There wasn’t much junkware to remove – all I uninstalled was the McAffee trial. But the huge charger weighs 1069g bringing the total weight to over 3.5kg.Īfter plugging in the AC adapter and starting up the laptop, finishing off the Windows install was pretty quick with its fast NVMe SSD. It weighs a pretty hefty 2482g without the AC adapter. It’s almost 32mm thick including its four rubber feet and measures 360mm x 260mm. If you turn off the RGB lighting, there’s only really the huge power supply and Legion gaming logo that give it away. This doesn’t look much like a gaming laptop, which I personally prefer over the usually overdone styling you often see with laptops like this. Doesn’t look too much like a gaming laptop The laptop is mostly made of plastic – a mixture of polycarbonate and ABS, but feels quite robust apart from the lid which has a lot of flex towards the hinge. The trackpad is offset to the left and measures 105mm x 70mm. The laptop lid opens with one hand revealing a full size chiclet style keyboard with a number pad and there’s four zone RGB backlighting. I’ll discuss the USB-C ports’ full capabilities shortly. The rear USB-C port can also be used to charge the laptop, in a limited fashion. And both support Displayport 1.4 for connecting up external displays. The USB-C ports both support USB Power Delivery for charging your tech at up to 15W or 3A at 5V. The standard USB-A ports are all 5Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 and the USB-C ports are 10Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports. USB-C ports can charge your tech up to 15W The bottom of the laptop has a large vent for air intake and there’s the stereo speakers. Back of laptopĪround the back of the laptop next to the cooling vent is a Gigabit ethernet port, another USB-C port, two additional standard USB-A ports, a full size HDMI port, an always-on standard USB-A port, the proprietary charging port and another cooling vent. The 17” model also has an SD card slot, but that’s missing on this 15.6” version. The right side has a switch to turn the webcam on or off, the power light, a standard USB-A port and another vent. The left side of the laptop has a cooling vent, a USB-C port and a combo audio jack. You can download a full user manual from Lenovo’s website. Inside the box you get the laptop itself, a whopping 300W charger and a brief getting started guide. I’ll run through its features pointing out its good and bad points, and I’ll test its performance for gaming, video and photo editing and office use to help you decide if this is the right laptop for you. You can pay a lot more for a laptop with far less impressive specs, but it’s not all good. And unlike some gaming laptops it wouldn’t be out of place in an office environment. It’s a very capable laptop both for gaming but also as a fast everyday computer, particularly useful for video editing. Check the link down below for the current price. The model I’m looking at here in Phantom Blue, has a 8 core AMD Ryzen 5800H CPU, an NVidia RTX 3070 graphics card, a 512GB NVMe SSD, 16GB of RAM and a full HD 15.6” IPS screen. Lenovo’s Legion 5 gaming notebooks start from around £800 or $800 with an entry level spec and come in both 15.6” and 17” versions.
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