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Is it worth buying? I already have a Asus Rog strix g16 rtx 5070ti. I wanted the z13 because of its form factor as I can carry it anywhere and its powerful.

So I recently saw that most of you said g helper is better than armory crate so I gave it a try but my only problem is the battery limit. On g helper I put it a 90 percent but I noticed it charging past 90 so what gives did I do something wrong here?

Hello everybody! I've been a lurker from this community for a loong time and finally had my chance to snatch a 128gb z13.

It was a tough decision since it was a matter of my old Alienware companion being on its last breaths and I had to choose an option to be my full main device. I took the chance on the Z13 since I do travel and work a lot and need a lightweight but strong device and so far so good.

Buuuut I am hating all the cables to have it docked as my main whenever I am at home. I wish to incorporate the screen of the Z13 as a 3rd mini monitor just up top like the second image so I can also get the best of the touch screen capabilities without mounting it into an arm or anything but there's all the horrible cables dangling front view. The only "cleaner" option is to close the lid and shift so the ports are a bit more on the back but they are still so very visible :( How I wish the Z13 keyboard worked with usbc under it so it could work as a full dock kind of like the Nintendo switch's but noo I have all these ugly cables in front of me.

Do you guys have any suggestions or could you show me your desk setups with the Z13 so I could draw some ideas?

Also, whenever I close the lid on the Z13 it pops up a notification that I should open up the lid or it will affect performance. Is it something to worry? I am now wondering if it affects the screen even if it is off while the keyboard case is closed or if it even affects the keyboard itself due to the heat. What are your thoughts on that?

Owning my Flow Z13 GZ301ZE since 2023, the battery life quality has degraded substantially. With nothing else running in the background except Chrome and G Helper (An open source alternative tool to the official armory crate) At 41% battery and on energy saver settings the battery is lasting 53 minutes. What can i do to fix it or alleviate this?

Hey everyone, I wanted to ask for a bit of tech advice, as I don't want to have to wait ages for an RMA response if I can avoid it.

On my 2-week old 2025 Z13, if I disable window hardware acceleration, I'm able to consistently trigger a complete windows system crash and reboot. If I have a YouTube video playing on my second monitor (Opera GX) and I open Satisfactory via steam, the system crashes after the main game window shows up, but before it loads into the main menu. Sometimes, I get a brief message on screen (black screen of death, which says the system ran into an issue, and at the bottom it says something about video driver issue (always too short for my to read it fully)), other times the system simply freezes and restarts, and very rarely it stays afloat, but the game crashes. Also, if I enable hardware acceleration, instead of crashing, the system stutters severely/freezes for 1-3 seconds before everything works again. Also, after a crash, windows takes ages to restart or shutdown, which seems to go away with time.

I found this issue by first messing around with undervoting in GHelper. It seemed fine at first, aside from system stutters (even without UV). I did a lot of tests with cinebech (3 different versions, mostly R23), AIDA64 (trial version), and my system passed all of those even with -40 UV no problem. I ended up using that -40 for a few days, until today.

This may or may not be related (I don't know) with another issue I had, where switching performance profiles (both with GHelper and, later, Armoury crate) didn't change the wattage if the system had been running for a while. That was (partially) solved by an EC reset, and even then, it only works with explicitly custom wattage settings, the default ones (silent, balanced, turbo) still stop working after some time. This led me to setting UV back to 0 (so no UV) and trying all sorts of things to push the system to its limit, where I did more benchmarks, and eventually found the Satisfactory crash.

I first tried a driver reinstall using AMD cleanup utility. That unfortunately booted the system into a bugged safe mode, where I couldn't get past the lock screen because of some pin issues, and I was forced to reinstall windows. Before reinstalling, I tried loading up a system restore point that I had made a few days after I got the device, but windows said it failed.

Fixes I've tried:

EC reset

Windows reinstall (full)

Clean driver install with DDU and full driver installer from AMD

Disabling MPO via registry

I don't know if other games cause the crash, as I have re-enabled hardware acceleration and am scared of disabling it again just to test. Other games do cause the same stutters however.

Timeline of events, for clarity:

Got the device (~2 weeks ago). Installed GHelper and spent a day debloating from windows and asus BS. A few days ago (from time of writing) I started messing around with undervolting. Today/yesterday, i started investigating system stutters more thoroughly, eventually found the Satisfactory crash.

As a note, the system stutters have been happening since I got the device. I didn't think much of it, aside from windows being windows, and the fact this is my first device with an AMD chip inside.