A Surprising Creator Laptop?! ASUS Zenbook Pro 16x OLED 2023 Review

The ASUS Zenbook Pro 16x just might be the best Windows laptop I've tried so far! Not only is it silly powerful, but it's also reasonable thin, light and silent when on battery (doing everyday tasks!) so it really feels like a laptop of two halves. It's all the power you need when you need it, but chill when you don't!

Now we just need the battery life to keep getting better!

00:00 Intro
00:30 Specs
00:42 Price
00:54 OLED Display
02:23 Build Quality
03:00 System On A Module
03:36 Benchmarks
04:26 SSD
04:42 Davinci Resolve
05:53 GPU Effects
06:18 Render Tests
07:30 Gaming
08:08 Cooling & Fans
08:35 The Surprising thing...
09:29 Battery Life
10:03 Ports & io
10:48 Lifted Keyboard
12:00 Webcam
12:19 Speakers
12:49 Touchpad
13:22 Asus Numberpad
13:50 Asus Dial
14:46 Conclusion

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I hope you found this useful :) Thanks for watching.

Mr Alex Tech

[MrAlexTech]

Something a little different! Thanks to ASUS for sending this over. Let me know what you think of the review?! Want to see more of this sort of thing?! I enjoyed making this. It was the change of pace I needed to be honest. The tutorials can feel a little samey. Testing, writing, filming and editing was all good fun. Although, these videos do take bloomin ages 😄

[jamesgoodman]

Purchased it a few days ago for £2500 from Mesh computers. A render test on a current scene on my old RTX2080 took around 12 minutes. On the Zen it took 56 seconds, seems to fly. So far so good!

[complete-mayhem-x]

I ended up going with a lenovo legion 7i pro model with a 4080 in it. The screen is pretty nice, better than my older laptop, though it doesn't come close to a nice OLED in terms of contrast!

I couldn't justify the cost of a higher tier creator focused notebook though, so I went with a 'gamer' notebook. While I wish it weren't so heavy, it's hard to argue with render performance while plugged in. I rarely use my laptop away from wall power though so it's not a big deal.

[SuperRescue]

Mine should arrive tomorrow. Finally took a punt, with an rtx4080 Can'twait, will also treat myself to a studio version of DVR

[aaphotofilm]

Awesome video. I actually brought a Asus laptop dual screen powerful as this one and love it so much for davinci resolve

[alecsbizarrememes]

I imagine its nice to make something different for once, I would love to see more of these, perhaps for a 2 in 1? Anyway, Loved this!

[maxandminiadventure]

Bro is back, Woof & Meowz! Oh yeah, the sticker price is insane but looks pretty cool.

[rano]

Would've loved to see some Fusion playback tests, atleast some of the templates Fusion comes with.

[_pierre_]

'I think that 99.5% of your subscribers will certainly be willing to pay €4, 400 for it and will order it immediately tomorrow.' NB: I personally looked until I saw the price and immediately followed by clicking on the x.

[M.iskandar]

Could you tell me how to customize the color of the keyboard?

[ToriksLV]

Never owned a laptop and i must say after such videos i sometimes wish maybe i should get but only for a moment.

[TRDynamicProductions]

Awesome machine and great review. BTW, is there anyway we can change only one side of corner radius in fusion?

[UKDroneAdventures]

Wow. Looks a great laptop but so expensive. What’s the cheapest laptop and desktop that you can buy that allows me to edit using Davinci Resolve … that would be a good video.

[xariyl]

Looks like a great on-the-go photo- or video-editing laptop... that price, though!

[dieterseitz]

The components sounds better than my Desktop, but i would prefer a 4K Display. I‘m looking for a Laptop at the moment for travelling and it seems that a lot of new high performance Laptops are coming this year.

[anirbanchakraborty]

@Alex, I see that you are also using a macbook. How is the haptic touchpad feeling in comparsion to that on the mac?

[Graham_Rule]

I was seriously thinking of maxing out my credit card until you said there were lights that couldn't be turned off. Probably just as well as I don't actually need this much laptop.

[DreamBigPoland]

The biggest problem with this Asus laptop is that it's Asus meaning poor support in the UK and non-existent stock. Single pieces available (not rtx4xxx) at dodgy online stores where any issues mean months to resolve. Been there. Done that.

[jaymurray]

Do you ever ask questions on Da Vinci resolve ?

[CraigHollabaugh]

Honey, its getting cold in here. OK, hold on, I'll render my 2 hour doc. Thanks for the review.