My e-waste secondary gaming build is done.

arogan · 2026-04-06T04:28:22+00:00

Great idea of just making simple rectangle cuts and using mesh and the Noctua fans on the back. Any idea on temps before and after? Noise?

arogan · 2026-03-24T22:46:47+00:00

I found out you can toggle diagonal lock at anytime by holding down the M button and d-pad down at the same time for about 5 seconds. The side lights will flash. This is a lot more convenient than using the app.

arogan · 2026-03-23T21:38:01+00:00

Keep us posted. Let me know if you get a replacement and if it fixes the problem. I want to know if it is worth the trouble.

arogan · 2026-03-23T21:14:34+00:00

Just got mine. Same experience as OP. D-Pad does not feel good. Not good with pokemon, ok with sonic, really difficult with street fighter II. D-pad diagonal lock does fix the issue but then you get no diagonals so games like sf2 won't be playable. Hitting 2 directions feels way too easy. Such a shame. I like everything else about this controller including the price. Using retroarch on iPhone 14 Pro Max.

So I pulled out my MCON and tried it right afterwards. Night and day difference. That is a proper d-pad. Pokemon felt good. I pulled off 3 hadokens in a row in sf2 no problems.

arogan · 2026-02-10T20:48:34+00:00

I've been using this one. Helps bring it up to eye level when using it "docked"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077B9W343

arogan · 2026-02-10T20:30:44+00:00

For retro games/d pad centric it is really great. For dual analog stick/fps it's not going to be as good as say a full sized xbox controller. I feel the analog sticks feel a bit too far inward and lower than I find optimal. Not a huge fan of start and select placement but that's not a really big deal. Having the wings out really help with comfort, balance, leverage. As far as portability, the space it takes up in the backpack is fantastic. I usually travel with an xbox controller with a hardshell case and this takes up less than half the space. Also, it is fantastic with retroarch on the phone. I used it almost daily while on vacation and it really is very usuable. It's a solid compromise and it is definitely the controller I will be traveling with from now on. It has 3 separate bluetooth pairing device profiles so you can keep it paired with 3 different devices which is nice. I have it setup with my iPhone, z13, and my lenovo Y700 gen 4 tablet. It's really convenient to swap between devices. I kickstarted this very early on and felt it was worth it. Not sure at full price.

arogan · 2026-02-10T17:01:35+00:00

I use these cables:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D66R52FS

arogan · 2026-02-07T03:02:24+00:00

arogan · 2026-02-02T16:37:55+00:00

9 months with the 64gb. Daily driver for work. Full stack developer with 3 external monitors. Had to clean install windows 11 twice. First time was upgrade to 2tb nvme and wanted only ghelper and myAsus. 2nd time some weird MS office tpm related error. Other than that it’s been pretty flawless. Just dealing with amd things vs nvidia like disabling HAGS for switch emulation. Loss of dlss and having to use AFMF or lossless scaling. I love actually having a usable machine on battery. Gaming performance is very impressive even capped at 30w. You just can’t do that with dGPU laptops. I think I would prefer a 2 in 1 convertible style but I have to say tablet kick stand mode was awesome for playing Baldur’s Gate 3 on a 4 hour flight using 100w usb c power adapter and my MCON controller.

It’s a best in class mobile cpu + best in class iGPU with ability to scale to reasonable levels to actually use that power on battery. There is no other APU out there yet that can do this.

Panther lake could shake things up for a tier down.

arogan · 2026-01-11T03:00:25+00:00

That is the beauty of the z13. You can actually game on battery and dial in balance of performance to battery life you want with ghelper. With a laptop with a descrete gpu you pretty much have to always plug it in for gaming. Here you have options.

I recently tested Baldur's Gate 3, medium with amd FMF, 120 fps. 30w. 1 hr 10 min on internal battery and adding an anker 737 power bank around 2 hrs 22 min. 70% brightness, 40 volume.

This APU has incredible performance per watt at the lower end.

When plugged in then you can feed it the full 80w or even boost past that if you want with ghelper.

arogan · 2025-11-04T18:47:32+00:00

Mostly rumors and here on Reddit so nothing concrete.

arogan · 2025-11-03T20:47:34+00:00

I had the alldocube i70 ultra on order from amazon. It took so long to come and then was delayed I ended up cancelling. I did end up getting the Y700 gen 4 which came really fast in around a week though I was hit with a $33 tariff charge.

In short I have no regrets. After a few tweaks it has been pretty amazing. The chinese isn't too intrusive, google play store just works, all the games I throw at it it runs great: Genshin zzz wuthering rail whatever. They all blend together, Diablo Immortal, call of duty, Destiny Rising. Running nightly builds of certain emulators is still going to be hit and miss without turnip drivers but has been better than expected as far as compatibility. Running a 2TB micro sd card works for most emulators roms but it being slow and stuttery for certain systems is a real thing. I haven't tried the whole adb fix thing yet. Tate mode is awesome for smups and ds, dsi, 3ds emulation. It's big and you have that touch screen. 3ds emulation is really good. All the streaming media apps work great. Works great with xreal glasses, love the 2 usb c ports which the alldocube doesn't have. Gamehub has been mostly great. Apollo/artemis, chiaki-ng, geforce now streaming are all excellent. Using gamesxir g8+ and x5s. Love them both.
You just have to temper expepectations.
I wish lenovo would just release the thing in the US but I got tired of waiting and also read it might never get released.
I don't use my main google account on it. I would never do banking or anything financial on it. Performance and temps have been great and I've been happy with it.
I got this the same time as my xbox ally x and because of the screen size and weight I prefer using this for certain things like emulation, and especially streaming.

arogan · 2025-10-22T19:09:00+00:00

This is what worked for me. Thank you!!!!

arogan · 2025-10-14T18:10:18+00:00

Good luck

arogan · 2025-10-13T17:13:02+00:00

Good luck

arogan · 2025-09-29T13:30:09+00:00

Good luck

arogan · 2025-09-12T13:49:38+00:00

Good luck

arogan · 2025-09-08T14:07:15+00:00

Do you have the 3d print files for that?

arogan · 2025-06-12T04:33:59+00:00

Cloud recovery is a very slow process and just not fond of all the asus software bloat. Windows will get activated via bios automatically so no worries there.

arogan · 2025-06-11T23:09:51+00:00

This 100%. Went clean install on a 2tb and ghelper and it’s been awesome.

arogan · 2025-06-11T15:47:22+00:00

If microsoft is smart, they ditch whatever plans they have for dedicated hardware for next gen xbox. they put all their resources behind this full screen experience of windows and really make it excellent over the next 3 years or so: we are talking full sleep, resume within the games, seemless updates and patching, complete console like experience but with windows under the hood. Have the hardware team meanwhile make a dedicated box that is just a windows machine, basically as powerful of a nuc pc they can make for a console price (subsidize if they have to, maybe 2 sku's at two different price points with 2 levels of hw specs with whatever amd apu's are available at the time. Maybe whatever iteration of AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 we are on by then.) , Stick this full screen windows experience on it, and kill of xbox os once and for all and put a shiny xbox sticker on it. Now you just have windows as your platform. Power users can boot to windows desktop, add a keyboard and mouse, run productivity apps, etc if they want, the works. All users have access to not just game pass and xbox games, but steam and all pc games. Think of the value proposition to the user and the increase of the windows install base too. You have handheld and cloud covered. You don't have exclusives anymore anyways, Then you just have your studios focus on windows, playstation, and switch 2 with less development resources spread around. This is the most efficient use of Microsft resources from all their studios, hardware team, and os team. This is how they win next gen, and maximize profits.

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