The touchpad is pretty typical, and has a fingerprint sensor built in. Plus, the ControlCenter software lets you create keyboard macros, which can come in handy for video or photo editing and the like. Not my favorite feel for gaming, but fine for typing and creative work. The keyboard isn't quite as tactile as I like, but it's not mushy and has a decent amount of travel and a traditional layout, including a numeric keypad. It feels solidly built, but I'd have to abuse it for a while before knowing where its weak points lie in that respect. The screen has extremely narrow bezels, and it's got a rubbery bumper around the edges that ensures some space between the keyboard and the display. It's relatively thin - venting all around helps keep it cool - with all the connections that can reasonably fit on it, and while it's no ultralight laptop at 4.9 lbs or 2.2 kg, that's quite competitive for a 15-inch with its specs. Sarah Tew/CNETĪside from that, it's quite nicely done. The power connector is too far forward and can block the SD card slot - and possibly more - if you have to run the power cord toward the front of the laptop. I somehow managed to register a peak brightness of over 600 nits for a 10% window in HDR mode, though most often that will be closer to about 415 nits, and full-screen maximum brightness for normal work is around 350 nits. For colors, it's very accurate at maximum brightness - I was told it was calibrated to 100% brightness for Adobe RGB and it might be even better at lower brightness levels - and with just a little tweaking could probably hit anyone's accuracy threshold.īecause of different implementations, brightness varies across the OLED panels, too. It covers 100% of DCI-P3 and about 93% of the Adobe RGB color gamuts, all the white points come within 250K of their targets, gamma is very consistently close to 2.2 above 20% gray (OLED gamma has a discontinuity roughly below 20% because it has different shadow-detail characteristics than monitors with less perfect blacks, for which a gamma of 2.2 became standard) and the gray scale is reasonably neutral. In this case, it makes it a lot more out-of-the-box flexible than the one-profile-fits-all versions of other OLED laptops I've tested.Īs tested (using Portrait Displays' Calman 5 Ultimate and an X-Rite i1Display Pro), the display is very accurate for a nonpro screen. Panel, the software profiling and supporting hardware are what differentiates them from each other. Oddly, the Native profile it loads is sRGB rather than just a full-monitor gamut, which is what "native" usually means in this context. For example, it comes with a Pantone-certified software profile for print work, plus four color temperature software-calibration profiles (D5800, D6000, D6500 and D6800), which you can swap among via the ControlCenter rather than using Windows' system. Though not as robust as the color management of a mobile workstation, which generally has profiles stored in hardware, it's one of the broader systems I've seen in a prosumer laptop. But the Asus has some drawbacks relative to the Gigabyte that are hard to overlook: The keyboard is uncomfortable without the wrist rest, it's got mediocre battery life and it's relatively heavy. The Asus's primary display is a touchscreen, which is one thing I miss in the Gigabyte. Its primary competitor is the Asus Pro Duo, a dual-screen OLED laptop that costs the same for a similar configuration but downgrades to an RTX 2060 in favor of a 1TB SSD. Our $2,500 test configuration, the XA model with a six-coreĬore i7-9750H, 16GB RAM and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q, performed relatively well.
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