New ASUS StudioBook One W590G6T laptop is insanely powerful and costs as much as a car at RM49,999
High-end laptops for creative professionals don’t come cheap but ASUS’ latest addition to their ProArt laptop line-up certainly leads the pack in performance and cost. Dubbed the ASUS StudioBook One, their latest laptop pack NVIDIA’s insanely powerful industrial-grade Quadro RTX 6000 Pro graphics card. It also costs as much as a car at RM49,999.
The ASUS StudioBook One is to date the world’s first and only laptop to mount the Quadro RTX 6000 with the whole affair created in collaboration with NVIDIA so that it could offer optimum performance in a portable form factor.
Seeing how powerful this is, they’ve had to engineer a unique cooling solution lest your lap fries like an egg basking in the broiling temperatures of its heat exhaust which is why it has titanium alloy heatsinks and a unique heat venting system that sucks heat in from the underside and vents it from the top of the display; most of the hardware is actually stuffed behind the display itself like the ROG Mothership we saw at Computex last year
You’d think it’d sound like a jet engine but ASUS and NVIDIA have managed to cap the noise at 40dB tops which is well under what you’d expect of its size and power.
ASUS Studiobook One Specifications
For Malaysia, you only have one configuration available but it’s so terrifyingly powerful that using it to run games is serious overkill. For the price of RM49,999 and with a price tag that is so intimidating that it bears repeating, you get a 15.6-inch 4K display, an Intel Core i9-9980HK processor, a staggering 64GB DDR4 2,666MHz RAM, 1TB PCIe G3x4 SSD and the the prized NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPU with 24GB GDDR6 VRAM. It also has enough ports to pipe out a feed to not one but to three 8K displays simultaneously, making it a terrific multitasker.
The display itself is a thing of beauty with an 84% screen-to-body ratio with a 120Hz refresh rate that’s also Pantone validated for colour accuracy as well as 100% adobe sRGB colour compliance
ASUS has also quaintly made the notebook unique by bevelling off the edges of the display so that it looks like something you’d see in Ron D. Moore’s reimagining of Battlestar Galactica where everything, even the paperwork lying around gets bevelled edges.
This kind of hardware is intended for heavy graphics rendering and number crunching duties with the kind of performance envelope that allows it to easily process 8K resolution video with ease; something that’d give conventional consumer-grade creator laptops nightmares. Needless to say, this kind of hardware isn’t for the fainthearted but it’s now available for you to order in Malaysia from the ASUS official website.