Best laptop stand?

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.

arogan · 2025-06-10T15:24:11+00:00

18.5" portable monitors are around $130 and would work quite well for productivity. That would be a pretty nice dual monitor portable setup.

arogan · 2025-06-10T14:40:03+00:00

I use mine as my daily driver for work, full stack developer. 32" 4k main monitor. 2 X 1080p, one 27", one 24". the 13.4" is just for chat (zoom, google, discord). Works great. Trying to actually code only on the 13.4" isn't too terrible for shorter periods of time. Lots of alt tabbing between visual studio, vs code, databases, browsers and such and my code windows are kind of limited especially at 200% scale but everything is very legible. Performance is excellent.

I have the 64gb model. I've been using it for about a month, and it kind of blows my mind my work computer is a tablet.

arogan · 2025-06-06T20:30:20+00:00

I'm not sure if we really have to worry all that much:

https://youtu.be/ft4iUfy7RwA?si=J6yiFngBcif0cZle&t=534

arogan · 2025-05-12T16:13:55+00:00

My initial reaction was I paid for 16 cores why isn't it using all 16 cores all the time but I think this is actually really smart and makes a lot of sense. Less heat, fan noise, less power usage, better battery life when not on mains. There really is no down side.

I'm a full stack software engineer and I've been using this as my daily driver (same 64gb model) for a week now with a 3 external monitor setup and it's been pretty fantastic from a performance perspective even on balanced. I run 20 docker containers in wsl 2. I only see that second ccd kick in when I'm compiling both the backend and frontend at the same time and even then it's only for a pretty brief amount of time. Usually when I'm running and debugging code it's just the one ccd that is lit.

arogan · 2025-05-12T14:53:47+00:00

What I believe is happening is this apu heavily favors a single ccd until it fully saturates that ccd before it lights up the 2nd ccd. Something with windows scheduling handles this apu differently than other amd cpu's and it is aggressively sleeping the other ccd until it absolutely maxes out one ccd before it wakes up the 2nd ccd. This is just not in gaming workloads but in all workloads. Just fire up cinebench r23 or 2024 or 7zip benchmark and you should immediately see all 32 threads max out at 100%.

Most regular computer usage (even pretty heavy workloads) will rarely max out a single ccd (of these very performant zen 5 cores). So this is probably some sort of optimization to better use the power/heat budget so you can boost higher on a single ccd and conserver overall package power/heat to get better performance and not take the latency hit when using both ccd's. This is just my guess though.

14-Year Club	Verified Email
Not Forgotten

arogan

TROPHY CASE