Asus ProArt PX13 review

When is a laptop with an RTX card not a gaming laptop? When it's ajar! No, wait, when it's a creative machine aimed at professionals rather than players, who want CAD not COD, and for whom shutter angle is the main driver of frame rates.

And that's what we've got here. You can tell it's a creative laptop because it comes with Nvidia's Studio drivers installed rather than the Game Ready ones. And because there's a stylus in the box. The ProArt PX13 is also a touchscreen 2-in-1 model with the kind of trick hinge that allows you to fold it back on itself into a tent or even something approaching a tablet. A fat tablet.

As a result of this it needs to be gripped securely when being held like something out of Star Trek, which has led to a design that eschews both the slender wedge-shape beloved of ultrabooks and the weird angles and unexpected vents of a true gaming machine. Even the power button is on the side of the machine, which can make it a little hard to find the first time you want to turn it on. As a 13-inch laptop it's compact, one might almost say diddy. Adorable. Charming. Which is an odd thing to say about a black rectangle of metal and plastic, but the last laptop I reviewed was the monstrous Acer Predator Helios 18, and the contrast is stark.

A 13-incher makes for a very portable laptop, easy to throw in a bag or slide in a suitcase, and while the PX13 is thicker than the slimmest portables out there, the really tiny ones don't come with an RTX 4070 on board. 

CPU: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
NPU: AMD XDNA, 50TOPS
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (75 W)
Memory: 32GB DDR5
Screen size: 13.3in OLED touchscreen
Resolution: 2880 x 1800
Refresh rate: 60Hz
Colour coverage (stated): 100% P3
Storage: 2TB SSD, microSD card
Connectivity: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, 2x USB 4.0, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, 1x HDMI 2.1, 3.5mm audio
Dimensions: 29.82 x 20.99 x 1.77 cm
Weight: 1.38kg
Price: $2,000| £2,000

What's also notable about this machine is that it comes with one of AMD's latest chips, the