Be incredibly careful with the open box models. Just purchased an "Excellent Condition" unit direct through Bestbuy, received from San jose today. Look in the box and see a different charger, no Nvidia stickers... what's going on? The S/N stickers on the external, Internal boxes, and even the sticker on the bottom panel unit all matched the order and description for the top tier 32GB ram 1TB SSD and 4070 GTX GPU. Then I boot into BIOS, it's a total mismatch on S/N. 16gb of ram. 512gb ssd. No dedicated gpu. The unit was fraudulently swapped (indisputably) with a base model at 1/3 the cost. Drove to the nearest BestBuy. Told I would have to call it in. Decided to do that in store, and a good thing too. Customer support on the phone was a 40 minute nightmare. Agent claimed the item hadn't arrived yet, that it was out of return date, and finally it was a standard return putting it right back into circulation - all of which was false. The local BestBuy rep offered to step in (thank god) he was able to sort it with the phone agent and make a note that the item was mismatched in the log. No complaints to the in store rep. All that said, the best that the phone rep could offer was a refund. Forget that I reserved half the day to sign for UPS, an hour and forty round trip to the store, another 45 minutes on the phone and up to 30 day wait on the returned funds. Whole day wasted plus gas. Or the fact that if I hadn't noticed I'd be screwed out of 2/3rds of the value spent on the x13 because no one bothered to check the unit specs while on before sending it out. What if I was accused of the fraud? Not even a replacement offer for the lost limited time discount or a new unit at the same price to make up for the lost time and $. At least I got my money back I guess we'll see. Lesson learned. Open box is not worth the risk for 10% savings. I'll think twice with future orders. Straight up fraud. BedBuy NEEDS to check the bios serial number.

At $2.5k, or even lower, this doesn't come with a native HDR display (it only has it for fullscreen(?) apps, you won't get it in games e.g.). I would much rather prefer this over the 165Hz display (maybe a 90/120Hz would be more realistic, you aren't getting close to saturating 165Hz without playing at 800p AND Frame Generation in recent games). I also wish the display was even brighter / not as reflective (not really usable outdoors) but this is just a personal preference - going significantly brighter/different panel (miniLED/OLED would probably harm battery if you still wanted to keep everything else that was good about it). or a RTX 4080 - it still won't perform well at a low power limit but you'll get better efficiency and more memory You're forced into this config for the 32GB RAM so it's unfortunate. Those are my major complaints, everything else is a relatively small issue, (many things fixed over prior gens?). The speakers are very subpar though, for sure. It has no competition (even the Z13 is probably objectively worse, unless you really like the tablet only). It does sustain 70W combined without going over 80 degrees - or it can go over 80 degrees and be not so loud. With some undervolting and thermal mods you can easily do more - I've seen ~15% GPU performance gains. It has nearly uncontested battery life at this size/GPU (14" laptops including Asus' G14 without a larger battery are depressing to look at now) - I think only the 14" MBPs can compete due to their display. The keyboard and trackpad are good / decent; personal preference. They do disable on rotation (even a little) so you may have to disable that service if you use it in bed - I would be very annoyed if I weren't able to do this. I would really like to see a Surface Book esque device from Asus, since they pretty much have the "pieces" - X13 + Z13. You would be able to get double the already good battery, easily push higher power limits on the CPU/GPU (since it wouldn't be combined), and have double the ports/drives. (It would also be double the price though lol, well maybe $3k would be reasonable given M$ prices).

This is a great piece of tech. The hardware will provide great performance in games for years to come due to DLSS support, and 32GB of memory will give plenty of headroom for other tasks for the foreseeable future. Being the only 13" laptop with a dedicated graphics card AND foldable for drawing/notes, this devices is unlike any other. Definitely look into replacing ArmoryCrate with GHelper online as it will save your idle battery life and also offers a lighter load than ASUS' default software.

This is an amazing laptop in a small size. I use it mainly for work with some lite gaming on the go. Battery with most settings turned down gives me about 6 - 8 hours of battery depending on usage. Gaming, with all settings turned up can only be done on the power brick. The screen is crisp, colors pop, and no tearing. Its not an OLED but one of the best LCD screens I have ever seen on a laptop. ASUS calls the display Nebula what ever that means. Its not mini-LED but still has very good contrast. Keyboard is tight and typing is crisp. I do not like to use the touch pad due to my big hands always hitting it so I mainly keep it off and either use a mouse or the touch screen. Pen works flawlessly. I did upgrade to the better WIFI card, and it increased my speed by about 150 - 250 Mbps depending on signal. Also upgraded to a 2TB SSD for more space and use a 1TB Micro SD for pictures, videos, etc. to free up hard drive space. Did I say this thing was light? Under three pounds, touch screen, pen, clamshell design with 360 lid. What more can you ask for? Its a sleek design and incognito gaming laptop that looks like it belongs in my weekly staff meeting. I honestly love this laptop and have not had any issues with it at all. No complaints, no issues, no problems so far.

This laptop is an amazing blend of portability and performance. It's a bit of a niche product and isn't for everyone since you can get faster laptops with better upgradeability for a bit cheaper if you don't mind going larger/heavier, but if performance and portability are your top concerns then you really can't do any better than this. The 4070 in here, despite being the lowest TDP config possible, is still a very powerful GPU and can easily play any game at high settings and run AI models locally with good performance. Battery life is surprisingly good with light loads, although like with most PCs running demanding games on the GPU will drop it down to under 2 hours. The 2-in-1 form factor is also amazing and really adds to the utility of the device, although I wish there was a place on the chassis to store the pen. The SSD and wifi cards are both upgradeable, bumped mine to a 2TB that's faster than the OEM SSD and put a proper Intel wifi card in mine (the included realtek wifi card isn't great). However this laptop isn't perfect, the biggest missing feature is HDR on the display and poor outdoor visibility, and no RAM upgradeability. The lack of RAM upgradeability means that this top-tier model is the ONLY way to get 32GB RAM, which comes with a very significant price bump over the 4060 model. Annoying price bumps aside, if you look at Asus' competitors the price of this machine is actually very reasonable. The only real competition close to this size is the new M3 Macbook, and even then this comes out significantly cheaper for a similar config with better overall performance and portability for the Flow X13 compared to the Mac (although the mac does have much better battery life under load). This machine even has surprisingly good Linux support if you're not a fan of Windows and is full usable (including the touchscreen) with a distro like Pop!_OS. Overall if you're looking at a do-everything laptop that's very easy to travel with and will let you play all your games on the road without adding a bunch of travel weight you'll be hard pressed to find a better machine than this at any price.