Creators and gamers are two groups that are very picky about notebook performance, and as a result, they are often forced to carry relatively heavy laptops everywhere they go to ensure that they will not be dragged down by the performance of the device when they use it. In fact, the author is also one of them, every time I see people outside taking out a small bag with outstanding appearance of a thin book, and then calmly working, really a little bit of a feeling of crying, so I also look forward to the day when I can not carry a stupid and stupid "big brick" out of the door, calmly do the right thing. Recently, the author paid attention to asus's side of a laptop positioned as a game performance thin and light creation book - Lingyao Pro14, and I experienced it with the idea of trying it. Honestly, at the beginning, I didn't have too many expectations, after all, there are many thin and light books that flaunt their good performance, but most of them are "not on the right board". However, after some testing, the author can't help but change his mind, and now the author feels that this may really be our stinky P-chart, stinky cut video, stinky game, want the thin and capable notebook.
Small and light, the matte texture is outstanding
Lingyao Pro14 has two colors, zero degree black and meteor white, as you can see, we got the version of the meteor white color. White itself is more versatile, deeply loved by the public, and the white of Lingyao Pro14 also uses a unique texture paint, not only the matte texture is more outstanding, the touch is also very good, there is a rock-like just right friction in, easily circle all colleagues in the office.
The thickness of 16.9mm and the weight of 1.45kg are simply ecstatic for the old game users like the author, of course, the position of other light and thin books is indeed not at all loss. Since its "footprint" is not much larger than A4 paper, we don't necessarily have to go out with a cumbersome computer bag, with a handbag or small backpack that can put down the document bag.
The logo of Lingyao Pro14 on the A side adopts the design of bright fog laser carving, which is not exaggerated, but it is very delicate and full of personality, which is the tone that young people like now.
The B-side Lingyao Pro14 sincerely arranged a 14-inch 2.8K OLED screen, the refresh rate also reached 90Hz, and the camera at the top of the screen was designed with a physical mask.
When you don't use the camera, you can completely eliminate sneak peeks.
With two keys on the keyboard specifically used to switch the microphone and camera with one key, lingyao Pro14 can also achieve dual privacy protection of software and hardware, which can be said to be very intentional.
The different key areas of the Lingyao Pro14 keyboard are designed to be different colors, or more personalized. The keyboard features a large keycap and full-size spacing, so we don't feel our fingers squeezed together like we do with other thin and light books. Because the keycap has a certain concave arc, the long key range of the keyboard 1.4mm feedback is clear, and the keyboard's tapping feeling is still very good. At night, we can also turn on the backlight that supports three levels of brightness adjustment to improve typing efficiency at night. The power button in the upper right corner of the keyboard is not surprisingly integrated with fingerprint recognition, and the moment the finger presses the power button to start the computer, it completes the recognition, eliminating the trouble of entering the password and not worrying about not being safe enough.
The trackpad under the keyboard can be described as "huge", with a diagonal of up to 5.9 inches. Because the surface has also undergone a special process treatment, the feel is relatively smooth, completely away from the mouse to use, the experience is obviously much better than other thin and light books. The aperture on the trackpad that you see is actually the DialPad virtual knob of the Lingyao Pro14, and the design of combining the touch knob with the trackpad for the first time can really give us a lot of help in the process of creative work.
In the lower right corner of the C-side we can see The logo of Harman Kardon, which is because the Lingyao Pro14 is equipped with a 2x2W high-power stereo speaker, which achieves Harman Kardon certified sound and can play high-quality audio. Lingyao Pro14 attaches more importance to audio than this, it also supports AI intelligent noise reduction function, and is two-way noise reduction, whether it is the ambient noise of their own side of the radio, or the ambient noise transmitted by the other party, can be reduced and eliminated to a certain extent, which can greatly increase the communication efficiency.
Lingyao Pro14 has a wealth of interfaces that are rare in thin and light books, including USB-C 3.2 Gen1, USB-A 3.2 Gen1, USB-A 2.0×2, Micro SD, HDMI interface, 3.5mm audio jack, basically, no additional expansion equipment is needed for daily use.
Lingyao Pro14 adopts dual fans and double heat pipe ice fronts to dissipate heat, the heat pipe is thicker, and the new generation of cicada wing fans is thinner, lighter and has a larger air volume, which is also the basis for its long-term excellent performance release. The D-sided foot pads of the Lingyao Pro14 are very thick, providing more space for the heat dissipation of the whole machine.
Overall, the appearance of Lingyao Pro14 is still very outstanding, in fact, whether it is a young man or a little girl to use it, there will be no problem, and the combination of black and white is also very suitable for group CP, and it is also very good to use as a couple.
A good creative experience starts with a good screen
The screen is the part of the laptop device that interacts with our users the most, for ordinary users, the slightly poor screen quality may only affect their own audio and video entertainment experience, for the creator, the screen quality is not good enough, it is very fatal. Since Lingyao Pro14 is positioned as a creative book, it will naturally not overturn in such a place, as a member of the "Asus Good Screen" strategy, its screen quality can be said to be very outstanding. Its 2.8K 90Hz super retina-level OLED HDR screen has the highest peak brightness of 600nits, the contrast ratio reaches 1,000,000:1, and there are many high-standard authoritative certifications such as Pantone color certification, low blue light eye protection, Vesa Display HDR 600 True Black, etc., which can be said to be the screen ceiling of the current thin and light book.
Through actual measurements, we can see that the screen of Lingyao Pro14 covers 100% of the P3 color gamut, which is far more professional than most of the laptop products on the market that are still talking about sRGB and NTSC color gamut.
We also found in our tests that the color accuracy of this screen is also very good. The average Delta-E is only 0.78, and the maximum value is only 1.80, which is not only the industry-leading level, but also comparable to professional displays.
In terms of color depth, this 10-bit color depth screen can display 1.07 billion colors, and the comparison with the 8-bit screen that can only display 16.77 million colors is a bit bullying. Not only that, the 10-bit screen also has an absolute advantage over the 8-bit screen on the gray scale, and can present a more delicate and silky transition.
In addition, the screen has a picture response time as short as 0.2ms. In fact, its screen response speed is faster than the esports-level LCD screen, and players do not have to worry about losing money on the "battlefield".
Since lingyao Pro14 also has many pixel monitoring and compensation mechanisms, we don't have to worry about its durability at all, and we can enjoy the advantages of this OLED screen in terms of energy consumption, eye protection and display.
In the experience, we found that lingyao Pro14 is not just a great screen for creators. The Lingyao Pro14 is equipped with the DialPad virtual knob with proArt Creator Hub, which not only monitors the operation of the device through the dashboard page, turns on full speed mode to make the notebook full output, but also can calibrate the screen or group applications.
On the control settings page, we can also customize the function of the virtual knob and adjust its function in different applications.
Unlike mice and keyboards, virtual knobs make it easier to adjust precise parameters with one hand. Brush size, picture scaling, timeline zoom, etc., which originally required multiple clicks on the mouse and keyboard or repeated drag and drop, can be solved in a more intuitive way. Adjusting to the function that suits you and using it to double your efficiency is not difficult.
Far exceeding the expected combat effectiveness, opening the era of thin and light RTX
The hardware configuration of the Lingyao Pro14 is quite luxurious, and looking at it, the author will have the illusion of testing the game book. Lingyao Pro14 in the compact body of the AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800H such a standard voltage processor, the black version has the highest Ryzen 9 5900HX processor can be optional, in the thin and light category can be said to be the existence of the best.
In the CPU-Z benchmark, this processor achieved a single-core 609.7 and a multi-core 5526.
CINEBENCH family barrel test, CINEBENCH R15 test result is a single core score of 233, multi-core score 1988; CINEBENCH R20 test result of a single core score of 558, multi-core score of 4634; CINEBENCH R23 test result of a single core score of 1475, multi-core score of 11375. Such results basically have to stand on the side of the thin and light, and the game of the same processor is afraid to shake three times.
For re-encoding of X264 and X265 video formats, its average processing speed is 56.70FPS and 34.77FPS. From a production point of view, it can undoubtedly encode our videos with greater efficiency, and it may be possible for us to finish early and leave work early.
In terms of graphics cards, the Lingyao Pro14 is directly equipped with RTX 3050, you read it correctly, it does stuff the NVIDIA RTX light chasing graphics card into it.
In 3DMARK's Time Spy and Fire Strike tests, the Lingyao Pro14 received high scores of 4614 and 9894 respectively, which means that at 1080P mainstream resolution, it can challenge some AAA masterpieces, unlike most thin and light books, which can only play some online games.
Sure enough, in the benchmark tests of Tomb Raider: Shadow and Gears of War 5, at a resolution of 1080P, the Lingyao Pro14 can achieve a frame rate performance of about 60 at the highest quality. This is a performance that users of the light and thin book did not dare to imagine before, and gamers who are tormented by the heavy burden of the game book can cheer.
In other ways, the Lingyao Pro14 in our hands is equipped with 16GB of Samsung DDR4 3200MHz memory and 512GB of SSD. This PCIe3.0 SSD almost ran to the performance limit, nearly 3600MB/s and 3000MB/s continuous read and write speed can be said to be very conscientious, will never pull our hind legs.
Let's take the PCMARK10 to see how it performs in different scenarios. First of all, Lingyao Pro14 reached nearly 6000 points, 9125 points in the regular basic function scenario, 8807 points in the productivity scenario, and 7204 points in the digital content creation scene. For the productivity and digital content creation scenes that were originally more difficult for thin and light books, the performance of the Lingyao Pro14 is still gratifying, which once again confirms that it is a very efficient productivity and creation tool.
Under the strong performance, many people should have some concerns about the heat dissipation ability of lingyao Pro14, and we have also tested its heat dissipation and continuous performance release through the way of grilling.
AIDA64 single baked FPU for 15 minutes, the temperature of the CPU is about 84 ° C, and there is more than 50W power consumption performance, which is a very surprising result for thin and light costs.
Double baking for 15 minutes, the power consumption of the whole machine reaches 60W (CPU 25W + GPU 35W), and the temperature of the two can also be maintained at about 65 ° C. It can be seen that although lingyao Pro14 is a thin and light book, the heat dissipation ability is unexpectedly good, and it can indeed ensure a longer period of sustained high-performance release.
In terms of battery life, we tested the Lingyao Pro14 with the modern office test of PC MARK10, and the final result was 8 hours and 33 minutes. Since the above tests we already know that it has a good performance performance, we actually sweated for its endurance. However, from the actual situation, its ability to carry is not lost to other light and thin costs, and it is no problem to resist a day's mild office. Of course, the author still does not recommend the "greed cup", it is recommended that if you can still plug in as much as possible, after all, that can achieve sustained high-performance performance, for your efficiency to help.
summary
After the comprehensive experience, Lingyao Pro14 gave us a lot of surprises. It can meet our needs for a high value and portability of thin and light, and can also give us an excellent screen, a better virtual knob, supporting software support to enhance our creative experience, and even smoothly run AAA masterpieces for us to relax and entertain occasionally. Its comprehensive experience far exceeds the thin and light cost of our inherent impression, and it can be said that it provides a good new choice for more creators and gamers. So it seems that in fact, the price of about 7000 it is still very cost-effective, directly black and white into one to send one to like people, as a couple to use is also a good choice.