This year, ASUS dual-screen notebook "participated" in the domestic sci-fi movie "The Wandering Earth 2" which left a deep impression on many audiences. The wonderful interpretation of modern technology integrated into sci-fi blockbusters is so cool!
The Lingyao X dual-screen Pro 2023 brought to you this time is the new masterpiece of ASUS dual-screen notebook. It is not only equipped with advanced hard cores such as Core i9-13900H and RTX4060 laptop GPU, but also comes standard with a 2.8K 120Hz OLED main screen and ScreenPad Plus secondary screen, and its performance has reached a new high, hoping to become a more handy dual-screen creation all-round for designers.
Why did ASUS go to great lengths to explore such a notebook form? For this question, the author once communicated with ASUS's notebook product manager. ASUS believes that if the B side of the notebook wants to achieve a 100% screen-to-body ratio, or close to 100% screen-to-body ratio, it is still difficult to do it at the current level of technology. In this context, ASUS hopes to improve the viewing area of the notebook screen with a dual-screen design. The two screens added together, the viewable area formed can easily exceed one screen, which is undoubtedly an effective way to "break through" the 100% screen-to-body ratio of the notebook screen. The viewing area is larger, and the excitement can naturally be more!
Exterior appreciation
The metal top cover (A side) of ASUS Lingyao X dual-screen Pro 2023 still adopts ASUS's classic concentric circle design, with the initial letter "A" of ASUS as the center of the circle, gradually spreading outward. Depending on the line of sight, the metal top cover can present different light and shadow textures.
After actual measurement, the body weight of this dual-screen notebook is about 1.779kg, and the weight of the power adapter is about 0.548kg. For a high-performance dual-screen notebook, its weight control is very good, and it is more convenient to carry it out.
The main screen of this dual-screen notebook is a 14.5-inch, 2.8K (2880×1800) resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, 0.2ms fast response OLED ASUS good screen, support touch operation, screen to body ratio of up to 93%. According to the official introduction of ASUS, this OLED screen has 100% P3 wide color gamut coverage, a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1, a peak brightness of 550 nits, and has passed Pantone color certification, DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification Rheinland low blue light certification and SGS Eye Care eye protection certification. In addition, this OLED home screen surface is also covered with Corning Gorilla Glass and supports ASUS OLED Care.
In actual terms, this OLED home screen has rich and realistic colors, which is quite excellent. In the test link later in the article, the author will also conduct a professional test of this OLED home screen.
This dual-screen notebook is equipped with 1080p plus infrared dual camera, supports face unlocking, supports background bokeh, photo correction, gaze correction, motion tracking, face filter.
Lingyao X dual-screen Pro 2023 is equipped with a liftable ScreenPad Plus touch subscreen, with the opening of the notebook screen, the ScreenPad Plus touch sub-screen will automatically rise to a comfortable tilt angle, which can better improve the look and feel of the ScreenPad Plus touch sub-screen.
This ScreenPad Plus touch secondary screen adopts a 12.7-inch design, also supports touch operation, resolution of 2880×864, supports 120Hz refresh rate, 100% P3 wide color gamut, 500 nits brightness, and adopts anti-glare etching process, making the main and secondary screen viewing angles more integrated.
This ScreenPad Plus touch screen is designed with a list of virtual control buttons on the left side of the screen, which can be basically set for this secondary screen.
This ScreenPad Plus touch screen can not only be used as a second display, but also can adapt to a series of creative office software, customize creative tools at will, and accurately control one-handed operations with diversified operations, bringing excellent experience to the creative process while meeting the needs of multi-screen collaboration in the creative office process, allowing the computer to "adapt" to the creator's creative office and release creativity, thereby improving the creative experience and efficiency.
This dual-screen notebook adopts a micro-border ErgoSense keyboard, ergonomic concave keycaps (0.2mm arc), and 1.4mm long key travel, which gives this dual-screen notebook a good keyboard feel.
The trackpad is located on the right side of the keyboard and has a miniaturized design.
The power on button is located on the front of the trackpad. At the same time, there are two ScreenPad Plus touch sub-screen setting buttons on the left side of the boot button, from left to right, the dual-screen window up and down shift button, and the ScreenPad Plus touch sub-screen on/off button.
This dual-screen notebook is designed with a 3.5mm headphone headset two-in-one interface on the left side of the fuselage.
The right side of the dual-screen notebook is designed with a USB-A 3.2 Gen2 10Gbps port, two full-speed Thunderbolt 4 ports, and two indicators. If the user feels that the fuselage interface is not enough, he can purchase a Thunderbolt 4 interface docking station to use. The Thunderbolt 4 interface is very powerful, with a transmission speed of up to 40Gbps, which can expand more interfaces and functions.
The rear of the fuselage is also designed with interfaces, including an HDMI 2.1 port, a TF card reader port, and a power port.
The ScreenPad Plus touch screen is deeply adapted to many of Adobe's software
At present, the ScreenPad Plus touch secondary screen has been deeply adapted to many of Adobe's software, such as PR, PS, etc., and the author will demonstrate it next.
Open Adobe Premiere Pro, the ScreenPad Plus touch secondary screen will bring up the adapted toolbar, users can make a series of shortcut operations such as timeline adjustment and timeline zooming through touch.
Open Adobe Photoshop, the ScreenPad Plus touch secondary screen will bring up the adapted toolbar, users can adjust the brush size, layer enlargement/zoom and a series of shortcut operations such as brush size adjustment, layer magnification/zoom through touch.
With the continuous deepening of cooperation between ASUS and global mainstream design software, Lingyao X dual-screen Pro 2023 will adapt to more mainstream design software in the future. For specific adaptation software, please refer to the information officially released by ASUS.
In fact, in addition to being able to show its skills in many software under Adobe, there are many, many places where Lingyao X dual-screen Pro 2023 can show its talents. For example, if you are a film critic, then when writing a film review, the main screen can show 4K film sources, and the secondary screen can open Word to write film reviews. For this ScreenPad Plus touch secondary screen, everyone wants to use it!
Creator Center
The Creator Center is the main creative center of Lingyao X Dual Screen Pro 2023. Here you can do a lot of professional settings for this dual-screen notebook.
Performance mode settings for this dual-screen notebook can be made in Creator Center. This dual-screen notebook comes preset with 4 performance modes, including Full Speed Mode, High Efficiency Mode, Standard Mode, and Quiet Mode. Among them, full-speed mode is the best performance mode for this dual-screen notebook. Note that full-speed mode can also be turned on on battery power only. When users need high-performance output when working on the go, they can turn on full-speed mode.
With the Creator Center, you can make color correction on the screen of this notebook.
With Creator Central, you can create task groups to create a more productive work environment.
Under the control setting interface, you can set up application software that adapts to dual-screen mode, such as Adobe's PR, PS, etc.
With Creator Center, you can optimize the performance of this notebook.
MyASUS Control Center
MyASUS is the auxiliary control center of Lingyao X dual-screen Pro 2023, where you can set up some practical functions for this notebook.
This dual-screen notebook offers a variety of screen color modes, including standard, vivid, manual, and eye protection modes, as well as setting the color gamut range to precisely adjust screen color to meet professional needs.
In order to prevent OLED screen burning and aging, ASUS has specially designed a set of pixel refresh function and focus display function.
Activate the pixel refresh function, and after 30 minutes of inactivity, the computer will start a special screen saver to prevent the OLED screen from burning.
Activate the focus display function, the system only maintains the brightness of the active window, and darkens other areas of the screen, thereby reducing the possibility of OLED screen aging.
MyASUS can also help diagnose computer system conditions, update drivers, and more.
Performance showcase
Note: In addition to the battery life test, the performance test link in this article is mainly carried out in the full-speed mode of this dual-screen notebook, and the independent direct connection mode is turned on to show the best performance of this notebook.
In addition, before the official test began, the author has updated the BIOS of this notebook to a new version, that is, version 204.
With PCMARK 10, first test the comprehensive performance of this notebook.
Due to its powerful configuration, Lingyao X Dual Screen Pro 2023 not only performs very well in terms of common basic functions, productivity, and digital content creation, but also has very good gaming performance. Therefore, users play a few games to relax their body and mind after work, and the experience is also very good.
This dual-screen notebook with the Core i9-13900H is the flagship model of the 13th generation Intel Core H series mobile standard pressure processor, continuing Intel's innovative high-performance hybrid architecture design, 6+8 cores, 20-thread design, turbo frequency up to 5.4GHz, very powerful. A high-performance hybrid architecture also balances performance with energy consumption for a new creative office experience.
Through CPU-Z and Cinebench tests, it can be seen that the Core i9-13900H processor is powerful in both single-core and full-core performance. Whether it's creating office or gaming entertainment, this i9 has a lot to offer.
In CrossMark's productivity benchmark, the notebook's total score exceeded 2,000 points, which is comparable to many high-end desktops of 13th generation Core.
32GB LPDDR5-4800MHz memory, its memory read, write, copy speed is much faster than DDR4 memory. Coupled with a large capacity of 32GB, such a memory configuration is excellent for a dual-screen thin and light book.
This thin and light notebook is equipped with a Samsung PM9A1 series SSD, with a capacity of 1TB and a PCIe4.0 x4 transmission mode. At present, many high-end notebooks use this series of SSDs, and the performance and quality are very good.
According to the measured results of CrystalDiskMark's test software, this SSD has a sequential read speed of more than 7000MB/s and a sequential write speed of more than 5200MB/s, which is a high-end PCIe4.0 SSD.
Let's focus on the graphics card of this dual-screen notebook - RTX4060 laptop GPU.
The RTX4060 laptop GPU is the mid-range workhorse of the RTX40 series of laptop GPUs, with 3072 CUDA cores, 48 raster units and 96 texture units, with 128-bit bit wide and 8GB GDDR6 video memory.
The new generation of RTX40 series graphics cards also specifically supports DLSS 3 technology, which uses optical multi-frame generation technology to generate more frames with AI, thus doubling the performance of the more powerful RTX40 series graphics cards, and further increasing the number of frames without compromising image quality and response speed. At the same time, DLSS 3 also uses NVIDIA Reflex to synchronize the GPU and CPU, optimizing response speed and reducing system latency, making the game screen instantly responsive after mouse clicks.
This dual-screen notebook also supports independent direct connection, under the custom interface of MyASUS control center, set the MUX Switch option to "Discrete GPU", which is the independent direct connection mode. After setting up, you will be asked to restart your computer, and you can enjoy the high-performance experience of Dedicated Direct Connection after restarting.
What exactly is the performance of this graphics card? The author first focuses on the test from the productivity aspect.
The first is testing in the field of video editing, and the tool I chose is Adobe Premiere Pro, a world-renowned video creation tool.
Export a 1080 quality, 60 fps frame rate, 10 minutes in length. After turning on the hardware acceleration of the graphics card, the export time took only 5.23 minutes, which is much faster than exporting with a single processor, which is enough to see the importance of advanced RTX40 series graphics cards in the video field.
Handbrake is also a popular video software. Using Handbrake, an MP4 video with 1080p resolution, 59.94 frames per second, and a volume of 1.78GB was converted into Amazon Fire 1080p30 Surround format. After turning on dedicated hardware acceleration, the conversion time is still much shorter than that of single-processor conversion.
SPECviewperf 13 is a classic industrial modeling scoring software that evaluates the industrial modeling performance of graphics cards.
Judging from the results of SPECviewperf 13, RTX4060 notebook GPU has also shown strong strength in many industrial modeling fields such as 3dsmax-06 and maya-05.
Next comes the game performance testing session. The first is the 3DMark benchmark.
The Time Spy project scored 8913 points, and the Port Royal project scored 4981. Judging from the 3DMark benchmark results alone, this up to 65W performance output RTX4060 laptop GPU performance is acceptable.
At present, more than 30 games support DLSS 3 game testing. Next, the author will use "Cyberpunk 2077" and "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" to test the actual game performance of this dual-screen notebook.
DLSS 3 Game Test-up – Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 is a pretty good optimization of DLSS 3 technology. With DLSS 3 enabled, the average frame rate of the game can be greatly improved. At 2.5K, high image quality, ASUS Lingyao X dual-screen Pro 2023 can achieve high FPS when running "Cyberpunk 2077", and the performance is satisfactory.
DLSS 3 Game Test--"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt"
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a game that currently eats hardware performance. With DLSS 3 technology, ASUS Lingyao X dual-screen Pro can still achieve an average frame rate of more than 60FPS at 2.5K resolution, and its performance is relatively good.
Judging from the above two DLSS 3 game measurements, the game performance of ASUS Lingyao X dual-screen Pro 2023 should not be underestimated.
Battery life test
Using PCMARK 10, the author continued to test the endurance of this dual-screen notebook.
【Machine status during battery life test】
First, unplug all external devices such as mice, headphones, and U disks.
Second, adjust the brightness of the main screen to 50%.
Third, turn off the ScreenPad Plus touch secondary screen.
4. Turn off the speaker.
Turn off the Wi-Fi connection.
In Fan Mode-Silent Mode, the notebook achieved a score of 8 hours and 43 minutes in the PCMARK 10 Modern Office Battery Life category. The performance score is 5388 points.
Overall, the dual-screen notebook lasted more than 8 hours in silent mode. Without opening the ScreenPad Plus touch secondary screen, this dual-screen notebook has been able to meet the needs of mobile office for a long time, and the battery life is still good.
Display test
Using the X-Rite color calibration meter, the author will test the 2.8K OLED main screen of this dual-screen notebook.
Note: This notebook is available in a variety of screen color modes. Test results generally differ depending on the color mode
Item 1: Color gamut test
(Test item introduction) color gamut refers to the range area composed of the number of colors that a device can express, that is, the range of colors that can be expressed by various screen display devices, printers or printing equipment. The larger the gamut value, the more colors the device can display.
Taking the standard mode - native color gamut as an example, the notebook's 2.8K OLED main screen has 99.9% DCI P3 color gamut coverage and 127% DCI P3 color gamut volume ratio, which is quite good and professional-level.
Item 2: HDR peak brightness test
DisplayHDR Test is a software that can test the HDR peak brightness of the screen.
As mentioned earlier, the OLED main screen of Lingyao X dual-screen Pro 2023 has passed the DisplayHDR True Black 500 true HDR certification. Measurements now show that the screen's HDR peak brightness is as high as 590 cd/m², which meets this certification standard.
Item 3: 120Hz refresh rate test
With the TestUFO test program, the advantages of high refresh OLED screen rate can be perceived with less smearing.
When displaying a 120FPS picture, the 2.8K OLED main screen of Lingyao X Dual Screen Pro 2023 can clearly present the picture and effectively reduce smearing. If the 120FPS picture is displayed on a screen with a 60Hz refresh rate, there will be obvious smearing, making the picture difficult to see.
Product summary
The dual-screen design of Lingyao X dual-screen Pro 2023 gives the laptop more use, which the author is very sure of. At the same time, on the basis of the thin and light body design, this dual-screen notebook holds high-performance hard cores such as the 13Core i9-13900H mobile standard pressure processor and the RTX 4060 laptop GPU, giving this dual-screen notebook strong performance. Through a series of actual measurements in this article, this dual-screen notebook performs quite well, and it is good at creating office, game and entertainment, and its strength is obvious to all.
Modern technology blends into a wonderful interpretation of a sci-fi blockbuster, anyone can have it! For the dual-screen notebook ASUS Lingyao X dual-screen Pro 2023, the author is quite satisfied with the overall experience, and is willing to push it to all creators who pursue excellence!