- Lenovo and Intel sponsored this video,
where we're going to be looking at,
well, it's a Legion gaming laptop.
Here we go, look at how thin this is.
Apparently it's got a 4070 in it.
First of all, the power adapter.
This is a slim charger that does up to 230 watts, not bad.
Now if you want, you don't need to use this,
and if you have a USB type C charger,
you can plug it in right here.
This will accept up to 140 watts of fast charging.
Looking at the IO, we have headphone, microphone combo jack,
USB type C, which supports power delivery,
and display port 1.4, Thunderbolt four,
which also does that power delivery.
Around back we have DC charging, HDMI 2.1, love to see it.
Three USB type As, awesome.
You normally only get like one of those on a laptop,
and around the right side,
we have a full size SD card reader.
Awesome if you wanna do video or photo editing,
and a little switch for the webcam, nice.
What you've probably noticed though
is that this is very thin.
This thing's just over 17 millimeters thick,
which for something that has a 4070 in it, hot dang, guys.
I hope that this right here isn't, well, super loud.
Find out soon.
Also, while we're here,
the design of this looks really good,
like it just looks rather plain like from a distance,
but when you get close, the details are excellent.
Like if you look at this,
we have what is likely C and C diamond cut
all around the edges in this way
that just looks absolutely fantastic.
Can we catch the light with it here?
Oh, there we go, you can really see
how it's just like a nice fancy little flare.
You don't need RGB when you just have nice materials.
Let's see.
One finger, very easy.
Oh, that's a big display.
I absolutely love that they're going to 16 by 10
on all of the gaming devices because like,
you still want to use a gaming device for productivity,
and that just makes it better.
Hmm, oh, ooh.
This is a well built chassis, look at this.
Okay, you can kind of get some flex
around the keyboard if you try.
That is legit one of the stiffest chassis
that I've seen in ages.
Jake just asked what I think of the reverse notch up here,
and I think that's a really great way
to sort of compromise it.
Like you're not getting a huge bezel up here,
and also, boom, awesome.
Over looking at it, they have so much cooling here.
So look, just all of like the back half of this,
all along here, and then same on the other side,
there is just so much heat sink
wrapping all the way around this.
Now normally I would be concerned
when laptop makers do something like this
that you can't have easy access to the IO
'cause like it's out here, it gets in the way,
but they have it on the back, and it is really nice
when you have these little lights back here
which lets you know what you want.
So let's just turn it on and I'll show you that.
That is so nice when you like need to fumble around
and figure out where these are, that little bit of light.
Love it, Lenovo.
How heavy is this thing?
Well, I know it's 4.4 pounds, but let's just check.
4.7, 4.8 pounds, what's that in real units?
2.1 kilograms.
So that is a bit heavier than they quoted,
but at the same time,
that is still very light for a machine like this
and particularly one that is this well built.
Can you see any flex?
Nothing, yeah, this is really well built.
What's up with Windows and the manatees?
This is not the first time,
but we have like a whole spread here.
Facts about sea cows, explore their hidden world.
Wow that is distracting.
Okay, but before we go to notepad,
I need to adjust this RGB 'cause that is ridiculous.
Yeah, threes.
All right, function space bar allows you to change the RGB
to something that's not completely obnoxious.
I want to test out the keyboard because, like you know,
having a good gaming laptop's all good and stuff,
but if you don't have the basics down,
it doesn't really matter.
This has 1.5 millimeters of travel,
and let's have a little test
Keyboard is great.
I would give it an A, maybe an A plus.
It doesn't have the most tactile or like forceful actuation,
but at the same time, there's loads of travel,
the keys are well stabilized, and also,
since it doesn't have quite as much actuation force,
it's really nice for gaming
because like if you're holding shift or control or whatever
for a long amount of time, W, it can get kind of fatiguing
if you have like really heavy switches.
These are just very simple, nice, little, soft boys.
As for the track pad, they didn't quite maximize
the space that it takes up here,
but at the same time it looks like it's glass topped
and the tracking overall is good.
It is pretty great honestly
that Windows devices have good track pads these days,
kind of just across the board.
I haven't felt an awful one in a while,
which is really saying something
when you review as many gaming laptops as I do
and all of them are generally pretty good.
What do we think?
This right here gets like an A minus?
Needs a little bit more to get all the way there.
I like a big one.
Oh well, whatever points they don't get
for having a smaller track pad,
they do get back for having a much larger keyboard.
So over on the right here, we have a full numb-key set,
which I personally, take it or leave it,
don't really care, but I know a lot of people
just absolutely died to have a numb pad,
like just freak here if you're an accountant,
or I don't know, putting stuff
into Excel spreadsheets all the time from your laptop.
Engineers in SolidWorks love having one of these.
Overall, just a good thing to have.
For display, the one that we have right here
is the optional 3,200 by 2,000 panel.
So that's a little bit higher resolution at 165 hertz,
but I don't think this is the one that you should get.
They also have a 240 hertz model that goes up to 500 nets.
This one right here is only 430, so I don't know,
just get the one that's slightly lower resolution
but still enough resolution
that is a higher refresh rate and brighter probably.
That said, if you're a video editor or a photo editor,
you might want this higher resolution one,
and 165 hertz is not a refresh rate
that I'm about to complain about.
I also really appreciate
that they've gone with a matte display on this.
It's something that's kind of come and gone in popularity,
and I really like that matte displays
are having a comeback right now.
Especially on gaming devices,
like you don't want the, I don't know,
your RGB lights that are behind your streaming setup
to be flickering off of your display.
You want just the nice matte.
165 hertz, love it.
All right, I was a little bit concerned
that we wouldn't be able to get this quite working
at this really high resolution, and I think I was correct,
but we're gonna click the GPU overdrive
and the overdrive GPU working mode, DGPU mode.
Hell yeah, save.
Just doing a quick restart to ensure that the GPU
is connected directly to the panel.
Now you can do it kind of either way.
You can either have the GPU connected directly to the panel
or it can go through the integrated graphics to the panel
and you lose about 10% of your performance.
We're just gonna lock it down,
make sure that it's always doing it correctly.
Maybe we'll get better performance, we'll see.
Alright, we got over 10 FPS by doing the GPU
and increasing the GPU power,
which makes sense and is awesome.
Alright Paul, did Paul die? Did someone kill Paul?
Someone killed Paul!
So where's my dev commands?
Aha, super Paul!
Alright, we've now successfully cheated our way
to having good gear.
Ha ha, goodbye.
Paul's now OP.
Of course this being a 4070,
there is a massive breadth of how fast a 4070 can be,
and this right here lands somewhere in the middle.
This right here has 125 watt TGP
and a total of 140 watts available to everything.
So you might be thinking
there's not a whole lot of power left over for the CPU
once you, you know, use a 125 of that for the GPU,
but Lenovo has a way around that.
What we've gotten here is Lenovo AI Engine Plus,
and what that is doing is it is looking
at how you are using your computer
and how different programs
are using your computer's resources
and optimizing your computer for that.
So like some games will absolutely love
drawing a whole bunch of CPU power, and on other laptops,
if you have your like turbo ultra mode
where your GPU gets all of the power,
it will actually go slower
because your CPU is being sacrificed.
This right here is going to, over time,
learn how your games like to behave and slowly,
in theory at least, make them faster.
Now like I said before, there is a 240 hertz panel option,
and I'm just gonna knock it down to that resolution
and see what we get.
So now at 1600p, we're looking at 110, 115 FPS.
This is, oh, there we go.
So yeah, this hardware that we have in here,
even though it does seem like it is quite capable,
is much better suited for the 1600p
as opposed to the 2000.
For the gaming there I did have overdrive on,
which is, you know, it's the fans give it mode,
but they still were not too bad.
Like it was really going full bore there,
and even though the fans were kind of loud,
like I'm sure you were able to hear them,
they weren't like high pitched whining
or had any like distracting elements to it.
It was more just like a whoosh and like white noise
as opposed to like, (host screeching)
like those really annoying ones.
For the CPU, we get the Intel I9-13900H,
that is six performance cores, eight efficiency cores,
and a max turbo frequency of 5.4 gigahertz
in something like this!
I still can't believe how fast laptops have gotten recently,
particularly in the CPU space.
For the ram we get 32 gigabytes of DDR five
at 5,200 mega transfers per second.
Now Lenovo does have some slightly faster ones.
I think some of their Legion line goes up to 6,000,
but it's kind of like going
from the fastest that everyone else has
to the absolute fastest.
For the SSD, it's a Samsung one terabyte, excellent.
Wifi 6E, yep, they got it.
And of course like I said, the RTX 4070
with 125 watts dedicated to it, well, available to it.
It's not always going to get that.
And one thing to note
is that the laptop version of the 4070 is, first of all,
not actually a 4070, but also we only get
eight gigabytes of ram, which is sort of enough,
but we are starting to see in some games
that not quite cutting it.
If you are concerned about having the best graphics
and the most modern of titles,
maybe look at one of their thicker boys than this one.
Sounds good so far.
All right, all right.
That's nice and loud.
It has a nice enveloping sound as they say,
but does it have the bass?
("Crab Rave" playing)
That's respectable, that's pretty darn good.
I'm curious.
Oh, oho!
Yeah, okay.
So what I just discovered there
is that they have these down-firing
little tweeter chummies in here.
You can see it right there,
and you actually get quite a bit more clarity and high end
when you have it on a table
so it can bounce that sound off of here,
and just kind of makes the whole thing sound larger
and generally more better, excellent job.
While we're here, let's just have another little look
at the display from, you know,
a content consumption point of view.
This supports Dolby Vision and HDR 400,
and it looks pretty darn good.
Like you're not getting OLED levels of darkness there,
but you're also not getting OLED levels of battery drain,
most likely.
Lenovo says will get you up to 12 hours of battery life,
which I think is pretty optimistic
given the amount of power that this thing has.
But at the same time,
if you treat it really really nicely,
you might be able to get that.
Also Intel Thread Director.
It allows it to, you know, balance the tasks
between all of the different programs
and stuff that we have open.
And as you saw, we were able to screen record
and play video games at the same time.
It had no trouble.
You have 20 threads, it's pretty darn good at multitasking.
And also we have a webcam which has Tobi Horizon support.
What the hell is that?
Okay, Tobi Horizon is like a type of head tracking,
and even though I don't quite know the usefulness,
they did show a Euro Truck Simulator version
that looks pretty sick.
Honestly, if that's a game that you like,
maybe this will be a great feature for you.
Also, this webcam,
it is doing a pretty good job of exposing for my face.
Actually it had some trouble at first,
but it figured it out.
This is an incredibly challenging situation,
'cause we have like a light there and a light there,
and you even still get some detail
in like this black sound isolation stuff.
Let's see, also, we're on the crappy set
for short circuit today,
so there's just warehouse there, empty warehouse over there.
If you're wondering why the sound sucks.
- [Assistant] It's temporary. - It's temporary.
But like I moved it all around there,
and it still is exposing for my face,
which is the most important thing in a webcam.
A little bit on the grainy side, but it's a webcam.
You can only ask so much.
Let's just verify that the disabler switch works.
Goodbye, cool, it does.
Oh wow, I was not expecting to see heat pipes in here,
but this one right here is a chungus.
Yeah, we don't need that.
So it said in task manager that we had two sodium slots,
but I only see one.
Now the RAM is confusing.
So some of them will have eight gigabytes on board,
others will have 16, but all of them only have one RAM slot.
So that means that it might be very easy for you
to upgrade to 32 gigabytes,
or you might be only upgrading to 24,
but either way, you can upgrade the RAM!
That's pretty great in 2023.
Also what you can upgrade is the SSD.
So we have one right over here,
and if you want a second, boom, goes right in there.
Great job guys.
Also big 'ole battery, 99.9 watt hours,
the largest that you can take on a plane, which, excellent.
It's, you know, I still have no clue
how good the battery life is on this thing,
but it's as good as it can be.
More heat pipes, ah.
For cooling, we get Lenovo's Cold Front 5.0,
which basically means heat pipes, fins, they cool it good.
As you can see they have done quite a good job.
So we have fins here, fins back there,
big 'ole heat pipe, like this is a fat boy right there.
And then a couple smaller ones which still like,
what's that, like a 15 millimeter heat pipe,
something stupid like that?
Absolutely massive.
The fans, they have a fancy liquid crystal polymer system.
That's a really fancy way of saying
that they put glass into the plastic,
which does actually make it more rigid and is good.
Now, of course this being a sponsored video,
I cannot give you a recommendation,
but I couldn't anyway because I don't know the price yet.
That said though, I can almost certainly guarantee you
that this thing is not cheap.
It is well built and fast,
which in these days means it is going to be expensive.
If you want something that's a little bit less,
the Lenovo Legion Slim 5I is already out,
and that one comes in at $2120, which yeah.
Huge thanks to Lenovo and Intel for sponsoring this video.
You can check out the 7I down below, and I don't know,
just go get yourself a little treat.
You deserve it, have a great day.