Not Only for the GoPro-Pilled

The Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition pitches itself as the overall inventive’s bundle, as long as you’re actually, actually eager on the dude-bro-iest motion cameras. Asus appeared to pigeonhole itself by designing a particular model of one in all its inventive laptops constructed for GoPro. In actuality, this laptop computer is an unbelievable all-rounder. And there’s a purpose you need this model greater than the cheaper, non-GoPro-aligned rendition. It’s due to a quantity: 128.

The refreshed ProArt PX13 2-in-1 laptop continues to be a flexible laptop computer two years after I noticed its first iteration that used a discrete GPU. Its design has stood the check of time because of a strong construct and the actual fact the newest model comes with AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip. That processor affords some actually spectacular graphical capabilities. Nevertheless, the rationale it is best to actually care about this $3,000 (sure, $3,000) laptop computer—past the included carrying bag and smooth, ridged laptop computer lid—is as a result of it’s configured with 128GB of RAM. Asus goes a step additional and permits customers to allocate as much as 96GB of RAM to the AMD Radeon 8060S iGPU (built-in graphics processing unit), pushing what this chip can do to its restrict.

It’s that quantity, 128, that ought to have you ever ruminating on what you need from a laptop computer for $3,000. Present RAM prices have skyrocketed to the purpose the place laptops with 32GB of RAM value greater than $2,000. A model of the ProArt PX13 with out the GoPro branding calls for $2,800 for under 64GB of RAM. Already this 12 months, I’ve reviewed the $2,400 Asus Zenbook Duo and $2,200 Dell XPS 14. Each of those ready-to-rumble notebooks comprise the newest Intel Panther Lake chips with further graphics processing capabilties. They proved capable of match up a couple of steps beneath AMD’s main Strix Halo processor and will eke out higher battery life apart from.

What actually units this laptop computer again is its adherence to the GoPro model, not a lot the GoPro way of life. A less-than-stellar laptop computer case and pointless GoPro button don’t detract from the general laptop computer. And hell, in case you get pleasure from sporty black ridges in your gadgets, I truthfully don’t know of any laptop computer fairly as daring as Asus’ odd 13-inch ProArt.

Stunning OLED, dim display screen, and poor sound

You’ll think about a creator’s laptop computer constructed with video enhancing in thoughts would sound a lot better than the ProArt PX13. You might also think about a tool designed for the GoPro aficionado can be finest for working outside, maybe beneath the piercing eye of the noon solar whereas motors rumble by on a mud bike monitor.

The ProArt PX13 sports activities a vibrant OLED display screen, however it isn’t the brightest I’ve seen on equally sized gadgets. The laptop computer makes use of Asus’ Lumina OLED show, which seems visually clear because of wonderful distinction with deep blacks. Asus claims you may rise up to 500 nits of peak brightness. In actuality, I discovered I needed to maximize the display screen brightness ranges simply to have a snug expertise, even in dim environment. The Dell XPS 14 with its tandem OLED—which stacks two layers of natural light-emitting diodes on prime of one another—was a lot brighter total and adequate for outside use. What’s extra annoying is the ProArt PX13’s restrict of a 60Hz refresh fee, which can show particularly annoying in case you plan on doing any gaming.

Since it is a creator-first laptop computer, you’ll assume the audio can be extra as much as snuff. As a substitute, what got here by the ProArt PX13’s twin down-firing audio system sounded muffled. There was a delicate tinny high quality that made merely watching Netflix much less of a premium expertise than it ought to have been. Should you’re planning to make use of this for enhancing your video clips’ audio ranges in addition to the visuals, you’ll want a high quality pair of headphones sitting close by.

Should you do find yourself utilizing this laptop computer for extra intensive duties, simply know that the followers can kick up fairly a racket. This can be much less vital in case you’re out enhancing within the discipline. To that finish, Asus packs in a couple of further ins and outs for the $3,000 you’re paying. The ProArt PX13 GoPro Version comes with an additional carrying case and an Asus stylus with a wi-fi charging case. The pen sadly doesn’t have wherever to connect to the laptop computer itself. As a substitute, all of it goes within the case.

You shouldn’t get this bundle for the case

Contemplating the whole lot that’s happening with this laptop computer bundle, Asus wanted to contemplate what individuals would need to pack inside. The bundle comes with a big, hard-shell bag with a bungee twine wire on the surface and a half-dozen elastic webbing straps discovered inside. The hardback laptop computer cowl features a flap to stay the ProArt PX13 into. If you open up the pack, the case can double as a workbench in case you hate utilizing a laptop computer in your lap.

If that is purported to be a bag for storing digital camera gear, it’s very lackluster. I may slot in a GoPro Hero 12 Black and a GoPro Hero inside together with the included Asus Pen 3.0 with its charging pad. I additionally had simply sufficient house to pack within the 200W charging brick contained in the zipped-up pouch. Throughout transit, one in all my cameras got here free. That’s high quality, it’s a rugged digital camera. However I think about there may have been a a lot better method of containing all of your gear. In actuality, I’d need further house for GoPro mounts and a few method to shield the digital camera lenses. If I needed to deliver all my digital camera gear with me, I’d nonetheless be higher served with only a backpack with a laptop computer sleeve.

Few laptops really feel this sturdy

A laptop computer constructed for on-the-go video enhancing wants a sure stage of durability. There’s excellent news on that entrance, because the ProArt PX13 with the added black ridges makes an already sturdy laptop computer even higher. The newest ProArt laptops took the fundamental structure of Asus’ ROG Zephyrus sequence. Meaning these gadgets are nicely constructed for dealing with some intense warmth and pack in loads of ports.

The ProArt PX13 GoPro Version provides a couple of further ins and outs which can be wholly welcome and one or two that don’t add a lot to the general design. Working example, the GoPro hotkey is hovering like a giant blue evil eye from the operate row. That key brings up the GoPro Participant app by default. Fortunately, the software program isn’t pre-installed on the system (there’s already sufficient further Asus apps taking on house on the taskbar).

The laptop computer is flanked by two Thunderbolt 5 USB-C ports, one on all sides. There’s an HDMI port and an additional USB-A alongside the proprietary charging port crucial for the 200W energy brick that comes packed within the field. Lastly, there’s a microSD card slot on the right-hand facet. As a substitute of merely slotting within the card, the laptop computer makes use of the standard click-in mechanism you’ll discover in most motion cameras to maintain the cardboard flush with the chassis. It’s a small factor, however so very welcome on a tool geared towards creators.

I’ve loved this fashion of square-edged keyboard since Asus first launched it with the ROG Zephyrus G14 two years in the past (virtually a lifetime). The trackpad incorporates a “DialPad” (helpful in sure supported video apps for scrolling by footage) and in addition contains small blue indicators that make it look further GoPro-like. This isn’t the thinnest laptop computer round at a thickness of 17.7mm towards the rear. Nevertheless, it’s lots mild at simply over three kilos. I wouldn’t thoughts carrying this powerhouse in all places, with or with out the case.

Epic GPU capabilities with further RAM

This isn’t a PC for the layperson or simply the video editing-curious who acquired a GoPro for Christmas. The ProArt PX13 is a PC for someone who plans to do lots with a single laptop computer. With 128GB of RAM at your disposal, the use instances are fairly in depth contemplating the scale of the system.

The 16-core AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU (accelerated processing unit) stays probably the greatest standout chips for GPU efficiency on a single SoC (system on a chip). Simply by itself, even with out the additional reminiscence at its disposal, the top-end chip within the expanded Strix Halo lineup can already outperform previous-gen discrete GPUs in some duties. It virtually manages to catch as much as the lower-end Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series laptop computer GPUs.

By default, the laptop computer set the RAM allotted to the GPU at a mere 4GB. That pushes the remainder of the RAM for CPU duties. The MyAsus app has a small part beneath System Settings that permits you to set the working mode and allocate reminiscence to the GPU. The one subject is altering RAM allocation requires restarting the laptop computer.

Should you go for the “Advisable” reminiscence allocation, the laptop computer affords half of the RAM—64GB—for the sake of the GPU. It’s best to be capable to work with this setting for many common duties. Nevertheless, in case you plan to recreation on this system or push by with an intensive 3D rendering job, you may allow as much as 96GB towards the GPU.

By way of CPU capabilities, this AMD’s top-end Strix Halo chip has fallen behind Intel’s newest Panther Lake gadgets in multi-core and single-core checks in Geekbench 6 benchmarks. Nevertheless, with that further RAM, I can simply push Cinebench 2024 and 2026 nicely previous many different CPUs, together with the trendy Intel’s Panther Lake and midrange Arrow Lake CPUs from final 12 months. It nonetheless can’t match as much as the most-powerful laptop-level chips chances are you’ll discover in a full 16- or 18-inch gaming laptop computer like final 12 months’s MSI Raider 18HX or a Lenovo Legion Pro 7i.

This 13-inch laptop computer packs a extra vital punch in 3D purposes. In 3DMark’s “Pace Approach” and “Metal Nomad” checks, the ProArt PX13 was only a few hundred factors shy of a Framework 16 laptop computer with a full RTX 5070 GPU. That’s with the machine plugged in with the 96GB of RAM allotted to the GPU. It’s simply a prime contender in 3DMark “Time Spy” checks—that are usually extra CPU intensive.

I do know, I do know, you’re questioning if the ProArt PX13 can recreation. Let me provide the nod. It’s a shock powerhouse, enabling playable body charges on the laptop computer’s full 2,880 x 1,800 pixel decision in a number of taxing video games. Should you depend on upscalers like AMD’s FSR, you may hit 43 fps in Cyberpunk 2077 on “Ray Tracing Low” graphics settings. In Murderer’s Creed: Shadows, the laptop computer managed to hit 33 fps in benchmarks at excessive settings. After turning on FSR, I may get round 52 fps. For gaming on the go, you’ll be capable to push the graphics potential of many demanding video games, as long as you push the laptop computer to its restrict.

Software program constructed for the GoPro-pilled

I’m a contrarian by nature. Should you order me to seize a GoPro, I instantly begin trying on the competitors, purely out of spite. That being mentioned, I’ve gone hands-on with a lot of GoPros and I nonetheless have most of them at my workplace. Whereas reviewing this laptop computer, I didn’t have the latest GoPro Max2 360 digital camera, the motion cam maker first revealed in the midst of 2025.

I don’t learn about you, however I don’t simply use GoPros for motion photographs. It simply so occurs that DJI despatched me its Osmo 360 for assessment. GoPro’s Participant software program received’t load up recordsdata from DJI. Nor will it work with any of the recordsdata I took on my Insta360 Go Ultra. That’s to be anticipated. None of those corporations will allow you to load their opponents’ movies on their respective enhancing apps. Nonetheless, it’s one thing it is best to contemplate in case you’re a creator who has a number of go-to cameras from a number of manufacturers.

Asus actually desires these shopping for this laptop computer to make use of a couple of particular additions to its StoryCube app. StoryCube is ProArt-specific software program that’s purported to make discovering and parsing all of your numerous footage simpler. In time for the ProArt GoPro Version, Asus added the power to see 360-degree content material with out having to load up your respective video app. Nicely, it would allow you to view GoPro 360 footage. It doesn’t import any of the particular .LRF recordsdata I took with the Osmo 360.

If you’re a mainstay GoPro consumer, and you’re feeling like getting yet one more subscription, the laptop computer comes with a full 12 months of GoPro Premium+ to allow you to auto-upload your footage to the cloud. StoryCube can connect with these servers to allow you to import any of that cloud footage on to your laptop computer. This will show helpful in case you don’t need to take the additional step of sticking your SD card into the laptop computer. On the identical time, I can’t think about anyone doing video enhancing will discover the built-in 1TB SSD almost sufficient. They’ll possible be utilizing an exterior drive, during which case it’s far simpler to dump their footage themselves with out counting on cloud storage.

Purchase this laptop computer for the chip and RAM, not due to the emblem

It is a laptop computer constructed for creators, so I attempted to make use of it like your typical GoPro jockey. I had further footage from amongst the numerous cameras within the Gizmodo workplace. I spooled again by present and former historic fencing sparring matches and crafted a couple of clips for my buddies’ social media accounts. The laptop computer tended to go from 100% to 50% in about 1.5 hours of enhancing video. This was on the utmost brightness setting (as a result of with out a vibrant display screen I may barely make out the footage in a darkish room).

The laptop computer tends to lose juice fairly shortly on standby energy. A full 24 hours after shutting the laptop computer lid after a video enhancing stint, the ProArt PX13 misplaced a full 10% whereas within the carrying bag. In whole, I may maximize about three hours doing video enhancing and exporting footage. In different eventualities, I may squeak out between 4 and 5 hours of energetic use doing my common grind of looking and writing emails and tales.

The ProArt PX13’s battery appears first rate for many duties. It’s simply not equal to the likes of a MacBook or one in all Intel’s newest Panther Lake notebooks. So what you actually come to this laptop computer for are aesthetics and efficiency. I actually benefit from the laptop computer’s efficiency. If I ignore the GoPro logos, it’s one of many extra hanging and bold-looking laptops I’ve fondled in lots of months. If you’re spending $3,000 on a laptop computer, appears nonetheless account for one thing.