Asus now has a tablet that doubles as a gaming machine - the ROG Flow Z13

(Pocket-lint) - Asus claims to person crafted the world's astir almighty gaming tablet that's capable to alteration into a full-blown gaming machine. 

The Asus ROG Flow Z13, arsenic it's known, is simply a saltation of the Flow X13, but alternatively of a tiny portable gaming laptop, the Z13 is simply a susceptible tablet instead. 

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In existent ROG fashion, it's compact and lightweight astatine 1.1kg and 12mm thin, crafted from a CNC-milled chassis that houses immoderate awesome specs for a tablet.

It boasts a prime of the latest and large Intel processors, 16GB 5200MHz DDR5 RAM, a PCIe Gen 4 NVMe thrust with an easy-access lodging (for aboriginal upgrades) and an awesome Nvidia RTX graphics card. 

Internally it's built with a ample vapour enclosure to assistance it tally chill and quiescent arsenic modular with a soundless mode. As agelong arsenic CPU and GPU are beneath 50 degrees past nary fans volition spin. That cooling is helped on by liquid metallic CPU cooling and a plan that ensures the fans ever person entree to breathe. 

The ROG Flow Z13 comes with 2 surface options, some successful 16:10 format. You'll beryllium capable to take from a 4K 60 Hz show with 85% DCI-P3 coverage, oregon a Full HD 120 Hz surface with 100% sRGB coverage. 

Design-wise the ROG Flow Z13 is intriguing successful a fewer antithetic ways. It has a see-through rear sheet that gives you a presumption of the motherboard, topped disconnected with immoderate RGB lighting. The rear besides has a built-in kickstand with a scope of 170-degrees. It won't prevarication level though, arsenic the plan is built to forestall you from blocking the airflow and choking the internals. 

It comes bundled with a keyboard truthful you tin usage it arsenic a laptop, there's besides an XG mobile eGPU arsenic determination was with the Flow X13 but that's present coming with a caller AMD mobile GPU. 

So you tin usage it arsenic a conveniently portable tablet, past dock it with the eGPU and bask afloat gaming glory with an outer show and full-blown gaming peripherals. The champion of each worlds successful 1 tiny package. 

Writing by Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 4 January 2022.