Professional designer's choice, mobile productivity tool, ASUS fearless Pro 14 Ruilong Edition evaluation.

What productivity tools do professional designers need? The traditional collocation is a 4K monitor or a combination of multiple monitors, plus devices such as tablet. As for what kind of high-performance game graphics card, it is not as important as most people think. However, designers are not behind closed doors, not going out for inspiration, not exploring new ideas on the road, nor dealing with things temporarily. At this time, the top-level configuration in your home will not be used. You can't leave the box in a hurry and drive back, can you? Therefore, choosing an efficient, high-performance and high-level mobile production tool is believed to enhance many life experiences for designers.

Directory:

1, ASUS intrepid Pro 14 ruilong version unpacking articles

2. Interaction between ASUS Good Screen and Designer

3, ASUS fearless Pro 14 Ruilong version experience

4. Use summary and suggestions

I. Unpacking of ASUS fearless Pro 14 Ruilong Edition

As early as 1996, I came into contact with ASUS products, and I felt the diversity of ASUS from the motherboard, graphics card, ADSL modem, router and peripherals. Of course, ASUS's notebooks have been exposed to Ling Yao's thin series and Flying Fortress's high-performance game series, and they have always had a good experience.

For holiday parties, students who are designers should change their books, requiring portability, lightness, beauty and configuration. I'll add another important screen to her, reaching the level of a professional monitor. Finally, the new ASUS product-fearless Pro 14 was finalized.

Accustomed to the ASUS Ling Yao series, and then look at the fearless Pro 14, it feels like another painting style. If Ling Yao is frivolous and fashionable, then my first impression of fearless Pro 14 is young and fashionable. It is common for designers to keep ahead of the times, which is just right for them.

As you can see, this is a portable notebook suitable for professional designers. 14 inch notebook computer is equipped with professional-grade organic light-emitting diode display screen and eight nuclear 16 thread processor, which used to be crazy and exciting for professionals.

Look at the A side first, because this is the first impression the notebook gives. Asus intrepid Pro 14 adopts minimalist design language, and the A side adopts customized metal top cover. CNC embossed LOGO is more exquisite and highly recognizable.

When it comes to professionalism, many people understand it as a very calm design language. In fact, ASUS fearless Pro 14 adopts lightweight design, and its thickness and weight are more advantageous than most business machines. The intrepid Pro 14 is as thin as 17.9mm and as light as10.4 kg, which is especially suitable for designers who need to commute, travel, speak or train with their notebooks.

I have contacted many designers in the past, and the desktop is in a mess. A messy working environment can easily bring negative psychological hints. With it, the desktop becomes neat, the space becomes abundant, and the mood will naturally get better and better.

The lines brought by CNC cutting technology are as clear as knives, full of three-dimensional sense, and the tough lines give people a better sense of reliability.

D-plane is simple but not simple. Large-area anti-skid pads and cooling holes are all practical elements.

Like the ASUS notebooks contacted in the past, the fearless Pro 14 also has Harman Kardon professional audio certification and stereo speakers, and the sound quality is significantly higher than similar products. After work fatigue, listening to a song to decompress is really a good choice; In other words, watching a movie for a change, good low-frequency effect and shock can also make us forget our troubles in a short time.

As a human-computer interaction interface, C-plane goes without saying. The C surface of fearless Pro 14 is made of composite material, which feels good, especially the huge touchpad, which has the touch of glass panel, and is comfortable to operate and praised.

The early notebooks were limited by technology and technology, and the input experience was really poor. Facts have proved that the success rate of any experience that changes users' habits is very low. I support the keyboard design of fearless Pro 14. The main input area uses a standard size chocolate keyboard. Function keys are reduced to a certain extent, which makes the user's input smoother.

In this way, you don't need to adapt to the keyboard layout of the notebook, and you can easily type blindly.

In terms of interface, there are three USB-a and one USB-C, in addition to TF card reader and standard HDMI interface, so that we have enough interfaces to meet the needs of peripherals, backup and multi-screen work. Through HDMI, it is not difficult to achieve dual-screen work. For friends who often use PR as an editor, the main screen is responsible for the design, and the auxiliary screen is responsible for the output effect. It is best to have a screen to handle daily affairs, so that the work efficiency is more secure.

Second, the interaction between ASUS Good Screen and designers

Many successful designers belong to high-paying professional groups, but high salary does not mean irrational consumption. Therefore, the brainless hardware configuration does not meet the rigid requirements of designers. For designers, CPU has strong performance and excellent multi-thread real-time processing ability; Secondly, there is huge memory and ultra-fast hard disk. The former affects your ability to load and run in parallel, while the latter determines whether you can read the call data and backup quickly to avoid losing the design progress.

However, the response speed is not the most worrying problem for designers, they are more concerned about the color and the accuracy of the color. After all, color accuracy is a very important parameter in the commercial field.

Color accuracy and color are metaphysical concepts? Of course not. Screen quality, color gamut and proofreading of factory colors will all affect the final color performance. Those who try to go to third-and fourth-tier brands are doomed to be lonely. After all, small brands don't have the strength to get a real A-level screen. The NTSC color gamut and RGB color gamut tests of general color gamut are acceptable, and color accuracy and color correction are basically inevitable.

Simply put, "ASUS Good Screen" is the strategy of professional designers. For example, ordinary notebooks use the sRGB color gamut, while ASUS Good Screen uses the ultra-wide color gamut range of 100% DCI-P3, which is 33% larger and contains more vivid colors in nature, which can present a vivid picture that ordinary notebooks can't match.

Peak brightness of 600 nits, black as low as 0.0005 nits, and contrast as high as 1 1,000,000:1.VESADisplayHDR 600 is certified as true black, which makes the brightness and color of ASUS intrepid Pro 14 more layered, deeper and more detailed.

Because it supports a high refresh rate of 90Hz, ASUS fearless Pro 14 is 50% higher than the 60Hz of ordinary thin and light books. In the same time, the more times the screen is refreshed, the smoother the picture moves and the smaller the sense of frustration. The screen response time of ASUS fearless Pro 14 is only 0.2ms, which is only about1100 ~1/50 of ordinary thin LCD, even faster than that of e-sports LCD. Ultra-fast response makes things moving fast on the screen smear less, further improving the smoothness of the picture and reducing the dizziness caused by blur. In addition, the hardware-grade anti-blue light can not only reduce 70% of harmful short-wave blue light, but also avoid yellowing the picture and keep the color accurate and vivid.

Of course, for designers, the screen is the first, but the configuration is also a rigid requirement. In fact, at the beginning, our choice was to find the best screen from the flying fortress or ROG game book. This can ensure stronger performance and response speed.

However, compared with fearless Pro 14, the size and weight of the game book are not dominant, and for non-gamers, the powerful discrete graphics card is a bit wasteful if it is idle for a long time.

Fearless Pro 14 subverts my concept of a 14 inch notebook. In the past, almost all notebooks with standard processors were 15.6 inch high-end business books or game books. 14 inch mold was stuffed with the latest AMD Ruilong 7 5800H eight nuclear 16 thread processor and DDR4 3200 8GBX2 dual-channel memory, which was quite unexpected.

You know, Adobe series and many professional software have no upper limit on CPU, memory and hard disk. The stronger the performance and the faster the speed, the higher our work efficiency will be.

The fearless Pro 14 is equipped with AMD Ruilong 5000 standard voltage processor and adopts the new Zen3 architecture. IPC is increased by 19%, and the highest acceleration frequency is 4.4GHz. L3 cache is doubled to 16MB compared with the previous generation, which is more efficient. Super specifications even exceed the performance of many desktops.

Let's take a look at the performance of the whole machine. Master Lu, pcmark8 (creator performance test) and pcmark 10 got 4 1000, 564 1 and 5988 respectively, and their comprehensive performance was good.

For designers, excess performance is sheer nonsense. Thanks to the powerful performance of AMD Ruilong 7 5800H, whether it is multi-core multi-thread processing, single-core floating-point performance, video coding performance, or the continuous performance release of fearless Pro 14 for 50W CPU, its running score is very bright, basically similar to the desktop of i7 processor in recent three years.

Third, ASUS fearless Pro 14 Ruilong Edition experience

For many non-diy users, running scores is abstract, and some people even worry that there will be a lot of heat and noise if the performance is too strong.

The temperature of intrepid Pro 14 is only about 49 degrees when browsing the web and working normally, and it can also be controlled at 92 degrees when fully loaded in the limit state. Considering the thickness of 17.9mm and the mold of 14 inch, this temperature control is quite excellent. You know, the game temperature of many large molds will not be lower than that of fearless Pro 14.

C surface is made of composite material, which is beneficial to heat dissipation and proper temperature control. Even if it is fully loaded, the tray part on the C side will not become a barbecue grill.

Another commendable detail of fearless Pro 14 is that the keyboard looks genuine. In fact, the keyboard optimization is very detailed, 1.4mm long keystroke, clear keystroke feedback, and easier typing. Large keycap, full-size spacing, no crowded fingers. The keycap is designed with concave arc surface, which is more suitable for fingertips. The keyboard is equipped with backlight and supports three brightness levels, so it can be handy even when dealing with affairs temporarily in a coffee shop. It can even be said that many designers' mechanical keyboards can be collected, without considering the external keyboard at all.

Four. Summary and suggestions

In the past, the word "Apple" could not be avoided when referring to the working platform of professional designers. The security and optimization of the Mac ecosystem are really good, and the screen color performance of the Macbook is really better than that of most mainstream notebooks. Before choosing the fearless Pro 14 Ruilong Edition, we also considered sacrificing certain portability and choosing high-performance game books.

However, when we came into contact with fearless Pro 14, all our worries vanished. The powerful eight nuclear 16 thread processor is comparable to the high-end desktop design host in single-core performance and multi-core and multi-thread processing. The 14-inch mold can also complete many factors such as temperature, noise, configuration and continuous performance release, and truly experience the depth of top brand design and detail processing.

On the screen, the ultra-wide color gamut of 100%DCI-P3 and the accurate reproduction of various colors make the incumbent who has been engaged in design work for 20 years impeccable, which is also the key factor for his direct decision.

In other aspects, the appearance of simple trend, the thickness of 17.9mm, the weight of 1.4kg, multiple expansion interfaces and the appearance lines of CNC technology all provide great convenience for outdoor use. If we add a Thunderbolt 3 interface, I believe the expansibility will be strengthened.