Why can you trust the Tech Radar
We spend hours in testing every product or service that we review, so you can be sure you are buying the best. Learn more about how we test.
This review first appeared in the 346 issue PC Pro.
The first version of the Pratte Studio Bok 16 OLED was an impressive animal. Not satisfied with rotating in a modern AMD Ryzen processor and GeForce RTX 3070 graphics, it offered a built -in dial and a novel of the magnificent 16in OLED panel. This year’s update is not radical, but improvement on all sides makes it even more attractive to creative professionals who is targeting asus.
I just have a disappointment: when ASUS announced the update, it also shared the 3D version of the laptop. Just as I reviewed Acer Spatiebus View screens two months ago, such as Provort Studio Bok 16 3 DO LED (Note “3D”) produces stereotypical 3D images without glasses. This kind of technology works amazingly, the use of eye tracking software and micro -lenses to make a slightly different images in each eye. When you want to go back to 2D, it has only one click.
Sadly, if it appeals, then you have to wait for the launch “later this year”. For now, you should do with a non -3D version. And you will still need to wait until the middle of June, on this occasion it will be available from the scan (Code LN135615).
Screening success
In terms of color accuracy and coverage, ASUS throws everything on the screens in its converting range. Here, it includes Calmen’s certified and pantone verification certificates, with the guarantee that each panel’s average Delta E (a scale of color accuracy) will be less than two. The accuracy of our panel was even better: it has an average of 0.51 and has a maximum Delta E112.
Color coverage is also excellent. You have the choice of color profiles, including the DCI-P3, where it covered 99 % aspects. Print designers who prefer to work in the Adobe RGB space should remain on the ancestral profile, with 98 % coverage.
But what is really important about this OLED panel is that it is beautiful. You take advantage of incredible sophistication by a resolution of 3,200 x 2,000, and whether you are watching a movie or editing photos, you will love colors and deep calls. While the sparkle of 363cd/m’s2 Cannot not be noteworthy, support for the Display HDR’s real Black 500 shows that it can be increased in local areas in auxiliary content.
Gaming ability
This includes games, and there is a lot to love the gamers here with the 120 Heritz refresh rate and 0.2ms response time. The Studio Book ships with NVIDIA’s studio drivers instead of your game -ready option, but if gaming is your preference, it is so easy to switch.
The results were expected to be high in our 1080p gaming bench Mark Sweet: in 186fps F1 22144fps in The shadow of the tomb raid101fps in Emerge And 88fps in Enhanced Edition in Metro Excavation. They are all in high settings. By converting into a native resolution of 3,200 x 2,000, these figures fell to 105Fps, 94Fps, 56Fps and 45Fps.
All of our results were with studio drivers and laptops in the “Missbord” format, where it automatically changes between discarded and integrated graphics. You can only choose to use the GPU, but this does not make any difference to our results so I suggest that stay on default.
At least, the use of integrated graphics will squeeze some extra life from the 90W battery. The studiobock is a powerful beast with a power, and the best result I saw was in the useless test of PC Mark, where it lasts 6 hours 36 minutes. The video lasted for five hours in both the rindown and light -use tests, while changing the gaming was reduced to just 1hr 34 minutes. These results are like Windows Work Station, but the 16in MacBook Pro continued for about 20 20 hours in our video roundown test.
Lightning
Portability is hardly the fortress of this product. 2.4kg of laptop weighs a significant extent, you should allow 740 grams of power supply. However, in exchange for bulk, you are buying an incredibly powerful system. Let’s start with a core i9-13980Hx processor, complete with eight p cores that maximum 5.6GHz and 16 e-core are out with a peak 4GHz frequency. These are 32 threads ready to deal with any appropriate task, which is why the Sen Bench reached 24,801 in R23 and 21,043 in Gack Bench 5. On the contrary, McBook Pro scored 14,700 and 15,061 in these tests.
Keeping you in mind, Studio Book has the advantage of 64 GBDR 5-5200 RAM from MacBook’s 32GB. And keeping two M.2 Gen4 SSDs in the RAID0 sequence never hurts: This Crystal Mark 8 writes 7,015MB/SEC Reds and 6,431MB/SEC through the sequence tests of 8. Only one negative aspect, especially compared to Apple’s M2 chips, is that the fans kick as soon as the tasks are demanded.
You can appreciate the fans who secure the base. Doing so shows how easy it will be to change the memory and the need for SSD should ever be created. There is nothing that is possible to do on the latest MacBox.
The touching interface
ASUS is also bent in another benefit of Windows laptops: support for contact. Of course The screen is accountable to the fingers, of course, but the box in the box contains an active styling styles. It also works on the touchpad, so it is a shame that it is not even bigger. Nevertheless, a 6 6 provides room for the game, and the hepatic technology that is developed in work.
Then there is the Asos Dial. Take time to learn how it works and it can become an integral part of your daily workflow. Especially if you use Adobe’s Creative Cloud: Dial Adobe can clean through timelines in Premier Pro, adjust the brush size in Photoshop and adjust minutes in the light room. It is useful to make a granular or clean change.
It is also possible to use ASUS dial in Windows and other apps to adjust the volume, brightness and cycle through open tabs in your web browser. It is difficult to imagine that they will make a lot of differences in your daily life, though, dial is the most useful if you are using creative tools on a daily basis.
A minor resentment is that you have to load two different ASUs tools to compose the settings. Here is the Creator Hub, where you control the dial settings and access the calibration tools for the screen. But you also have Missus, which offers more options to a flag – some of which are copied to the creator hub, such as switching between performance methods. Both have different aesthetics, so they are not clearly designed by the same teams.
When it comes to hardware aesthetics, though, I have no criticism. Many Asus gaming laptops found none of the RGB billing, just a sleek and less design. The metal lid is not unnecessary by the sharp logo, in which a subtle “offer” show is the only branding. Even it is covered with anti -fingerprint coating to see the Black Fine.
It is also a firm laptop with Gorlala Glass to promise the screen and test military grade standards. These include trauma, vibration and extreme temperatures. Nor can I complain about contact with ports with generous support-which includes two Thunderbolt 4 and 2.5GB Ethernet-and WiFi 6E. And 1080p webcam and the speaker are both high quality drawers.
The final views
When this model is available, it is a Studio Book and a great update that should specifically appeal to 3D designers. Then it will be possible to repeat faster through prototypes: design, get feedback, adapt. If you can benefit from ASUS dial, styles and sheer firepower inside this laptop, this can be a purchase of change.
For all, this is probably excessive. Especially at this price. But if you like the Idea of integrated dial, Google will be for “Porto Studio Bok 16 OLED” and you will find cheap options based on last year’s silicon.
Porto Studio Book is a unique design of 16 OLED, and if you need its skills, you can be assured of high components and can be made quality.
We also ranked the best free Adobe Allstream alternatives.
