ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (H5600)

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AED 9999 ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (H5600)

ASUS recently announced a slew of new laptops aimed at content creators, one of which is the new ProArt Sudiobook 16 OLED H5600. This laptop has been designed for those who demand the best of the best for jobs such as 3D rendering, 8K video editing, and even high-quality livestreaming. What makes this laptop special is that it comes with the ASUS Dial design and a touchpad that can support a stylus.

In addition, the ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED also comes with three physical buttons, allowing 3D creators to move and select or rotate 3D objects conveniently, even without using a mouse or a sketch pad. The Studiobook’s keyboard also adds a shortcut key and a Windows key which can be set to perform a wide range of functions through the ProArt Creator Hub.

Let’s talk about the ASUS Dial. You can press and hold the ASUS Dial to turn on the ProArt Creator Hub menu of tools and rotate it to adjust settings, making it easier and faster for you to create content while customising your workflow. The ASUS Dial works with popular professional-grade software such as Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Lightroom Classic, and After Effects. When you press the ASUS Dial, it displays the ASUS Dial menu suited to the related Adobe app, allowing for easy adjustment of commonly used functions such as zoom, brightness, and contrast via rotating dials.

Under the hood, the ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED runs on AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900HX processor. You also get up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 with 8GB GDDR6 VRAM. The processing power is coupled with 16GB of DDR4 memory and 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 Performance SSD storage. There’s also a 16-inch OLED display that offers an aspect ratio of 16:10 and a resolution of 3840-by-2400 pixels.

In terms of I/O ports, you get lots of options. This includes two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C, with both supporting data transfer, 100 W PD charging, and DisplayPort. You also get two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, one HDMI 2.1 (supporting up to 8k 120 Hz or 10k 60 Hz), one SD Express 7.0 card reader that supports data transfers speeds of up to 985 Mbps, one 3.5 mm combo audio jack, and one Gigabit RJ45 LAN port.

The ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED also offers a wide range of security features. This includes the implementation of TPM 2.0, the inclusion of a Power key with a fingerprint sensor, and a Kensington lock to help prevent physical theft of the laptop.

Overall performance was very good. In terms of benchmarks, the ProArt StudioBook 16 OLED put up a good show – it scored 6,270 and 8,171 in PCMark 10’s standard and extended runs, respectively. In Cinebench R20’s single- and multi-core render tests, the laptop delivered scores of 671 and 5,109 respectively while POVRay’s ray tracing benchmark took only 57 seconds to complete. The Blender Benchmark reported render times of 3 minutes, 42 seconds for the BMW scene, and 8 minutes, 49 seconds for the Classroom scene.

While there are lots of brands out there, that claim to produce “creator tools”, ASUS is one of the few that has actually delivered a laptop with features, such as the ASUS Dial and the ProArt Creator Hub, which will definitely appeal to content creators. The ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (H5600) is not a laptop for everyone. However, if you are a content creator, it is the best AED 9,999 you will spend today, on a creator laptop.