Summary
ASUS demonstrated its ProArt GR1X mini PC and ProArt P16 and P14 laptops at Adobe MAX 2026, including local AI workflows linked to Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop. ASUS says the GR1X will be available in the United States on November 18, 2026.
ASUS demonstrated the ProArt GR1X mini PC and ProArt P16 and P14 creator laptops at Adobe MAX 2026 in Miami, showing local AI workflows connected to Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop. The company says the systems use NVIDIA RTX Spark, combining a Blackwell GPU with a Grace CPU, and are intended to run creative tools and AI agents on-device.
The demonstrations, described in an ASUS press release dated November 11, included video editing, photo retouching, visual effects and multi-screen production setups. ASUS also specified that the ProArt GR1X will be available in the United States on November 18, 2026.
Local AI workflows on ProArt systems
ASUS lists the RTX Spark configuration with up to 6,144 NVIDIA Blackwell GPU cores, a 20-core NVIDIA Grace CPU and up to 128GB of unified memory. Unified memory is shared between the processor and graphics hardware, rather than being split into separate pools. ASUS says the capacity is intended to support AI agents alongside large creative projects.
At the event, the company showed Hermes integration connecting local AI agents with Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop. The announced demonstrations included AI-assisted video editing, content creation and photo enhancement. ASUS also described the GR1X as supporting tools including ComfyUI and Adobe Creative Cloud workflows. These systems are presented as running AI workloads locally: processing on the device can keep project files on the machine rather than requiring them to be sent to a cloud service, which ASUS positions as useful for sensitive client work.
For the GR1X demonstration, ASUS paired the mini PC with a ProArt Display OLED PA27UCDV, a 4K 120Hz QD-OLED monitor with two Thunderbolt 4 ports and up to 140W power delivery, and a 4K portable PA16USV monitor with 12G-SDI connectivity. ASUS also showed a quad-display mobile production setup powered by the mini PC.
P16 and P14 focus on portable creation
ASUS says the P16 is 12.9mm thin and weighs 1.77kg, with a 99.9Wh battery. The P14 is 13.9mm thin, weighs 1.48kg and has a 90Wh battery. ASUS describes the P16 as its thinnest ProArt laptop and the P14 as its lightest. The laptops were demonstrated alongside the ProArt Display OLED PA279CDV and PA329CDV, which ASUS specifies as 4K 120Hz QD-OLED monitors with Delta E<1.5 colour accuracy.
For the laptops’ own displays, ASUS lists configurations with up to a 4K Tandem OLED panel, 1,600 nits peak HDR brightness, 120Hz variable refresh rate and Delta E<1 colour accuracy. These specifications target colour-sensitive work as well as portable AI computing; the event demonstrations also showed the systems being used in multi-screen workflows.
The announcement focuses on demonstrations and product specifications rather than measured performance results. ASUS gave a US availability date for the GR1X but did not provide one for the P16 or P14 in this release.