Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 10 Evaluation: An All-White Surprise

None of meaning you are going to get good battery life, although. I used to be solely getting round 4 and a half hours in a really mild video playback check. That is fairly quick, limiting the laptop computer’s viability as a hybrid system for journey, work, or college.

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The RTX 5060 mannequin is accessible solely at Finest Purchase, beginning at $1,870. I’d not purchase this proper now—at the least not at this value. At present, the higher deal is over at Lenovo.com, the place you’ll be able to choose up an RTX 5070 mannequin for $1,795 on sale. Although I haven’t examined it (and each GPUs include solely 8 GB of VRAM), stepping as much as the RTX 5070 is definitely value it. Each configurations get you 32 GB of RAM and one terabyte of storage.

The Legion 7i Gen 10 is without doubt one of the most costly gaming laptops to make use of the RTX 5060. You’re paying further for the keyboard backlighting, quicker HX-series Intel chip, higher-resolution OLED show, and superior design. These all add so much to the laptop computer expertise, however they’re, for probably the most half, quality-of-life additions. For instance, the Alienware Aurora 16 (a laptop computer I’ll be reviewing quickly) additionally begins with an RTX 5060 and an analogous decision display screen, however it’s IPS as an alternative of OLED.

Simply watch out with a budget RTX 5060 laptops on the market, such because the Gigabyte Aero X16, which is on sale for simply $1,150 proper now. I haven’t examined it but, however it makes use of the 85-watt variant of the RTX 5060, which is able to imply a major drop in efficiency in comparison with the Legion 7i Gen 10. That’s all-time low for RTX 5060 gaming laptops. Lenovo has its personal model of a less expensive RTX 5060 proper now, the LOQ 15, which shall be accessible in October, will get you an RTX 5060 for near $1,000, however comes with a regular 1080p IPS show.

With that in thoughts, the Legion 7i Gen 10 is clearly not for many who worth efficiency above all. Nevertheless it’s one of many nicest wanting gaming laptops I’ve reviewed recently that is not a Razer Blade, and it has sufficient efficiency and high-end options to make it definitely worth the cash—simply ensure that to go for the RTX 5070 whereas it is nonetheless on sale.