WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.120 Premium laptops have this problem that really annoys me. 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:06.640 They come with super high-end hardware, but then they put them in a form factor 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:10.760 that's thin and light, which, you know, that's cool. But it really kind of defeats the purpose 00:00:10.760 --> 00:00:15.880 of having that super powerful hardware inside. That's why I really enjoy the ASUS ProArt lineup 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:20.640 because it really finds the right mix of premium feeling laptop, 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:23.840 premium looking laptop, and premium performance laptop, 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:28.800 which is why I'm excited Samsung Display sponsored this video so we can take a look at the ASUS ProArt 16, 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:34.360 which features their gorgeous new tandem OLED that Samsung claims will blow your typical LCD screens 00:00:34.360 --> 00:00:38.480 out of the water. Oh man, even the chargers look cool on the ProArt stuff. 00:00:38.480 --> 00:00:44.280 They really go all out on the design front. In the box, we get a 240-watt charger 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:48.600 that's in a pretty reasonable form factor for 240 watts. 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:53.360 Unfortunately, it's a proprietary charger, but thankfully you can charge via the other USB-C ports 00:00:53.360 --> 00:00:56.680 on here if you are in a pinch. This generation is a bit more minimal 00:00:56.680 --> 00:01:00.480 than previous ASUS ProArts. This ProArt kind of logo here used to make up 00:01:00.480 --> 00:01:03.600 more of the back of the display, but now it is just relegated to a corner 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:06.880 and a tiny little modest ASUS ProArt logo. 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:11.880 It's pretty hefty. It's about one point time kilograms or 4.2 pounds, 00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:15.240 but it feels very, very sturdy 00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:19.720 with its metal construction and kind of a very fingerprinty lid, 00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:24.760 but I'm also like a greasy, greasy green grinch. In terms of thickness, it's pretty reasonable. 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:28.240 It's not chungust like some sort of gaming laptop. Since we're looking at the side of it, 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:33.360 let's walk through the I-O. You have your DC-in, HDMI 2.1, 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:39.600 a USB-C 40 gigabit per second port, USB-A 10 gigabit combo audio jack, 00:01:40.600 --> 00:01:44.240 it is a full-sized SD card reader that supports SD Express 7, 00:01:44.240 --> 00:01:49.880 so it's wicked fast, a USB-A 10 gigabit per second, and a USB-C 10 gigabit per second. 00:01:49.880 --> 00:01:53.520 Would've loved to see another 40 gigabit port on this side, 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:57.580 but that's just the way it is. But let's take a look inside now. 00:01:57.580 --> 00:02:01.820 Ooh, that looks pretty cool. On the inside, we have a 10-keyless laptop keyboard 00:02:01.820 --> 00:02:05.820 with slightly cramped arrow keys, but at least they didn't fill in these spots, 00:02:05.820 --> 00:02:09.060 so it could be worse. We get upward-firing speakers, 00:02:09.060 --> 00:02:13.060 which is gonna be really great for listening to any sort of music or audio while you're creating. 00:02:13.060 --> 00:02:16.780 We also have this large trackpad, or as ASUS calls it, the dial pad. 00:02:16.780 --> 00:02:20.500 You'll see this little circle right here, which can act as like a jog wheel 00:02:20.500 --> 00:02:25.140 that you can assign different tasks in different pieces of software, and this is where I guess we turn it on and off. 00:02:25.140 --> 00:02:30.460 And of course, we get the co-pilot button. Everyone's favorite. Reinforcing the sturdiness of how built this thing is, 00:02:30.460 --> 00:02:34.620 there's like next to no keyboard flex. It is really great, 00:02:34.620 --> 00:02:39.220 and I think that the keyboard itself feels pretty good. 00:02:40.320 --> 00:02:43.940 Before we turn this thing on, I just wanna remind you that it does come with a tandem OLED panel. 00:02:43.940 --> 00:02:47.180 That's right, tandem, meaning multiple emitting layers, 00:02:47.180 --> 00:02:51.260 in this case too. It might not mean a whole lot to you if you're just looking for the next spreadsheet workhorse 00:02:51.260 --> 00:02:54.780 to get you through the day, creators and professional users were certainly appreciated, 00:02:54.780 --> 00:02:58.220 and we'll talk more about that in just a little bit. But before we get into that, 00:02:58.220 --> 00:03:05.460 let's talk about the rest of what's inside this laptop. In here, we have an AMD Ryzen AI9 370HX. 00:03:05.460 --> 00:03:09.440 Wow, that's a lot of letters, and it's also a super powerful processor. 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:14.260 And to back that up, we have 64 gigabytes of LPDDR5X memory 00:03:14.260 --> 00:03:20.380 running at 7,500 megatransfers per second. We also have a two terabyte PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. 00:03:20.380 --> 00:03:23.740 For storage in here, we have two two terabyte SSDs. 00:03:23.740 --> 00:03:27.260 Both are 2280, that's full sized M.2 SSDs. 00:03:27.260 --> 00:03:30.660 One caveat is that one of them is running at Gen4 by four, 00:03:30.660 --> 00:03:34.980 and one of them is running at Gen4 by two. So if you're doing like a really big transfer, 00:03:34.980 --> 00:03:38.860 you might see like a really small hit to performance, but it probably shouldn't be too noticeable 00:03:38.860 --> 00:03:43.200 most of the time. And for the GPU, we have an NVIDIA RTX 5090 laptop. 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:46.460 This is going to be a beast of a laptop. 00:03:46.620 --> 00:03:50.660 Look at the screen, it is very pretty. 00:03:50.660 --> 00:03:55.460 Now let's talk about this display. The 16 inch display on this is an actual 16 inch, 00:03:55.460 --> 00:03:59.220 it's not 15.9, and it is a 4K tandem OLED display. 00:03:59.220 --> 00:04:04.460 What does that mean? Basically it provides extra brightness without having to drive as much power through your display, 00:04:04.460 --> 00:04:09.860 so that reduces the risk of burn in over time, and also creates a very bright image. 00:04:09.860 --> 00:04:14.860 This thing has a peak brightness of 1600 nits in HDR. 00:04:15.820 --> 00:04:18.980 That's dumb. And it's also very bright in SDR. 00:04:18.980 --> 00:04:21.980 We'll talk a little bit more about the display testing in just a moment, 00:04:21.980 --> 00:04:26.500 but this thing we recorded 691 nits at SDR. 00:04:26.500 --> 00:04:30.260 That's super bright. You'll also get a 120 Hertz refresh rate 00:04:30.260 --> 00:04:33.580 and a speedy 0.2 millisecond gray to gray response time, 00:04:33.580 --> 00:04:37.940 making it great for gaming, movies and other fast paced tasks beyond content creation. 00:04:37.940 --> 00:04:42.580 Naturally, with this being a creator focused laptop, the display is going to have great color performance. 00:04:42.580 --> 00:04:47.500 It's very color accurate and has 100% coverage of the DCI-P3 color space. 00:04:47.500 --> 00:04:51.060 And it's certified VESA Display HDR True Black 1000, 00:04:51.060 --> 00:04:54.700 which is the highest certification level available from VESA. 00:04:54.700 --> 00:04:57.700 And the display is Pantone color validated. 00:04:57.700 --> 00:05:00.820 So if you're somebody who's doing design or working across different mediums, 00:05:00.820 --> 00:05:05.940 you can trust that like what you see on this laptop will reflect what you're going to see IRL. 00:05:05.940 --> 00:05:08.940 And what I'm seeing IRL is the webcam on the top of here 00:05:08.940 --> 00:05:12.020 and Windows Hello. Love to see it. 00:05:12.020 --> 00:05:15.740 And let's take a look at the webcam right now. The webcam on here is full HD 00:05:15.740 --> 00:05:21.300 and it's pretty serviceable. I might be a little bit washed out in this lighting 00:05:21.300 --> 00:05:26.940 and there's a little bit of grain, but it's handling the brighter lights in the back 00:05:26.940 --> 00:05:32.700 as well as the differential from my hands have pretty well. I would have no complaints to use this 00:05:32.700 --> 00:05:36.300 as just any sort of laptop webcam. It's pretty okay. 00:05:36.300 --> 00:05:40.580 I don't know how the mic sound. I guess you will be able to hear that and let us know in the comments. 00:05:40.580 --> 00:05:45.580 Speaking of how it sounds, let's listen to these speakers. This is 100% volume. 00:05:45.580 --> 00:05:46.580 It's okay. 00:05:56.020 --> 00:05:59.900 They're pretty good. I've been so impressed by everything else on this laptop that I'm like this light is a bit disappointed 00:05:59.900 --> 00:06:04.900 by the speakers, but for laptop speakers, they're still easily on the upper half of the ones I've heard. 00:06:04.900 --> 00:06:07.980 Like they're good. Want to play a game or something? Yeah, I'd love to play a game. 00:06:07.980 --> 00:06:13.580 I'd love to play a game. We're in cyberpunk and we're running at full 4K resolution and this 1590 laptop, 00:06:13.580 --> 00:06:18.260 one, it's making the fans scream. It is loud here right now, 00:06:18.260 --> 00:06:22.060 but it's also managing like 40 to 60 FPS depending on the scene. 00:06:22.060 --> 00:06:27.060 And the HDR in the game looks so good. 00:06:27.420 --> 00:06:31.020 Like look at that guy, damn. Now this thing is a top of the line laptop 00:06:31.020 --> 00:06:34.540 packed to the brim with top of the line hardware, but high quality OLED panels 00:06:34.540 --> 00:06:38.100 aren't just in these high end laptops. Talk a little bit more about that later. 00:06:38.100 --> 00:06:43.100 In the intro, I was talking about how premium form factors often make some sort of compromise. 00:06:43.100 --> 00:06:46.700 There is no ventilation on the top side of the laptop. 00:06:46.700 --> 00:06:50.140 Oftentimes manufacturers will put ventilation like kind of right here along the screen. 00:06:50.140 --> 00:06:55.780 It feels like there is nothing. All of the intake is here, outtake is down here. 00:06:55.780 --> 00:07:00.420 It's a lot of heat that it has to manage with just a little bit of space. 00:07:00.420 --> 00:07:03.980 But man, look at it. We're running out of temps though. 00:07:03.980 --> 00:07:09.540 97 on the CPU now. That's pretty toasty and it's pretty loud. 00:07:09.540 --> 00:07:13.940 It would be worth considering getting a dock. Let's take a look at some of the games that Labs tested. 00:07:13.940 --> 00:07:19.780 In Cyberpunk at 1200p medium settings, we're seeing the 5090 pulling a whopping 120 FPS average 00:07:19.780 --> 00:07:22.820 with 96 in the lows. When we up the resolution, 00:07:22.820 --> 00:07:27.900 we're seeing closer to 100 to 86, but still quite impressive performance on a laptop. 00:07:27.900 --> 00:07:33.540 In F124 at 1200p high, this thing is screaming at 173 average FPS 00:07:33.540 --> 00:07:38.780 and it stays screaming even at a higher resolution. Honestly, across the board, this is a powerful laptop 00:07:38.780 --> 00:07:42.780 and if you wanna get some gaming done, you're not gonna have too many problems 00:07:42.780 --> 00:07:48.380 except for maybe some of those thermals. And that excellent performance transits into our Puget Bench suite of creative workloads 00:07:48.380 --> 00:07:52.900 like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve. All great performance from this laptop. 00:07:52.900 --> 00:07:56.480 In summary, this laptop is fricking powerful. 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:00.860 But I'm not really the target demographic. Let's get a perspective from somebody 00:08:00.860 --> 00:08:04.360 who actually does a lot of creative work, like one of our editors. 00:08:05.820 --> 00:08:09.620 My name is Peter and I'm an editor here at ShortCircuit, sometimes. 00:08:09.620 --> 00:08:13.100 Sometimes I'm also an editor on LTT. You know, it depends on the day. 00:08:13.100 --> 00:08:17.100 And today I'm gonna be talking about editing on the ASUS ProArt P16. 00:08:17.100 --> 00:08:21.900 So yeah, let's get into it. Okay, so we will set up a project I guess. 00:08:21.900 --> 00:08:26.100 All right, we're gonna move this onto the internal drive. 00:08:26.100 --> 00:08:30.480 I'm reading 263 megabytes per second. That's pretty fast actually. 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:34.980 And that's because it has a 985 megabyte per second 00:08:35.260 --> 00:08:39.460 SD Express 7.0 card reader. So this SD card actually reads at 300 megabytes. 00:08:39.460 --> 00:08:45.020 So we're almost getting the full 300 megabytes on this SD card. Most SD card like dongles, USB dongles, 00:08:45.020 --> 00:08:49.620 or at least the ones I have, they actually only read up to like 90 megabytes 00:08:49.620 --> 00:08:54.060 per second sometimes. So that's actually really fast and really nice to offload footage. 00:08:54.060 --> 00:08:57.300 The screen's actually really nice too. Is it OLED? Is it a tandem OLED? 00:08:57.300 --> 00:09:01.020 Tandem OLED. Wow. I mean, even just Premiere looks so nice. 00:09:01.020 --> 00:09:05.020 I mean, I've never seen these grays so gray. I mean, playback's really good. 00:09:05.020 --> 00:09:09.500 This is just 4K footage through the FPS. Okay, we're gonna open up Lumetri 00:09:09.500 --> 00:09:14.260 and we're gonna actually put some color on this. We're just gonna slap the Alexa LUT on there. 00:09:14.260 --> 00:09:18.460 That's not what we do for our videos. I mean, the colors on this look great. 00:09:18.460 --> 00:09:21.980 This is half quality and it's looking pretty good. It's a little blue. 00:09:21.980 --> 00:09:24.980 I think that's just from the LUT. So the LUT is just a table 00:09:24.980 --> 00:09:28.660 and it just changes all the colors. But for a preview, this is pretty good. 00:09:28.660 --> 00:09:33.540 Like from what I can see, I don't see any crazy hue shift or anything. 00:09:33.540 --> 00:09:38.060 My screen at home, it has a pretty big red shift. I've already tried to fix that, 00:09:38.060 --> 00:09:42.300 but it's kind of tough without a color calibrator and stuff. So having something right out of the box 00:09:42.300 --> 00:09:45.660 is actually really useful. It's definitely playing really well. 00:09:45.660 --> 00:09:49.260 And there's no lag when I press the play button. It's pretty instantaneous. 00:09:49.260 --> 00:09:53.220 I mean, these files aren't humongous, but just to preview the render here, 00:09:53.220 --> 00:09:56.660 it's about a two minute clip 00:09:56.660 --> 00:10:00.620 and it's rendering like full res previews at like, 00:10:00.620 --> 00:10:03.780 I guess it'll take about 30 seconds here is what it looks like. It's pretty good. 00:10:03.780 --> 00:10:07.300 So here it is in After Effects. So After Effects actually renders it like out frame by frame 00:10:07.300 --> 00:10:11.340 when you press play. So it's pretty good. I mean, that's not real time. 00:10:11.340 --> 00:10:15.340 As you can see in this top right, it's about 16 frames per second 00:10:15.340 --> 00:10:19.960 instead of 30 frames per second. But I mean, that's at full res. 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:24.980 I usually have to down sample. Even at half quality, it's like 20 FPS, 00:10:24.980 --> 00:10:29.180 which is still pretty good. Also totally random thought, but the keyboard was actually really nice. 00:10:29.180 --> 00:10:32.060 Like there's actually a lot of travel. So I'm going to try it out really quick. 00:10:36.580 --> 00:10:40.980 It's pretty quiet. It doesn't click that much. It actually has a fair bit of travel and honestly, 00:10:40.980 --> 00:10:43.980 I don't know, I'm trying to roto something. It is just, it's gone crazy. 00:10:43.980 --> 00:10:47.180 I haven't even been paying attention. I've just been pressing buttons. But I think it looks good. 00:10:47.180 --> 00:10:50.620 So what does Labs say? When it comes to display performance, 00:10:50.620 --> 00:10:54.220 the Labs tested almost 700 nits peak in SDR 00:10:54.220 --> 00:10:59.660 and over 1600 nits peak in HDR, up to a 10% window size, genuinely impressive. 00:10:59.660 --> 00:11:06.100 As for color accuracy, SDR is great in both sRGB, DCI P3 and display P3 modes, 00:11:06.220 --> 00:11:10.780 with a Delta E 2000 average of less than one for their respective targets. 00:11:10.780 --> 00:11:14.500 HDR measured an average Delta E ITP of 27 00:11:14.500 --> 00:11:19.100 and a max of almost 33 with the display brightness set to 100% 00:11:19.100 --> 00:11:24.140 and setting the HDR content slider to 100. However, if you turn your display brightness down, 00:11:24.140 --> 00:11:28.260 just a bit to 90%, reducing the display brightness overall 00:11:28.260 --> 00:11:32.620 by less than 20 nits, this thing got way better. 00:11:32.620 --> 00:11:36.220 Measuring Delta E ITP average of just over 10 00:11:36.220 --> 00:11:43.460 and a max of almost 16, thanks to the slightly better EOTF tracking, not too shabby. 00:11:43.460 --> 00:11:48.180 Anyways, back to you Adam. Thank you editor and sorry in advance. 00:11:48.180 --> 00:11:51.220 Let's talk about battery life now. This thing, very powerful, 00:11:51.220 --> 00:11:54.420 but also has a large 90 watt hour battery. 00:11:54.420 --> 00:11:58.140 It's not the biggest battery you could cram in the laptop, but it is pretty big 00:11:58.140 --> 00:12:03.180 and it does allow the laptop to get seven hours and 40 minutes of video playback in our tests. 00:12:03.180 --> 00:12:08.220 It's pretty good, but in heavier workloads, you're gonna wanna have this thing plugged in still. 00:12:08.220 --> 00:12:13.980 With all that in mind, what is there to say about the ASUS ProArt? Well, it is a high-end premium laptop 00:12:13.980 --> 00:12:18.220 that's built really nicely, performs crazy well 00:12:18.220 --> 00:12:22.740 and being a high-end premium product, it has a high-end price. 00:12:22.740 --> 00:12:28.020 The 5090 variant that we're looking at costs a whopping $4,499, 00:12:28.020 --> 00:12:31.060 which if this is something that you need to make money, 00:12:31.060 --> 00:12:34.860 could make a ton of sense for you. But if maybe you don't need all of that power, 00:12:34.860 --> 00:12:39.560 you could consider the 5070 variant that comes in at $3,000 instead, 00:12:39.560 --> 00:12:44.520 which is a big price difference. And remember, you get all of the other awesome features of this. 00:12:44.520 --> 00:12:49.260 You still get the dial pad, the great display, a great CPU, something to consider. 00:12:49.260 --> 00:12:53.420 Thanks to Samsung Display for sponsoring this video. They've been expanding their OLED lineup 00:12:53.420 --> 00:12:58.060 to make sure that everybody is gonna get a chance to experience the amazing OLED technology 00:12:58.060 --> 00:13:01.340 at a variety of different price points. For example, you might have seen some benchmarks 00:13:01.340 --> 00:13:04.660 of the P16 against an ASUS VivoBook S16 earlier. 00:13:04.660 --> 00:13:08.380 That's because we were sent one of those too, just to show an example that even in a more affordable model, 00:13:08.380 --> 00:13:12.400 this one isn't available anymore, but it went for around 1,200 USD, 00:13:12.400 --> 00:13:17.100 you can still get the OLED advantage of blacker blacks and higher color coverage. 00:13:17.100 --> 00:13:20.620 For more information about OLED technology, check out the links in the description, 00:13:20.620 --> 00:13:24.300 and one more thank you to you for watching. 00:13:24.300 --> 00:13:27.340 If you like this ShortCircuit, why don't you watch another ShortCircuit? 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