Asus ROG Flow Z13
Imagine a Surface Pro but with the graphical chops to play the latest triple-A games. It’s the stuff of a PC gamer’s dreams, and Asus—which also debuted a 17-inch foldable PC and a dual-screen laptop at CES—turned it into reality. Building on the ROG Flow X13 unveiled at last year’s event, the Flow Z13 is a 13-inch tablet with specs you’d expect from a 17-inch gaming laptop, including an Intel Core i9-12900H CPU with an Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti GPU.
And because Asus is clearly a bit deranged, the company gave the Z13 a PCIe 3.0 x8 port so you can connect to its XG Mobile eGPU to harness the power of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 mobile GPU or AMD’s newly revealed Radeon RX 6850M XT GPU. Doing so turns this petite, 2.2-pound tablet into a gaming system capable of playing the latest games at Ultra graphics settings without breaking a sweat.
We don’t know how much the Z13 will cost when it arrives in Q1/Q2 of this year, but considering the eGPU alone goes for $1,500, we can only assume most gamers will be priced out of one of the most enticing (at least on paper) PCs we’ve seen in a long time. —Phillip Tracy
