Customer Ratings & Reviews

Hello there, it’s Marcniel, here to give some insights on the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 Touch-Screen Gaming Laptop. After four weeks of use, the ROG Flow Z13 has truly exceeded my expectations. Its unique form factor as a 13.4-inch tablet-style laptop with a detachable keyboard is not only functional but also incredibly fun to use. The build quality is superb, and while it might be slightly heavier than a Microsoft Surface, it remains portable enough to be my go-to device for work and play when traveling. The laptop boasts an impressive 64GB of LPDDR5X RAM at 8000 MHz, which is more than enough to handle multitasking and ensure that your applications run seamlessly. Coupled with a 1TB SSD, you’ll enjoy lightning-fast boot times and quick access to your files and games. The storage capacity is ample enough, but for those who need even more space, the MicroSD slot offers a convenient solution for additional storage. The startup experience on the ROG Flow Z13 is nothing short of spectacular. The flashy logo and sound effects make you feel like you’re stepping into a Cyberpunk game, setting the tone for an exciting user experience. Setting up the device is straightforward, typical of any Windows-based computer, and I appreciate the flexibility to adjust the Video Memory allocation to suit my needs. Currently, I’ve allocated 16GB of memory from the 64GB RAM, and I highly recommend opting for the 64GB version over the 32GB for just $100 more. It’s a worthwhile investment for enhanced performance. When it comes to device warranties, ASUS offers the standard 12-month manufacturer’s warranty. However, the 64GB version is exclusively available from two retailers, as per ASUS’s website. One of these retailers is Best Buy. If you purchase the device from Best Buy, you have the option to sign up for their Best Buy Protection. This extended coverage extends the warranty to up to 24 months, in addition to the default 12-month manufacturer’s warranty. It’s essential to note that the ASUS Premium Care extended warranty package does not apply to units purchased from Best Buy, as stated in the ASUS Premium Care Terms and Conditions. Therefore, if you prefer an extended warranty, you might want to consider opting for the Best Buy Protection instead. The 13.4-inch IPS Touch Screen panel with a 180Hz refresh rate is a standout feature. While I rarely use the touchscreen, having it available is a nice touch, especially for those who prefer touch input. However, I do wish ASUS had opted for an OLED or Mini-LED panel to enhance the visual experience further. Battery life is a crucial factor for portable devices, and the ROG Flow Z13 delivers with a 70-watt-hour capacity. It’s sufficient for travel, and I recommend turning off the RGB lighting to conserve battery when on the go. Gaming on battery will drain it faster, but for casual use, it’s quite impressive. The 200-watt charger, while powerful, could benefit from being USB Type-C and more compact to reduce bag weight. The left side of the device offers two USB Type-C ports that support DisplayPort and Power Delivery, enabling data transfer speeds up to 40 gigabits per second, along with an HDMI port. On the right side, you’ll find a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A port and a 3.5mm audio jack. This diverse range of ports ensures seamless connectivity for all your peripherals. The front-facing speakers deliver decent sound quality. It features a 5-megapixel infrared camera and built-in 3-microphone arrays, making it suitable for Windows Hello login and video calls. The 13-megapixel rear camera is a nice addition, although I personally don’t use it. The chiclet-style keyboard features 1-zone RGB backlighting, providing an average typing experience. However, I’ve noticed that my oily fingers tend to leave smudges on the keys, necessitating regular cleaning. In conclusion, the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 is an exceptional portable gaming laptop that combines power, versatility, and a unique design. Its impressive specifications, coupled with its sleek form factor, make it an excellent choice for those seeking a device that can handle both work and gaming with ease. While the price tag might be a consideration, the performance and features are reasonable for the investment. If portability and casual gaming are your priorities, the ROG Flow Z13 is definitely worth a look. https://youtu.be/SXII96LBtOU

Short answer yes. People immediately point out the battery life being 6-8 hours off the charger and very dependent whether your doing office/school work or gaming. As everyone points out, gaming, you’ll get 2 hours or less depending on your settings and how many apps are running. I find it just good enough for half my school day full time until I need to plug it in when it’s on low battery. Probably could save battery with messing with the settings, but it’s alright. Another argued issue is the screen, some say, paying 2k and or more should have OLED. For an IPS touch screen, it’s pretty good. I have no issues playing plugged in or not plugged in. Obviously if you’re plugged in you can play at a higher graphics quality. I do college work on the Z13 and play titles like Total War Warhammer 3, Space Marine 2, and Arc Raiders. No issue there “when plugged in” It’s portable, it’s powerful, and it’s just hitting every itch. Side Note: I have a ASUS ROG Falchion RX low profile…wayyy better for gaming when gaming instead of the actual Z13 touch pad keyboard.

This device truly delivered. Really wanted to consolidate all of my devices both for travel and simplicity. Was considering the Microsoft Surface heavily until a Best Buy associate listened to my use case and recommended the Z13 Flow. I wasn’t sure it was for me at first but after a little research I decided to pull the trigger and committed to giving it a fair shot. Super glad I did. The device performs amazing well all around and for those that travel, the detachable keyboard with kickstand is a massive win both for gaming and media watching modes. Battery life is overall very efficient in travel modes/setting and no problem with media use on long haul flights. Naturally plug it in when you can. Device feels very premium and performs incredibly well across all use cases!

Such a powerful portable device. I sold my Zephyrus G16 4070 for this and I am much more content with the Z13. The fans are quiet and exhaust from the top so I can game in bed without burning my legs or sweating from a hot laptop. The display even without being OLED looks so vibrant it surprised me. The only weak point are the speakers but they do the job just fine. Overall absolutely worth it

I absolutely adore this thing, and couldn’t recommend it enough to anyone looking for a powerful, portable, and creative-friendly machine. It’s also great for gaming on the go. On battery, this thing performs better than essentially all laptops on the market at this point. Meaning, you can get great performance with great battery life (a combo people don’t expect from laptops). Pros: - Performance/Watt is absolutely insane on this thing! On battery, at all power levels, you can out perform every laptop on the market while also achieving a longer battery life. For example, you can lower your TDP to 15watts and still game at Low-Medium settings w/ 60 FPS and ~4.6 hours of battery life (70WH battery / 15 w/h = 4.6 hours of use). - Portability. This thing is tiny, and it packs a punch. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?! Lol. - Microsoft Pen Protocol support. The pen support is great! I’m a 3D character artist for games, and I’m comfortably able to use this in every part of my workflow (painting, sculpting, etc). This thing is perfect for creative workflows, especially if you’re looking to work on the go. - Great Screen. - Great Battery life… if you know what you’re doing. Use the TDP BAT menu (you can find it on GitHub). For browsing, I recommend 7 watts. Gaming (low settings), 15 Watts. Gaming (medium-high settings), 18-25 watts. - Decent Camera - Perfect amount of IO - Easy to Upgrade Cons: - There aren’t any cases for this thing! Why?! - It only has one M.2 (2230) slot. - MPP hover detection could use some work (not the fault of this laptop, Microsoft needs to update the MPP drivers). - Poor Battery life - If you don’t know what you’re doing. If you’re not willing to mess with the system’s TDP (super easy to do, btw), you will not get very good battery life. - No HDMI in. - Not a deal breaker, but this would have been a cool feature. - Kickstand gets a little annoying if you’re working on your lap.

If you are looking for a jack off all trades device, this is it. Very premium build, great cpu and decent gpu, and decent battery life. It doesn’t excel in any single category (except build quality!), but it does fill many roles well.

This device is for a very few people, and I think I am one of them. For the price to performance it is terrible, but the form factor is really nice. You can get the CPU on the laptop/tablet to work at just 15w to up to 90w (80w default, use G-Helper instead and uninstall all ASUS/ROG software). In the 15w CPU TDP mode it uses a max of 17w total and is having amazing battery life. I do not feel the need to bring my charger if I am out of the house. About 6 to 8 hours from a combination of Discord, Google, and watching videos. When set to 90w and undervolting -5 on both the CPU and GPU (currently no overclock since that is a waste on mobile devices imo), I am getting performance better than a lot of desktop processors. By default this CPU gets up to 5.1 GHz, with the changes I made I am getting 5.325 GHz on the first 8 cores. The rest are 5.15 or so, further tuning is needed but this passes OCCT CPU stability tests.

This device is awesome. While obviously not the best bang for your buck in terms of performance, the tablet form factor makes it very portable and the fact it can keep this portability with this amount of performance is outstanding. The screen is beautiful and the IPS panel honestly doesn’t differ much than my OLED monitor outside of blacks. Small nitpick with the amount of glare from sunlight but it’s not like this is a device that’s supposed to be used outside. The only major con that I feel really matters is the battery life (outside of gaming) which you’d expect to be better on a device running on integrated graphics, in which doing school work or web browsing only netted around 5-6 hours of battery life.

I bought two Lenovo Legion PCs (one AMD 7000 series and one Intel i9) a few months ago mainly for running Adobe design software. Later, I picked up the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 primarily for travel, and honestly—it ended up being my favorite out of all three. The first thing I noticed is how fast it boots into Windows. It feels quicker and more responsive than both of my Legion machines. Whether I’m gaming or working, everything just runs smoothly. I mainly use Adobe software for photo editing, design, and some video editing, and the Z13 handles all of it without any issues. Compared to the Legion laptops, this device is much smaller, lighter, and easier to carry in a backpack. That portability makes a huge difference for work on the go. Despite its compact size, performance doesn’t feel compromised at all. In fact, I’ve even had some Steam games that struggled on my AMD 7000 PC run perfectly fine on the Z13—which was a pleasant surprise. I got the 64GB RAM version on sale, and overall, I’m very happy with the purchase. The futuristic design is also a nice bonus—it definitely stands out. Minor drawbacks: I wish it had more internal storage (1TB fills up quickly for my use), and the power button is a bit small and not the easiest to press. Also, if ASUS ever releases a 16-inch version without significantly increasing the price, that would easily become my go-to machine. Overall, this is a powerful, portable, and reliable device that exceeded my expectations. *The driver size is 6 x 2.75"

First time using a laptop with this ram size (64gb). Pros: Coming from a MacBook Pro with m3 pro, I like how as snappy this tablet is. The device is also significantly faster than my surface pro 11 with a snapdragon processor. I like that I’m able to flexibly allocate the memory to system memory or video memory. The memory also has a very wide bandwidth, similar to that in m4 pro in MacBook. It handles tasks relatively easily and never feels like I’d need more RAM. The device is silent for light tasks like writing, web browsing etc. The fan never turns on except when the system is overloaded. Cons: the camera on this device is very low quality. Although it is a 1080p camera, it has a narrow FOV and struggles under lowlights. The image is grainy even under good lighting conditions. Given that this is a thick tablet by modern standards, there is enough room to put a larger and quality sensor and a good lens. Since I use this tablet for meeting, I had to buy a camera. The camera on my surface pro 11 is very good under low light scenarios and has a wide filed of view. Also, Microsoft did a clever job placing the camera sensor in such a way that when you slant the tablet, the camera is still looking at you, showing you correctly. Asus on the other hand placed the camera sensor just like the ones on other regular tablets. So, you have to place the tablet really upright to be able to place yourself in the camera frame. Again coming from a MacBook Pro with m3 pro, I miss the all day battery life of my apple laptop. This laptop lasts only around 3-4 hours with silent, energy saving mode is enabled. I also made sure to turn on the variable refresh mode for the screen. Gladly I bought a Gan charger much smaller than the original charging brick, which I’m planning to take with me everywhere I go. That was not something I did with my MacBook. The trackpad is not very good. I hope Asus used a haptic trackpad like the one on surface pro. Conclusion: if you take into consideration the windows software and hardware ecosystem, this is one the best devices you can get in this form factor. We’ll see how powerful Qualcomm’s next generation chip for windows will be. But I don’t expect it to be as powerful as the one in this laptop. Also, given the ram shortage, we mightn’t see larger ram models. So, I’m overall satisfied with my purchase. The large ram in this device will help me survive the ram apocalypse.

After being disappointed by a Surface Pro laptop that I bought, I wanted to get a laptop that could do similar things with a bit of power behind it. This laptop is one of two products I saw on the market that met my needs, the other of which was also made by ASUS. I find myself frequenly thinking about how great this laptop is, as it truly is everything I wantedThe touchscreen and pen support makes this device great for creative work in harder to run applications like blender renders, and the battery supports high power loads too. For less intensive work, such as drawing, writing or using photo editing software, this laptop will ace the task with long battery life to boot. For when you need to relax, this laptop can play anything you give it, but you might want to bring the charger. It also has a camera on the front and back, which though low resolution, can still be helpful for scanning documents or other things- but you won't be taking photos with this guy, not with the size and weight. The kickstand is sturdy too and everything feels highly quality. The only issue I've faced is poor out of the box audio tuning, but you can make it sound way better using the Dolby Atmos included app, just search up the audio problems to find a reddit post with the information to make it sound great. Overall, I love this device, and if you can stomach the price and want something high-end, consider giving this a try. Also, it has a cool intro.

This device is awesome. It replaced my Steam deck and iPad Pro and has gotten more use that I imagined. As gaming laptop, the performance is as expected. Most games run issue free(Even at 2600x1600). I get 60-70 fps on max settings playing bf6. Raytracing is an option I’d recommend not using with this machine. I use it to play rainbow six siege on a 3440x1440 UW winter and am able to maintain 60 gps on ultra settings. It definitely fits my use case well and would recommend it to anyone who prefers a tablet style pc. Battery when gaming is not great. Use a charger if you plan on it. For productivity , I have zero complaints. It’s a very fast machine. Pros- Excellent performance Display is amazing Build quality is solid Trackpad is great Cons - Battery life while gaming is poor. 1-2 hours max. Speakers are average. Dolby atmos helps a lot but my phone has better speakers. Quite expensive for the level performance.

I had been using this laptop/tablet for a while now. The power from this device really packs a punch. Been using it for programming and gaming with minimal lags or performance throttling. Im suprised that this device's performance is almost the same as a 4060 to 4070 NVIDIA GPU. This device can almost run everything you throw at it, especially for productivity softwares. As for the build, I like the feel of the keyboard, feels sturdy and nice to type on it. The mouse track pad is ok, not the best for me. But everything else, the body quality everything seems good and sturdy. It also comes with multiple IO ports which I really its good. Because normally devices these days only came with minimal IO ports.

This device is great. The AI Max 395 is absolutely perfect for my needs. The OLED screen is a delight. The keyboard takes some getting used to but works well so far. Linux (ubuntu and fedora) runs super well with it and is able to handle firmware updates no problem. I am a programmer and I dabble in AI development which is why I wanted a larger RAM pool for my system than the standard 32GB. At the sale price I picked this guy up at I couldnt justify the upgrade to the 128GB model with my current scope. If you are JUST a gamer, this is not the device for you. The integrated graphics might be one of the best on the market but it will struggle at 1440 with high settings on mid tier AAA games. I occasionally game on a laptop and need just enough to play the games on this machine. It is perfect for my use case, but it is not a gamer unit. If you are JUST a dev and arent using local AI or gaming, also not for you unless you dig the form factor. Limited storage options and the kickstand makes actual "lap top" use difficult and slightly painful. I'd rather go with a standard laptop like the Zenbook with the Ryzen AI 9. This device is perfect for me for the following: This fits my needs for software dev and local AI experiments. its a laptop so i can run my cloud tests away from my local server. It has dual usb-c 4 ports for a dock that lets me setup a mobile workstation. Since I have my own cloud, I have the SD slot in use for my document storage to give an illusion of more space. I am running a 2TB External NVMe for game storage at the workstation. The second usb-c 4 slot i have set aside for the eGPU i have laying around if absolutely necessary (its not). Side note: i ordered a set of vinyl covers from M2Skins to help protect it from scuffs. Great stuff there. Also, got an anti-glare screen protector, again for scuffs but also glare due to the very glossy display.

Considering it runs integrated graphics with a tablet body, it works like and even outperforms a lot of gaming laptops. Also having 64gb of ram allows it to run a lot of AI models. If you see this at a decent price, I can't recommend it enough, it is certainly worth it if you want a portable powerhouse.

Performance is terrific as the specs would suggest. The only two downsides are the weight - very heavy, and the small keyboard (see photo) which lacks a numerical keypad and dedicated Page Up, Page Down keys. Paging up and down via the keyboard requires pressing two keys (FN + Arrow Key)which can be a pain sometimes. I got used to typing on the small keyboard but at first I was making more errors than usual. I have run local AI models on this computer with good performance so in addition to gaming it can be used for local AI usage.

Versatility is the word. The ROG Flow Z13 is hands down the best digital companion I've ever owned. It's an all-in-one machine that seamlessly adapts to everything I throw at it — from heavy multitasking and data work to gaming and creative projects. What surprised me most was the build quality of the smaller details. The trackpad is responsive and accurate, the keyboard has a satisfying feel that you wouldn't expect from a device this compact, and the included pen adds a whole extra layer of functionality for sketching, annotating documents, and navigating the touchscreen. It genuinely feels like three devices in one — a laptop, a tablet, and a creative workstation. The performance is impressive too. I've pushed it with demanding workloads and it delivers consistently. The display is gorgeous, and the detachable form factor means I can go from a full desk setup to a handheld tablet in seconds. If you're someone who needs one device that can truly do it all — work, play, and create — without carrying multiple gadgets around, the Flow Z13 is it. Best tech purchase I've made in a long time.

This thing is amazing. Would recommend this to anyone who needs a portable high powered computer.

Impressive build quality and gaming performance. I appreciate the amount of RAM and ability to quickly and easily upgrade the M.2 SSD. I love the flexibility of this being a laptop and then being a tablet.

i got the 64gb version, want to have more memory to not have to worry about future upgrades, what can i say straight out the box i always debloat my pc's to remove any extras, this is a beats, pc/ tablet, i remove the keyboard and put it in my lap, the best thing that i love is the fan is facing the rear, which was a huge concern for me when i use to game on laptops the fan always gets hot! when it's on my lap, no longer a concern, the screen is amazingly clear, tested on gta 5 , batman arkham, red dead 2....etc performs like a beast!!!!! no stutter just enjoying the great performance. if your on the fence i suggest you go for it, you won't regret it. specially if you want something on the go, if you fly a lot this will have you covered.