Customer Ratings & Reviews

Sshort and simple. Power: As powerful as a 4070 RTX mobile. Can go as low as 5W. Extremely power efficient. Weight: A light laptop or a very heavy tablet. AI: Can load 120B LLM locally without any issues using LM Studio 30-50 t/ps Battery: Under 10W 8+ Hours. AAA games 1.5-2 hours. Emulations or indie games. 3-5 Hours. These are appoximations and can vary depending on your use case. Display: 180hz 10bit color display is very nice. Overall this device is an engineering marvel and I have no regrets. I did not think I would keep it but it's grown on me. The 8060s iGPU is also worlds faster than 890m in the HX 370 or Z2extreme devices

I spent a good couple weeks with the 64GB version, and only recently this came into stock and I was able to snatch one before they went out of stock again. So far it's had all of the above for a good 2-in-1 for me, good battery life, great for gaming, and amazing for AI work. Expect mid-4060 (laptop) to lower 4070 (laptop) performance from the iGPU. The only caveat I've noticed is the battery life TANKS, and by that I mean truly terrible, if you don't throttle performance while gaming on battery, but that's pretty much within my personal expectation for this device. I have a similar review under the 64GB model, but something I'd like to note for this device: If you're not a developer, a creator, or in the machine learning space, the 128GB is not worth the price tag for you. Many modern gaming laptops can do 90% of what this thing can do at half or less the price.

After having this for at least six months or so I have to admit that it is almost a flawless machine. The only "con" I can think of is that you cannot lift the stand from the left side which is a habbit I have to break still... There is just not a lip or anything to open it with on that side... For the long list of pro's.... - Battery life: partly because Armory Crate from Asus stops windows for periodically checking stuff when asleep or off. I can turn it off or let it sleep in my bag for a week and only loose 2% battery at most. - Performance: So I have thrown everything from LLM models to gaming at this. I would say that its on par if not slightly better than the Apple Macbook Pro 14" notebook I have. I have a 2tb SSD, 128GB of unified memory on that with the M4 Max and top graphics/cpu selection. This still does better at both LLM's and gaming. For games you should expect a RTX 5070 experience +/- 5% depending on the title. The extra Vram actually came in really clutch when Borderlands 4 was launched and bugged out. I dedicated 64GB to Vram and was actually able to run it where my 4090 was unable to... Fit and finish: Amory Crate is good mostly.... If the computer goes to sleep sometimes the lighting profiles do not "wake up" properly and end up either not having a keyboard light or turning on the back lights which I do not normally have on. That could use some work by Asus, not a BestBuy issue by all means. I just cleaned it off prior to this review and found there to be no scratches on the screen, the back or really anything... So its still looking new out of the box. Even the keyboard didn't retain oil or gloss over so far... Thats more than I can say for 99% of keyboards even! The screen: There is a nice anti reflective coating on the screen which makes it easy to read and stops reflections from being so harsh. I have had no issues with it wearing off. The screen itself is a good size, resolution and paired with either the slim pen or the pen pro works well for everything from hand writing to art. I take a lot of notes and keep a jounal daily so this gets a lot of hands on use... I am actually surprised at how well this works as a tablet. To give some depth into this... I pretty much stopped using my Boox Note Air 4C and just use this now... Use Case, who should buy this?: IT professionals, content creators, or editors on the go. It has no issue docking to a Cal Digit TS4 which is hooked up to 2 mac studio monitors. It also has no issue hooking up to the input of the USB/Display hub on my Lenovo Legion Ultra Wide monitor for gaming. Because the monitor has a built in USB hub I keep my speakers, ethernet, headset, keyboard, mouse and Elgato Stream Deck + plugged into the monitor. The KVM switches right over and I have a second screen right below for discord or web browsing while gaming. Cons: Bit pricy, but almost earns the price tag. Had the opted for a 2TB SSD instead of the 1TB and given us an option to have a 5G modem than this would be the perfect, end all be all of mobile computing. PERIOD. Asus Armory Crate still has its minor flaws, but some really big W's at fixing known windows issues. At this point anything beyond that I would be nit-picking.... If its within your budget and you want a do-it-all that you can dock and take with you, write on, draw on, hook up at the office... Its got the power... If you want something thats going to last you the whole day without paying for a Macbook (Mind you my MacBook Pro 14" was like 5-6k with the specs above) then well... Its best in class for windows portables. I would HIGHLY recommend this over a surface pro any day... Those are so limited on what they can do that its not worth your time.... Bite the bullet, spend the extra and you'll have a machine for 5-7 years instead of 2...

I've been trying out the Flow Z13's since 2022, and the leaps and bounds its made is truly a wonder! The fact that they crammed 128GB of RAM in here without many if ANY issues, makes this my perfect machine! Aside from the price, I would recommend this to any artist doing heavy workloads (3D, Compositing, 2D animation, etc.) I haven't run into any compatibility issues so far, the speed and performance is immaculate (like a RTX 4060/4070.) I love how it looks, especially with my stickers, and the only downside is the battery life if you're gaming/pushing the power hard with no charger. Also I've noticed a whirring sound in my detachable keyboard- Otherwise I recommend this bad boy to everyone XD And just think about adding a eGPU to this?!

This product has the perfect combination between power, portability, aesthetics, and quality. They say it’s too pricey. But the experience it gives says about the price.

I put off writing this review for a bit because it has been awhile since I used a laptop - I've been using only a desktop. It took awhile to get accustomed to planning about plugging in and using battery. THe battery life is very good - in fact, at one point it complained that I was using it plugged in too much! My one complaint is that the keyboard is supposed to be detachable. In spite of graphics int eh instruction, I still haven't figured out how to detach it! I searched for videos to help, but only found elaborate instructions for opening up the insides of the computer, something I'm definitely not interested in doing. A simple video for detaching the keyboard would be nice. That said, I have no regrets about my choice.

The massive graphics memory is a neat party trick, but it probably would have been better with a discrete GPU. Size is very portable, but screen is a little tight for multitasking. Fan can have a bit of whine to it, but it's mostly whisper quiet. Buy it if you like (or develop) AI chatbots or if you like the whole "Microsoft Surface" style but want a little more power and lots more RAM.

It is a very good, fast, and responsive machine. However, if you are looking at the 128GB version specifically for heavy AI workloads or high-end gaming, there are a few things you should know. ​I originally wanted to run large local LLMs. While the laptop is fully capable of running them, pushing anything above 30 to 38 billion parameters just isn't reasonable. The models will load, but the generation speed is far too slow to be practical. Because of this bottleneck, the 128GB version wasn't as useful to me as I hoped. If you want to run LLMs, a laptop with an RTX 5090 is a much better buy; it can run those same 30B+ models, but it will process them significantly faster. ​As for gaming, it is generally great, but it does have some frustrating restrictions. I ran into issues where certain AAA games were unplayable at medium settings. If your main focus is gaming, you will get a much better and more reliable experience out of a standard laptop equipped with an RTX 5070. ​Ultimately, it’s a cool and capable device, but you might be better off saving your money on the RAM upgrade and buying a dedicated gaming or AI laptop depending on your specific needs.

I been using this tablet for months and it surprised me of how good the performance is, this version with 128gb ram is extremely good for ai workloads and runnung virtual machine works, i games sometime during my free time and the power of this tablet didn’t let me down on my gaming, i was always above 70 fps of tripple A titles games, so i would recommend this product if you are looking for a bit of gaming and heavy task load work.

The memory access is insane. I had no idea it would actually be able to play games natively as well as it can.

Very efficient cpu, was able to undervolt to -40 for like 6.5w idle. Runs cool since fan is on the screen and always draw fresh air (idle was like 46 degree(. Works of u want to load large LLM. Speaker very basic, worse than my rog ally first gen.

Good one-in-all product that can replace your work computer, gaming pc and can run local LLMs without much issues. It is not the best in anything, however, it is really good in doing everything.

A very strong laptop for both gaming and ai workloads.

I love this little machine. Very Powerful, Great Battery Life, Tons of Ram.