Full Review – Asus ZenBook Pro Duo 15

WE TOOK A first look at the Asus ZenBook Pro Duo 15 in our last issue and now the fully-functional version of the machine has arrived we can truly see what the highly innovative dual-screen UX582 laptop has to offer professional photographers and videographers. It’s time to seriously ask whether it’s able to justify its hefty £2999 price tag.

First let’s take a quick walk around this ground-breaking machine to see what it has to offer, and the best place to start of course is the double screen, which opens up some very interesting new possibilities. The main panel is a 15.6in OLED touchscreen with 4K resolution and an included 4096-point stylus, while the ScreenPad is a 14in IPS touchscreen offering 3,840 x 1,100 resolution.

The primary panel offers superb quality. Its maximum brightness capability of 374cd/m2 can handle any indoor or outdoor scenario, and the OLED display means perfect black levels and sensational contrast – better than any IPS panel. The average Delta E of 1.52 ensures accurate colours, and the temperature and Gamma levels of 6,609K and 2.22 are both superb.

When tested the screen rendered 100% of the sRGB colour space and delivered 94.4% and 99.1% results in the Adobe RGB and DCI-P3 spaces with volume beyond 100%. The display also has Pantone and VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500 validation. In short, this screen will handle any colour-sensitive photography task you might choose to throw at it: you’re only going to get more accuracy if you’re working with high-end desktop monitors.