ASUS ROG Flow Z13 (2025) Gaming Laptop, 13-inch 2.5K 180Hz Nebula Display, AMD Ryzen AI Max 395+ Processor, 32GB RAM, 1TB Storage, Windows 11, GZ302EA-XS96

After three months with this laptop, I want to share a clear, honest review. Gaming performance is excellent. I bought it mainly to play Black Myth: Wukong (BMW), and I’m happy to say I finished all challenge modes on this machine. For that alone, it feels worth it. The downside: it’s an AMD laptop, but mine shipped with an Intel-leaning Windows setup/drivers, and that caused the exact issues others warned about—freezes, random lockups, and forced hard resets. Reinstalling Windows with the proper AMD drivers/software stack should solve it. For a 3K laptop (especially in Canada), ASUS should have done better out of the box. That said, it’s still one of the coolest-looking laptops I’ve owned. Just make sure you understand the trade-offs before buying.

If you have used the previous models this will live up to the hype. With the new Ryzen CPUs the battery life on normal tasks is several hours, no longer the hour it has been with the GPUs. This was a pleasant surprise. For years I've looked for a good 2 in 1 laptop tablet for travel and work. Many of the units don't have the power. Ports are always missing. Charging is a pain. I even tried the original EVE Tech V as a possible option (don't bother with EVE Tech/Dough, hype over performance and delivery). These provide power, charging through any USB C (albeit slow on small bricks, LoL), quality screens, a keyboard that doesn't suck (expectations tempered for those of us with mechanical keyboards), an overall quick and quality experience. The only place these did not shine was in battery life but with everything else covered that has been acceptable to me. A 10,000mAh batter plugged in USB C has often gotten me through a few hours of work moving around a construction site or job project.

Super expensive for what it is. -There are laptops with higher performance at a lower cost. -There are tablets that are lighter with longer battery for 1/5 of the cost. You'll need an exact use case for this hybrid. For me, I didn't want to "upgrade" my ROG Ally to the Ally X. It's a whopping 10 percent performance increase. I'm now using the Z13 along with XR glasses to fully play all my PC games on the comfort of my bed. It's something that the ROG Ally *can* have problems with depending on the game. No more wondering if it's going to lag, the Z13 crushes every game in my steam library at 1080p 120hz (the resolution of my XR glasses). ... It's still expensive AF.

This is a great device... In theory. Unfortunately it has been extremely unreliable for me. The system is unstable and will freeze or randomly fail to wake from sleep. Only a hard reset (power button for 15 seconds) will bring the system back. You can imagine how awkward this is when it happens in front of a client. It happens pretty much every time the system sleeps. But then sometimes it will wake itself in the travel case, even with the keyboard closed. It will then drain the battery to zero and get extremely hot. I am running Windows 11 with the very latest BIOS and firmware updates from Asus. I have tried doing a clean install but the issues persist. This started from day 1 and has progressively gotten worse to the point that I have lost important work. I can no longer trust it with important work assignments or while giving a dissertation. The keyboard backlighting rarely works, even when toggled on and off. Its a buggy mess! I'm now outside the return window, but I regret buying it. If you do buy this I hope your experience is better, but mine has been a nightmare. Been an ROG user for 15 years, but I'm actively shopping other brands to replace this pile. A shame because the form factor and specs had the potential to be amazing.

Its an amazing device and ran my 49 odyssey ultra wide monitor and 2x 27 samsung monitor simultaneously with no issue but obviously this kicked it to overdrive and fan kicked in loud. On separate occasion played GTA 5 and the device gotta really hot and graphic performance started to dimish. At last, at one point my device starting making weird noises that similar to burning noise and I quick shut it down and smelled the device for any burnt smell, luckily I didn't smell anything but after that, the LED lighting at the back stopped working.... I'm thinking it has potential but still a long way to go for solving heating problems and being more efficient.