Asus takes on MacBook Pro with 4K+ OLED workstations

No RTX A5000 paired with an AMD Ryzen CPU though

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Asus has unveiled the world’s first Ryzen-basedNvidiaRTX Studio laptop together with a number ofmobile workstationsto target the lucrative and ever-growing creator market.

The ProArt Studiobook Pro 16OLEDfeatures a 16:10, 3840 x 24004K+ OLEDHDRdisplay with 100% DCI-P3 color gamut and up to 550 nits peak brightness. As a comparison, that’s 50% more pixel and 10% brighter than the Retina Display on theMacBook Pro 16-inch.

Users can choose between theAMDRyzen 9 5900HX, the Xeon W-11955M, the Ryzen  7 5800H and the  i7-11800H, which are some of the most powerful mobile processors on the market right now. However there’s no Core i9 available yet though.

Surprisingly, the Ryzen model offers only the RTX A2000 while itsIntelcounterpart is paired with the far more powerful RTX A5000 model. That’s despite the fact that the cooling system that all processors have a 45W TDP and are cooled by the same proprietary Asus IceCool Pro cooling solution that has a total thermal capacity of 140W.

Elsewhere, there’s up to 64GB RAM (with ECC support for the Intel Xeon), up to 4TB storage (two 2TB M.2 MVNe PCIe 3.0 SSDs configured in RAID-0) and a flurry of ports. The StudioBook Pro 16 OLED  has a starting price of at $2,500 in the US and £1,999 in the UK. Prices elsewhere have yet to be disclosed.

Gaming creators, a new market?

Whether you want avideo editing laptopor anotebook to run Photoshop, there seems to be a creator’s laptop. Asus took it to the next level by offering three laptop tiers for casual, advanced and professional creators.

However, to its credit, other than the headline OLED display, Asus has added a few other useful features like an Asus Dial, which is a rotary accessory not dissimilar toMicrosoft’s Surface Dial and a memory card reader that’s compatible with the new SD7.0 format.

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We’d still like to see Asus bump the battery capacity to 99WHr (instead of the current 90WHr) and equip the Ryzen version with the A5000 and PCIe 4.0 storage.

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