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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Massive leap in consumer hardware
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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What this tablet can do now, would have been unthinkable 3 years ago. AAA gaming at native resolution with high frame rates on an integrated GPU. The temps stay cool and the battery is what i would consider good. Perfmornace while on battery is also extremely good. You can only get this cutting edge tech here, with the Asus Flow z13
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Absolutely bad design. Sucks as a laptop; too heavy for a tablet; overheating all the time. The software is absolutely horrible. Every time you switch between different modes, the keyboard driver locks up and starts acting cranky. It starts opening dialog boxes for regular key strikes. Unstable design where it is unable to control the heating. The screen itself gets on in silent / tablet mode. Drivers are unstable and struggles to unlock screen after going into sleep mode. Battery lasts less than 2 hours in tablet mode as the fans are always running. You can't play games with the touchscreen getting hot.
Asus needs to focus on delivering quality products that are tested for stability and reliability. This is a hushed-up job and it clearly shows up within an hour of usage.
We certainly understand your disappointment and the inconvenience this may have caused if you are experiencing multiple issues with this laptop.
ASUS is an ISO certified company, as a result, all products go into a strict quality manufacturing standard. All ASUS products undergo intensive quality control testing and inspections that ensure each one is trouble-free. To resolve these issues, please update Windows, drivers, BIOS and applications if outdated. Updates for this laptop are posted at: https://rog.asus.com/us/laptops/rog-flow/rog-flow-z13-2025/helpdesk_download/. You may need to reconfigure your system, video, and performance setting inside the newer Armoury Crate utility software version posted at: https://www.asus.com/supportonly/armoury%20crate/helpdesk_download/. Regarding your concern about thermal issues. It is normal for laptops, with the same hardware configuration and regardless of the manufacturer, to generate more heat than normal while under heavy load especially during gaming, WINDOWS Update and antivirus scan. When system resource utilization is high, this will generate more heat than normal and tends to trigger the fan to spin at full throttle. Please ensure the air ventilations are free from obstructions to have efficient air flow for better heat dissipation. While gaming, please ensure no resource hungry applications are running in the background, this will spike the temperature. The heat or temperature does decrease or normalizes once system resource utilization goes down. Additionally, if you are accessing web applications online, please ensure this laptop has access to an established router and internet service is working properly since poor and unstable internet service will definitely affect system stability and performance. If these steps were performed to no avail, please try to run a diagnostics or optimization test using the "My ASUS" utility software or application. If this is not pre-installed on the laptop, please download the application at the Microsoft Store. For details on how to use "My ASUS", please go to: https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1041686/.
If you need further assistance with the product, please email me at [email protected] and I would be more than happy to help. Or, you are most welcome to call Product Support Hotline at: 1(888) 678-3688. Also, you can chat with an ASUS live support agent from the link: https://www.asus.com/us/support/article/1135/.
Thank you for choosing an ASUS product.
Regards,
Rodel ASUS Customer Loyalty
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Speed personified
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
**NO MORE 22W LIMIT!** – The 2022 model was fast but a 22w limit when using the gpu and cpu was very terrible to deal with. The 2025 version feels **way more unleashed**—no more weird power bottlenecks. You can go up to 90w. But i never need it. I usually get good performance with 30-40w.
iGPU is crazy powerful** – I’m still shocked at how well this thing games. **70-80fps in some titles?** On a *tablet*? It shouldn’t make sense, but it does, like monster hunter wilds, for example. Honestly, being able to have vram/memory and freely allocate is cool, but it will probably be just set once to an even split and mostly never touched if not doing AI. With 64gb, you have plenty for wharever you would want to do.
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I haven’t seen such things exist till now. It handles every I throw at it and handles really well. Battery could be bigger but not such a big deal since it is big enough for everything other than gaming.
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This lil thing really took me by surprise. It’s more than capable to game and runs local ai models really well. I learned a lot from owning this tablet.
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Not impressed with Asus build quality as of late. Really cool APU from a design perspective. Given it uses RNDA3.5 it seems to suffer the same audio bugs that plague the ROG ally (mainly audio distortion at low TDP, ie silent) when using Dolby Atmos. Battery life is also poor and I've been unable to address why in paticular it is poort on the 64GB version. Seeing roughly 2-3hours of battery life at minimum brightness surfing the web. I've tried capping TDP and capping on battery CPU clocks to base only which is where the audio issues began to appear. At 75% CPU speed max capped in windows power menu I was seeing closer to 6 hours but that is still well below the 10 hours often claimed on YouTube.
Build quality is not great either. There seems to be a popping or clicking near the top vents at the center of each grill. Almost fees like a poorly seated or broken clip which wouldnt be a deal breaker other than it makes a pop sound every time the tab-lap-lop is picked up by that side which is half of the time. Usability is OK, thought it would hate the form factor more than I did, issues I have with the device much like the Zephyrus all relate to low build quality.
Much easier to justify this with a $500 ally rather than a $2500 laptop. For that kind of money you're well into M4 Pro territory approaching M4 Max which at this price point is unacceptable. Haven't yet but likely to return the device. I really truly want to like it but if there are this many issues within the first 14 days I can't imagine what it will look like after a year or two.
Thank you for your feedback on the ASUS GZ302EA Gaming Laptop. We apologize for the issues you've experienced with audio performance, battery life, and build quality. Your concerns are important and will be shared with our product team for review. To help us investigate these concerns in more detail and explore possible solutions, please contact our support team directly at https://www.asus.com/us/support/callus/.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Insane laptop
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This is the dream of the pc industry for years realized -> a desktop built into a tablet. The screen could be a little better though
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It’s very unlikely that if you are in the market for a gaming laptop, ASUS ROG Flow Z13, searching for power and portability, you can find a better option. Don’t get fooled by the design as a tablet; you have in your hands a full gaming device with the most advanced processor AMD Ryzen APU, which will exceed the most exigent requirements, maintaining a compact design while still having nice aesthetics and full portability.
From the moment that you receive the package, you can start to see that ASUS is putting a lot of effort into convincing you that this is the right investment. Quality package, full protection for your device and your power supply. Note that my first reaction with the device in my hands was unconclusive. How a tablet can handle some of the most exigent users in the laptop industry. In fact, the response has come from the use over the past few weeks after receiving the device.
From the specs side, AMD Ryzen APU powers the 64 GB memory RAM running at 8000MHz speed. It turns on the magic. Running on Windows 11, please allow at least 45 minutes of updates and settings time.
Start gaming, with massive power processing data and adjustable graphic processing memory, you can experience images and frames crossing your screen at an unimaginable speed with unmarked transitions. In fact, this is where the Flow Z13 excels, the combination of a 13-inch screen with an AMD Radeon graphics card, all combined with the 2560×1600 screen. Colors and display are amazingly vivid, and levels of clarity are surprisingly vibrant. The power and the quality are unbelievable despite the first impression about the size. The screen is made of tempered glass with Gorilla Glass Victus that should reinforce the durability of your touch screen.
The video is combined with four speakers powered by Dolby Atmos. Ok for testing, but I recognice that I ended up with the game-specific gaming headphones.
One item that I generally do not pay a lot of attention to general but in this case, considering the ratio power/size I did is the cooling capacity. I can report a great performance that is not involving a too noisy fan. Great engineering work.
The battery life is good but not impressive. I never reached the 12 hours of battery life promised but more in the range of 9. Perhaps the intensive use of sound and processor in some of the racing games is part of the report.
Connectivity: you have two USB C , one USB A, full-size HDMI 2.1, microSD slot, headphone jack, and the proprietary 200 W charging port.
Finally, I also acknowledge that I was unsure about the removable keyboard for a gaming device. In fact, I think that is a great game changer. I love the dual usage: one connecting the laptop to the external devices of my gaming set: physical keyboard, the round-screen monitor, and the headphones, while I can still do some gaming while travelling.
A game changer device for your games, you can not miss this.
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Great chipset. Horrible build quality. Within weeks of purchasing I've had issues with the keyboard, screen, and 2 blue screens of death. I'm giving it 4 stars because with Best Buy Total you are still covered and the laptop itself is good. But without extended warranty be careful.
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Was between picking up this 5070ti model and the 5080 model from Asus Zephyrus G14 2025 line. So happy with the performance this thing has and is optimal for any game you can throw at it…also a workhorse for editing videos and managing applications for work. Highly recommend this product!!!