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- In today's video sponsored by Lenovo Legion and Microsoft.

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We'll be witnessing a truly historic event.

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That's right ladies and gentlemen. It seems like someone somewhere out there

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is actually listening to me because this thing has it all.

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This is the Legion 5 Pro and it takes the latest

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that both AMD and NVIDIA have to offer.

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Pairs it with outstanding cooling And.

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Get this, as a 16:10,

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16-inch, 165 Hertz display.

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That ticks basically every box except for outstanding color accuracy.

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Oh wait. They added that as well. So let's take a look at this thing.

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Oh my God. Why did 16:10 ever go away?

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Like, it is so much bigger.

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How big is this donger? No!

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It's 2560 x 1600?

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I asked for this for so long. I didn't even ask.

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I didn't even think anyone would do it. I don't think I ever asked for 2560 x 1600.

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So a 16:10 aspect ratio. I was like, come on 2560 x 1440.

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This is even better. This is the perfect resolution for a display of this size.

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Because if you go 4k, you're basically pushing extra pixels to your GPU

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making it work harder for no apparent reason giving you worst performance than you would otherwise have.

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And in some cases, worse battery life because the tighter your pixel matrix

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the harder the backlight has to work and 1080p?

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It's just, it's not enough. So I thought this was gonna be 1920 x 1200.

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2560 x 1600. Man.

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And of course like most modern gaming laptops

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you're looking at that gorgeous IPS goodness which means that your viewing angles are freakin' awesome.

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All right, all right. But let's step back a second here and have a look at the IO. So over on the left

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we've got a headphone Jack, USB Type-C.

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Something to bear in mind guys, is because this is an AMD based machine

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you do get the finest mobile CPU performance

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on the market with up to eight cores. This one right here has a Ryzen 7 5800H 8-core.

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But, that means no Thunderbolt. So that is a regular USB Type-C.

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We've got a large vent over here. then on the back, more large vents, more USB.

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So these are USB Type-A and Type-C. Ethernet, HDMI

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and finally over on the right, we've got another USB Type-A.

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And. Look at that! Got a nice little physical webcam switch.

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Not everyone is into the whole webcam pointed at you all the time

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while you're using your computer. And this is a really, really nice way to integrate it.

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Just being able to turn that off on a physical level with a button on the side

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I'm really glad that they do include a web cam. Some of Lenovo Legion's competitors

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have just outright stopped including webcams on their gaming laptops.

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Which to me is just like, come on!

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Sometimes even gamers need to have a quick meeting or I mean, maybe they need to stream.

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They forget their webcam. It's nice to have it there. On the lid we've got our nice eliminated Legion logo.

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On the bottom we've got still more venting. You know what?

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Actually, let's talk about the cooling system before we go any further.

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We've got user replaceable modules for both memory slots,

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Two M.2 slots, as well as your Wi-Fi. So that's about as user upgradable as it gets

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for a laptop these days. We've got a 78 watt-hour battery.

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And this is freakin' sick.

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Look at the size of this heat pipe,

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ladies and gentlemen. So this is Lenovo Legions, Coldfront 3.0 cooling system.

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It uses a combination of big fat radiators.

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Software, to basically make sure that the fan curve is always optimal.

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And what they call their Lenovo Legion AI Engine which is basically a way

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of taking the available power coming into the machine and divvying it up according to what kind of workload

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you are running. So for example, if you're running a game that's not very graphically intensive

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like Counter-Strike Global Offensive. It might say, okay we need to give more juice to the CPU

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to pump up those frame rates and a little less to the GPU.

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And then vice versa if you were playing something like Cyberpunk 2077 for whatever reason.

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This combination of software, beefy cooling and fan design

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allows Lenovo to run for, they say 12 hours consecutively

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without any thermal throttling. And we actually did check that

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on one of their previous models and it was honestly really impressive.

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What I haven't tried yet is the keyboard. (keyboard clacking)

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It's not too loud but good travel distance,

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feels pretty tactile. Yeah. Not bad. Not bad actually.

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Feels really good. Got a number pad if you're into that sort of thing.

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Of course, that does mean that your track pad is going to be a little bit offset

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but it's got a nice big track pad and tracks really nicely.

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I mean, anything feels so much better when you have that high refresh rate display.

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Just the whole system feels so much more responsive.

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Of course the keyboard is RGB up the wazoo.

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And actually could I get a mouse? I'll play some games.

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Disarm Bomb. All right, we're go until I get a kill.

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Okay. - [Jono] Should we do a body swap with David? - We could be here a while.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm flash banged run.

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Oh no I lost already. Can't blame the computer though.

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I'm running anywhere from 220-260 frames per second here.

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It defaulted me to ultra but it actually put me down at 1920 x 1200.

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So we're going to crank it to 2560 x 1600

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and see how our RTX 3070 handles it.

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We're still getting 160, 170 frames per second.

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I wouldn't mind a little more than that for our competitive game,

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but no complaints either. Wait, what the? Who's shooting me?

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(laughs) - [Jono] You got like five kills though,

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against easy bots? - Easy bots. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now it's time to fire up Forza Horizon 4

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which is of course a Microsoft Xbox game pass game.

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So if you're into playing lots of different games and you don't necessarily have

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that kind of relationship commitment level

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that some people do. Game Pass is a fantastic way

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to have access to a ton of great games for what is a shockingly reasonable subscription fee.

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Optimizing for your PC, please wait. Your Windows 10 PC.

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This is sponsored by Microsoft. So I am obligated to remind you that Windows

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is the place to go when it comes to gaming on PC.

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I think you guys all know that but if you don't, now you do.

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All right I turned off Dynamic Optimization so we can really get a good idea of what FPS

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the game is running at. Vsync off, Motion Blur off. Other than that we're cranked to ultra

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and running it native res. Oh no. My license plate is Titanic.

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That's unfortunate. Man this is such a pretty game

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and we're still running it over a hundred FPS.

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And this is without dynamic quality turned on and stuff. So this is like pinned to ultra.

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- [Jono] Does the gold controller makes you a lot better? - No, absolutely not.

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If anything, it's more difficult to use. It's really stupid.

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Where's speakers on this puppy? Whoops.

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Yeah. It's well-balanced sound. This is a really good game for checking out a computer sound

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'cause it just sounds so good. Obviously there's not a ton of rumble,

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not a ton of bass, but it's a laptop. You gotta be realistic.

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I gotta say this is quite a package that Lenovo Legion has put together here

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whether you're a professional gamer or you're more into video editing where you will really appreciate that extra verticals

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You know, all your different layers on your timeline

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and stuff like that. This thing is the complete freakin' package.

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So thanks again to Lenovo Legion and Microsoft for sponsoring this video.

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The bottom line is, if you haven't caught anything else

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is that this laptop, the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro

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comes down to precision craftsmanship and great performance

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at a sort of medium to premium tier price.

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And if you guys want to learn more you can check it out at the link in the video description.

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Don't forget to subscribe to ShortCircuit for more videos like this one.

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I can't promise we'll bring out the gold controller every time. 'Cause I really do want someone to just buy it from me.

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But, we'll have lots of other good stuff.