This is also the version with the rather fine 240Hz display. At the time of writing, Asus is selling the optimum version with an Intel Core i7 chip, an Nvidia RTX3060 GPU and a 1TB SSD for £1,200. Marching along a path through that vague borderland between creative and gaming laptops is Asus’ TUF Dash 15, on balance my favourite laptop of 2021 so far. Right now it’s available from Amazon for £1,449. The quad-core 2.4GHz Core i7 1165G7 processor with integrated Xe graphics and 16GB of RAM can’t compete with the StudioBook in performance but for lighter tasks, it’s an interesting alternative. There’s a good spread of connections, too, including support for Thunderbolt 4.

At 1.05kg it’s incredibly light and the 1,920 x 1,080 AMOLED panel is lovely. If it’s just an OLED screen you are after then Samsung’s superlight Galaxy Book Pro 15.6 has a lot going for it. The rather cramped keyboard and poor battery life of under six hours knock some of the shine off the Gigabyte but it’s worth a look if the price is right.īest budget gaming laptop 2021: The cheapest gaming notebooks from £700 With an Intel Core i7 chip and the same Nvidia RTX 3070 GPU, the Aero 15 almost matches the StudioBook, but you only get 16GB of RAM out of the box rather than the Asus’ 32GB. The review models currently doing the rounds all have US-style keyboards and power cables but UK retail models will be fully domesticated.įor similar money, you can get the Gigabyte Aero 15 which also has a 4K OLED screen, albeit at 15.6in instead of 16in. In the UK the ProArt StudioBook machines will go on sale via Amazon and Currys in November and there will be two models available: the AMD Ryzen 7 5800H and Nvidia RTX 3060 model for £1,999 and the Ryzen 9 5900HX, RTX 3070 model for £2,499.

Perhaps more than any other class of laptop a creative workstation needs to not trip over its shoelaces in any one area.Īsus ProArt StudioBook 16 OLED: Price & Competition Have you tried using Photoshop with a less than stellar mouse or a sub-par trackpad and sloppy keyboard? Or with a GPU that struggles to render 4K video? Trust me, you don’t want to. Of course, everything else needs to be up to snuff too.

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