

By comparison the rest of the machines here have full-fat mobile CPUs.

The processor is a Core i7-8565U – a low-power part. The Asus is smart, but the design does mean component compromises. It’s neat, even if it’s only useful once you’ve attached a USB mouse. The trackpad is actually a 5.65in touchscreen that Asus calls the ScreenPad, and it can be used as a secondary screen to display Windows apps in miniature. Overall this means that there’s enough quality here for casual and mainstream photo work, but nothing more.

The colour temperature of 7,902K is chilly, though, and the Asus only rendered 79.7% of the sRGB colour gamut. Its Delta E of 3.21 is good, and the contrast ratio of 1,156:1 is solid – enough to deliver good accuracy and detail throughout.
