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Replying to this again because guess what just happened. ANOTHER ONE DIED, 3/3 BABY.... XG-17 that had the panel replaced now has the EXACT SAME problem and of course even though it failed <6 months ago it's now out of warranty so ASUS wants to charge me probably $300+ to fix it (can't remember exactly how much I was quoted before but I think its was ~$250 + $85 'diagnostic fee'). I can buy a replacement screen for ~$100 so I'll probably do that if it gets worse like it did before.... for now it's just 3 lines on the bottom, the replacement screen seems to be a different model (300hz vs 240hz) so maybe it'll last a bit longer...

Update I got another Zenbook Duo (this time a Pro Duo 14 OLED) for a good deal and switched over to it. It's a very better experience than the other Zenbook Duo in Linux with 1 big annoying issue. They are much higher res panels (2880x1800 + 2880x864) which means I have to use scaling and as I expected it's awful, I hate scaling. In order to make the display usable I have to use fractional scaling, 200% is way too much and 100% is quite small... <rant> What is the obsession with putting displays in laptops that are so high res you basically need to use scaling to make it a usable experience?? I thought we all agreed scaling is awful not to mention that the main benefit of a higher res display (the extra screen real estate) DOESN'T EXIST IF YOU SCALE IT. It's basically just needless battery drain (and performance loss in games unless you lower the resolution which looks worse because it's non-native res). I complained about it when they put a 1600p panel in the new Z13 and I'm going to complain about it in this 14" zenbook duo too, it's dumb. maybe on a 17" laptop I could understand a 1440p class display but for a 13-14" screen there is absolutely no reason to go above 1080p/1200p. </rant> Wayland isn't an option because from everything I can find there is still no way to remap touch input for multi-monitor setups which means I'm stuck with X11. However with X11 getting fractional scaling working is very broken, I have to run a script to set scaling and monitor position every time the displays wakes from sleep... Other than the resolution the display is awesome, OLED on a laptop looks so good. I wouldn't use it for my main machine because I'd be worried about burn in but for a secondary machine I'm hoping it'll be fine. (it does freak me out when I think the display turns off but it's actually just black though.. Also the secondary display isn't OLED? I thought it was for some reason but no, checking the specs on Asus' site doesn't mention anything about them both being OLED) I'm sure there's a way to automate this and I'll keep poking around but it's pretty annoying. Though that's pretty much the only thing that doesn't work properly. Keyboard backlighting works perfectly, suspend (with NVMe) works perfectly, (once I remap inputs) touch on both screens works perfectly, even the microSD reader works perfectly (which didn't work very well on either the Z13 or old Zenbook Duo)

Yes, s2idle is in brackets by default. I've tried changing it to deep but it doesn't fix the issue. I'll give those suggestions a try in a bit and see what happens.

I'm just hitting suspend from the power options in GNOME initiating sleep using echo mem | sudo tee /sys/power/state has the same issue mem_sleep returns 2 options: 's2idle' and 'deep' No idea if /sys/power/sync_on_suspend is set but I just tried with setting it to 1 and same result.

I can't get wayland to work reliably on my Clevo system, on the Z13 and Zenbook Duo it works fine though. I also tried connecting the Z13 to 2 monitors and ran into awful lag/stutters even on wayland. Even just dragging a window around felt like you were constantly changing the refresh rate from 144 to 60 or even 30 and back. I suspect the 4k 144hz monitor has something to do with it, though the other 2 displays were 120hz so it's not just grabbing the lowest refresh rate and causing problems. (though this was on Arch so maybe I'll give it another shot with debian and see.) I'm fully aware that AMD is a better option but because all of my systems are laptops (and weird ones at that) there's not many AMD options... If I were to go out and buy a machine to replace my current ones it would probably be all AMD for a number of reasons. I completely forgot about the ability to have multiple desktop environments on one system. I might give XFCE a shot but honestly once I removed all the extra crap GNOME seems to be pretty responsive and I like a lot of the extensions features. Makes sense, I'm no stranger to having to reinstall operating systems ever few months, I think the longest lasting windows Install I had was probably 6 months... Something always breaks and it's just easier to reinstall than try and track down and fix the issues. I tend to update quite frequently so it makes sense that I would run into weird issues.

Some Backstory Over a month ago (I believe around Dec 1st) I was finally so fed up with Windows I forced myself to give Linux a proper try. I've been slowly customizing my Windows experience for years, starting with basic stuff and eventually creating full custom images with custom scripts, tools, even a hacked together updater. The problem with all of these is that it's a constant uphill battle. Between Edge being so deeply rooted in the OS to the point that certain programs/games will not work without Edge & it's webview and the constantly changing of basic elements like the inexplicable removal of the user folders from the This PC menu I finally just got fed up. Every Windows update feels like 1 step forward 3 steps back, that 1 step forward is what stopped me from just grabbing LTSC 2019 and calling it a day for another few years until Nvidia decides to stop letting their drivers work on 1809 (like they did with <1803). Anyway onto the actual experiences, enough hating on windows. The hardware I use a very weird selection of hardware. My main system is a few year old watercooled desktop-replacement style laptop (Clevo X170SM-G) while my main portable system is a 2022 Z13 (the 'surface for gamers') which I disable the dGPU in and don't really use for gaming xD I recently picked up a Zenbook Duo (basically the lowest spec one, 10510U, MX250) for cheap and have been using it more and more as my portable system because I really don't need the power of the Z13 all the time... The Clevo Because the Clevo is basically a desktop z490 system crammed into a laptop chassis it just works out of the box on Linux. The only real issue I had was I needed a way to control my radiator fan speed, this is handled by a micro-controller that sends a PWM signal based on the value passed to it over serial, fortunately this is a very similar process on Linux as it is with windows and after figuring out how to make a systemd service it works flawlessly, even better than windows which it tends to randomly stop working requiring me to open task scheduler and restart it. The fingerprint sensor on the Clevo is not supported under Linux. But that's pretty much the only piece of hardware that I have that flat out doesn't work. Having 3 monitors hooked up to a laptop only seems a little more buggy on Linux compared to windows, I do like how on Linux there is actually an option to align monitors by manually entering positions in the Nvidia X Server config panel as well as the ability to save display layouts. Compared to windows where I have to try and pixel perfect drag the preview around to make it mostly line up. I used FancyZones for window management on Windows and switched to using gSnap which took some getting used to (mainly the fact you can't rebind it to shift and you have to use ctrl (+alt to span multiple zones) but the functionality is very similar to FancyZones for my use. The Z13 Compared to the Clevo this is very much NOT a plug and play experience... Lets just get it out of the way, the fingerprint sensor is 'supported' but it functions as a swipe reader and is so inconsistent/slow it's basically useless. Suspend doesn't work. the SD reader is questionable (tbf it's also questionable on windows) and the XGm is it's own can of worms. But everything else just works on Debian/older linux kernels, the trackpad/keyboard have weird issues on anything 6.5+ The XGm is EXTREMELY finicky, I almost want to try the AMD based one and see if it's any better. There's a tool called supergfxctl by the asus-linux team that does allow it to work however it requires logging out and has a 50/50 chance of just not working from my experience, usually a reboot solves it but not always. Many hours have been wasted trying to change the hotplug mode, timeouts, etc to try and get it to work more reliably but nothing seems to help much. Back to the suspend issue, I've tried a bunch of stuff but ended up just giving up and using Hibernate or just shutting down entirely. Suspend just causes the screen to stay off or sometimes turn on but stay at just a black screen. The window changing lighting modes from the blinking red sleep thing to the solid colour so it does know it's supposed to wake up but something is broken with it. Now the biggest annoyance, the 10W power limit... So from my testing on any newer BIOS (>310 I believe) the cpu is stuck at <10W because of something to do with Intel DPTF/DTT. This is a firmware bug that I've reported to ASUS but they have 0 interest in fixing it because 'if the drivers [Intel DPTF/DTT] are working there is no issue'. Even after I explained that it was caused by a BIOS update.... After literal days of testing stuff the fix is just simply use BIOS 310. That fixes the issue entirely. Zenbook Duo Funny enough the Zenbook Duo I bought on a whim because it was cheap seems to be the best supported device, the only things that don't seem to work are NVMe and the SD reader, NVMe drives randomly disconnect after waking from sleep or unplugging/plugging in the charger and the microSD reader randomly stops working. Everything else works pretty much out of the box (you do need to install the asus-wmi-screenpad module to get brightness control for the second screen (which you want because by default it's quite dim) as well as a systemd service to set it to max brightness on boot). Suspend works fine, CPU turbos fine, touch between both screens does sometimes get confused for a sec when touching one screen, then jumping to the other but it's pretty quick to figure it out. I have my eyes on another cheap broken Zenbook Duo but this one is an OLED model, if I can snag it for cheap I'll try it out. If not I'll probably pick up a 1TB SATA M.2 SSD for ~$50 to use this one. I'm actually writing this on the Zenbook Duo \:P Distros I initially installed Debian 12 on both my Clevo and Z13 (this is before I got the Zenbook) and was honestly not that impressed with the preinstalled 'bloatware'. Even without the system utilities I still had to remove probably 3 dozen or so packages (why does gnome come with SO MANY preinstalled games...) but at least it was as easy as just uninstalling them from the Software menu I would like to not have to put in my password EVERY SINGLE TIME I uninstall one though (yes, I know you can remove them through the terminal, I did that later on). Also not impressed that parental controls and help can't be removed from the menu, requiring you to use the command line, it feels very windows like IMO. I did try out Arch (mainly to try and see if it helped with the issues on the Z13) and I very much see why it's for advanced users. Archinstall makes it quite easy to get setup honestly, just customize everything through the prompts and run a few commands to get a desktop environment installed and you're good* *except you aren't I never did resolve this weird fullscreen issue and a lot of characters were missing, basically anything not ASCII. Didn't really try to resolve the characters as it was low on the priority list compared to the fullscreen issue. I'm positive that with some tinkering and more knowledge someone could fix these issues but I ended up just jumping ship back to Debian. Desktop Environments I chose GNOME because of it's design and extension support, I am really not a fan of KDE Plasma's design. I'm sure it would be possible to theme it enough that I wouldn't mind it but I didn't bother. Basic theming on Linux is quite the endeavor (at least on GNOME). Something as simple as changing the accent colour of the Apps/UI requires modifying SVGs, finding and replacing half a dozen values in a CSS file, creating 2 other css override files and placing the theme is 3 separate places as well as running multiple terminal commands just to make sure it applies to native GTK3/4 + flatpak GTK3/4 apps as well as the shell. I did figure it out but it's a lot more complex than I was expecting. To be clear, I had to do a VERY similar thing on windows, requiring modification of the proprietary msstyles file and all the images within for the global dark theme as well as having services running that constantly applied the accent to other elements. I use quite a few GNOME extensions as well, some standouts are: App Hider (to hide a lot of the apps I keep installed but don't launch ever like Characters and Fonts) Notification Filter (to add a filter of .* regex, I HATE desktop notifications, killed the service on windows and disabling them in GNOME doesn't block the stupid 'x is ready' or screenshot notifications....) App Icons Taskbar (Basically moves the dock to the bar at the top all the time, I am not a fan of the amount of screen taken up by both the top bar and bottom dock nor do I like auto-hiding it so this is a perfect solution for me.) Software Most of the apps I used on windows are available on Linux as well: Librewolf (Firefox fork) - Native Linux version Vesktop (Vencord (Modified Discord) Desktop Client) - Native Linux version Freetube - Native Linux version KeepassXC - Native Linux version For the stuff that doesn't have a native Linux version: Winamp - Switched to Amberol which is FINALLY a basic music player that just works and actually looks good \:D RDP client - Using Remmina currently but looking for something less cluttered/complicated. GNOME's app has terrible colours which is a problem because I work through RDP VSCode - Honestly, I didn't even install the native linux version. GNOME's built in text editor + nano is good enough to not need it. Synctrayzor (Syncthing GUI) - Switched to Syncthing-GTK, pretty much the same functionality. Soulseek - Nicotine+ works well, I rarely use it. Just if I can't find the flac for a song via other means. Paint.net - I've been using GIMP but there's quite the learning curve, if anyone knows alternatives feel free to suggest them Video Trimming - I used the built in Photos app for this on Windows but I found this app on the GNOME Software store which is just a basic video trimmer and works great. I don't really use much software, some stuff I didn't mention because it's either such a basic app that GNOME has a version of it or it's popular enough that I didn't feel like it needed to be mentioned (i.e. Steam) Q & A Q: Why only Debian and Arch, why not Manjaro or Pop!_OS or even Ubuntu? A: Manjaro wasn't recommended by the asus-linux team and the main reason I tried Arch was because of their recommendation for the Z13. Plus I don't like pacman, the syntax is extremely convoluted. I use Ubuntu server and was already used to/like apt. Plus a lot of the software mentioned above is distributed as .deb files which makes it easier. As for Pop!_OS and Ubuntu, I don't really have a good reason. I tried Pop!_OS and used it for a short while but didn't really like they're spin on GNOME (and I think I had other issues but I don't remember) and for Ubuntu I didn't want to deal with native, flatpak, and snap. Plus again, I didn't really like their spin on GNOME either. Q: If you have so many issues with the Z13 on Linux why not just go back to windows on the Z13 and use Linux on everything else? A: I can't stand the idea of mixing Linux + windows on my daily systems, having to deal with that sounds like a headache trying to manage different software for each OS, hell I don't even want to run different distros on my systems because of having to remember which package manager/format to get on each machine... Q: Are you going back to windows? A: Hell no, I'm done with windows. It's to the point now where I'm happy with the experience and I have no real reason to switch back. I still use windows on a handful of machines (I have a tablet PC just for discord calls which runs a super stripped down version of windows, same with a PC that I use for playing YouTube videos via Freetube on my 'TV' (it's my old Acer Predator 43" monitor that got repurposed), both of these will probably run linux at some point when I get bored. I also have an old Precision M6700 running windows 7 (mainly for phone tinkering, all it really needs to do is run Odin/Some ancient leaked Qualcomm tools) as well as a VM on my main server for hosting game servers/discord bots/etc. that probably won't change too soon (I have a separate Linux VM which hosts the docker containers for most services). At some point I want to move that VM to Linux and merge it with the docker host but rn that's too much work. At work I still use windows as well as the VM I remote into runs windows because it needs to run the Microsoft Remote Desktop client to connect to our cloud PCs for work. This likely won't change.

Adding to this now that I've 'resolved' it. Even under Wayland on Arch I still had the same issue (it wasn't as predictable, sometimes it would be fine, sometimes it would hang for several seconds but it still happened) I ended up going back to Debian for my systems (because the main reason I went to Arch was to hopefully improve the experience on my Z13 (asus-linux recommends using Arch/Fedora for the best experience however it made virtually no difference for me except the trackpad was worse (it kept grabbing the wrong driver) and the keyboard backlight went from not controllable but always on (Debian, Kernel 6.1) to sometimes controllable but randomly turns off (Arch, Kernel 6.6). The issue doesn't happen on Debian, I'm still using X11 for now (trying the usual workarounds (modifying 61-gdm.rules and adding nvidia-drm.modeset=1 parameter) to get Wayland working with Nvidia drivers doesn't seem to work, it might work once but a lot of the time attempting to login results in flashing black screens for a few seconds followed by getting kicked back to the login screen with no Wayland option..... Weirdly these work totally fine on the Z13 and my Zenbook Duo...

Hibernation has the same issue which is very weird, it resumes fine but after a few seconds it locks up or dumps me to the console with file system errors. I can't get anything we Kernel 6.6 to even install... I tried using Zabbly to update to kernel 6.6 on debian but that didn't boot, just got stuck on a blinking cursor. Arch and Manjaro both fail to either see the SSD at all or write to it... This is a known good drive, it works perfectly fine in another system so for now I'll just stick with the SATA M.2

It was present from the start, yes. I don't have 'shallow', only 's2idle' and 'deep' (as read from /sys/power/mem_sleep) I'll give hibernation a shot and see what happens. Same with kernel 6.6, I'll give it a try and report back

By default it's using s2idle, tried switching to 'deep' but that didn't make a difference the 660p is the drive that shipped in this laptop (presumably, I got it used but that's what came with it). I'm on Debian 12, also tried Debian testing with the same results.

I swapped out the SATA M.2 SSD I had in my Zenbook Duo (UX481 running Debian 12) for an NVMe one and now resuming causes the drive to either disconnect or become read only after a few seconds causing the system to freeze/hang. I've tried a bunch of workarounds but nothing has fixed the issue. kernel parameters I've tried: acpi_rev_override=1 acpi_osi=Linux mem_sleep_default=deep iommu=soft acpiphp.disabled=1 pcie_aspm=disabled nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 nvme.noacpi=1 Any other ideas? I've had the same problem on a 1TB Intel 660p and now a 512GB Eluktronics branded drive.

Got a 'broken' Zenbook Duo for cheap, basically the lowest end Duo (10510U/MX250) but for basic tasks it's great and everything seems to work great under linux (except the NVMe drive likes to disconnect randomly causing issues but SATA M.2 drives seem to work, idk if it's the drive itself being borked or just linux things) It was listed with keyboard issues and non functioning second screen (liquid damage) but after getting it the second screen worked fine so all it needed was a keyboard. I will say repairability is awful though, between having to pry out glued in rubber stoppers to unscrew the bottom and the 65 screws to remove the keyboard it's pretty awful xD

Thanks for the info. I switched back to wayland to see if I can track down the issues I've been having there. I don't use chromium for my browser, however I do use freetube which is built on chromium. Running it with --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL --use-gl=egl --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder seems to resolve it (though hardware acceleration still reports and not working: OBS also just doesn't launch, no idea what's wrong with that but I'll look at it later. gSnap (like fancyzones but for GNOME) also seems to be kind of broken with wayland, it works for a bit (a few minutes maybe?), then randomly stops and I have to manually assign monitors their snap profiles again.... But I guess that does resolve the fullscreen issues : /

I'm having this weird issue on my main laptop where going into and out of fullscreen (any app) causes the system to pause/stutter, for probably the first few hours after rebooting it's totally fine but over time slowly gets worse and worse to the point where it freezes for several seconds everytime anything goes into fullscreen. (NOT just exclusive fullscreen, but anything including youtube videos, browsers, remote desktop, etc.) I'm running arch (6.6.10-arch1-1) with GNOME on X11, latest nvidia drivers (from pacman). Anyone have any idea what is going on? It's quite hard to find anything about this because most results are people complaining about stutters when in fullscreen, that's not the case here. Once It is finished entering fullscreen it's totally fine. (I can't use Wayland mostly because video playback is extremely stuttery on anything chromium based, but it also likes to break after logging out) 10900k/RTX 2080S (Clevo X170SM-G Laptop).

It seems to be a mix of the radio in my phone, that tpLink router and 6GHz range being NO WHERE CLOSE to 5ghz.... got a pretty good discount on a ROG GT-AXE16000 and it's better, there's significantly less dropouts and range is better but still not even comparable to 5GHz (I can get 200+mbps on 5ghz w/ 3/4 bars in areas I barely have a connection <10mbps on 6ghz), at least it covers pretty much everywhere I need unlike the tpLink one. Range is a little better on the Z13 but overall the 'slightly worse' range is more like 1/2 the range for me xD

I'm thinking about it. I was looking at getting a U6 Enterprise but that would require a 2.5g capable PoE injector which is another $50 at least on top of the AP which makes this solution even more than that asus router... though at this point that seems like a better option, I just didn't want to deal with their app but at least their APs can be setup locally without an account...

6Ghz is completely empty here, funny enough 5GHz is pretty congested.

yeah, I just didn't expect it to be this bad. those speeds were with line of sight (until the 35ft one). rn I'm 5ft away and getting almost double the speed on 5Ghz compared to 6Ghz... 5Ghz: 6Ghz:

I've already updated to the latest firmware, nothing else in my area is 6Ghz, Networks already have different SSIDs for each frequency. Thanks for the suggestions though.

I recently upgraded the router I use as an AP from a WiFi 5 Asus (RT-ACRH17) to a Wifi 6E TpLink (AXE95) and am getting weird results especially with 6ghz. Speeds are better when within ~5ft but quickly fall off... <3ft - 800-900mbps ~5ft - 750-850mbps ~10ft - ~400mbps ~15ft - ~350mbps ~20ft - ~220mbps ~25ft - 50-100mbps, sometimes disconnects or reports 'no internet, connected' >~35ft - no signal (Speedtests are local to the router using iPerf) I assume this isn't expected for 6Ghz/6E, 5ghz seems to work fine and has MUCH better speeds at range, where I'm getting barely 100mbps on 6Ghz I can get 500-600mbps on 5GHz... These are all from my ZFold 3, testing with a Z13 that also supports 6E gives better results across the board but speeds still tank, <3ft I can see ~1.4gbps and ~20-25ft It's ~250-300mbps. I haven't noticed disconnection issues on the Z13 (though I also haven't used it on wifi as much). Any recommendations before I just return this one and pick up a different device (probably an ROG Rapture AXE11000)? I've tried changing a number of settings in the current TPLink router including setting static channels, disabling 2.4/5ghz, OFDMA, TWT, WMM. with no real changes. The router is in AP mode, connected to an unmanaged switch at 2.5g which has a 10g link to the router. Other devices has no issues saturating their 2.5g links so I doubt it's a switch issue.

if your chip can do it probably, it can sustain ~170-180W at ~90c, it really only goes above ~70c when running an all core load like cinebench, while gaming it's fine.

Update 2 lots of stuff has changed so I'm probably missing some stuff but I'll try and touch on the big things. Linux runs fine on the 2022 Z13 (assuming you rollback the BIOS to (the quite old) 310)... The latest 317 has a bug with Intel DPTF that results in the CPU being locked into a <10W power profile making performance significantly worse. I've attempted to contact ASUS about the issue but they completely ignored me basically saying it's a Linux issue and they don't support Linux so it's not their problem... Even after me explaining this can happen on Windows as well if the DPTF drivers are not working correctly. Battery life on linux is about the same as windows, it's actually worse with the weird 10W power bug somehow which I don't really get but eh. writing this with nothing else open I'm still only gonna get ~2-3 hours max. Sitting fully idle on the desktop you *might* be able to push it to 3.5 hours. This is with the dGPU disabled and the screen/backlight on max brightness. Running the XGm on Linux is a hot mess currently, it does work but supergfxctl is very finicky... If I had to guess it's related to nvidia drivers on linux but it very often gets confused and says in on the Integrated or Hybrid profile while leaving the XGm active and changing modes does nothing, forcing me to just surprise hot-unplug it causing the nvidia driver to trough a fit because the device just 'falls off the bus' which the only way to recover from seems to be forcibly shutting down and booting back up. The fingerprint sensor is also hit or miss, it is technically supported by libfprint and will work as a swipe reader once configured properly but also likes to randomly disconnect and is overall quite slow, I haven't even bothered to set it up since I re-installed. Keyboard/Trackpad also has it's issues. Backlight likes to stop being configurable randomly (usually after closing it or going into suspend) The trackpad also sometimes thinks it's a mouse, which you have to find the ID and manually change it to hid-multitouch. [root@FlowZ13 ~]# dmesg | grep asus ... [ 5.565631] asus 0003:0B05:1A30.0004: input,hiddev97,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [ASUSTeK Computer Inc. N-KEY Device] on usb-0000:00:14.0-6/input3 [root@FlowZ13 ~]# echo "0003:0B05:1A30.0004" > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/asus/unbind [root@FlowZ13 ~]# echo "0003:0B05:1A30.0004" > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-multitouch/bind Not that you'll be using suspend anyway as it hangs for 30+ seconds when resuming from suspend. Tried a few fixes but it seems to be related to the microSD reader which also fails to appear after resuming from suspend. Now for the not Linux related stuff Hardware wise it's been solid. I personally haven't had any issues with the keyboard failing to connect at different angles or anything. I swear some keys repeat occasionally but it's probably just me as I've never been able to recreate it. If you are on windows use G-Helper instead of Armoury Crate. It works perfectly from my experience and is so much lighter than AC. I'm still of the belief that hardware wise this thing is 90% of the way to perfect for me. It's compact and easily portable while still having plenty of power on tap + the XGm port is awesome as it not only acts as a dock but gives you a (mostly) proper GPU. The propitiatory charging thing I complained so much about in my initial review is kind of mute with the XGm as well because if I'm using it for gaming where I really need the extra CPU power I probably want the GPU power as well... It's still stupid but it hasn't really been that bad for me. I'm also gonna rant about the 2023 model at the end here. I have 0 plans on upgrading to it for 3 main reasons (besides cost): WHY IS IT 1600p. It's a 13" device, there is no benefit for it to be more than 1200p IMO, you basically have to use scaling and scaling on windows (and linux) is garbage. With scaling it just seems like a complete waste, no extra real estate, extra battery drain, and worse performance in games (unless you lower the panel res)... (This one's more subjective but) I vastly prefer the fingerprint reader over the IR camera facial recognition thing. But why not just have both??? The chassis is virtually identical between the 2 models so why didn't they just keep the fingerprint reader power button and add facial recognition for those who want it. Final thing is it's still limited to 16GB RAM unless you get the special ACRNM collab one which is cool but so expensive.

After downgrading all the way back to BIOS 310 I am able to get up to 45w! Still can't seem to get past that but the UEFI mod should allow me to if I wanted. Either way 45W is WAY better than 10W. Interestingly the available_uuids still shows UNKNOWN but the current one now shows 42A441D6-AE6A-462b-A84B-4A8CE79027D3.