WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.520 The ASUS G16 and 14 are some of the best gaming laptops 00:00:04.520 --> 00:00:08.880 on the market, but what if they have one feature that you really want? 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 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:20.040 and it is basically the G16, but in professional makeup. 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:24.400 Let's have a look. And this video is sponsored by AMD. 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, 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:35.760 just powered with ASUS's proprietary rectangle connector thing. 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:39.080 It's like USB Type-C, but more efficient and less convenient. 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. 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:47.320 Plug it in, press the power button. Hell yeah. Where your story begins. 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.480 Not a single thing happened until you got an ASUS laptop. 00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:55.320 Well, my first impressions are this is one slab of laptop right here. 00:00:55.360 --> 00:00:58.800 There's not a whole lot going on design wise on the back. 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:02.520 I guess coming from the G16 that might be kind of nice 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:07.120 if you don't want like a big LED animated display back here. 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:08.680 Does really like fingerprints. 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:15.920 The P16 comes in at four pounds or 1.8 kilograms. 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. 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:26.160 Also the IO is very solid. Headphone, microphone, combo jack, USB Type-A, 00:01:26.160 --> 00:01:30.000 USB4, HDMI 2.1, and on the other side, 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.240 full size SD card reader. I love to see that. 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 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.760 and you want to be able to just quickly throw your SD card reader in there. 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:47.400 And of course, another USB Type-A. Around the back there is only exhaust. 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.920 Actually looking at the specs, it's only 17.3 millimeters thick, 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:55.640 which is pretty darn good. Normally expect something to be more around 20, 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:59.000 not that two and a half millimeters is really going to change your day. 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:04.000 All right, opening it up here. It is very similar to the G16, 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:09.280 which does share the same chassis. I need to move this off of the mat here, 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:15.160 but this is one hell of a stiff chassis. Like I am properly sending it here. 00:02:15.160 --> 00:02:19.320 And like I can't quite tell when it's the laptop moving 00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:24.160 and when it's the table underneath it. They're pretty similar in stiffness. 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:34.160 Yeah, this keyboard is fantastic. It doesn't get full, full marks. 00:02:34.160 --> 00:02:38.280 Like I think that they could have a tiny bit more texture 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:42.000 and tactility to the actuation of the keys, 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. 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.480 And I think the trackpad might get an A plus. 00:02:49.480 --> 00:02:52.640 Like look at how much space they have used up 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:57.480 with this thing. They literally could not have more of it here. 00:02:57.480 --> 00:03:00.480 Overall, the tracking on it is fantastic. 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:03.640 I have not run out of space on it at all. 00:03:03.640 --> 00:03:06.920 And of course, we have this little thingy up in the top. 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. 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. 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:20.120 Wow, this screen goes dark. Imagine this right here is lightroom 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:23.360 and we're changing the brightness of a photo or something like that. 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:27.960 It's actually a really nice sort of analog way to adjust something like this. 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:31.080 And also you can adjust if copilot's on by hitting the button. 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:36.080 Oh, that's pretty good. What I'm looking for right now is that 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:39.640 we have an OLED panel with a touchscreen digitizer on the front of it. 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 00:03:44.480 --> 00:03:47.880 because the touchscreen digitizer was made for an LCD panel. 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, 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 00:03:57.880 --> 00:04:01.320 where it's not a problem at all. So it's not a problem at all. 00:04:01.320 --> 00:04:04.880 For the display, we've got what ASUS calls their Lumina OLED. 00:04:04.880 --> 00:04:10.880 So this is 16 by 10, 4K. And unfortunately it is just 60 Hertz, 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. 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 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, 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:30.880 a hundred percent coverage of DCI P3 and comes color calibrated from the factory. 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, 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:38.680 assuming that their monitors are also color calibrated 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:42.680 roughly. Of course though, the thing that we are looking for is this. 00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:47.760 Wow. Touch screen. Maybe you care about it, maybe you don't. 00:04:47.760 --> 00:04:50.960 But if you do, this is a pretty good laptop 00:04:50.960 --> 00:04:54.720 to be looking into. But of course, if you have a beautiful 4K display, 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. 00:04:59.640 --> 00:05:05.640 But fortunately we have that here with the AMD Ryzen AI9 HX370. 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 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:16.480 for just the processor itself, which means this should be fairly rapid 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:19.800 for professional programs. For memory, we have 32 gigabytes 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:25.000 at 7,500 megatransvers per second, which means it's probably not able to be upgraded, 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:31.000 but it is also very fast. We have a one terabyte SSD, MediaTek Wi-Fi 7, 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.680 an NPU that is good for 50 tops of performance, 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:38.320 and of course your GPU, which is RTX 4060, 00:05:38.320 --> 00:05:41.360 which is good for many more tops of AI performance, 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:44.360 if that's what you're looking for. My notes say that the 4070, 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:48.160 which is optional, will go up to 321 tops. 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:51.280 I'm not totally sure what the 4060 we have here 00:05:51.280 --> 00:05:55.160 is capable of. That said though, it definitely has eight gigabytes of VRAM. 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:58.520 Don't worry about the AI, it's 40% more efficient. 00:05:58.520 --> 00:06:02.400 That's the bit that really matters. Your battery life is way better with these processors. 00:06:02.400 --> 00:06:06.400 All right, let's try out some of the AI grunt of this with MuseTree. 00:06:06.400 --> 00:06:10.320 This apparently allows you to generate AI images 00:06:10.320 --> 00:06:14.400 and become more creative. Either way, it's a bunch of image generation 00:06:14.400 --> 00:06:17.680 that is on your computer, so it doesn't have to send all your data 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:21.080 and crap to the cloud, and you don't have to be spending money 00:06:21.080 --> 00:06:25.720 using generated tokens and crap. So create my MuseTree. 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:30.720 How to ruin the Porta body. 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:34.080 Okay, so here we have several Porta bodies. 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:40.080 That's not quite what we're looking for. Dog on Porta body. 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. 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:49.000 There we go. 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:52.000 This is what all of your computational resources are for. 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 00:06:56.600 --> 00:07:00.280 outside of Porta body. Giant cat knocking down building. 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:02.320 No. 00:07:07.080 --> 00:07:10.120 I wonder if it will be better with just out my help at all. 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.040 There we go. That one's sort of something. 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. 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:23.080 So we're looking at about around a hundred-ish FPS 00:07:23.080 --> 00:07:28.400 with this 4060. The responsiveness does seem like it's really quite good, 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, 00:07:34.200 --> 00:07:38.240 but at the same time, I am currently getting like 120 FPS. 00:07:38.280 --> 00:07:42.480 Well-screen recording. And this is a pretty decent time, 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:46.880 especially for a laptop whose intent is not really gaming. 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, 00:07:53.840 --> 00:07:58.480 which gets us up to 120 watts of combined system power, 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:02.280 which is pretty impressive given the size of this thing. 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, 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:10.320 it's kind of loud. Against the table, it's pretty silent, 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. 00:08:15.320 --> 00:08:17.400 Okay, sounds decent. 00:08:20.520 --> 00:08:25.040 Oh yeah, there we go. You've got the bass, the treble is clear. 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:28.200 It's not just distorting all the hell, and you can tell by the fact 00:08:28.200 --> 00:08:31.720 that I'm kind of yelling right now that it's plenty loud. 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:34.920 Good job, ASUS. They have a webcam turnoff switch right here. 00:08:34.920 --> 00:08:40.320 I do really like to see that, and this webcam also looks pretty darn good. 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:43.440 I'm not getting any super strange colors on my face 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, 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:52.080 but it's still mostly exposing for my face. If I turn around here, 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:55.480 it still is exposing for my face really quite well. It's not blowing out, 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 00:09:01.040 --> 00:09:06.080 is pretty darn good. Of course, it also has Windows Hello Facial recognition 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:09.840 up top and a fingerprint reader in the power button right here, 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.880 which is my favorite combo for getting in because no matter what you're doing, 00:09:13.880 --> 00:09:19.400 you can probably get in through one of those ways. All right, 11 T6 screws later, 00:09:19.400 --> 00:09:22.860 two of which were underneath rubber feet, and we are in. 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 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:31.980 because they are different lengths. Keep it organized, like with our little magnetic spots, 00:09:32.020 --> 00:09:36.820 with our precision screwdriver set from LTEstore.com. In here, things are looking pretty good. 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 00:09:41.540 --> 00:09:45.980 and five minutes in our endurance test, which is pretty good, but not exceptional, 00:09:45.980 --> 00:09:49.220 but also really quite good, given that this has an OLED display, 00:09:49.220 --> 00:09:52.660 and those can really use a lot of power. 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, 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? 00:10:03.800 --> 00:10:09.220 Yep, double-sided SSD, all good. In here, we can also see ASUS's thermal design, 00:10:09.220 --> 00:10:14.780 which is pretty interesting. We have four heat pipes, none of which are particularly large, 00:10:14.780 --> 00:10:19.840 but we also have three fans. This one down here is good for just cooling down 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:22.920 stuff like your VRMs, your SSDs, 00:10:22.920 --> 00:10:27.500 pulling in air across everything, and it is sectioned off via a little bit of foam 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. 00:10:33.860 --> 00:10:37.080 Now before pricing, AMD is doing a giveaway down below, 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:40.740 so you can get one of these for free, which would be very awesome. 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 00:10:46.700 --> 00:10:50.140 that comes in at $2,600 Canadian, 00:10:50.140 --> 00:10:55.140 or about $1,870 US, which is not too bad of a deal, 00:10:55.340 --> 00:10:59.060 but strangely, in the US, you need to go much more expensive 00:10:59.060 --> 00:11:06.820 and much more, more computer. The US config starts with 64 gigabytes of RAM, 00:11:06.820 --> 00:11:11.820 two terabytes of storage, and a 4070 for $2,700. 00:11:12.580 --> 00:11:16.180 That's a lot of money, but that's also a lot, a lot of computer. 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. 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. 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, 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.