ASUS - ROG Flow Z13 13.4" 2.5K 180Hz Touch-Screen Gaming Laptop - Copilot+ PC - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 -64GB Memory -1TB Storage - Off Black $2099.99 Bestbuy.com

onlinejim

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onlinejimToday 9:17 AM

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Nice deal but looking for 128gb ram machine. for AI work I would think at least 128gb is needed?

AI work Capability Depends on a Lot of Factors other than RAM also. Is this LPDDR4, 4X or 5 RAM ?

darren_fsl

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darren_fslToday 11:53 AM

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Quote from misternopants

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Nice deal but looking for 128gb ram machine. for AI work I would think at least 128gb is needed?

Yes, I bought this a few weeks ago and ran Qwen3 30b a3b locally. I ended up returning though because I didn't like the MS Surface-like kickstand--it ate into my experience of the portability. And it still got pretty hot--probably unavoidable in that small a case.

https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/...llm/174730 has some good advice. This is an awesome machine for the right person. If I still gamed, I'd probably have kept this. Keep in mind that up to 75% of the VRAM can be dedicated to GPU in Armoury, so you could in theory run a LLM locally with up to 48gb, leaving only 16gb for system memory--probably not ideal. A full system reboot is necessary to change that setting.

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Alterbridge1989

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Alterbridge1989Today 12:28 PM

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I bought one of these open box for $1800 from Best Buy a couple of weeks ago and returned it because the wifi card was broken. Really cool machine, but it's got a lot of reports of WiFi issues in them so be aware. I did all the driver updates, Windows updates and every other trick you could find online. It's def worth the money if you get a good one, just make sure you stress test it within the return window

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JasonD1523

Today 12:36 PM

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JasonD1523Today 12:36 PM

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Quote from onlinejim

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AI work Capability Depends on a Lot of Factors other than RAM also. Is this LPDDR4, 4X or 5 RAM ?

It's lpddr5x 8000. It's certainly slower than desktop ram or a dgx spark or mac, but it's also half the price

JasonD1523

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JasonD1523Today 12:40 PM

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Quote from misternopants

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Nice deal but looking for 128gb ram machine. for AI work I would think at least 128gb is needed?

Depends what you're using it for. This runs 30b models no issue. Also know that amd ROCm support is behind, so image generation stuff isn't great.

Hotpuck6

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Hotpuck6Today 12:40 PM

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Quote from Alterbridge1989

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I bought one of these open box for $1800 from Best Buy a couple of weeks ago and returned it because the wifi card was broken. Really cool machine, but it's got a lot of reports of WiFi issues in them so be aware. I did all the driver updates, Windows updates and every other trick you could find online. It's def worth the money if you get a good one, just make sure you stress test it within the return window

Wifi card is also soldered to the board on this model, so you're stuck with the mediatek wifi card that has all sorts of reports of being largely hot garbage.

KeithY9797

Today 2:15 PM

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KeithY9797Today 2:15 PM

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Quote from JasonD1523

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It's lpddr5x 8000. It's certainly slower than desktop ram or a dgx spark or mac, but it's also half the price

you mean it is certainly faster than desktop (ddr5) ram? it is about as fast as apple m-pro processors; 60% slower than m-max processors, and definitely faster than apple regular m processors.

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