Why i Regret buying the Asus ROG Flow X13...

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I bought this ASUS Flow X13

laptop, compact convertible powerful

gaming laptop, and I've been using it for

a few weeks now and I just wanted to make

a video talking about why I kind of regret

buying this now and I'm looking at other

devices to fulfill my technical needs.

So recently I went to a place called

Kanchanaburi, which is a couple hours

drive outside of Bangkok, which is where I

live, and we took a few days trip there,

spent a few days in a hotel in that place,

and I took my Flow X13 with me to test it

out on the road and see what it's like as

a travel companion. And I have some things

to say. So first of all, we have to talk

about the weight. At 1.2 kg, this thing is

pretty lightweight. Actually, I think it's

more like 1.3 kg, but when you have the

power charger, which is just like a little

block, it's about, it's about this big,

but it is quite hefty. It's probably like

a couple hundred grams, so In combination

with the laptop and the charger, I think

we're looking at around 1.5 kg,

nearly 1.6 kg. And you might be

thinking that's pretty lightweight for a

very powerful, capable device. And yes,

okay, this is a very compact device. I can

lift this with one hand pretty easily,

and slotting it into a backpack is really

nice and simple because it's so small.

And the charger, the brick, is not really

a massive brick like you get with gaming

laptops. So it is quite a compact device

and setup, but when you've got a travel

backpack full of underwear and socks and

clothing and other stuff you need when

you're going on a trip, and then you slot

all this into the backpack and then you

lift it up, and then you compare that to

when you take it out and then lift it up

again, it is quite a noticeable comparison

and difference in weight. Having this in

it and not having it in it is quite a

comparable and noticeable difference in

weight. And when I had it outside of the

bag, I really noticed that, wow, my

backpack is so much lighter. And when I

was it in the hotel, I didn't really use

it like this. I wasn't really opening it

like this and sitting at a desk and typing

away because, you know, I'm on a trip.

This is kind of like a vacation. I'm not

really working, I'm not doing anything

serious. So I wasn't sitting there at the

desk in the hotel room typing away like

that. I found myself sitting on the bed

quite a lot, especially after a day

traveling and going to museums and seeing

nice places. I was kind of tired, so I'd

come back get some food, and then just

relax on the bed. And then I'd have this.

At first I tried it like this, but it was

kind of uncomfortable. So then,

then I flipped it like this.

Wait. And then I flipped it like

this, like that. So I

was sitting on the bed with this on my

lap, kind of like, like this.

And I had this on my legs and I had the

screen pointed at myself. And it's quite

comfortable holding it like this because

you get the keyboard out of the way.

Keyboard's acting as supports now, as a

stand. And then you can now just prop this

up and rotate the screen, move the screen

at any angle you want. Now the problem

with this was— the problem with this

device in general is you're constantly

fighting and battling with the fan noise.

So this thing is freaking loud even when

you're barely doing anything. So obviously

gaming and video editing and anything

that's quite intensive, yes, the fans will

get really loud up to around 7,000 or

8,000 RPMs, and that's very audible. But

you kind of accept that because you want

to do some good gaming with good FPS,

good graphic settings. You do expect there

to be fan noise. But when you're just

doing casual stuff like web browsing,

watching YouTube, chatting on Discord,

not really doing anything much, you

wouldn't expect the fans to be so damn

loud. But even when this thing is on

silent mode and on eco mode, the fans do

start whizzing up quite often and it does

start to get quite hot. So after doing

this mode for a while, I switched to

tablet mode like this. So we're now in

tablet mode, and I ended up using tablet

mode the most whilst on the trip. And that

was because tablet mode is the only way to

completely disable the fan system because

it's in like low power performance mode.

And in tablet mode, because the air intake

is in there behind the screen, it kind of

gets blocked from any air. So that means

the fans don't really work anymore, and it

goes into tablet mode. There's no fans,

but it still gets really hot. It was

getting it to like 52 degrees, and all

I was doing— and all I was doing was just

on YouTube, just on YouTube watching

YouTube videos, doing a bit of Discord

chatting, checking my emails, checking

Google Maps, not really doing anything

apart from just on the internet, and the

stupid thing would get so hot, like 50

degrees centigrade or Celsius, not

Fahrenheit. And I could feel it, how I

could feel how hot it was on my legs. And

it wasn't getting any fans because the

fans shut down in tablet mode. And as a

tablet, yeah, the touchscreen is fine,

everything touchscreen is nice and

responsive, but it's damn heavy. It's a

1.2 kg tablet in this form.

Most tablets like the iPad Pro and the

Samsung Tab S Ultra, they're those big

tablets, 14-inch screens, 12.9-inch

screens, they're only about 700 grams.

And the 11-inch iPad Pro is like 11-inch—

I mean, uh, 460 grams. So that's less

than half of what this is, and it'll be

much better tablet experience. And I was

thinking to myself, why don't I just get a

tablet? Because I'm using this in tablet

mode nearly all the time. A proper tablet

like an iPad Pro 11-inch would only be 450

grams, which is a third of the weight of

this plus the power brick. So it would be

so much lighter and it wouldn't get really

hot because it's a mobile kind of tablet

and there's no fans in it. So it would

never get really noisy and loud, which

would be great. I was just sitting there

in the hotel bed just thinking to myself,

why did I buy this? This thing was so damn

expensive, like $1,600, I think.

So pretty expensive. It's kind of heavy.

Compared to a nice lightweight tablet like

an iPad Pro. And I'm just in the hotel

room, not even using the keyboard anyway.

I'm not really doing any work because I

don't actually do any work apart from

making these videos. If this is considered

work, then that's what it is, I guess.

But I don't really do any work like

Blendering or rendering or coding.

So I was thinking to myself, since I'm

just using it in tablet mode all the time

and this is kind of a gimped tablet

compared to a proper tablet, this is like

a master of trades, jack of no spades,

or whatever the phrase is. So it's not

really, really good at doing one thing,

but it's good at doing lots of different

things. So it's good as a gaming tablet— I

mean, a gaming laptop— but it's not as

good as a proper actual big-sized gaming

laptop with proper cooling systems. It's

not a great tablet, although it can be a

decent tablet if you want like a Windows

tablet. It's not as good as a proper

tablet, specialized tablet like a Samsung

S9 or an iPad Pro. I'm thinking to myself,

I'd much rather have an iPad Pro M2

12.9-inch screen because,

um, it's lighter. It's like 750 grams

compared to 1.6 or 1.5 kg, so it's half

the weight. It's gonna have a much better

screen. It's gonna have the mini LED

screen, which is much better than whatever

this is. It's going to be much more

lightweight. It's going to have the M2

chip. It's going to be better at doing

casual tasks like watching YouTube and

just browsing the internet. Okay, it's not

going to have as good games because it's

just got mobile app games, but I don't

really care about gaming. You know, in the

hotel at Kanchanaburi, I didn't play one

game. I'm too tired. You know, I get back,

I just want to rest. I'm sweating because

I've been out all day visiting sites and

I've just come back from having food and I

don't really feel in the mood to do

gaming. I want to run a bath and have a

nice soak. And then check, do some casual

internet browsing, check some emails,

check YouTube, check my stocks, do a bit

of chatting. That's all I really want to

do. And I found myself not really feeling

like I needed a proper laptop and I feel

like just a tablet would have been fine.

So I'm thinking, you know, I just get an

iPad Pro, maybe 11-inch, and that's going

to be 400 grams. It's going to be so

lightweight and so powerful and fast with

the M2 chip. And then maybe I'll just get

rid of this and sell it somehow. Because I

feel like for what I do, it's kind of over

the top and it's too powerful. I don't

need so much power for what I do. So yeah,

I think I might be regretting buying this.