ASUS - ProArt P16 16" 4K Touch Screen Laptop - Copilot+ PC - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - 64GB Memory - RTX 4070 - 2TB SSD - Nano Black

Battery life is excellent particularly if you use G-Helper to limit TDP to 30W or less and turn off 4070. With that setting it reaches 15hrs of light web browsing and office work with no noticeable slow down. If that setting is used, the fans never turn on and it feels room temp. In balanced mode (45W) the fans come on quietly periodically. Much quieter than a dell xps 17 inch. The xps would run fans constantly and much louder. The zenbook s16 runs at 17W but does so hotter due to the thinner chassis. The P16 has better heat dissipation even when the fans are off. So it runs cool than the S16 if you set the TDP to match the S16 15-30W. With the stock silent mode in myasus battery life is more like 8hrs because myasus doesn't lower the TDP very much. It would be nice if there was a version without dedicated graphics and 64gb of memory but it is what it is I guess. 64gb is impossible to find in the HX 300 series and this model is the only choice. The screen would be better if it was 500+ nits. Disappointing it doesn't get brighter then again it is oled and that's a giant power drain vs mini-led or IPS. The screen looks fine just wish there was ideally a mini-led option or at least this oled panel could get brighter for the times when that's needed. Trackpad is better than the dell xps 9720. Speakers are very good. I'd recommend it overall.

How I would build it! I returned 3 Really nice Laptops in the Past 4 months. This one Released on the Last day of my Return window of my HP Spector 360. The ProArt P16 was exactly what I was hoping for. And still even better than what could be expected. 100% Satisfied, This destroys the MacBook Pro with Photoshop, Illustrator & Solidworks. I design Vehicle Wraps as my profession and many renderings are over 1 Gig. This LapTop speeds right through processes and saving file times 2x the speed of a Mac. Best BEST Laptop out the Box you could want. One not so critical option I would consider would be to make the screen lay Flat or 2in1 convertible for 6 Stars. But As-Is, It already has an adequate viewing angle and a versatile Track pad that doubles as drawing pad for a stylus, So definitely Not a negative in any measure. I'll be getting another ProArt P16 for my son who attends Georgia Tech, for Industrial Design & Engineering, for his class projects.

Well I suspect there is some stability issues with these new Ryzen AI chips or this motherboard, that haven't fully been worked out yet. I get a number of kernel power failure reboots after fully updating all software, and given that sometimes will happen when doing nothing, that is a problem. I have logged a handful of hours on Diablo 4 without it rebooting and it runs great when it runs. I also designed another enclosure in Fusion 360 and the specs of this laptop and the build are awesome--I just hope they address the stability issues. Given the price tag -- it should have never unexpectedly rebooted, yet alone 4 times today.