Legion 5 Pro comes with monster build quality and powerful hardware, and it was one of the best gaming laptops last year. The device’s design and this year’s Legion 5 Pro live up to its standards. Let’s check it out.
Design
Lenovo keeps the rear panel simplified with Legion branding, and the keyboard fades with a minimal flush look that matches the laptop’s body. The build quality is amazing, and the same true-strike keyboard feels steady. It is one of the best-designed gaming laptops, but it lacks the 300W power adapter bundled in the box, which is a heavyweight 0.97 kg. In comparison, most of the design remains the same.
Display
It looks the same as the last generation, and it comes with a 16-inch QHD+ with a 165Hz refresh rate and a 3 ms response time. The display can reach 500 nits of peak brightness while boosting the 100% SRGB gamut. Furthermore, you will also find 240Hz variants to choose from. However, the display comes pre-calibrated, but you can choose colour profiles using the X-right colour assistant.
It can easily handle photo editing and video editing and is easily visible during daylight. Like most gaming laptops, this is also coated with anti-glare to make it easier to view. Besides this, everything surpasses most of the competition. Keep having RGB lighting, but simple white is also on the list. Talking about the trackpad, it is still the Myler plastic trackpad instead of glass, which feels more smooth.
Speaker
Which is placed on the lower half of the laptop, which is not the best but acceptable for fulfilling the scenarios. The base feels recessed, and the mids outshine everything else.
Webcam
This sucks; even in 2022, it offers 720p support, which is usable in some scenarios. The camera switch button on the laptop is a welcome feature for privacy. However, as for the use-case scenarios for streaming, this will not serve you the best. You are required to opt for an aftermarket webcam.
Performance
This laptop uses AMD Ryzen 5 6600H or AMD Ryzen 7 6800Hz, which easily beats the Intel Core i7 12th generation. Making this an industry leader, but in real-time, usages sailed through Intel Soc. This means you will get an immersive experience without lags. However, we recommend setting it to medium settings to get the best experience.
Cooling
Lenovo introduced Cold Front 4.0, which makes the fans 140% more powerful and the blades 40% thinner. To further cool the CPU, it has a dedicated copper block. You won’t feel any major heat-related issues, even after multiple gaming sessions. During testing, we recorded the 45°C tweaking around this, and you will hear fans running during an extensive workload.
Battery
To power the device, it is equipped with an 80Wh battery, which gives you 4 to 6 hours of SOT and takes almost 2 hours to charge from 0 to 100%. There is also Rapid Charge support for faster charging.
Pricing
Under the hood, the device is powered by a Ryzen 7 6800H (8c/16T, 4.47Hz Max) paired with 16GB DDR5 2×8 @ 4800 MHz Ram and a 1TV NVMe Pcie 3.0 SSD. As for the GPU, it has RTX 3060 bundled with 6GB of GDDR6-1140W TGP. The whole package cost ~$1599 (~Rs 1,50,000). You can also opt for the higher variants, which will cost $1599 for RTX 3060, $1799 for RTX 3070, and $1999 for RTX 3070 Ti.
Yes, they have kept everything and upgraded it with an incredible display and solid build quality, which makes it easy to recommend.