The Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition is the best-looking 'rugged' laptop I have ever seen – and a powerhouse for creative workloads

A rugged laptop for adventurous creatives. That is the Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition in a nutshell. However, I see it as something that is useful for office jobs and businesses.

The GoPro Edition is built for those who take photos and shoot video in the great outdoors. It has innovative controls and hotkeys to speed up workflows, and a super-fast wad of RAM and an AMD processor to power you through those tasks.

The GoPro collaboration includes a rugged case and a one-year GoPro Premium+ subscription included in the price. And on that subject, the whole thing costs $2,400 (£2,999). So yeah, it's expensive.

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Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition: Design

Rugged laptops have a certain look. They're generally bulky and often look like the boxes a power drill comes in. But the Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition is probably the prettiest 'rugged' laptop I've ever seen. Around its thick metal hinges and chunky chassis is a style that would improve any other 13.3in notebook.

To start with, it's all black metal, which makes it look effortlessly cool. The keyboard has neon blue backlighting. And the lid has horizontal grooves for grip when you're on the go. Then there are the two logos in the top and bottom corners; one is a smaller 'GoPro' logo and the other, a slightly larger 'ProArt' one. Both are indents, so no attention-seeking colors. They just look good in an understated way. Ten out of ten, aesthetically.

Functionally, there's also some good news; the function row is full of useful additions, the trackpad has a nifty dial, and there are plenty of ports on either side USB A, two USB-C, HDMI, a headphone jack, and a DCIN charger port. The on/off button is also on the side (right-hand), next to a microSD card reader, which is always a fantastic extra, but particularly for creative workers.

Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition: Display

On paper, the Asus ProArt XP13 display might not seem so impressive, specifically the 60Hz refresh rate. Surely creatives want smooth scrolling? However, the 13.3in, 3K OLED touchscreen is quite beautiful. Designed in collaboration with GoPro, the display aims to provide crisp visuals to show off your action shots and stunning vistas. And to that end, it is a resounding success.

With our colormeter, it showcased 100% for sRGB coverage, 173.6% volume, and an impressive 97% for Adobe sRGB. Blacks look nice and deep, colors pop, and most images, provided they're good, look crystal clear on the display.

The screen, which is built to handle the great outdoors, has no problems in direct sunlight (not that there's much of that in the UK). I recorded its peak brightness (without HDR) at 396.43cd/m2, which doesn't seem to be bright compared to others, but in real-life use, it was more than capable.

Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition: Keyboard and trackpad

There is a slightly unusual order to the function keys in that everything isn't necessarily where you would expect. This is partly due to the addition of hotkeys; the volume controls are F1 and F2, which isn't too troubling. There's a GoPro button just off the center at F8. And a ProArt Creator Hub hotkey on F12. F4 is your keyboard backlighting, which is a striking neon blue.

The keys themselves are punchy, with nice travel, and decent-sized caps. I enjoyed typing on them, I got up to decent speeds, and I ended up preferring the function key layout, particularly the hotkeys.

What I really love, however, is the trackpad. Admittedly, it isn't the biggest, but it has a couple of extra controls that really do speed up workflows. The first is the large dial in the top left-hand corner. It needs to be set up in the Creator Hub, where you can add and remove controls and apps. More importantly, there is a smaller circle in the opposite corner of the trackpad. You need to swipe a finger away from it (diagonally) to turn the dial one – it will light up blue when on.

Rotating your finger around the dial controls things like volume, brightness, or, in specific apps like Premiere Pro and sites like YouTube, skims through video timelines. Pressing the central button brings up a small circular interface on the display, where you can see controls and apps.

If you see the GoPro Edition as a little too gimmicky, or something not for the office, I would argue that its hotkeys and the dial offer something for everyone. In a world of AI PCs where the 'AI' part is supposed to speed up workflows, I actually find clever physical controls are more efficient and more suited to my job. The ProArt gave me that little bit more control and precision when editing. And generally made my job easier.

Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition: Specs and performance

Inside this rugged beauty is the impressive AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 processor, which wowed us at CES 2026. It features 16 cores, 32 threads, and also includes the AMD XDNA NPU, with up to 50TOPS.

In Geekbench 6, the ProArt PX13 hit 2,818 for single-core, and 16,392 multi-threaded (83,633 for GPU). Both scores are thoroughly good, and an improvement on the 2024 model of PX13 (2,750, single-core, 15,080, multi-threaded).

The 128GB of LPDDR5X memory (8000 MHz) is also a big appeal for the ProArt GoPro Edition. If you build something for adventurous creatives, it needs lightning-fast transfer speeds for those massive workloads. Whether editing high-resolution action footage, batch-processing photos, or running multiple creative apps side by side, the ProArt has the headroom to keep you working.

Battery power has vastly improved across the board for laptops; over the last 12 months, we tested the M4 and M5 MacBook Pro, the HP OmniBook 5, and the Asus ZenBook Duo, and all needed our looped video test to be run twice to fully drain them. So it is somewhat disappointing that the Asus ProArt PX13 only managed 11hrs and 50mins. Especially considering this is a rugged laptop to use in adventure settings.

Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition: Features

As it is a collaboration with GoPro, there are a number of features on the ProArt PX13 that suit content creation. It comes with a host of Asus and third-party apps preinstalled. These include StoryCube, MyASUS, the ProArt Creator Hub, ScreenXpert, and GlideX. There's also the Asus MuseTree, which is a sort of multifunction design hub, where you can create with AI or use a pen to illustrate (more on that below). You also get CapCut, though you need a subscription or you have limited tools and access with the free mode.

Having already had hands-on time with the Asus ProArt PX13 at CES, I was still somewhat surprised to find an Asus Pen 3.0 in the bundle. Now I know it is a laptop for 'creatives', but the GoPro tie-in lends itself to video and photography. Particularly the outdoorsy types. A stylus, to me, seems an odd addition, even with such an excellent touch screen.

And then again, it's a fairly good pen; nice and light, glides across the screen really well, it looks good all in black, and you have the space in the carry case. However, it doesn't charge when you magnetically connect to the laptop, as you would find with a tablet or 2-in-1, and it is just a touch too smooth on the screen. There are some cool features in the MuseTree, and you can use the stylus easily, but it isn't like using Sketchbook or Procreate.

Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition: Is it worth it?

My only complaint with Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition is that I want a bit more battery life, especially having seen what Apple and HP are getting out of their laptops. That said, I didn't have any issues with it dying during my work, though I didn't really travel that far with it.

And really, the good points far outweigh the bad: the RAM and storage specs are great, the keyboard and trackpad are truly set up to enhance workflows, and it looks, frankly, better than most notebooks, never mind rugged ones. If this is the kind of stuff a GoPro collaboration creates, then please, Asus, I want more.

Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition specifications