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It is said that there are surprises in the notebook market this year, especially lightweight products, so when I saw the Lingyao Pro14 2023 released by Asustek, a piece of RTX4060 was stuffed into the 14-inch small fuselage, I was naturally as curious as everyone else. Lingyao Pro series focuses on frivolous creation, so use this machine today to see if there is a breakthrough in 2023 lightweight books.

I will first put the core configuration parameters below, you can have a brief understanding.

Design Lingyao Pro14 2023 this time with a new small A Logo, the appearance is more business, with a touch of fashion at the same time. What the CTOnews.com got is the black version, and the all-aluminum alloy fuselage is designed with matte metal texture, which is very textured no matter looking at it or touching it.

Lingyao Pro14 2023 inherits the consistent minimalist style design of the Lingyao series, the whole A side only adds an eye-catching capital "A" highlighted metal Logo here on the left, with a small logo of ASUS Zenbook at the bottom, and then makes a whole air outlet on the back of the C / D side.

From the portable attribute that the lightweight book pays great attention to, the BWH of this computer is 321.8 × 223.4 × 17.9mm respectively, and the weight of the bare metal is only about 1.6kg. Considering that this time a piece of RTX4060 is stuffed into it, it is reasonable to have a slight increase in the thickness of the 1mm compared to the previous generation.

Lingyao Pro14 2023 supports one-hand opening and closing with a maximum opening and closing angle of 150 degrees. The damping feeling is very good, and the C / D plane will not be warped when opening and closing. The rotating shaft part returns to the traditional design, because the A side rotating shaft part has done a hollowed-out treatment, the problem of hot air blowing screen will not occur in practical use.

The B side of Lingyao Pro14 2023 is designed with ultra-narrow borders on both sides, and the forehead is reserved with 1080p camera, IR infrared camera and microphone, in which the camera supports Windows Hello face recognition unlocking and 3DNR video noise reduction, so the forehead will be a little wider, and there is also an ASUS Zenbook logo at the bottom.

This 14.5in OLED screen is one of the highlights of Lingyao Pro14 2023. Since Asustek promoted the OLED screen on laptops, breakthroughs in screen quality and hardware innovation have never stopped. In terms of parameters, Lingyao Pro14 2023 has upgraded to 120Hz refresh rate with a resolution of 2880 °1800, peak brightness up to 550nit, support for 10bit color depth, 1 billion colors, DisplayHDR Ture Black 2023 certification and high contrast of 1000000 550nit, and 10:00 touch operation.

However, the high contrast and high saturation of OLED also test the manufacturer's ability to adjust the screen. In terms of color, this screen has 100% P3 wide color gamut coverage, the system has built-in native, sRGB, DCI-P3 and Display P3 professional color gamut switching, each mode comes with its own color file, as well as Pantone color certification. After CTOnews.com measurement, in the primary color gamut mode, reached 100% sRGB, 97.6% Adobe RGB and 99.6% DCI P3 color gamut coverage, the performance of omnipotent, professional quality is very strong.

In terms of the color accuracy of the Display P3 color gamut mode, the average color offset Δ E of Lingyao Pro14 2023 is only 0.44, with a maximum Δ E 1.48. for people with professional drawing and design needs, it can fully meet their professional needs, and it can indeed be called an Asustek good screen.

Of course, the sRGB color gamut is also often used, so we also measured the color accuracy performance under the sRGB color gamut, the average Δ E 1.05, the maximum Δ E 2.77, the performance is also good.

The creator center software (ProArt Creator Hub) of Lingyao Pro14 2023 has its own color correction function. If you are not satisfied with the current default color file, you can also connect to a professional color calibration instrument to calibrate the screen to make the color performance more accurate.

And the Asustek Creator Center provides a web page color extraction function. For example, if I want to draw a character by hand, I can first drag the cursor on the web page to select the desired color. At this time, the mouse pointer will become a cross. The circle next to it can help us accurately locate the pixel position and improve the accuracy of color selection.

After clicking to confirm the selection of colors, the Asustek Creator Center will add the current colors to the creation board and turn them into small square color cards. You can accurately view the color number and lightness of each color. The color information under various color standards and Pantone color card information is really very comprehensive, and you can delete unwanted colors at any time, and then save them for easy viewing at any time. Here, I roughly extract the colors of a character's vertical painting, which is of great help to the later creation.

Due to some screen features of OLED, Lingyao Pro14 2023 also provides some screen saver options in the built-in Asustek butler application, such as pixel refresh and pixel offset in ASUS OLED Care, which can automatically refresh screen pixels after a period of time and move the pixel positions of static patterns, while improving the display quality while keeping visual elements such as icons and wallpapers static for a long time. It is not easy to burn the screen.

In fact, Asustek has customized a set of OLED Care protection mechanisms for all OLED models, and its measures and principles can be summarized as follows:

Windows dark mode is adopted by default.

OLED screen saver is used by default: the screen darkens after being idle for 5 minutes.

Pixel-level compensation Technology of Samsung OLED

In many details, Asustek Butler provides small adjustments to ease the chance of burning screens, such as the default theme is dark mode and automatically opens the translucent taskbar.

After turning on the focused display, when you stay in an active application window for a long time, the system will automatically darken the rest of the non-window area, which can not only save power but also delay the aging problem of the OLED screen.

Of course, for the dimming problem of OLED screen, Lingyao Pro14 2023 also has a built-in anti-flicker DC dimming function, which provides a separate brightness adjustment threshold, which is independent of the brightness of the system and will not exceed the currently set brightness limit. When the brightness of the system is less than 60%, the OLED low brightness anti-flicker function can be turned on by Asustek PC manager. Through this proprietary brightness adjustment, the screen brightness can be adjusted to reduce screen flash. If the system brightness is adjusted above 60%, it will become DC dimming. When the HDR mode is turned on, it will enter full brightness DC dimming to maximize the protection of eye health.

The C side is still familiar with the sunken island keyboard, with Dolby Horizon and Harman Catton sound signs printed on both sides of the keyboard. The keyboard layout is not much different from that before, except that the game style design elements of the previous generation have been removed.

In addition, this full-size ErgoSense ergonomic backlit keyboard has three levels of white backlight, 1.4mm key path and 19.05mm full-size key distance, and has done 0.2mm concave arc processing, the typing experience is still very good.

The trackpad part is made of a whole piece of metal, which feels delicate and smooth. There is a toggle in the upper right corner of the trackpad, which can activate the Asustek virtual knob in the physical form on the left as long as you swipe it to the left and down.

In professional productivity software such as Adobe, you can quickly adjust the timeline, adjust colors, switch function menus and other operations.

Direct operation in the desktop and other software interfaces can be achieved to adjust the volume and screen brightness and other functions, but also support custom functions, proficient in the improvement of efficiency is obvious.

The design of the D plane is regular, the oblique cutting design on both sides can play a visual thinning effect, and there are a group of double loudspeaker openings on both sides of the bottom. The upper part covers a large area of air intake, and the anti-skid rubber mat is also thickened and high, which can effectively improve the air circulation at the bottom.

In terms of interface, because both the CPU and Duxian have more power consumption, Asustek has arranged three sets of air outlets on both sides of the fuselage, through which you can see the neatly arranged heat dissipation fins inside. On the left side of the body are DC power interface, HDMI2.1 interface, USB3.2 Gen 2 Type-An interface and 3.5mm audio interface.

On the right side of the fuselage is the full-function Lightning 4 protocol Type-C interface, supporting 40Gbps transmission rate, up to 100W PD power supply, full-function USB3.2 Gen2 Type-C interface, standard SD card reader and two power status indicators.

Finally, we take a look at unwinding the machine, unscrew the back a total of 10 hexagon screws, remove the chassis, Lingyao Pro14 2023 internal into view, with the current widespread use of full-board memory particles in the way, Lingyao Pro14 2023 in the 14.5in small fuselage stuffed into a memory slot, although the standard 32GB memory is not small, but you can still upgrade to a larger 48GB memory. There is an M.2 hard drive slot next to the memory slot, the Meguiar 3400 solid state with 1TB, a whole 76Wh battery and symmetrical speaker unit below, and a heat dissipation module with five heat pipes and double fans at the top, which is a good stack of internal space for a 14.5in model.

After watching the heat dissipation and performance disassembly, let's take a look at the actual roaster to test whether the internal design of Lingyao Pro14 2023 can hold down the two performance beasts of i9-13900H and RTX4060.

First of all, AIDA64's 15-minute single-baked FPU, the final CPU power consumption is stable at about 82W, the temperature is only 84 degrees, in the 14.5inch machine, the power consumption is quite enough.

Then bake the GPU for 15 minutes, the power consumption can also reach about 80W, the graphics card temperature is only 65.3 degrees, the video card frequency comes to 2550MHz. In addition, with GPU single baking in full speed mode, GPU power consumption can be further increased to 110W, although Lingyao Pro14 2023 is called a lightweight creative book, but this performance can be used to play video games.

Then there is the theoretical run test. The i9-13900H processor on the Lingyao Pro14 2023 uses the latest Intel 7 process technology, large and small core hybrid architecture, with 6 performance cores and 8 energy efficiency cores, that is, 14 cores with 20 threads, with a maximum frequency of 5.4 GHz 24MB three-level cache, plus 80W power support, performance is expected. In the CPU-Z benchmark, the i9-13900H single-core score is 801 and the multi-core score is 8503.

Then there is the CineBench series test. In CineBench R20, Lingyao Pro14 2023 scored 790 points in a single core, 7066 points in a multi-core, and a more outstanding performance.

In the CineBench R23 test, Lingyao Pro14 2023 scored 2010 points in a single core and 19683 points in a multi-core test, which is already a very good performance for non-game books.

The RTX4060 scored 10394 on the 3D Mark TimeSpy test, which means it's okay for Lingyao Pro14 2023 to play with the mainstream 3A masterpiece.

In the memory part, Lingyao Pro14 2023 uses two 16GB DDR5 4800MHz dual-channel memory. In the AIDA64 memory test, the sequential read score is 7W, the sequential write score is 6.8W, and the delayed performance is also normal.

As we mentioned before the hard disk, Lingyao Pro14 2023 comes with a Meguiar 3400 solid state with 1TB storage capacity, and the basic information of this M.2 solid state can also be seen through CryDiskInfo.

In CryDiskMark's solid-state running test, the Lingyao Pro14 2023 reads and writes 6458MB/s and 5008MB/s, respectively.

As a notebook that focuses on creative production, the productivity experience of Lingyao Pro14 2023 is also of great concern to consumers, especially those with mobile office needs. So we also conducted several tests on its productivity performance this time.

First of all, in the comprehensive office performance test of PC Mark 10, we got a comprehensive score of 7751 points, which can easily meet a variety of daily office needs.

In another CrossMark benchmark that reflects computer performance, Lingyao Pro14 2023 scored a composite score of 2138.

In the V-Ray benchmark software that tests rendering speed, Lingyao Pro14 2023 has a CPU score of 13324 and a GPU CUDA test score of 1166.

In the professional rendering tool Adobe three-piece suite that pays more attention to comprehensive performance, the performance score of Lingyao Pro14 2023 belongs to the standard level, with the score of 1094 for Puget for Photoshop, 1089 for Puget for Premiere Pro and 1210 for Puget for After Effects. But considering the slim body and weight of the Lingyao Pro14 2023, this performance is still excellent.

Finally, let's take a look at its endurance performance. CTOnews.com measured it in modern office projects through PC Mark 10, and the final endurance score of Lingyao Pro14 2023 is 7 hours and 37 minutes, which belongs to the normal level.

In addition, although Asustek defines it as the flagship notebook of daily creation, it is equipped with a RTX4060 graphics card, so we also put the latest NVIDIA game driver on it to briefly test its gaming experience. In the game, we choose an efficient mode in the creator center to ensure the performance release and noise.

First of all, we selected just started the service, but the heat of the full-platform PC game "collapse: star Dome Railway", although it is a round game, but the equipment performance requirements are not low, Lingyao Pro14 2023 want to full resolution + the highest image quality to wander on the planet of Xianzhou Luofu, it is still a bit difficult.

In the game, the resolution is adjusted to 2.5K, the image quality is selected as full height, the rendering accuracy is 1.2, and the frame rate is 60. At this time, Lingyao Pro14 2023 has no pressure to run 60 frames in Xianzhou Luofu. Although there are still small fluctuations in the process of running the picture, the average frame rate finally reaches 59 frames, so there is no problem in playing.

Then there is a God-optimized 3A masterpiece "Ultimate Speed: horizon 5". We are very confident about the performance of this game, pull directly into the game to the highest image quality (extreme) and highest resolution, and run its own benchmark running score test. the final average frame number is 65 frames.

In another equally good optimized 3A game, Tomb Raider: shadow, we also choose the highest picture quality and highest resolution for our own benchmark run test, and the final average frame rate is exactly 65 frames, that is to say, the most demanding PC games and the old 3A, Lingyao Pro14 2023 can be easily controlled, and the color look and feel of the OLED screen is also more powerful. Therefore, after professional creation, it is quite good to play games with this computer and relax and entertain.

Summing up the Lingyao Pro14 2023 computer, we can see the performance potential and power consumption advantages of this lightweight book this year. Coupled with Asustek's innovation and design in details, this lightweight book is even more distinctive. Whether it is the excellent display effect of the 2.8K resolution OLED screen, the exclusive optimization of burning screen, color accuracy and eye protection, or the unique creativity of the semi-physical knob, you can feel the official attention to this product.

Lingyao Pro 14 2023 also does a good job in size, volume and portability, and its configuration is compared with buckets. there are no obvious shortcomings and defects in the whole machine, and the product performance is balanced and comprehensive. This is a rare good machine, after all, a few years ago, many people's impression of frivolous books is still serious, frivolous but poor performance, more or less IQ tax, but this year's Asustek answer paper should make more consumers expect more and more confidence in frivolous books.

JD.com Asustek Lingyao Pro14 2023 14.5in 13 standard press Intel 2.8K 120Hz OLED high performance notebook (i9-13900H 32G 1T RTX4060) black 13499 yuan direct link

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