Is $10,000 too expensive for a laptop? - ASUS ProArt StudioBook One
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2021-05-05
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1,774 words · ~8 min read
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- After you've seen basically every laptop on the market, it becomes kind of hard to get just like
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truly stoked about something. Like just like "Oh my God, I want that!"
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But, that's what we have here today. Holy crap!
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This thing's insane. So this is the ASUS ProArt Studiobook One,
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and it is $10,000 worth of just the most bat (beep) crazy insane,
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I don't know, every single spec you could ever think of,
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in one. So this is the first Quadro RTX 6000 laptop,
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and it has 24 gigabytes of VRAM.
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It's pretty (mumbles) it's bonkers. Let's get into it here.
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I have been bothering ASUS just all the time for this,
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ever since it was announced a couple months ago. Even apparently the power adapter
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on this thing is just off the wall. So this power adapter right here,
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which is just super small, is able to deliver 300 Watts of power,
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by using gallium nitride field effect transistors.
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I don't know what that is, but it sounds wicked. And this is
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for its size, a really hefty little power adapter.
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What else do we have in here? Normally I don't expect to find like fun ad-ons in a laptop.
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But, once you're getting to the level of something being $10,000, you know,
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they can afford to put in like this nice little dongle here
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that has two USB Type As, a thunder bolt and a full size HTMI port.
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I'm guessing 2.0 or 2.1. That's the new one, right?
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- [David] 2.1's the new one. - 2.1, yeah. All right. Let's take a look.
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How does this thing work?
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Ooh, she's heavy!
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Wow, that's a lot of laptop. Let's see what else's there first.
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Oh, there's literally no documentation. So, whatever (laughs)
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Look at this, it's probably a pre-production unit. But, as far as I know, we're allowed to run tests on it and everything so,
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wow, this is heavy. Especially for its size.
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Oh my God. (paper rustling)
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All right, so this is quite a thin laptop,
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but it's 6.4 pounds.
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It's, one of the most dense machines I've ever held in my hands.
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For ports, we don't get a whole lot. Now, I get why they added the adapter in there.
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So we have DC-in, Thunderbolt there, and then two more Thunderbolts here on the other side.
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That's all you get. So you guys might be kind of confused looking at it
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because on the bottom and like on the sides,
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there's no venting, despite this being one of,
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if not the most powerful laptops on the market.
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But, when you open it up,
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behind the display, it opens up 4.57 degrees,
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to allow cooling, like air to get in and cool everything down.
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And we even have (laughs) it looks like there's venting just above the screen here.
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This clearly takes inspiration from ASUS's mothership project,
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where they were just kind of like "Hey yeah, if we turn a laptop upside down,
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it runs way faster", that's cool. And they've kept on doing that here.
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So inside of this thing, the specs are just beyond crazy.
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So we're talking a core i9-9980HK, so that's the one that goes up to like
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five gigahertz and beyond, eight cores, they also have an NVIDIA RTX6000,
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so the Quadro one with 24 gigabytes of VRAM,
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we have 64 gigabytes of RAM, I think a One Terabyte SSD,
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and a 90 Watt-hour battery. That's kind of, all of those are just
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the fastest that you can get in a laptop right now. Well,
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I guess the processor you go AMD (mumbles) whatever, close enough.
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I'm just curious how it works, that like, it can have all of the internals in the back
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and not fall over. Like, where's the tipping point? What's so heavy about this palm rest?
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Yeah, 'cause the balance points like way back here, I'm guessing that just,
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this whole base is battery and only battery.
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And that's how they got it to be so heavy. I don't know.
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Unsurprisingly, just everything that you touch on this laptop
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feels excellent. It's all very rigid, it's not going anywhere
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because there's like a whole computer back here. Yeah, it just feels really great.
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Okay, that's an excellent keyboard. I do wish that I had just a tiny bit more travel,
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Then again, it has that real like snappy feel, so you're able to just really blast.
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Although I don't know if I'd wanna type on it for like hours and hours.
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That said, after getting used to it, I imagine it would be fine. Like something like,
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it reminds me a lot of the MacBook Air, like the most recent one,
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which I got used to and really enjoyed after a couple of hours.
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The track pad also is really big for a Windows machine.
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Now, then again, everything here is quite big. But, especially for ASUS,
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who I don't always expect to have the best trackpads, this one seems really quite good.
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I don't even feel like... A lot of them I need to tune
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before I can get it to feel right. But just from the factory this feels pretty good to me.
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I'm gonna turn off acceleration though. So this is normally where I'd complain and be like,
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"Yeah, the display it's pretty good but, you know, I wish that it was 16 by 10."
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Although I'm gonna give ASUS a pass here today.
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'Cause this thing, this thing's crazy. So we have 4K,
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okay, it's not a touch display but whatever. It's Pantone-calibrated so,
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they say that it has less than one for the Delta Es. You expect two for professional photo work,
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and it's 120 Hertz. Like, they got 4K,
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120 Hertz and super color accuracy in this laptop.
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There's just, there's nothing to complain about. Well, it's 16 by 10. We can complain about that.
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But we really can't because like, they nailed basically everything.
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Yeah, David just said the screen's insane. It doesn't even look like a screen.
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It looks like a print. And, I agree this thing's wild.
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Oh, let's just have a gander at some B-roll here.
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It's a good looking display (laughs) Well, I could do more testing and stuff on the computer,
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but, whatever. We have a full LTT video coming on this,
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very soon so, we're not gonna bother here today.
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I wanna see if we can take it apart.
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So if you guys watched our video on the Dell XPS 17,
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we just absolutely gushed about how they got
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100 Watts of cooling power from a big old vapor chamber.
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ASUS has just absolutely knocked it out of the park
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in that regard here. So we have a vapor chamber that's
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made out of titanium apparently, and it's good for 300 Watts of cooling.
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And I really wanna look at it, but I don't know if we'll be able to.
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Oh, this is Ooh, Oh
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this is not great. But I think it is what we have to do, well
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- [David] I mean I'm not the one firing off that email to ASUS. - Okay, let's just start with the screws that we can see.
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I don't think it'll get us access to what we want, but at least it's, you know,
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a bit more sensible than just pulling the display off and seeing what happens.
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It does look like they're all the same screw at least. We'll get to have at least a nice look at the battery,
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and hopefully figure out how we can get in the top.
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I do not like this one bit. I also like it a lot but,
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this is not a small chunk of change in computing right here.
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- [David] Huh! - Yup, guessed correct their. Bottom's just entirely battery.
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You don't normally see that much battery in a laptop. Also, this piece right here is just,
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it's really nice. It's clearly been CNC-machined
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from a solid block of aluminum. You can see all of just like the little machining marks,
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all the way up here and, this is not cheap, not cheap at all.
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It looks like this hinge is made out of magnesium. Continuing the trend of
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things that are definitely not cheap.
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Battery's off (laughs)
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Whew! I think I'm going to call it. I don't see any way to get into the back of the machine
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without pulling the display off. It might work.
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If it doesn't, we destroy a $10,000 laptop.
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We got to look at this big old battery. We didn't get to take a look at the titanium vapor chamber.
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But, we need to leave something for the LTT review.
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I'm gonna call it there, so we don't end up with a very expensive paperweight,
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and a very awkward email to ASUS (laughs)
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Nope, there we go yep. - [David] Yaaay! - Yeah that's fine, I wasn't concerned.
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That wasn't we didn't do very much to it. Anyway, this is easily one of the most bonkers laptops
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that's ever been made, and I can't wait for the full LTT video to be done on it.
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Maybe it'll just be like an hour of Linus just stress sweating,
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as he pulls the display off of it to get a look at that vapor chamber.
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I'm not totally sure yet. I hope you guys liked it. Get subscribed to ShortCircuit and LTT of course.
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And, I don't know, just have a fantastic day. See you later.