Asus Flow X13 Review - AMD + RTX 3080! 

Would you rather this setup? Or a laptop/desktop combo?

"Wow, beautiful i wonder what's the price?" "3299 USD" "okay, bye."

I'm really starting to miss those 2 lights in the background

90% of the comments : "I'm broke" remaining 10% : "I'm broke"

Dave - 'If I had the money, I know I would tempted'. Who the hell can have the money if you don't ?

"It makes this sound when you rub it the wrong way." ~ Dave Lee (2021)

Me: My God I want this. _My Wallet: "LOL PLZ"_

I hope this culture of separate GPU really catches up with other companies and this time for *"SERIOUS"* . 🤞🤞

“It comes at 3299” I ooofed so hard I pulled a leg muscle

05:56 "Cyberpunk Ray-Tracing: LOL PLZ"😂😂😂😂

Dave: "It comes in at 32..." Me: "Alright see you next video"

This is exactly what I would want / need in the future. So you have a powerful game set up at home and connect it to a monitor and also a portable laptop which looks classy. Great!

Was looking forward to this review in particular, thanks for doing it 👍🏻

me: Thinking why he keeps fixating "If you're fortunate enough". Dave: Yeah it costs 3 grand. me: Oh.

For me this looks amazing for some of our design engineers. We often don't need GPU power. But we do need multi-core performance. So several of these laptops and one or two of the GPUs would be perfect.

This is specifically what I want, but can't afford 😂 Hope other brands will make versions of this as well!

all i know is that all my money flows into asus when i get to afford this

You know it’s something good when Dave can’t contain his smile

That’s around $4300 Canadian after tax.....yea nah, this is gonna get a “yea nah” from me.

7:15 - That laptop opening transition is Siiiick !

Me: It's a 2 in 1, so it can only have integrated graphics. Asus: Nah, we got a GTX 1650. Me: Take all my mon- Asus: hol up *shoves RTX 3080*

Seeing Dave more than my friends feels good tho

0:00 Best intro ever, just wow. Keep using it.

I loved the ending where you plug in the GPU and it's Cyberpunk: ON

Cyberpunk - RT: LOL PLZ Laughed so hard

Can't wait for the G15 review!

I live in a small apartment in Japan with a family and honestly this is the sort of thing I've wanted to replace my desktop.

As someone who constantly moving because of work assignment, this is the perfect scenario for me. I tend to keep all of my stuff very simple and minimal to reduce cost of moving.

Loved the “LOL PLZ”.

"It makes this sound when you rub it the wrong way." Uhm I think that applies to everyone rofl

If touring and travel was a thing, this would be the perfect machine to do it -as a VJ for concerts and festivals, I’ve been wishing for something like this for years

That thing is so bad ass. Love the looks too. Thanks for sharing! Really was diggin this when you did that video of all the laptops and showed this.

"It makes this sound when you rub it the wrong way or poke at it the wrong way" Dave Lee 2021

Been waiting for this!

I loved the whole egpu trend that happened a couple years back and to see this is amazing for people like me who isn't really at a stationary place a whole lot I can't wait to see the support and the further iterations of this.

I feel like it would be the perfect product for me, the fact that the eGPU has all the ports included and charges the device, combined with the pen support for the touchscreen makes it really versatile: you can have a 2 monitor setup at home, use the laptop screen as imput for drawing, then on the go have an all-in-one. Its sad it is so expensive.

Reminds me a lot of my old Sony Vaio Z series that used eGPUs over lightpeak! Glad to see that OEMs are still experimenting with this idea.

6:03 "LOL PLZ" Bro I'm dead

Apart from the price, I feel like this is the perfect product for me. I'm disabled, I can't sit at a desk very long and I can't lift a heavy desktop replacement laptop. This I could move around on my own, I could have the eGPU on a laptop table and I could go from RU-vid on the couch to gaming in bed without an issue. I love this thing.

I have it, very pleased with it. This is sort of my dream of around 6 years ago come true. Back then I envisioned a laptop I could carry around for medium workload, tablet for browsing/videos on the longer go, and a desktop PC with some oomph to be the main workhorse on my main desk. My previous gaming laptop was a heavy box, and never got a tablet, as usually phone was close enough for the on the go browsing, and even watching some movies on the plane.

“Its a shorty”- Uncle Dave, 2021

Can I be the millionth person to tell you: The time that you put into editing and producing these videos is totally worth it. Great job

dave, this intro is so clean!! and in 4k? you spoil us

was waiting for this type of laptop for programming + gaming. can't Wait to get my hands on this one.

0:28 "It's something else" he already sounds so pleased with the product.

I personally love this product. I’m a laptop gamer and the appeal of being able to buy a new external GPU rather than a new laptop every couple of years is appealing. However, for me the ssd is what lets it down. Only coming with 1TB of storage and being difficult to replace makes this product something that is not viable sadly. Game files are too big nowadays to have such limited storage options. I am pleased to see that many of Asus’s new laptops are coming with the option of a 2TB ssd this year though which means that I may well purchase something from their new line.

The zoom effect on the track pad was neat!

Love your content Dave

Great review Dave! I can see the use case for this, but I wish Asus would have delivered a bit more on the 4K display. I am more of a desktop user, but I like the thought behind Asus’ laptops.

Big Question: Does GPU Performance throttle when you do something with the ports at the GPU Dock. This happened with a Razer Core Product and was a big problem.

O M G.......that bass in the intro.......🤯🤯🤯 I never knew my galaxy buds could put out Bass like that! 😲

Wow Dave, first time here. Amazing review 👍

"It will make some sound when you rubbing it or poking it the wrong way" Okay Dave!

That's a good approach to the external GPU. Definitely a viable option to always have a mobile laptop and a choice of mobile gaming laptop and with GPU in a separate casing which is great from thermal perspective. Would be nice to see this progress and close the gap between desktop GPU version. Most of the time people play games at home so they could take the laptop with without the external GPU and in less often scenarios there is still the comfortable option to take it with you, a laptop backpack is definitely enough to put it in. Also if the connection standard is kept and the GPUs pool will expand with new GPUs being released, that can easily replace a desktop for someone who wants the ability to play games without resigning from mobility. In a perfect world I would see this as a standard for any laptop using some standard interface which would be fast enough for GPU. Promising but with Nvidia closing the gap more and more between their desktop vs mobile GPUs, there is a chance that won't be needed much longer. 3070 Super looks SUPER in comparison to mobile 2080. The only thing left to do is for producers to make a real difference regarding cooling systems. They are getting better but are still far from what's needed atm.

This is exactly what I want for years !!! So smart the usb c inside the connection !

Wish there was like a full version of the outro. It's beautiful.

Was waiting for this so bad. I was refreshing RU-vid every few minutes for the last couple of days. I need this.

This laptop reminds me of a mullet. Business in the front, party in the back! This laptop would be very useful for me.

gotta love that sick bass in the intro

I like how honest you are

“...for 7 dollars” I knew you were gonna say that

8:54 me: mom can we have unicorn? mom: we have unicorn at home unicorn at home: 🌽 unique corn

this is specifically what i want! and what i need, i was searching for a powerful laptop that is portable for i work on the road, this is just perfect, you came in the ryt time man!

Many reviews, but yours is on point. I love it.

I lost it when he said when he said "I don't have any answer for that."

Does Linux work on this at all? Especially the 3080 box. Would be a dealbreaker for me if not

great content, just keeps getting better.

Loved that you were so stoked at the beginning and you didn't know how to describe it and settled with "This is a very... IT"S JUST SO COOL!" hahahahaha

06:05 GTX 1650MQ on CyberPunk RT : "LOL PLZ" hahahahahahaha

I always liked your adidas track upper!!!.....it suits u! 😌

Your thumbnails are awesome

you make your videos in a cool way, that's awesome

*I am, for the first time in the last 8 years I've been following consumer tech, beyond excited by a new Laptop formfactor, more than any previous Thunderbolt eGPU or 3 screen concept, MaxQ and so on !!!* I can legitimately see a future where all the GPUs come out of the laptop to become external docks like this, the benefits are numerous: from improved battery life when u detach the graphics, lighter weight and smaller size of the laptop, ability to bring a lighter USB C charger when on the go, or bring your big charger that's also a USB dock and a 3080M !!! Remember that top spec gaming laptops already come with bulky almost 2lb bricks as chargers... This is a 3080M in a 2.2lb power brick!!! Technology gets cheaper over time so I don't get the sentiment from the comments that this ONE OF A KIND, first gen product is too expensive... It includes a 3080 in it, that alone is a 1300$ product right now, if u can find it at all... I know its not a full desktop 3080 but more like a 10% higher core count and 20% lower clocked 3070, but come on! IT HAS 16GBs of VRAM! U don't get that much in the desktop 3080! Needless to say, I hope this thing catches on and becomes an industry wide trend, with mass adoption of actually good and portable eGPU docks that use x8 PCIe 3.0 (or even better PCIe 4.0 connections, so that the bandwidth limits of previous eGPUs is eliminated) across many different brands and products! It's incredible what Asus engineers have done here, they are pushing the industry forward and I am amazed that some of the comments don't see it this way but are focusing on the price!

Alright... Say goodbye to your twin, kidney.

Just letting it b known, Your reviews are the most reliable in the vast sea of reviews.

Can't wait for the g15 review!

$3,300 is pricey, but I love this vision of the future of external GPUs.

Anyone else just bought a laptop and now the coolest things are coming out 😭

wow thats a nice idea, i hope they start to do this with other models and other specs!

Will there a more in-depth review for this device? I am really interested.

7:05 Why didn't you fully take apart it?

"It's not bright" TAKE MY MONEY PLEASE.

Awesome review! I am really looking forward to see if the G14 has a better screen this year - in response to latency.. last version had a 20ms, slow screen. I play CS GO.. so a 120hz 3ms screen is good enough for me.

Hey, I really hope that you will go over scar 17. That's the one that is really tempting to me. Anyway, thank you for your reviews, I even watched your vacuum one!

"hard, solid D" - 2020 "It makes this sound when you rub it the wrong way or poke at it the wrong way" - 2021 Dave you better be careful

Careful Dave, the intro is too close to nintendo’s pluck sound they might sue you

Me: looks at a dave2D video on my suggested vids Also me: "ALRIGHT"

Awsome vid Dave very positive

I wouldn't mind selling my house for this atleast I could game on forever

This is the kind of innovation and competition I love to see because it pushes the tech forward. AMD have done a great job of waking up Intel. I'm excited to see how Intel is responding from pressure from AMD, Arm, Apple and Microsoft. I love Thunderbolt but Intel need the support of more than just Apple, they need AMD as well. Thunderbolt should switch to PCIe 6.0 to support eGPUs better.

I really hope to see your review (or just thoughts) on the newest Razor 8kHz mouse! Do you plan on doing it? Thanks!

Great as always! Would love to see you review some 360hz monitors such as "ASUS PG259QN/R" vs "Alienware AW2521H". Peace

The non up-gradable RAM kept me from buying this. I almost bought it, but you showed me what I needed. Thanks!

6:01 "LOL PLZ"

Good to see e-GPU stuff again, I think it would make sense if ASUS sell that laptop and that e-GPU separately / optional. That laptop was quite interesting on that specification.

That connection is next level, an actual pcie slot with an integrated type c...

I was hoping they would utter like in toyline, "each sold separately."

❤️❤️❤️ :)

Thanks for the video. Very helpful, concise. I have a question, should I buy a gaming laptop for office work/entertainment/amateur video editing etc even though I do not play games?

Loving these ever so endangered inverted T for the arrows.