Asus ProArt P16 (H7607) RTX Spark laptop review

If you don't talk to me about the price, I will tell you the Asus ProArt P16 is an unbelievably good gaming laptop. It is beautifully slim, runs incredibly well gaming on battery, and has an absolutely stunning 16-inch OLED screen. And its Arm-based SoC is almost entirely transparent when it comes to running pretty much anything on Windows 11.

But this is no mere Snapdragon device, this the RTX Spark; Nvidia's first foray into the world of full Windows SoCs. It's pairing a relatively beefy RTX Blackwell GPU with a whole bunch of Arm CPU cores, and doing so with lots and lots and lots of LPDDR5X memory. Y'know, for AI.

Which, er, is why you might not want to ask about that price. Memory's expensive, and these RTX Spark laptops—of which the Asus ProArt P16 is, in my opinion, the most desirable—are likewise brutally priced. …