ASUS ROG Flow X13 Gaming Laptop: Ryzen 9 6900HS, 13.4" Touch, 1TB SSD, 3050 Ti Expired

I have the previous year model, and I think it might not be what you think. If you use the included ASUS charger, it'll charge at 100W, which at least for me, doesn't discharge the battery even when gaming. However, if you use any other charger, it'll max out at 65W via USB-C, which will discharge the battery while gaming/maxed out. Its frankly ridiculous that ASUS is pulling shenanigans like this, but I believe this isn't super uncommon (where when using more generic charging setups like hubs that can do 100W, a fair amount of laptops seem to top out somewhere 65-90W).

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).

You are correct, it has sleep issues, so I switched all power options to hibernate in the control plan.

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.

What? Its a low power thin and light that doesn't draw more than 100w, why is that not enough?

I have the 2021 version and the 100w charger is plenty. I have other complaints but the charger is definitely not one of them.