Unboxing my BRAND NEW Asus Flow X13

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today we're going to be unboxing this

never unboxed before, completely brand new

ROG Flow X13 computer.

Actually, it's already unboxed as you can

see because they opened it in the shop.

They asked me if I wanted to check the

device before buying it, so I said, uh,

okay, I guess. I don't know why they let

you check the item Here in Thailand, but

they if you buy a computer, they usually

ask you if you want to check inside just

in case it's fake or something. So I said

okay, had a look inside, and it was fine

as expected. So I got this new computer.

I reboxed it for the video. So it comes in

this first box, which looks pretty cool.

Kind of looks like a board game. Like

there's gonna be a a board game and pieces

and dice and stuff inside of it. Yeah,

this outer box.

Out of box ROG Flow. I went to the

Asus or the Asus store and I

spent probably an hour in there looking

all the different laptops. They got so

many cool laptops. They've got the Flow,

the ZenBook, the Strix,

the Zephyrus. They've got so many

different laptops. It took me a while to

decide what to get. I decided to get this

one because it's the smallest one there.

They had the G14, but the specs weren't as

good as this. It had slightly weaker CPU,

and I didn't really want a G14 anyway

because they're kind of bulky, and I

didn't want a G16 because they're too big.

I didn't want the Zephyrus G16 or Strix

because they're so bulky and big, and they

have a nice big fat fan which is good for

cooling, but I'm prioritizing portability

over cooling, so that's why I went for the

13.4-inch Flow X13.

So this is the box. Let me zoom in.

Looks pretty nice. Why is my lens kind of

foggy? Got some nice details on

the box. They like to put the coordinates

of the headquarters. Apparently this is

the headquarters of ASUS in Taiwan,

so you could find that— find out where

they are. Docs themselves, didn't they?

And you've got some random numbers all

over it. Anyway, let's open the box. It's

quite an annoying box to open because

there's nothing really to grip onto, use

the weight of what's inside to put it

down. But if there's nothing inside, it

was really hard to open it. So you get

this plastic wallet, kind of like the

MacBook wallet but not made out of paper.

This is made out of plastic, I guess

because Apple want to be all eco-friendly.

So they use paper. So this is the laptop.

What else do you get in here?

Get a little book, paper stuff.

G-Series gaming notebook.

Boring. It's got a really nice smell. It

smells— don't know why, but it smells

sweet. Kind of like honey and apple and

leather. It's got an interesting smell,

like a sweet smell. And then here is the

laptop.

It's a very nice looking sleek laptop.

Wow, I just left all these scratch marks

on it by rubbing my nail. What? Oh my God,

what is that? Please tell me that comes

off. What is that?

That is really weird.

I have no idea why it looks like a

chalkboard when you rub your nails against

it, but it rubs off.

It's really weird. It rubs straight off

like nothing's there now. Really weird

material.

Yep, now I can't return this. I'm not

doing any damage to it. This is kind of

strange. I mean, you could write your name

There, now everyone knows who this belongs

to. But it's got like this bumpy— see

if it can focus— it's got like a bumpy,

rigid texture on the top.

Listen. It's kind of

not flat or smooth, it's kind of rigid,

which feels kind of nice to run your

fingers across. So it looks like that.

And then the back side, we've got the air

intake. The problem with laptops is

they put the air intake on the bottom side

of the laptop, so if you put it down on

something like this, like a blanket or

something soft, it blocks up all the vents

and it becomes incredibly hot. I put my

Razer Blade gaming laptop onto the bed

once with the fans on, and it— the whole

thing was so hot I couldn't touch it. I

had to get a towel to lift it off the bed

so the air intake could get some air.

Good thing about the MacBook is the back

panel is completely flat and nothing on

it, so the air intake doesn't get blocked

when you put it down and stuff. But

Windows laptops, they always put the air

intake here for some reason. So it's got 2

fans, one there, one there, one for the

CPU and the GPU, and it blows the air out

here or here as well. So you've got air

blowing out here and here, but you also

get air blowing out here.

So you have your hand here with the mouse

and you always get this hot air blowing

out onto your hand, which could be nice if

it was winter and it's cold, but if you're

hot and you've got hot air blowing onto

your hand, it's kind of annoying. So yeah,

you got the back fans on the hinge and the

side fan there. It's always blowing air

out. The problem with Windows devices is

they get very hot even when you're not

even doing anything. So for ports,

we got one USB, really nice, put my

wireless mouse receiver into that without

needing the adapter. Then we've got a

USB-C port, and that's the on button.

Took me ages to find out how to turn it

on. And then we've got HDMI Some

kind of audio jack, SD card slot. It's

really nice. Sometimes I shoot video on my

phone and then I use like an SD card

reader to copy the files onto the SD card,

and then I can just plug this SD card into

this SD card slot without needing some

kind of adapter. So I really like how they

put an SD card slot. And then you got this

socket where you can plug in an external

GPU, which I won't bother with. So ports,

pretty nice. Got one USB-C, one USB normal

one. I really like having the normal USB

unlike Apple devices. And we open up the

device, the fans are probably going to

start going even though I'm not doing

anything. Watch when you're— this thing

here.

Keyboard is really nice. I actually prefer

this keyboard over the MacBook over the

MacBook keyboard. I don't know why, I just

do. It's got like a nice soft spongy

feeling, but it also slightly clicks when

you press it in. It doesn't have like that

hard MacBook keyboard keys are like very

flat and very hard and pick up all your

finger oils. This one doesn't seem to do

that. The buttons seem slightly higher up,

just a tiny bit, and they feel a little

bit softer than the MacBook hard keys,

which I actually quite like. And then

you've got Volume control like the

MacBook, which is really nice. You can

mute the mic, and this one changes— no,

this one opens Armoury Crate, and then

this one mutes it. You've got brightness,

you've got performance modes, keyboard

lighting. There's no RGB, so you only get

a white backlit keyboard. The trackpad is

really nice. I really like the trackpad.

Damn, it's getting finger oils all over

it. Gotta clean that. And then you've got

all these stupid stickers on it. Why does

every Windows laptop come covered in these

stupid stickers. So you've got

the ASUS Exclusive Care, AMD Ryzen.

So the specs for it are we've got an RTX

4050, we've got 16GB of RAM,

we've got an Ryzen R9 7940HS—

I think that's the spec— and it's only

13.4-inch screen, so, but it's pretty big.

I don't feel like it's really small and

hard to do anything on. It's, um,

compared to the MacBook Pro, which is

14-inch, it's slightly shorter. So it's

like this much shorter and slightly

slimmer because, you know, it's not 14,

it's 13.4. So let's turn it on.

I'm really excited to do some gaming on

this. I only played Rainbow Six so far

with the 4050. RTX 4050 played really

well.

Obviously it's

not super fast to load up. Actually, it

was pretty fast. We've got face

recognition to log in.

Yeah, so we're logged in. So we don't have

fingerprint scanner, but Face ID is pretty

useful for logging in quickly.

And we've got a really nice display. It's

165Hz display and it goes up

to 500 nits, so it's not extremely bright.

I think the MacBook Pro goes up to like

1,000, 1,500 nits. Wait, I've got a piece

of paper. This thing came with it. It says

it's got 165Hz,

500 nits. Hair stuck to it.

It's got 13 degrees lower CPU temps.

Ambient cooling, truly silent. They must

be joking. This thing sounds like a drone

trying to take off when you're doing

anything. You have to have the battery

mode on power efficiency mode if you

really want it to be silent, otherwise

this thing is damn loud. You also have

touchscreen. Look, it's got touchscreen so

you can like tap things, and you've got 2

modes. You've got laptop mode You've got

flat mode, you've got tent mode. So you

can do tent mode like that.

The fans are already starting even though

I haven't done anything.

Listen, I don't know if you can hear that.

I don't know why the fans would be

starting when I'm literally doing nothing.

So you've got tent mode, and you can also

do this kind of reverse mode.

I don't know if that's bad. If you lay it

upside down on its keyboard. I don't think

it is because the air intake is here, not

on the keyboard. So I don't think there's

any problem with having it lying flat

down, face down on the keyboard. So this

is quite nice because then you can move it

closer to you and have a bigger viewing

experience without the keyboard in the

way. So if you're watching a movie, you

can put it into this mode and just have

the screen without the keyboard getting in

the way. Or if you're playing a game using

a control pad, you can just get the

keyboard out of the way and have only the

screen and bring it closer to you to have

a bigger screen experience. And then you

can also do like vertical mode like that,

so you can like prop it up using its

keyboard as its own stand and put it into

vertical mode if you wanted to. It goes

automatically into portrait mode, and then

you can close it and put it into tablet

mode. Watch, it'll go into tablet mode,

and then you can use it like a tablet.

But then the problem is when you grip it,

you keep pressing all the keys on the

back, which doesn't really matter because

the keyboard gets disabled when it's in

tablet mode. But also, the air intake

fans, aren't they all blocked because

they're wedged in between the screen?

They'll be in there. I guess it goes into

like tablet mode, which is really low

power mode, but I still feel kind of

worried knowing that the intake fans are

inside of the middle of the device now.

So it's pretty nice, got like a tablet. I

wouldn't really use it like this because I

don't like pressing the keys. I feel like

something's gonna happen by pressing these

keys, but nothing does. Or you could use

it like that. Like this,

but I'm just going to use it as a laptop.

So yeah, it's a pretty cool device.

It lays out completely flat like this as

well. These 180-degree

hinges are really cool. And yeah, it's got

a powerful graphics card. I can play games

on max or ultra now. I'm going to play

some Red Dead Redemption later, see how

the graphics look with it. And this

cost 60,000 baht, but I got a 10% discount

because it's New Year's sales. I got 10%

off, so I only paid 54,000 baht, which is

around— I think it's like $1,550,

around that price. So yeah, it's really

lightweight, really nice laptop. I chose

this over the MacBook because Number one,

this is cheaper. I got 10% discount. It

has better specs, 16GB of RAM,

1TB hard drive, RTX 4050,

and the CPU that's on par with the M3.

Plus I can play Windows games without

being restricted to macOS, and I got

more RAM. So it seems like a no-brainer.

It's cheaper, it's got better specs than

the MacBook, and it can game. The only

benefit of the MacBook is The MacBook is

really silent. The fans hardly ever come

on, only when you're gaming. But when

you're doing anything else on the MacBook,

it's dead silent, which can't really say

the same for this. You've got to put this

onto power efficiency mode. And the

MacBook, I guess the screen looks a bit

nicer, like it's brighter and it's taller,

but this is fine. It's completely fine.

But yeah, I bought this because I realized

that 8GB of RAM is not enough for the

MacBook, and I realized, you know I would

like to play some Windows games now and

then, be able to cover latest trending

games if they do come out. With the

MacBook, I wouldn't really be able to do

that, so I decided to get this and refund

the MacBook. So I'll make more videos

about this laptop later when I've had more

time using it. But yeah, I quite like it.

It's really light, it's only about 1 kg,

and it looks really nice. I really like

the design, very sleek looking.

Not too like gamer boy design,

but just a tiny bit of gamer boy design

where it's nice but not too boring like

business style. Okay, thanks for watching

my unboxing.