Asus ROG Flow Z13 (2025) review: hold up, integrated graphics are good now?
Published on: 2025-07-08 13:30:00
is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021.
The beefy Windows gaming tablet is back, and it’s done two things I thought impossible. It made me respect integrated graphics, and it convinced me a Windows tablet can be fun.
The Asus ROG Flow Z13 is a 13-inch tablet with a detachable keyboard, a bright screen, and the guts of a gaming laptop. I knew it was something special when I used a clamp-on controller to turn a preproduction model into some kind of superpowered, supersized Steam Deck. In daily use, it’s more like a husky Surface Pro, with an AMD Strix Halo processor featuring powerful integrated graphics for gaming and a battery that lasts a full workday in non-gaming tasks. It’s a charming and versatile device that could plausibly replace a desktop, laptop, and a tablet or handheld for a certain type of PC gamer — one who doesn’t mind the $2,100 starting price.
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