This laptop $10,000 ISN'T overpriced...

 - Oh, man, do I have atreat for you here today? This, is the ASUS ProArt StudioBook One, and it costs a whopping $10,000. You heard that right. 10 freaking grand. 

What could possibly make it worth that many dollar it is? 

Well, a $4,000 graphics cardis a pretty good start. Just like this is a pretty good start to my segue to our sponsor, iFixit. The iFixit Marlin Screwdriver Set features five specialtyprecision screwdrivers held by either a hard or soft wrap case. Check it out today at ifixit.com/linus. (upbeat music) Yes, this is a $10,000 laptop, but not without reason. What you're seeing is not onlyASUS's new flagship laptop for creative professionals, but also a creative newapproach to heat management. 

ASUS has taken whatwould conventionally be under the keyboard andmoved almost all of it up behind the screen. We saw a very similar designin the ASUS Mothership, and we actually got a tourthrough their design center. Definitely check that out, it's just pure CNC porn. But anyway, you might have noticedthat unlike the Mothership, there's no venting cut out into the back of the StudioBook One.

How do they letthe components breathe? 

Let me show you. Now, this certainly isn't a one finger lift kind of laptop. Kind of, but watch what happens whenyou open up the StudioBook. As I opened the panel here, there are two little cams that are gear driven on the hinge. So, as you open it up, you get this really nice smooth action, as the clam shell opens for air. It's just so satisfying to watch. Packed into this aluminum and magnesium chassis is an Intel Core i9-9980HK, which turbos up to five gigahertz. But, as I alluded to earlier, the graphics card is thereal star of the show here. This is the first Nvidia RTX 6,000 ever packed into a laptop. 

That means 24 gigs of VRAM, 4,608 CUDA Cores, plus a smattering of Ray tracing and Tensor cores as well. In a desktop form, that card retails for four grand, and all of that power is backed up by a one terabyte SSD and 64 gigs of RAM. Of course, the 90 watt hour battery occupies the entire palm rest area. And although it isn't quitethe 100 watt hour limit for plane travel, it's damn near close, and very nice to have, just like this water bottle, lttstore.com. But just a fancy cammed hinge thing alone, won't cool all of that. 

Now, it's a bit hard to see inside, but there are two honking aluminum fans that grab cool air and blast it over atitanium vapor chamber, capable of dissipating, a mind boggling 300 watts, delivered courtesy of an ultra efficient and compact 300 watt,gallium nitride charger. Gallium nitride slowly replacing silicon in high end chargers because it allows for higher activation energies and higher frequencies, which in turn means smallerand much more dense chargers. But, now I have a bit of an apology. 

I know I told you guys during my unboxing that I would show youbehind this clam shell, and for that I'm deeply sorry. After discussing with ASUS, apparently there's a special tool required to remove the lid and they were unwilling to send it to us. So, 2 out of 10 repairability score, but enough chitchat .

How well does it actually work? 

This is, or more likely was the most powerful laptop in the office. The Alienware Area 51m, it packs heat with not just one, but two power bricks to feedthe desktop Core i9-9900K and RTX 2080. For a more reasonable comparison, we also grabbed the new Dell XPS 17 with its 10th gen processor and RTX 2060. We praised it for itsmassive vapor chamber and never have thought I'd say this, it's financially attainable when compared to the StudioBook. To compare them, we'll be using SOLIDWORKS Visualize. 

This rendering suite isexcellent as a benchmark because it hammers both the CPU and GPU at the same time. - [Andy] Three, two, one. - Okay. There's a lot of air comingout of the top of this thing. Look at that. So very impressively, the maximum temperature that the CPU in this reached was just 91 degrees, the GPU, 88 degrees, neither of them like thermal throttled. 

Whereas like, the Alienware 100 degrees, Dell XPS, 100 degrees. And this thing right here completed a thousand passes of the render, in just two minutes. The Area 51m did it in three and the XPS 17 was just a bit over four. So that really givesyou a good idea of just, if you're a content creator, this is going to just get your renders out so much faster. Raw power, we have certainly got it. But the cherry on topof this whole machine isn't under the hood, but right on front of it with this beautiful 120 hertz 4K UHD display. 

When we were shooting the short circuit unboxing of this thing, David said, it looks like a print image. And I think he nailedit on the head there. Now, yes it has more bezels than you can shake a stick at, but it comes precalibrated to cover 100% of the Adobe RGB color gamut, with Delta Es of less than one. That's no easy mark to hit. 

Additionally, and this is important, it's Pantone validated, meaning that ASUS went out of their way to get the panel certifiedby an industry leading third party, so your screen is color perfect right out of the box. In our testing, itslightly missed the mark with 98.8% coverage ofthe Adobe RGB color space, and a Delta E of about 1.5. Before you get yourknickers in a twist though, this is still an amazing result, more than good enoughfor color accurate work. And this machine is pre-production. So, it'll hopefully be improvedby the final units. 

There are a number of problems though that won't be fixed on the final unit. The I/O is well, sparse. There are just four ports on this machine, one for DC power in and three Thunderbolt ports. That's it. ASUS kindly included a dongle for the usual breakouts, but even that doesn't comewith a headphone jack. When it comes to the heft, this thing is hard to beat, like, it just feels so dense. It tips the scales at 6.4 pounds or 18 and a half bananas for scale. 

Something that might notbe loved by everyone, at least at first, is the keyboard. The spacing's good, and there really isn'tany deck flex to speak of, but there's very little in the way of key travel. Compared to things like the XPS 15, a ThinkPad or well, any other laptop in this class, it feels much more like you'retyping on a pane of glass than a mechanical keyboard. That said after a few hours of use, I got used to it, just never fully loved it. 

The power button here also has an integrated fingerprint reader. Definitely nice to have, seeing as the webcam doesn't support Windows Hello facial recognition. Below the keyboard though, things improve withthis awesome track pad. It's super big while maintaining excellent palm rejection, and has all of the multifeatures you would expect. The XPS 17 has it beat on sheer size, but just barely. And I'm super excitedto see Windows machines are finally catching up to Apple in this regard. Last but not least, are the speakers. 

There are four of thempositioned down on the sides, kind of here. And then up here on top, as well as a dual array microphone. How are they? you ask. It's fine. Not as good as the MacBook or the XPS 17. So where does this leave us? We've got hands down, one of the beefiest and just fastest laptops in terms of power and price. There's literally nobetter laptop on the market for working on massive CADmodels while on the go. And there must be someone that needs easy accessto 24 gigabytes of VRAM. So, to the dozens of youwith that requirement, 

I wholeheartedly recommendthe StudioBook One. Just like I would wholly recommend the segue to our sponsor, Micro Center. Get the best prices and the best selection at Micro Center, across any of their 25 locations in the United States or online. Join the new MicroCenter community to get, give or receive any advice on PC partsselection and hardware. Check out their customPC Builder configurator, and follow the link in the description for a free 32 gigabyte flash drive and 32 gigabyte micro SD card. Valid in store only. 

No purchase necessary. Oh, cool. So if you want something else to watch, then go and check outour Mothership video, where we actually went to Taipei and checked it out. And, you know, get subscribed. We have a video comingup on why vapor chambers, just kick so much ass and make laptops like this so good. You don't wanna miss it.