Best Buy has
ASUS ROG Flow X13 Gaming Laptop (GV301RE-X13.R93050T) on sale for
$849.99.
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Specs/Key Features:
- AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 3.2GHz 8-Core/16-Thread Processor
- 13.4" 1920x1200 WUXGA 120Hz Touchscreen Display (500-nit 100% sRGB, 72% NTSC)
- 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive SSD
- 16GB LPDDR5 6400Mhz Memory
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 4GB GDDR6 Graphics (40W)
- Backlit Keyboard
- Wi-Fi 6E(802.11ax)+Bluetooth 5.2
- 62WHrs, 4S1P, 4-cell Li-ion battery
- Windows 11 Home 64-Bit
- Inputs
- 1x USB 3.2
- 2x USB 3.2 Type-C
- 1x HDMI 2.0
- 1x Audio Combo Jack
Top Comments
This should be a better version of the laptop I have (not sure what brightness the screen on mine is rated for, but its a bit dim for use outside, however this claiming 500nits should be better if it actually lives up to that). I like it quite a bit, and this version should help with the largest weakness, which is the battery life. It is a thin and light with dGPU so not super surprising, but still.
I bought it hoping they'd release some newer more reasonable eGPU (or prices would drop making it more palatable at least), but they basically went the opposite direction, and coupled with the ones they do offer being the mobile versions of the GPUs, plus some overhead or something that saps a bit more power, just isn't worth it.
I definitely would have preferred 2 USB 4 (or TB4) USB-C and 2 USB A ports over their proprietary connector (which seems to be far from perfect for supporting the eGPU with some failures and just some clunkiness - reports of having to restart laptop to get it to recognize the connection).
Please be aware that this is a Windows + vendor-implementation issue, LTT made a video about it, even my work laptop, which is mass produced for office environment, has the same sleep issues.Only hibernate works fine in this X13.
There was this case where I shutdown the X13, left it inside my backpack, and it did that new crazy sleep-shutdown hybrid thing where it wakes up and does some activities, and it was cooking itself inside my backpack.
To fix that, when shutting down, I run a bat in my desktop with this text string in it:
shutdown /s /f /t 0
This fully shutdowns the computer, hasn't given my any issues at all, I do this with my work laptop too which has cooked itself to death multiple times due to the exact same reason.
If you are comfortable with these workarounds, switching sleep to hibernate in the power control plan, and running a .bat file to shut it down, you are going to be happy with it if it is your only nitpick.
I have the 2021 version and the 100w charger is plenty. I have other complaints but the charger is definitely not one of them.
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I have the 2021 version and the 100w charger is plenty. I have other complaints but the charger is definitely not one of them.
I have the 2021 version and the 100w charger is plenty. I have other complaints but the charger is definitely not one of them.
Just do what Tim "The Toolman" Taylor would do.... Give it More Power
240v 15 Amps should do they trick !!
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This should be a better version of the laptop I have (not sure what brightness the screen on mine is rated for, but its a bit dim for use outside, however this claiming 500nits should be better if it actually lives up to that). I like it quite a bit, and this version should help with the largest weakness, which is the battery life. It is a thin and light with dGPU so not super surprising, but still.
I bought it hoping they'd release some newer more reasonable eGPU (or prices would drop making it more palatable at least), but they basically went the opposite direction, and coupled with the ones they do offer being the mobile versions of the GPUs, plus some overhead or something that saps a bit more power, just isn't worth it.
I definitely would have preferred 2 USB 4 (or TB4) USB-C and 2 USB A ports over their proprietary connector (which seems to be far from perfect for supporting the eGPU with some failures and just some clunkiness - reports of having to restart laptop to get it to recognize the connection).
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Please correct if I'm wrong so I can be more encouraged to purchase.
You can upgrade the storage, but it's a M.2 2230 NVME, and not the more standard 2280 size.
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Please correct if I'm wrong so I can be more encouraged to purchase.
Please be aware that this is a Windows + vendor-implementation issue, LTT made a video about it, even my work laptop, which is mass produced for office environment, has the same sleep issues.Only hibernate works fine in this X13.
There was this case where I shutdown the X13, left it inside my backpack, and it did that new crazy sleep-shutdown hybrid thing where it wakes up and does some activities, and it was cooking itself inside my backpack.
To fix that, when shutting down, I run a bat in my desktop with this text string in it:
shutdown /s /f /t 0
This fully shutdowns the computer, hasn't given my any issues at all, I do this with my work laptop too which has cooked itself to death multiple times due to the exact same reason.
If you are comfortable with these workarounds, switching sleep to hibernate in the power control plan, and running a .bat file to shut it down, you are going to be happy with it if it is your only nitpick.
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I'd say medium productivity with 50% screen brightness, which is what I've done, 3* hrs will be no problem, that's my use case.