Two Years Later: ASUS ProArt PX13 Is Still the Best Laptop for On-The-Go Creators
Twelve months with any laptop tells you more than any review published the week it ships. The first few days are easy – everything is fast, the screen looks incredible, and buyer's remorse hasn't had time to set in. The harder question is whether it still earns its keep after a year of daily use, firmware updates, and the general wear that comes with carrying something everywhere.
For the ASUS ProArt PX13, my answer is yes. Emphatically.
The PX13 launched in June 2024 as a convertible Windows laptop with a 13.3-inch display, and it arrived during a moment when the creative laptop market was genuinely interesting and highly competitive. Plenty of creatives still default to Apple MacBook Pros, but the cost of those machines has pushed real interest toward capable Windows alternatives.
The PX13 landed squarely in that opening.
A creator edits on the ASUS ProArt PX13 while working remotely in a mountain landscape.
My review unit runs the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, a 12-core chip clocked up to 5.1GHz with AMD's XDNA NPU delivering up to 50 TOPS, paired with a discrete GPU. That combination has held up exceptionally well. Lightroom, Premiere Pro, and the occasional Blender session have never produced the kind of hesitation that makes you want to throw the machine out a window.
The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is especially strong for AI-assisted tasks like image generation and machine learning workloads, which has only become more relevant as those tools have matured over the past year.
The Screen Is Still the Best Reason to Buy It
A year in, the display remains the thing I mention first when someone asks about this machine. The 13.3-inch OLED panel runs at 3K resolution (2880 x 1800) with a 16:10 aspect ratio, 100% DCI-P3 coverage, and a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. It is PANTONE Validated, which matters if you're doing colour-critical work and don't want to second-guess what you're looking at. Grading footage on this screen versus reviewing it on a client's average monitor remains a humbling experience.
The 60Hz refresh rate will come up in every benchmark write-up as a caveat. A year on, I'd say it's a genuine tradeoff rather than a deal-breaker.
For a machine that isn't strictly a gaming rig – even if it can handle one – 60Hz is a reasonable position.
Scrolling a document doesn't bother me. Fast-paced gaming occasionally does. Know which one you'll be doing more of.
The machine meets military-grade durability standards, and the convertible hinge lets it flip quickly between laptop and tablet configurations with the included stylus, it becomes a genuinely capable drawing and annotation tool. I've noticed the screen is wobbling back and forth a tad more than I'd like at this age, but this has been my go-to machine for a long time and has endured its fair share of knocks and scrapes.
After a year of bag-throwing and travel, the chassis shows a little wear. The Nano Black chassis has the odd scrape and ding where you can see the silver metal peeking through beneath it, but there is nothing that stops me working or worrying about the actual use of the machine.
What Actually Wears on You Over Time
Battery life is the honest answer.
The PX13's biggest real-world limitation is stamina – though the suite of built-in power profiles helps manage that, and for anyone who spends most of their time at a desk or near a plug, it's a workable situation.
Road warriors who work untethered for full eight-hour stretches will need to plan accordingly. Carrying the charger stopped feeling like an inconvenience around month three. Although the battery does run out faster than I would have liked.
At 1.38 kg and around 17.7mm thick at its deepest point , this is not a featherweight. It's denser than you might expect from a 13-inch machine. Whether that reads as "solid and well-built" or "heavier than I wanted" depends almost entirely on what you're comparing it to. I travel with it a lot, and it's never been too heavy.
The connectivity story, though, has been a genuine highlight.
The port layout includes twin 40Gbps USB4 Type-C connections supporting both display output and power delivery, a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A port, HDMI 2.1, and a UHS-II MicroSD reader – all backed by Wi-Fi 7 for wireless work.
Dongles have not been a part of my life with this machine. That deserves more credit than it usually gets.
A year with a laptop either reveals that you bought the wrong thing or confirms that you made the right call. The ProArt PX13 HN7306 falls firmly in the second category. It's a machine with a clear purpose: compact, powerful, colour-accurate, convertible. And it has executed on every one of those goals without erosion. The 60Hz display and battery trade-offs are real. They were real in August 2024, and they're still real now. But for anyone doing serious creative work on the move, nothing in this size class has displaced it.
I own Apple laptops , and this is still my go-to workhorse.
The Spec Sheet
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Model:ASUS ProArt PX13 (HN7306)
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Category:Copilot+ PC
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Display:13.3-inch 3K OLED, 16:10
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Operating system:Windows 11 Home
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ASUS recommends Windows 11 Pro for business
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Processor:AMD Ryzen AI processor
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Graphics:Up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
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AI hardware:Dedicated neural processing unit
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Memory:Up to 32GB
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Storage:Up to 2TB SSD
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Controls:ASUS DialPad
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Connectivity:USB4 Type-C
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Charging:Charger included
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USB-C charging support:45W–100W USB PD
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ASUS eShop starting price:£2,499.99
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