Best Buy has
ASUS ROG Flow Z13 Touchscreen 2-in-1 Gaming Laptop (Open Box - Excellent, GZ302EA-R9641TB) for
$1757.99.
Shipping is free or select free store pickup where available.
Thanks to Community Member
Dr.W for sharing this deal.
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Specs:
- 13.4" 2560x1600 WQXGA 180Hz IPS-Level Touchscreen Display
- AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 16-Core Processor
- AMD Radeon 8060S Graphics
- AMD XDNA NPU up to 50TOPS
- 64GB LPDDR5X 8000 Memory (Onboard)
- 1TB M.2 2230 PCIe 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive
- Backlit RGB Chiclet Keyboard
- Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) (Triple band) 2x2 + Bluetooth 5.4
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
- 1x HDMI 2.1 FRL
- 2x Type-C USB 4 with support for DisplayPort / power delivery (data speed up to 40Gbps)
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A (data speed up to 10Gbps)
- 1x card reader (microSD) (UHS-II)
- 70WHr Battery
- ~2.65 lbs
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Ridiculously powerful, lots of use cases, replaced my entire desktop setup with it (TB4 Dock when at home, connected to a 49" Samsung).
Do yourself a massive favor and get G-Helper, don't bother with Asus' bloatware (Armoury Crate and MyAsus). Gives all the necessary features in a tiny and lightweight package, low overhead, and even more controls for undervolting, overclocking, etc. I've got modes setup for completely silent, balanced, and then an overdrive setting.
These price points are a steal, especially considering the RAM scenario right now.
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For $1600 for 64GB version that is hella steal. I paid almost $2400 few months ago
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Ridiculously powerful, lots of use cases, replaced my entire desktop setup with it (TB4 Dock when at home, connected to a 49" Samsung).
Do yourself a massive favor and get G-Helper, don't bother with Asus' bloatware (Armoury Crate and MyAsus). Gives all the necessary features in a tiny and lightweight package, low overhead, and even more controls for undervolting, overclocking, etc. I've got modes setup for completely silent, balanced, and then an overdrive setting.
These price points are a steal, especially considering the RAM scenario right now.
Ridiculously powerful, lots of use cases, replaced my entire desktop setup with it (TB4 Dock when at home, connected to a 49" Samsung).
Do yourself a massive favor and get G-Helper, don't bother with Asus' bloatware (Armoury Crate and MyAsus). Gives all the necessary features in a tiny and lightweight package, low overhead, and even more controls for undervolting, overclocking, etc. I've got modes setup for completely silent, balanced, and then an overdrive setting.
These price points are a steal, especially considering the RAM scenario right now.
For $1600 for 64GB version that is hella steal. I paid almost $2400 few months ago
128GB? OK, I can run a model in the 60-80GB range with context. Huge step up from the smaller models.
But 64GB of RAM? ...
Better to have a headless machine over the network with 128 GB accessed remotely. It's worth the step up.
Or the 128gb of this, but then are you truly going to run your llm on a laptop? Again, may as well just ssh or tailscale into a remote box with more ram to work with, strix halo, dgx spark, or sufficiently sized pcie cards.
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128GB? OK, I can run a model in the 60-80GB range with context. Huge step up from the smaller models.
But 64GB of RAM? ...
Better to have a headless machine over the network with 128 GB accessed remotely. It's worth the step up.
Or the 128gb of this, but then are you truly going to run your llm on a laptop? Again, may as well just ssh or tailscale into a remote box with more ram to work with, strix halo, dgx spark, or sufficiently sized pcie cards.
128GB? OK, I can run a model in the 60-80GB range with context. Huge step up from the smaller models.
But 64GB of RAM? ...
Better to have a headless machine over the network with 128 GB accessed remotely. It's worth the step up.
Or the 128gb of this, but then are you truly going to run your llm on a laptop? Again, may as well just ssh or tailscale into a remote box with more ram to work with, strix halo, dgx spark, or sufficiently sized pcie cards.
64GB is nice though, that's worth what $800 now? lol. crazy ram prices.
I use M5 Max 128GB because it's more functional (personal ref on apple eco) and much faster an any AI Max mchine.
I do run text based LLM on my Macboook though (nothing larger than 35B for now--- much slower than Nvidia running the same model but I run it there cuz I save nvidia for more intensive work via tailscale -- this is the way and you definitely have a great tip for everyone.
tailscale is a savior for me!!!
sometimes I use a Neo and tailscale to all my machines at home.
Based on my very little research, these are cheaper but much slower in inferencing.
64GB is nice though, that's worth what $800 now? lol. crazy ram prices.
I personally would buy M5 Max 128GB (and I did) over Any one of these Ryzen AI 128GB because M5 Max will run AI much faster.
Nvidia still king at speed as long as you fit it into the VRAM on the GPUs though. I think this is a poor man's LLM machine if you want it for AI but it is a lot slower if I recall and it will get annoying.
I said little at first cuz I assumed someone will write a more accurate real take of their experience along the way.
Based on my research before I bought some of my gear. These are cheaper but much slower in inferencing.
64GB is nice though, that's worth what $800 now? lol. crazy ram prices.
I use M5 Max 128GB because it's more functional (personal ref on apple eco) and much faster an any AI Max mchine.
I do run text based LLM on my Macboook though (nothing larger than 35B for now--- much slower than Nvidia running the same model but I run it there cuz I save nvidia for more intensive work via tailscale -- this is the way and you definitely have a great tip for everyone.
tailscale is a savior for me!!!
sometimes I use a Neo and tailscale to all my machines at home.
So, it is not that this AMD processor lacks in AI computing power compare to M5 Max, it lacks memory speed by a mile...
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