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日本ASUS Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED (UP6502) – Top 5 Pros and Cons
High-end convertibles have no room for error, as they have to provide the same functionality as their clamshell counterparts, but also execute the convertible aspect flawlessly. The ZenBook Pro 15 Flip OLED (UP6502) is a powerful machine, harnessing the Alder Lake H-series processor, as well as offering Arc discrete graphics. Intel’s GPUs are a touchy subject. Prices keep going down for their desktop counterparts, to make them more appealing, however, the driver issues are still keeping consumers away from them. However, don’t let that keep you away from the ZenBook, which has many appealing qualities.
Today we’re giving you a quick overview of the ASUS Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED (UP6502).
ASUS Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED (UP6502): Full Specs / In-depth Review
3 reasons to BUY the ASUS Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED (UP6502)
1. Design and build quality
Zenbooks have always utilized premium materials. The Pro 15 Flip OLED has a full-metal body, which is rigid and feels good to the touch. Design-wise, the lid, and base have a stepped edge, with the one on the base being covered in silver, the same as the hinges giving the laptop some bling. The lid has a circular brushed finish, which centers around an ASUS logo. For a 15.6-inch machine, it’s portable, with a weight of only 1.80 kg and a profile of 18.9 mm. However, for a convertible, we feel like it’s a bit too heavy to be used as a tablet.
The lid opens easily with one hand, and still carries an ErgoLift mechanism, despite the convertible form factor. The display is surrounded by thin bezels, which carry an HD webcam and an IR sensor for facial recognition. The Gorilla Glass cover above the display also improves durability and flex-resistance. Moving to the base, we have a full-sized keyboard with a NumPad and a backlit. It’s great for typing, squeezing out as much key travel as possible, despite the thin profile, while offering clicky feedback. The touchpad has an interesting hydrophobic coating that prevents the buildup of smudges, dirt, and fingerprints, however, it’s not flawless, as sometimes you will see a fingerprint or two.
2. Display quality
The 15.6-inch OLED panel has a 2.8K resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. It feels very smooth even under general use, as the response times are wickedly quick, at just 3ms. There is some PWM usage below 80 nits, however, the MyASUS app does include a Flicker-Free Dimming toggle, which eliminates the issue. Other than that, the panel is great, with a peak brightness of 373 nits, 100% sRGB, and 100% DCI-P3 coverage.
The panel has very accurate colors out of the box, with a dE value of 1.2 in both the sRGB and DCI-P3 gamuts. If you decide to use the Flicker-Free Dimming option, the accuracy isn’t affected that much, as it still achieves a dE value of 1.6.
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3. Battery life
There is a massive 96Wh battery pack, which lasts for 12 hours and 37 minutes of Web browsing, or 11 hours and 7 minutes of video playback. Now, we conduct the battery tests with the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with.
2 reasons NOT to buy the ASUS Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED (UP6502)
1. Upgradeability
The upgradeability of the Zenbook is next to non-existent, with soldered LPDDR5 memory, of which you can get only 16GB. You can only access the storage, through one M.2 slot for Gen 4 SSDs.
Here is our detailed teardown video, which shows the insides of the notebook.
2. GPU performance
We did a full breakdown of gaming on the Arc A370M, which shows that Intel still needs to work on improving the drivers. Some later updates supposedly improve the performance in DX9 games, utilizing a translation layer, similar to the one that Valve uses for its SteamOS to make gaming on Linux and their Steam Deck more pleasant. Inside the ZenBook, the A370M performs worse than the RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti.
Results are from the 3DMark: Time Spy (Graphics) benchmark (higher the score, the better)
Results are from the 3DMark: Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (higher the score, the better)
Results are from the 3DMark: Wild Life benchmark (higher the score, the better)
Results are from the Unigine Superposition benchmark (higher the score, the better)
| Intel Arc A370M | GPU frequency/ Core temp/ GPU Chip Power Draw (after 2 min) | GPU frequency/ Core temp/ GPU Chip Power Draw (after 30 min) |
|---|---|---|
| ASUS Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED (UP6502) | 2050 MHz @ 64°C @ 28W | 2050 MHz @ 67°C @ 29W |
The Arc A370M has a max TGP of 50W, but here, we don’t nearly to that, as the GPU maintains a sub-30W power limit, during both short and long loads. On the other hand, the clock speeds are high and the temperatures are low.
