Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 (2023) review: Neither Intel Gen 13 nor RTX 40 - OLED and Mini-LED displays are the new laptop's highlights

Smartphones and TVs have been leading the way and are now, unlike a few years ago, an important source of inspiration for laptops. In particular, inexpensive, mass-market laptops have had a very long development path when it comes to their displays, certainly compared to TVs and smartphones. Staring with lousy TN panels which are only now starting to slowly disappear, through to 250 to 350 nit IPS displays. Finally, laptops are beginning to offer really bright displays from 500 to 1000 nits and thereby greatly enhancing the daily viewing experience.

With regard to the new Intel/ Nvidia generations, the drivers are experiencing a few teething difficulties. Sometimes switching from iGPU to dGPU doesn't work. Then, we editors receive pages and pages of the manufacturer's test instructions explaining what should be activated or deactivated in Windows or hardware drivers in order to get the best possible performance or we discover that the M16's idle consumption is still too high etc, etc. Until Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft and co release mature drivers that allow the average user optimum laptop performance without having an initial marathon-like list of settings, we'll simply enjoy the new, nicer display options.

More details regarding the new HDR Nebula display with Mini-LEDs as well as all the $4000 Zephyrus M16's pros and cons can be found in our extensive Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 (2023) review.