06-21-2023, 06:31 PM
ASUS Z13 Acronym (number two) impressions after several weeks of usage:
"WTF, again?!" Well, we know I'm crazy. Two reasons why the Z13 is going back:
-I've found myself just going for the Asus Ally over this, despite its better performance and hardware. The Ally is more portable and is running everything I want to play so incredibly well that I just don't see the point in having what are kind of two of the same device.
-The Z13 got another forced BIOS update a few days ago. This caused performance in general to get worse by around 10-15 FPS in most games and this was the final straw.
I still had another week to return it, so decided to just send it back for the last time. Ally aside, I think I'm done with Asus in 2023. Nearly every 2023 product I have tried from them has had something wrong to the point of needing to be exchanged or refunded.
I did consider just waiting another six months to a year to see what else comes along, but Dell is having a sale right now so I'm gonna give them a try, I got the Alienware X14 R2 with 32GB of ram and a 4TB SSD for $400 cheaper than the Z13 Acrnonym costs. It has a 4060 versus the Z13's 4070, but the X14's GPU and CPU run at a higher wattage so it should even out or perform better. If it's on par with what the MSI Stealth 14 ran like, I'll be pretty satisfied. If not...uh...Razer next?
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"WTF, again?!" Well, we know I'm crazy. Two reasons why the Z13 is going back:
-I've found myself just going for the Asus Ally over this, despite its better performance and hardware. The Ally is more portable and is running everything I want to play so incredibly well that I just don't see the point in having what are kind of two of the same device.
-The Z13 got another forced BIOS update a few days ago. This caused performance in general to get worse by around 10-15 FPS in most games and this was the final straw.
I still had another week to return it, so decided to just send it back for the last time. Ally aside, I think I'm done with Asus in 2023. Nearly every 2023 product I have tried from them has had something wrong to the point of needing to be exchanged or refunded.
I did consider just waiting another six months to a year to see what else comes along, but Dell is having a sale right now so I'm gonna give them a try, I got the Alienware X14 R2 with 32GB of ram and a 4TB SSD for $400 cheaper than the Z13 Acrnonym costs. It has a 4060 versus the Z13's 4070, but the X14's GPU and CPU run at a higher wattage so it should even out or perform better. If it's on par with what the MSI Stealth 14 ran like, I'll be pretty satisfied. If not...uh...Razer next?
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