Meteor showers, comets, asteroids, etc.

The stunning level of the StudioBook 16’s 10-bit, 500-nit, 4K OLED display cannot be overemphasized. The colors are rich and vibrant, with deep blacks and almost perfect tonal balance. I believe I spent more time on this gorgeous display than I spent testing the machine and letting it pass its pace.

This kind of display will accompany you to the end and bore you with other displays, and its lack makes life less meaningful.

No, I am not exaggerating. Seeing this monitor for the first time is like trying a pair of electrostatic headphones or eating at a Michelin-starred restaurant. This experience is unforgettable; it will always accompany you and may change you.

We have all used OLED displays in the past. Apple and Samsung’s smartphone displays are indeed better, but they are also small, and the experience of watching content on a 16-inch screen only a foot or two away from your face is your experience. You will be grateful when you try.

As for the rest, I am happy to report that it matches the display's amazingly. ProArt StudioBook 16 is made of aluminum alloy and feels like a premium machine. The buttons and dial (more on that later) feel well-crafted, and the soft beauty exudes quality.

The speakers are easily the best I hear on a Windows machine, and the qualifier is "Windows" because my 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro still sounds better, and the microphones (four of them) are also good. They are not studio-quality microphones, but they are good enough.

Internally, my evaluation unit includes AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU (8 cores, 16 threads), RTX 3070 GPU with a maximum rated TGP of 110 W (limited to 85 W under full system load), dual 500 GB SSD RAID 0 and 32 GB DDR4 RAM with a clock frequency of 3,200 MHz. This is a very powerful system, but as the brave among you have noticed, there are some gaming laptops that can extract more from this GPU.

When discussing this with ASUS, someone told me that since the StudioBook 16 is a Pro laptop first, the 3070 was chosen not only because of its performance, but also because it provides 8 GB of VRAM. Without thermal constraints, the GPU may not reach its highest performance level, but it has enough power for productivity workloads involving 3D rendering and video editing.

In addition, although some AMD GPUs do provide higher performance, Nvidia's RTX core and CUDA and OPTIX support are more beneficial for certain workloads.

This is something we need to keep in mind when looking at the performance characteristics of this machine. Keep in mind that this is not a game console, only the 60 Hz refresh rate of the monitor can prove it.

For the remaining specifications, you will get an infrared webcam with a privacy shield, support for Windows Hello face unlock, and a large number of fast ports, which will make some long-term Apple users cry with joy. You can get a total of four 10 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports-2 USB-A and 2 USB-C-and support 100 W PD. The attached HDMI 2.1 port supports 8K displays, the SD card slot is an SD Express 7.0 slot, which can read and write at a speed of nearly 1 Gbps, and you can get a full-size Gigabit Ethernet port.

The laptop is pre-installed with an application called ASUS Creator Hub. Like Armoury Crate of ASUS gaming laptops, Creator Hub is essentially a control center for managing laptop performance profiles—including fan speeds, power distribution, etc.—and other aspects such as color management and dial configuration. .

For performance testing, I ran the laptop in "full speed mode", which turned the fan to maximum and allowed the CPU and GPU to stretch their legs. I ran some tests in the default "standard mode" and found that the overall performance dropped by about 20% on average. However, this mode is almost silent and is the mode I prefer to use. For general use, even some editing work in Photoshop and DaVinci Resolve, the standard mode is more than enough, and the whole system feels very lively.

I will make these charts self-explanatory, enough to show that StudioBook performs well against gaming powerhouses such as Lenovo Legion 5 Pro. Although the comprehensive benchmark test clearly provides an advantage for Legion 5 Pro-it can provide more power for its GPU-but actual tests show that StudioBook has achieved a significant lead. Especially in terms of video encoding, StudioBook 16 is almost twice as fast as its competitors.

It performs particularly well in terms of battery power, and there are enough reasons to make this laptop more popular than the more powerful gaming-focused laptop.

The relative performance percentage between StudioBook 16 and the much cheaper Legion 5 Pro. Picture: Tech2

The game benchmark presents a different picture. In most games, the fps of the StudioBook is a few frames slower than the Lenovo Legion 5 of similar specifications, but it is not slow enough to be a problem. In demanding games such as Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition and Red Dead Redemption 2, 50-60 fps is expected at the maximum setting of 1080p, and 150+ in lighter games such as CS:GO and Valorant. The game can be played under the native 4K 3840x2400 of the laptop, but only if you lower the setting to med and use an AI upgrader such as DLSS.

In other words, StudioBook 16 cannot handle long game sessions well. The laptop arrived when Halo Infinite was launched. Obviously, the first thing I did was to start it and see how it looked on the OLED. Sadly, although the game looked great, and I maintained a steady 40-50 fps under 4K, the performance dropped drastically within 30 minutes, causing severe stuttering and frame locking because the hardware was difficult to keep cool.

Again, you bought this product for "professional" workloads and not for games, but I am of course disappointed that I cannot play good games on this machine.

I think I have never been as excited and frustrated with the display as using the OLED of the StudioBook 16.

I made it clear from the beginning that this monitor is amazing, it is true, but it is also connected to a laptop running Windows 11. this is a problem.

For whatever reason, Microsoft does not allow laptops to switch to HDR mode via DC power. Apple is powering a 1600 nit miniLED display and a 500 nit LCD display on a 13-inch laptop with a 58-watt-hour battery. Why a Windows-based laptop with a 90 WHr battery cannot handle a lower power 500 nit OLED is beyond my understanding. To confirm, this is 100% Microsoft's problem. Asus, MSI, Dell, and all other notebook manufacturers are at a loss.

Without plugging in a laptop, you cannot view HDR content on the bed, on an airplane, or anywhere else. HDR support was also broken, and some formats were not fully supported, resulting in strange colors and artifacts.

The support for wide-gamut color space in Windows is also more complicated than macOS. The wider DCI-P3 color space supported by StudioBook's OLED is great, but by default, Windows will render colors in sRGB, and only supported applications will take advantage of the wide color gamut profile.

Normally, this situation is interrupted, and you will find that Photoshop and Windows Photo applications introduce a strong yellow cast, or the colors in Windows will eventually become oversaturated due to highlights. If you want to use it correctly, you also need to spend time calibrating the brightness and contrast of HDR and SDR. If you like me like to manually calibrate the monitor to maintain consistency when using multiple devices, the problem will get worse.

Speaking of calibration, ASUS claims that the StudioBook's OLED is PANTONE verified, and the deltaE is less than 2. In plain English, they say that this monitor is certified to be color accurate, and any errors in the rendering are insignificant and invisible to the naked eye.

The StudioBook 16 is a beautiful machine with one of the best monitors I have ever used. Picture: Tech2/Anirudh Regidi

I don't know if this is a problem with my device or a general wiring problem, but I found that the monitor has the iconic OLED hue (green) with the default ASUS color profile. Using the i1 Display Pro Plus colorimeter (designed for calibrating OLED displays), I measured an average deltaE of 2.1, and a maximum deltaE of 13.93, which is unacceptable. This is mainly due to the obvious green color cast that affects the black. . The white point is also set to 6400K instead of 6500K as expected.

Thankfully, it took 20 minutes to calibrate the device, bringing the maximum deltaE down to an impressive 0.7. This is the best result I have seen from any monitor so far, and it proves the quality of the panels used by Asus.

Before calibration, the display is light green. Picture: Tech2

If you are a professional who relies on color, I strongly recommend that you ignore ASUS's statement and calibrate the monitor before you start using it.

To be honest, I think the dial is the most exciting feature of this laptop, but I was wrong. After spending 10 days dealing with it, I think I can safely say that either way, I don't care about it.

The dial is about 2 cm in diameter and is located in the upper left corner of the touchpad. It is well-designed. When you tap or rotate it, it feels firm and responds instantly. Clicking on it will pop up a circular menu on your screen. ASUS has designed the menu to adapt to the recognition and adaptation of open applications. It is also well calibrated with the brakes and can provide feedback on what you are doing.

For example, on the Windows desktop, the watch face will only display volume and brightness controls, but in Photoshop, you can choose to control the brush size, enlarge and reduce the canvas, etc. This menu is also available in the Creator Hub application, allowing you to design a perfect dial-based workflow according to your needs.

But is it effective? In most cases, it does so, but I haven't really found it to be much more useful than the auxiliary scroll wheel on my MxMaster mouse, or has become my second nature keyboard shortcut and scroll wheel combination.

I thought I would fall in love with that dial, but I didn't. However, if you can find its purpose, it is still useful. Picture: Tech2/Anirudh Regidi

For me, the problem with the dial is that using it is an either-or scenario. I can use keyboard shortcuts or dial. For quick editing, this may be convenient, but I have to choose between two different control schemes, and I prefer muscle memory instead of adapting to the new interface.

In addition, using the watch face involves too many additional steps, namely, tap to bring up the context menu, scroll to the setting of your choice, tap again to go deep into the menu, rotate to make adjustments, tap to return to one level, rotate back to another control, repeat .

This is much more complicated than I expected, and it doesn't work for me. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against dialing itself, I just can't make it work the way I do it.

However, what is even more impressive is the touchpad. It is quite large, and more importantly, supports a stylus (stylus?) and 1024 pressure levels. Basically, it is more like a digital notepad than a tablet! Asus laptops don’t come with a stylus, so I can’t test it, but I can easily imagine myself tapping and scribbling on the pad while editing in Photoshop and Lightroom.

ASUS ProArt StudioBook 16 H500 is an impressive machine, it is one of the best monitors I have ever used. Its specifications and performance are very suitable for professional workflows (Whether Windows is suitable is a controversial issue), and its price is 2,19,990 rupees, and the price is very competitive.

In other words, if you don’t need (or want) this OLED display (what’s wrong with you?), you can easily save 60,000 rupees by choosing products like Lenovo Legion 5, which can provide 80-90% productivity Performance and better gaming performance, not to mention 2K 165 Hz LCD with the same 16:10 aspect ratio.

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