Digit Zero1 Awards and Best Buy Awards 2023: Best Performing Creator Laptop
We celebrate the winners of Digit Zero1 Award and Best Buy Award 2023 for Best Performing Creator Laptop of the Year
The new 14-inch Apple MacBook Pro (M3 chip) won the prestigious Digit Zero1 Award
Samsung Galaxy Book3 UItra bagged the Digit Best Buy Award
In 2023, the creator laptop market featured standout models tailored for professionals in creative fields. The Apple 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M3 Max chip is a mobile powerhouse, boasting the fastest CPU in a 14-inch laptop, paired with a brilliant Mini-LED display, offering unparalleled performance for high-end creative work. Dell’s XPS series, known for its leading performance and long battery life, continues to excel with a gorgeous OLED touch display, catering to diverse creative needs.
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The ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo’s unique dual-screen design fosters multitasking and creative workflows, allowing you to create masterpieces on the move. Meanwhile, the 16-inch Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra steps onto the scene with not just creative but gaming capabilities, surprising anyone who is hasty enough to judge it by its sleek experience. But who is the winner? Here’s the answer.
Digit Zero 1 Award Winner: Apple MacBook Pro 14-inch (Buy now)
Price: Rs 4,25,000
Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro, powered by the M3 Max chip, stands out as a top choice for creators, meriting the Digit Zero1 award for its unparalleled CPU performance and versatility. It features a 14.2-inch Mini-LED display with HDR and a 120 Hz refresh rate, multiple connections including USB 4.0, Thunderbolt, HDMI, and SDXC card reader, and supports Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. Equipped with a 72.6 Wh battery, macOS 14 Sonoma, a 1080p webcam, a 6-speaker system with 3D audio, a backlit chiclet keyboard, and a lightweight build of 1.611 kg, this laptop offers a robust audio-visual experience and efficient workflow support.
Moreover, the laptop comes equipped with the latest and top tier M3 Max SoC, which plays a huge role in making this device the top choice for creators. The chip features a 16-core CPU and a 40-core GPU, and they performed flawlessly in all our tests. The smaller 14-inch chassis meant that the chip did throttle but despite that it achieved some of the highest scores in our benchmarks. Easily beating out every other Windows laptop that stands as its competitor. Add to that a solid build quality, sorted I/O and the new and improved gaming capabilities, granted by the M3 Max SoC and the 14-inch MacBook Pro 14-inch becomes the best creator laptop this year, and well deserving of the Digit Zero1 Award 2023.
Digit Best Buy Award Winner: Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra (Buy now)
Price: Rs 2,81,990
The Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra excels as a creator laptop with its powerful dedicated GPU and large 16-inch 3K AMOLED display, featuring a 120hz refresh rate for stunning clarity and vibrant colors. It’s particularly suitable for graphic design and video editing, combining detailed visuals with robust processing power.
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This attractive laptop boasts a dark grey aluminum body, offering a premium feel and durable build comparable to top-tier laptops like the MacBook Pro. Despite being slim at 19.5mm, it weighs 1.79kg, which may impact portability. The keyboard has a shallow feel, and the large touchpad might require adjustment. Its audio features include “studio” microphones and a quad-channel speaker system.
In terms of performance, the Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra features an Intel 13th Gen Core i9 EVO certified processor, which is not a highly efficient processor. Giving it a battery life which almost touches double digit and a cinebench score which easily mirrors that of a performance machine. Paired with the Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra is the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 featuring 8GB GDDR6 VRAM and 60W TGP. The laptop is capable of running the latest, most demanding AAA title at a smooth frame rate and high resolution as well as the most exhausting productivity software too.
Despite packing in some seriously impressive hardware, the laptop’s body looks no less premium than a business laptop. It looks sleek, stealthy and excellently crafted, all the qualities you want your laptop to showcase in a boardroom meeting. And its matte gray colour won’t look out of place at a gaming meet either. This is Samsung’s first try at making a creator laptop with serious CPU and GPU power in many years and they seem to have nailed it. Getting all the important factors right including build quality, display, performance and most importantly, value for money, the Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra easily scores the Digit Best Buy Award 2023 for the best Creator Laptop.
For more information on Digit Zero1 Award winners across various categories of products, please visit: https://www.digit.in/zero1-awards
Yetnesh Dubey
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