marks. 34 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,280 Like I think that they could have a tiny bit more texture 35 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,000 and tactility to the actuation of the keys, 36 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,400 but yeah, it's pretty good. I'm going to give this a solid A for the keyboard. 37 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,480 And I think the trackpad might get an A plus. 38 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,640 Like look at how much space they have used up 39 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:57,480 with this thing. They literally could not have more of it here. 40 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,480 Overall, the tracking on it is fantastic. 41 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,640 I have not run out of space on it at all. 42 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:06,920 And of course, we have this little thingy up in the top. 43 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:10,920 So if you want to use it, you can swipe from the top right, just like that. 44 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:15,840 You can now see that it's turned on. Using the dial here, you can see that I can just change the system brightness. 45 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:20,120 Wow, this screen goes dark. Imagine this right here is lightroom 46 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,360 and we're changing the brightness of a photo or something like that. 47 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:27,960 It's actually a really nice sort of analog way to adjust something like this. 48 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,080 And also you can adjust if copilot's on by hitting the button. 49 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,080 Oh, that's pretty good. What I'm looking for right now is that 50 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,640 we have an OLED panel with a touchscreen digitizer on the front of it. 51 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,480 And I have seen a lot of panels in the past where the two won't quite line up 52 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,880 because the touchscreen digitizer was made for an LCD panel. 53 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:52,520 This right here does have a tiny bit of those artifacts. Like you can kind of see it as a graininess, 54 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,880 but I can only start seeing it about right here. And I would normally be using this computer right about here 55 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,320 where it's not a problem at all. So it's not a problem at all. 56 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,880 For the display, we've got what ASUS calls their Lumina OLED. 57 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:10,880 So this is 16 by 10, 4K. And unfortunately it is just 60 Hertz, 58 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:16,120 but because it's OLED, your response times will be lower. So it's not going to be brutal to use like a 60 Hertz LCD. 59 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:21,280 Like this is still pretty snappy and responsive, even if I can sort of see the pointer trails there 60 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:25,720 if you can see that on the monitor. It also has a max brightness of 500 nits, 61 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:30,880 a hundred percent coverage of DCI P3 and comes color calibrated from the factory. 62 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:35,600 So you can just trust that the colors that you see here are the colors that everyone else will see, 63 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,680 assuming that their monitors are also color calibrated 64 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,680 roughly. Of course though, the thing that we are looking for is this. 65 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:47,760 Wow. Touch screen. Maybe you care about it, maybe you don't. 66 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,960 But if you do, this is a pretty good laptop 67 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,720 to be looking into. But of course, if you have a beautiful 4K display, 68 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,640 that is no good if you don't have the power to back up the programs that you run on it. 69 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:05,640 But fortunately we have that here with the AMD Ryzen AI9 HX370. 70 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:12,360 This thing has 12 cores, 24 threads and goes up to 5.1 gigahertz with a 70 watt TDP 71 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,480 for just the processor itself, which means this should be fairly rapid 72 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,800 for professional programs. For memory, we have 32 gigabytes 73 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:25,000 at 7,500 megatransvers per second, which means it's probably not able to be upgraded, 74 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:31,000 but it is also very fast. We have a one terabyte SSD, MediaTek Wi-Fi 7, 75 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,680 an NPU that is good for 50 tops of performance, 76 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,320 and of course your GPU, which is RTX 4060, 77 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,360 which is good for many more tops of AI performance, 78 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,360 if that's what you're looking for. My notes say that the 4070, 79 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,160 which is optional, will go up to 321 tops. 80 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,280 I'm not totally sure what the 4060 we have here 81 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:55,160 is capable of. That said though, it definitely has eight gigabytes of VRAM. 82 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,520 Don't worry about the AI, it's 40% more efficient. 83 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,400 That's the bit that really matters. Your battery life is way better with these processors. 84 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,400 All right, let's try out some of the AI grunt of this with MuseTree. 85 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:10,320 This apparently allows you to generate AI images 86 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:14,400 and become more creative. Either way, it's a bunch of image generation 87 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,680 that is on your computer, so it doesn't have to send all your data 88 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,080 and crap to the cloud, and you don't have to be spending money 89 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:25,720 using generated tokens and crap. So create my MuseTree. 90 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:30,720 How to ruin the Porta body. 91 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,080 Okay, so here we have several Porta bodies. 92 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:40,080 That's not quite what we're looking for. Dog on Porta body. 93 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:45,480 I didn't even know what you were looking for. You don't have to get obsessed with Porta body. 94 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,000 There we go. 95 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 This is what all of your computational resources are for. 96 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,600 We can burn the world down with AI, but at least we'll have strange looking dog 97 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,280 outside of Porta body. Giant cat knocking down building. 98 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:02,320 No. 99 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,120 I wonder if it will be better with just out my help at all. 100 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:14,040 There we go. That one's sort of something. 101 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:19,120 We just spent so much time on that. All right, let's have a little game of Rocket League here. 102 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:23,080 So we're looking at about around a hundred-ish FPS 103 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:28,400 with this 4060. The responsiveness does seem like it's really quite good, 104 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:34,200 and the colors of this display are fantastic. It is a bit of a let down that it's only 60 Hertz, 105 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:38,240 but at the same time, I am currently getting like 120 FPS. 106 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:42,480 Well-screen recording. And this is a pretty decent time, 107 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:46,880 especially for a laptop whose intent is not really gaming. 108 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:53,840 It's supposed to be a creator-first laptop. In here, we do have ASUS' Ice Cool Pro Thermal Technology, 109 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:58,480 which gets us up to 120 watts of combined system power, 110 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:02,280 which is pretty impressive given the size of this thing. 111 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:06,320 You were just able to hear the fans on during Rocket League, and even though when you lift it up, 112 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,320 it's kind of loud. Against the table, it's pretty silent, 113 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:15,320 and this does also have liquid metal inside of it. These speakers don't kick ass, I'm gonna be mad. 114 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,400 Okay, sounds decent. 115 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:25,040 Oh yeah, there we go. You've got the bass, the treble is clear. 116 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,200 It's not just distorting all the hell, and you can tell by the fact 117 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,720 that I'm kind of yelling right now that it's plenty loud. 118 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,920 Good job, ASUS. They have a webcam turnoff switch right here. 119 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:40,320 I do really like to see that, and this webcam also looks pretty darn good. 120 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,440 I'm not getting any super strange colors on my face 121 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,600 that I can tell. It's struggling a tiny bit here, and I point it directly at a bright studio light, 122 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:52,080 but it's still mostly exposing for my face. If I turn around here, 123 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,480 it still is exposing for my face really quite well. It's not blowing out, 124 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:01,040 even though this side is way darker than this side, so whatever image processing they're using 125 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:06,080 is pretty darn good. Of course, it also has Windows Hello Facial recognition 126 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,840 up top and a fingerprint reader in the power button right here, 127 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,880 which is my favorite combo for getting in because no matter what you're doing, 128 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:19,400 you can probably get in through one of those ways. All right, 11 T6 screws later, 129 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:22,860 two of which were underneath rubber feet, and we are in. 130 00:09:22,860 --> 00:09:26,480 Do make sure if you take this apart, that you organize where all of your screws go 131 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:31,980 because they are different lengths. Keep it organized, like with our little magnetic spots, 132 00:09:32,020 --> 00:09:36,820 with our precision screwdriver set from LTEstore.com. In here, things are looking pretty good. 133 00:09:36,820 --> 00:09:41,540 Down below, we have a 90 watt hour battery, which an hour testing was able to get eight hours 134 00:09:41,540 --> 00:09:45,980 and five minutes in our endurance test, which is pretty good, but not exceptional, 135 00:09:45,980 --> 00:09:49,220 but also really quite good, given that this has an OLED display, 136 00:09:49,220 --> 00:09:52,660 and those can really use a lot of power. 137 00:09:52,660 --> 00:09:58,660 I am sure that is aided by the AMD processor. In here for upgradability, on the right, we have our one SSD, 138 00:09:58,660 --> 00:10:03,800 and on the left right here, you can put a second one. Will a double-sided SSD go in? 139 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:09,220 Yep, double-sided SSD, all good. In here, we can also see ASUS's thermal design, 140 00:10:09,220 --> 00:10:14,780 which is pretty interesting. We have four heat pipes, none of which are particularly large, 141 00:10:14,780 --> 00:10:19,840 but we also have three fans. This one down here is good for just cooling down 142 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,920 stuff like your VRMs, your SSDs, 143 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:27,500 pulling in air across everything, and it is sectioned off via a little bit of foam 144 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:33,860 from your main fans, which are primarily just gonna be shooting air out of those heat sinks back there. 145 00:10:33,860 --> 00:10:37,080 Now before pricing, AMD is doing a giveaway down below, 146 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,740 so you can get one of these for free, which would be very awesome. 147 00:10:40,740 --> 00:10:46,700 This one that we have right here with 32 gigabytes of RAM and a 4060 is a Canada-only model 148 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:50,140 that comes in at $2,600 Canadian, 149 00:10:50,140 --> 00:10:55,140 or about $1,870 US, which is not too bad of a deal, 150 00:10:55,340 --> 00:10:59,060 but strangely, in the US, you need to go much more expensive 151 00:10:59,060 --> 00:11:06,820 and much more, more computer. The US config starts with 64 gigabytes of RAM, 152 00:11:06,820 --> 00:11:11,820 two terabytes of storage, and a 4070 for $2,700. 153 00:11:12,580 --> 00:11:16,180 That's a lot of money, but that's also a lot, a lot of computer. 154 00:11:16,180 --> 00:11:21,660 So yeah, if you're in the US, maybe drive up here to get a cheap laptop. 155 00:11:21,660 --> 00:11:25,900 The people are nice, so it would be great to have the people are nice, so it would be worth it. 156 00:11:25,900 --> 00:11:30,220 Just like AMD was really nice to sponsor this video. Check out the links down in the description, 157 00:11:30,220 --> 00:11:35,620 enter that giveaway, and have a great old day. Hit like, get subscribed, and I'll see you later.