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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Impressive Laptop

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  • Owned for 1 month

  Every aspect of this purchase has been delightful. The prompt shipment to the packaging presentation was professional. The screen quality and keyboard give a very responsive feel. The processor speed and overall performance does not disappoint. The power with the AI feedback suggests support in new directions beyond my expectations. My only reservation is whether I chose a large enough hard drive to accommodate all the projects I expect to encounter. I'm looking forward to gaming and video editing on a new dimension.

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  Posted 3 months ago by TAMARL

• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Great for creators, battery efficient discrete GPU

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  Design Made from an aluminum body, it’s lightweight, but feels solid and durable, with no creaking or flexing under normal use. Its black finish is attractive and fingerprint resistant. It doesn’t feel metallic and feels comfortable on the skin, soft and silky smooth. The status lights are curiously found on the back of the laptop and hidden by the hinge when the display is folded open. It only seems to be useful while the laptop isn’t in use. The keyboard is backlit with 3 levels of brightness and the option to turn the backlight off. However, I found the minimum setting for the backlight to be too bright. The backlight also doesn’t illuminate the Shift function labels on the keys. The keyboard itself has considerably more travel than other ultra slim laptops, while still being silent. There is no numpad, but this allows for front-firing speakers on the sides of the keyboard as well as the touchpad in a centered position, to prevent accidental input while typing while looking straight on to the screen. The P16 comes with an infrared camera compatible with Windows Hello for facial recognition login, which works in the dark, and more convenient than fingerprint login. Display The display is a glossy touch screen OLED with slim bezels and measures 15.8” diagonally. It’s pretty reflective, so it’s not ideal for use opposite a window or light source. Its native resolution is 3840x2400, which is a 16:10 aspect ratio. It’ll produce black bars for 16:9 presentations, but the extra vertical space makes it better for content creation, giving you a larger workspace. Because it’s a 4k display against a 16” display, you won’t spot individual pixels (or at all) at 150% scale or higher. The display has a refresh rate of 60 Hz which is acceptable for content creation, which is what the laptop was designed for. However, I find it a very curious decision that ASUS chose a touch panel over 120 Hz since it doesn’t really leverage touch input very well, while at the same time, proves to be very capable of 120 Hz for gaming. Feels like a misstep to me. I don’t have a protractor, but if I had to guess, the hinge looks like it only goes as far back as 30°. There’s also some wobble when the display is touched. It also does not come with a stylus although it supports the ASUS stylus. When I tried using my Samsung phone’s S-pen, it wouldn’t work. I found the touch display best for making quick selections in editing programs with buttons like Photoshop, and keep the touchpad in my editing workspace. Since the hinge doesn’t fold flat to 180° or 360°, the P16 doesn’t work well for drawing with touch input. I didn’t notice any text fringing. The display is Dolby Vision certified, and is able to play Dolby Vision content. For a model aimed at content creators, I was surprised that its default color profile was oversaturated. Creators looking for accurate colors will want to switch to a different profile such as sRGB, which is great for web content, or Display P3, which is great for graphics and video editing. Inputs Left side: -proprietary 200W power port -full sized HDMI 2.1 port -USB 4 Type-C port -USB 3.2 Type-A port -3.5mm audio jack Right side: -USB 3.2 Type-C port -USB 3.2 Type-A port -full sized SD card slot Charging is done from the left side of the laptop, and the only way to take advantage of the P16 at full power is using the stock 200W power adapter. The USB 4 port only charges at up to 100W, which will cap the CPU and GPU. The cap isn’t as bad as it sounds because it’s still a powerful laptop even with the cap. You just won’t be able to take full advantage of the hardware’s capability. Due to this being a Ryzen laptop, one of its USB-C ports is only USB 4 and not a Thunderbolt port. ASUS also skimps out compared to the competition by making its other USB-C port 3.2. This USB 3.2 Type-C port on the right side has power delivery, but isn’t capable of charging the laptop. Connectivity It comes with WiFi 7 but unfortunately maxes out at 2882MB/s up&down. I've seen others do 5000MB/s. It also has Bluetooth 5.4, which is the latest version. Performance When set to Performance mode, which can only be run while plugged in using the stock 200W charger, the P16 is impressively powerful, but the fans blare non-stop, making it a pretty noisy laptop. It’s not a high-pitched sound or anything offensive, but it’s a noticeably aggressive sound of fans spinning. The laptop doesn’t get too hot as long as the vents on the bottom of the laptop aren’t blocked. It’s best used on a flat desk and not recommended on a bed while in Performance mode. While in Performance mode, I was able to play Shadow of the Tomb Raider in max Custom settings, which is more demanding than its preset Ultra settings in native 3840x2400 resolution and get a stable 60fps. In 1080p with those same maxed out settings, I could get 144fps. Sadly, the display is only a 60 Hz panel. But since the P16 was designed for content creation, 60 Hz is more than fine. The Nvidia GPU can be leveraged by connecting the P16 to an external gaming monitor. When running on battery, the P16 caps its CPU, and the discrete GPU (if it's being used). The P16 will use the integrated Radeon 890M. I never experienced any thermal throttling. Other than Performance mode, the laptop runs cool and very silent, especially in Whisper mode, where the fan never seems to go off. Through the MyASUS app, your hardware configuration is customizable. You can run on the integrated graphics card exclusively for longer battery life. It’s also nice that the integrated graphics is a Radeon variant (890M), while the discrete GPU is a GeForce RTX 5070, particularly for software that has benefits for one type over the other. The SSD is speedy with a 5279 MB/s sequential read, 4831 MB/s sequential write. It has a random read of 56 MB/s and random write of 146 MB/s and a capacity of 2TB. There is also a spare m.2 slot for additional SSD storage. Battery Using the 200W stock power adapter, it takes 1 hour and 45 minutes to charge from 0% to 100%, though it hits around the 90% mark after around 1 hour. Using a 100W USB-C charger, took about 4 hours to charge from 0% to 100% but hit around 90% after around 1 hour and 30 minutes. The battery life itself varies greatly depending on the mode you use and what you’re doing but otherwise excellent when you need it to be without the laptop feeling sluggish. When streaming video non-stop at 76% brightness and 50% volume I got about 9 hours of battery life. When gaming in 4K using the discrete GPU with HDR on and no caps (Windows mode; Best Performance power plan) it lasted only 1 hour and 47 minutes. Sound The sound out of the box sounded terrible to me. It sounded too isolated. But this was the sound profile for its “Music” setting. When I switched it to “Dynamic”, the sound was amazing. It utilizes Dolby Atmos, which gives the audio depth without sacrificing detail. The speakers also get very loud without any distortion. The microphone on the other hand isn’t very impressive. My recorded voice sounds too processed and unnatural. It does do a good job with noise cancellation though, eliminating sounds like an air conditioner. Touchpad The touchpad is very responsive but unfortunately lacks haptic feedback. Taps can be done anywhere on the touchpad, but physical button clicks can only be done on the bottom portion. The touchpad is very responsive and feels smooth to touch. It has a unique DialPad touch feature built in to the top-left portion of the touchpad that needs to activated via a simple drag from the top-right corner of the touchpad gesture. I have never accidentally triggered this gesture personally, although perhaps your mileage may vary. When the DialPad is turned on, it gives you a touch dial that comes with preset functions for specific apps like Photoshop and Word, while also allowing you to customize the dial with functions and apps that you assign on your own. This gives your shortcut access to commonly used functions via the DialPad. Bundled Software ASUS includes StoryCube and MuseTree with the P16. StoryCube appears to be a AI-assisted media hub. It automatically organizes your media with AI, such as sorting photos by people with AI recognizing similar faces; sorting photos by scenes that AI will come up categories for such as "Diving & Snorkeling", "Pets". My issues is, it has proven to be very inaccurate for me, and makes things more of a mess and irritating. A picture of a woman taking a selfie in a normal car was labeled under "Off-road Racing". You're supposed to able to search your media contextually, but StoryCube does a poor job. When I search "tennis" it shows one result despite the many tennis photos and videos I had. When I search "blue", I get no results. I do like how you're able to trim and even crop videos in StoryCube. But StoryCube only works with the folders you add to it manually, so it can be cumbersome. MuseTree is a Generative AI image content board. You start with an idea and MuseTree will generate images from it. Then you can add more AI generated images to your content board. You can take those other images and stack them on an existing image to have AI generate an image that combines the 2. My issue with MuseTree is that the default AI image model it uses, dreamshaper, isn't a style I like. It looks obviously AI, which is to say, bad and soft-looking. It's got a cheap Made in China vibe. You can change the AI image model by downloading a different one from Civitai but I haven't found any good ones for my needs. On top of that, it won't produce any copyright content. ASUS came out with the ProArt P16 last year with the RTX 4060 last year, but this model has the RTX 5070, which is more battery efficient when running on the discrete GPU. It also generates AI images slightly quicker. But the improvements for gaming are marginal. It can game but its best use is for media editing and creation.

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  Posted 4 months ago by KusMoG

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Powerful Compact Gorgeous Creation Machine

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  The Asus ProArt P16 is an amazing little content creator's dream. It packs an AMD HX 370 12 core CPU paired with an RTX 5070 with 32GB of RAM, which in this small form factor is pretty impressive. Along with that it has a 2TB SSD as well as a really beautiful 4k OLED display. All of this packed into an almost ultra thin design. This said, I want to stress that this isn't a gaming laptop. While the specs may appear great for gaming, the display while glorious only has a 60hz refresh rate. Pair that with the lower 100w power limit on the GPU and the slim design, gaming isn't really the strong suite of this laptop. Build quality on this laptop is simply great. I love the matte black (more a deep grey) finish on the laptop. The lid has a very minimalistic texture to it and a sleek badge at the bottom saying ProArt. No flashy gamer stuff here, so it’s suitable for the workplace. Weighing just 4.08 pounds (1.85 kg) and measuring 13.98 x 9.72 x 0.59–0.68 inches (35.49 x 24.69 x 1.49–1.73 cm), the ProArt P16 is remarkably portable for a 16-inch creator laptop, making it easy to carry for on-the-go professionals. The deck of the laptop has two front-facing speaker grills, a keyboard that is mostly great, and a generously large trackpad. The trackpad also has a built-in radial tool that can be set up for specialized control in third-party applications. ASUS also created an easy on/off feature on the trackpad to make it less inconvenient when you don’t need it. It comes with the standard ports you would expect, 2 USB-C (1xUSB 4, 1x 3.2, the USB 4 supports charging), 2x USB Type A ports, 1 HDMI and 1 SD card slot. No complaints with the ports with the exception of the power port. Its not really so much of an issue with the port, but instead the charging cord design. Its a square block and it has a lot of play in it. I haven't had an issue with it working itself out, but I feel that its one small yank away from breaking the port itself. As for performance, this laptop definitely impressed. The CPU is interesting because its the first real hybrid CPU AMD has made. It sports 4 P-cores and 8 E-cores. Don't let the naming confuse you with Intels offerings, the E-cores on this are significantly more performant than those you'd find on an Intel machine. They are simply more dense Zen5 cores that have less cache. So essentially the same performance, just at lower clocks and lower power usage. And the results speak for themselves in CPU benchmarks, easily beating out Intels top thin and light CPU (the 288v), while competing with their gaming laptop CPUs. I primarily use the laptop for programming and this thing crushed code compilation. It was also able to run my emulated Android devices with no issues and no perceivable slow downs while they were running. The GPU performance on this device is simply OK. This is not the fault of Asus, but simply what is available on the market when this is made. The 5070 this is equipped with is more like a 60 series product that Nvidia renamed. Its not longer a mid range GPU. Given that this laptop isn't really a gaming device, I'm not going to hold it against it. The only area where this holds back the laptop is in video editing where if you're working with larger files (4k primarily) it can cause significant hold ups. I was still able to work with it, but I would have appreciated a 12GB or 16GB option. The GPU is powerful enough for video edits without issues, though a desktop is still going to be faster. For gaming its mostly disappointing. You'll spend a lot of time adjusting settings just to maintain 60fps and most of the time turning texture quality down to work with the 8GB the GPU has. Its still plenty capable of gaming, but there are compromises to be made. The cooling solution on this laptop is ok. Its working with the slim nature of the design and because of that it will get hot. That said, it is moving about 150w of heat off the CPU+GPU combined while both are in use, and its able to keep them both at 85c or less. Pretty good for how thin it is. That said, when it is moving the heat out, it is generally blowing it directly onto your knees or legs depending on how your sitting and its warm. I wish they had opted for side exhaust, but it works so can't complain too much. While it is under load, the fans do spin up and they are audible. They aren't too loud, but you can definitely hear them. The display on this, if you can't tell is simply beautiful. Its OLED so its expected but it never ceases to amaze when you use an extremely high PPI display like this with OLED. Both SDR and HDR content pop, its plenty bright for normal environments (don't use in direct sunlight), and the colors seem accurate. I do wish there was a 1600p option instead though. While 4k is great, at this size I think 1600p would be more appropriate as it would allow for higher refresh rates. 60hz is usable for most things, but coming from a desktop that has 2 240hz displays, I can feel the drag of only 60hz. Its especially bad if you do want to do some light gaming on it. The keyboard on this is for the most part good. Its satisfying to type on, short clicky keypresses and an almost perfect key spacing. The front facing speakers make a number pad impossible though. My only complaint with this is while gaming (I know, its not a gaming laptop) it has a problem with key registration if you're pressing multiple keys. I hope this is something that can get fixed in a driver or bios update, but yeah, it can make playing games pretty bad. The speakers are great on this. When it comes to laptops, when I think of the Macbook Pro as a reference. This is very very close to the Macbook Pro in audio quality. It falls short in some areas such as distortion at higher levels, but at mid volume its plenty loud enough and the quality is there. Its got decent bass for a laptop and clear mid and high tones. Battery life on the laptop is decent, but you have to manage it yourself using the MyAsus app. By this I mean, if you're going to be on battery only, you should go into MyAsus and switch it to EcoMode. While I was attempting to test battery life, I noticed it drained much faster than I had expected it to. This was because the dedicated GPU was remaining powered on. It didn't switch automatically. So I dropped 60%+ battery life in simply a couple hours. Switching to Eco mode, I spent the rest of my night (6 more hours) watching videos and only losing about 20% battery. The laptop comes with its specialized software preinstalled. It doesn't have much bloatware installed on it by default so thats a plus, but Asus includes 4 specific applications for the laptop. The first two I think could really be combined into one, The MyAsus app and the ProArt center. The ProArt center is an app specific to the laptop you're using while MyAsus is one used across all their laptops I've seen. Problem is, both offer specific laptop control. For instance with MyAsus you can control the GPU mode of the laptop, be it dedicated GPU, integrated GPU or Hybrid. Don't confuse this with a MUX switch as the laptop doesn't have one. On the flip side, ProArt allows you to configure power limits and performance of the laptop. I'd really like it if similar features like this were put into a singular app instead of spread across multiple. Its especially jarring that the designs of both applications are so different. The ProArt app has a really nice interface, while the MyAsus one doesn't. Finally there are two creator focused apps that are included. The first being StoryCube and the second being MuseTree. StoryCube is an potentially handy content management tool. You can designate this app directories to sort for content you work with and it will work its AI magic on it (what this magic is, I have no idea). How this is helpful is not from the AI that I could see, but instead the ability to use tags. You can designate specific tags and attach them to your files so that you can find them easily when looking for them. The AI feature that I saw was simply person detection, but my media doesn't deal with people so it wasn't of use to me. Where this application fell short for me was its inability to access network drives. I don't store my media on my device, I store it on a local NAS so I can use it from multiple PCs. The application can't work with that, even if it is setup as attached network storage. It does offer the use of OneDrive and iCloud, but when I used it it was incredibly slow. The design of the app is great, and if they extended out the tags feature, allowed AI to determine what tags should be used and grouped content it would be really helpful, but right now its simply a better content manager than windows Explorer. Finally there is MuseTree. This is an AI image generator that uses your local NPU to generate images. This one is a mixed bag for me. The interface is extremely good with it, with it being node based prompts to generate things. On the other hand, the AI is incredibly bad (don't know if this is due to the model or limited NPU strength) but it almost never would generate what I was asking. It would also generate its own follow on prompts that I had no idea where it was getting or even how they were relevant to what I was doing. If Asus can figure this out then I can see it being a useful tool, but right now its more headache than its worth. In conclusion, I love this laptop. I use laptops for content creation and development, making webpages/mobile apps and doing hardware reviews for YouTube. This laptop allows me to switch between all those tasks from one machine, while being mobile. Previously I used a larger laptop with a 14900hx and a 4080 which was bulky and had terrible battery life. I've been able to replace that with this, maintaining most of its capabilities while cutting down on charging time and weight.

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  Posted 4 months ago by Shaun