Asus' New ProArt A16 Could Be the Best Laptop for Photo Editing
Asus has updated its ProArt A16 professional creative laptop with the latest graphics from Nvidia, combining high-end performance components with a gorgeous OLED display. Its 16-inch form factor ensures plenty of screen space, and with the latest neural processor from AMD, it has everything it needs to take advantage of Microsoft's Copilot+ features.
The Asus ProArt range has been one of the premier professional, creative laptops for a few generations, and this latest edition doesn't pull any punches. It has one of AMD's most powerful mobile processors, the 12-core Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, and pairs it with the latest Nvidia mobile RTX 5070 graphics. This generation, the default memory configuration is 64GB, ensuring you have all the RAM you need for even the most demanding of tasks, and there's space for up to 3TB of fast NVMe storage.
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The main upgrade this generation, though, is the display. Asus ProArt laptops are built around the idea of a gorgeous display, and the latest model meets the standard. It's a 16-inch, 3K (2,880-by-1,800) OLED panel, with a 16:10 aspect ratio, making longer documents and webpages more comfortable to read. This is a slightly lower resolution than the last-generation design, but it has a much higher refresh rate at 120Hz. That makes it better for 3D animation and for watching back high-paced videos, as well as for gaming in the off hours.
It's fully VESA-certified and Nvidia Studio-validated to provide a stunning image, with incredible contrast, high brightness, and eye-catching color.
This laptop has a powerful neural processor built into the CPU, offering up to 50 TOPS performance, and the GPU can manage several hundred TOPS of its own in supporting apps. This combination lets this laptop take advantage of new Copilot+ features recently integrated with Windows 11, as well as future AI releases Microsoft has planned. It can also run some of Asus' own AI-powered apps, like StoryCube and MuseTree, entirely locally. That lets you use generative AI at the edge, without any oversight, censorship, or data gathering by outside parties.
Even with these new additions, the laptop remains relatively thin and light at just over half an inch thick and just over four pounds. You probably wouldn't want to use it on your lap for too long at that size, though.
This laptop will be on sale soon with a starting price of $2,500. If you want to save a little, the last-generation option with an RTX 4070 and slower 60Hz (but 4K) display is still available.
Elsewhere at Computex, Asus launched the fastest gaming monitor in the world, and an eGPU dock with Thunderbolt 5 support.
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