1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,400 I didn't think we were getting one of these. Here it is, guys. 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:10,720 The leg. Sorry, no. The leg. I mean, wait. Legion Go. That's right, guys. 3 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:20,560 The biggest, baddest handheld on the block is now in my hands with a gigantic 8.8-inch 1600p 4 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:29,840 display. The latest AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, 16 gigs of LPDDR5X memory running at a colossal. 5 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:35,920 7,500 megatransfer per second. And of course, the big gimmick is... 6 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:42,880 Let's see if I can figure out how to get them off. No, that doesn't seem like a very good mechanism. 7 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:48,480 True strike controllers, which, like the Nintendo Switch, can be removed from the device 8 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:54,240 so you can pretend it's 15 years ago and you're wiggling your weave. Oh my god. 9 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:03,040 Scratch that. It's a lot closer to the Switch than the weave. The point is, 10 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:06,880 you can flip out the kicks down to a little something like that and boom! 11 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:10,720 You've got a portable gaming system that you can use any way you want to. 12 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:15,600 On the desk with the controller, handheld, or even with a keyboard and mouse at this size. 13 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:20,400 There's a lot to love here, but let's back it up for a second and put these controllers back on. 14 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,000 Can't say it's my favorite disc mechanism. A little bit of wobble, but 15 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:29,680 not the kind of thing that I think would bother you day to day. Oh, this would bother me day to day. Where's my joy to mouse? 16 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:33,120 Of course, we're not going to let ourselves get too distracted by software when we haven't 17 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:38,080 even finished looking at it physically yet. At the top, we've got two stereo speakers, 18 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:43,360 volume adjustment, a USB 4 port, which people have apparently already been hooking up 19 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:51,120 Thunderbolt eGPUs to, a micro SD slot that apparently doesn't have any overheating issues 20 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:56,320 looking at you, Ally. A three and a half millimeter headphone jack and a super weird power button. 21 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:01,440 We've also got a vent for Lenovo's Legion cold front cooling system, which they claim will 22 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:07,840 turn up the heat on your foes and guarantee smooth, uninterrupted gameplay. 23 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,840 Well said. Yeah, your mileage may vary, but while the trigger feels pretty good to me, 24 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,920 the shoulders kind of hard to reach and that's not the only controversial thing about the inputs 25 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:21,280 on this device. The ABXYs feel pretty darn good and I have no complaints about the joysticks, 26 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:29,120 which are hall effect, super cool, but this D-pad, this D-pad has been getting the business online 27 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:36,640 and deserves it. Why does it sit so flush to the controller? I mean, it's not like they had to be 28 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:42,160 worried about the overall thickness. Look how far the analog stick sticks out. Ooh, I like this though. 29 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:47,440 We've got two additional buttons on the back, a la Steam Deck, which is one more than the 30 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,400 Ally has on each side. And speaking of the Steam Deck, hey, here's a Steam Deck OLED for a quick 31 00:02:52,400 --> 00:03:00,720 size comparison. It's not that much bigger. I mean, it's taller and it's thicker, but the width 32 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:08,960 actually very similar to the Steam Deck. Oh, I figured it out, guys. That's why we don't need 33 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:19,760 join a mouse because of the trackpad. Okay. It's usable. Having it is definitely better than 34 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:25,280 not having it at all. I don't know if I can right click. I can't figure out how the devil 35 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:30,400 to get out of Legion space, which we will talk about later. What is this? Okay. This video is 36 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,320 brought to you by Dbrand. Let's talk about them for a minute and then I'm going to rip this skin 37 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:38,560 off and figure out if this trackpad just doesn't flip and work or not. Now it's time to rip part 38 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:43,840 of their skin off of this device. I have used their skins on touchpads before. I have never had a 39 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,120 problem with it, but you never know. This could be the exception that proves that. Oh my God. 40 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:53,200 One of the cool things about Dbrand skins is that as long as you actually get under them and don't 41 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:59,440 get between the layers of them, they're super easy to de-apply and they don't leave any residue. 42 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:05,040 Oh, no, it did it again. Dang it. It did it without the skin. I think it is kind of a palm 43 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,800 rejection thing because once you're on it, you can see it's moving around just fine, 44 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:14,320 but you lift up and just kind of go to, yeah, it kind of struggles. And I've been told that it's 45 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:22,640 hard to right click on it. Oh, seriously? Where's my double tap to right click it? Hard press? Long 46 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:34,800 press? Oh, really? You got to hold it for a while. Yeah, it vibrates slightly. There we go. That is 47 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:42,320 a long delay. Not a big fan, but I am a big fan of having a second USB port on the bottom of the 48 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:47,200 device. This one is also USB 4 and this can be really nice when you're gaming with power plugged 49 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:51,440 in. So it's not kind of pulling on the top of the device. With that said, I do like having the 50 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:56,480 option to plug it in the top if I'm lying in bed and I don't want to mash my power cord. 51 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:03,360 On the, oh, wow, this is interesting. On the right hand side, they've got, look at all the 52 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:10,320 buttons on this mama-jama. Shoulder trigger, the two I mentioned at the back here, a wheel, 53 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:16,800 and two more flipping buttons over here. Do you notice that the buttons aren't the same on both 54 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:28,160 sides? Wait, what? How did I not even notice this? The back buttons are like this and like this. 55 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:33,920 This must have something to do with FPS mode, which all I know about is there's a stabilization disc 56 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,760 and it's something to do with the right controller. We're going to get to that in a bit. First, let's 57 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:45,360 fire up a game. Hello? Click registries. Click registration is not good. They have so many buttons 58 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:50,160 on there and none of them work for mouse. I get it. You want to have a touchpad so that you don't 59 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:55,360 need to have like a janky joy to mouse thing and then risk that it doesn't accidentally stay in mouse 60 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:59,120 mode when you're in a game and you want it to be operating in joystick mode or whatever, but your 61 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,120 touchpad has got to be better. Hopefully this is something they can fix in software. 62 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:11,280 Yeah, I can throw the box on the floor, but not until I talk about the carry-in case. 63 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:13,200 Realize I never did the accessories here. 64 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:21,840 That's a carry-in case, all right. The stabilization disc. Okay, we are going to get to this. We're 65 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:27,600 going to get to this. Also in the box, power adapter. Lenovo claims this thing will go to 66 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:33,200 70% in just about 30 minutes, which is pretty darn impressive. What do they call it? It's quick 67 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:42,000 charge. No, no, that's Qualcomm. Rapid charge technology. Oh, sorry. Excuse me. Super rapid 68 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:47,840 charge technology. That's a pretty reasonable size for a 65 watt charger. I like. I like. 69 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:56,320 I got it. Are you proud yet, mom? Oh, no. 70 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:09,040 How did I miss that? Oh, that was amazing. Anyway, the point is the screen looks great as advertised, 71 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:16,240 super high resolution, pretty accurate colors overall, and about 99.8% coverage of the sRGB 72 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:21,440 color space. No, it's not going to have the inky blacks of the Steam Deck OLED, but frankly, 73 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:27,200 neither does anything else except the Switch OLED or anything else with an OLED. The good news 74 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:33,600 is that it'll get to over 500 nits and operates it up to 144 Hertz, meaning that in any games that 75 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:38,480 can run at that sort of frame rate, you're going to be getting an incredibly smooth gaming experience 76 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:45,040 on the go. Of course, Rocket League at 1600p is not one of them. Although, can I just say the fact 77 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:50,960 that it runs Rocket League at 1600p smoothly at all is pretty darn impressive? Man, if you told me 78 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:56,400 this was going to happen just, I don't know, a couple years ago, I would tell you not, man, 79 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:02,800 you're crazy. Rocket League will be okay if you turn down the resolution. This is amazing. 80 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:09,360 Like, what are we getting here? This is 50 over frames per second. That's flipping awesome. 81 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:13,760 One thing that's missing though is support for variable refresh rate. So you will neither 82 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:19,200 get the increase in smoothness from using FreeSync, nor will you get any kind of increase in battery 83 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:24,800 life from refreshing the display less often. However, given the 50 watt hour battery that 84 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:29,520 they've baked into this thing, which is more than the ROG Ally, maybe it won't be that big of a concern. 85 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:37,840 Or maybe it will. We managed nearly seven hours in our endurance test, which is running at 800p 86 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:44,000 resolution, 50% brightness, 60 Hertz, playing back a YouTube video. But in our stress test, 87 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:50,160 it managed only an hour and a half. Now, obviously, you don't have to run it with 88 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:55,360 all the bells and whistles on all the time, but this gives you some idea of how hard it is to 89 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:02,640 drive such a gigantic high resolution display. Let's launch Legion Space. There's definitely 90 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:09,440 some handy stuff in here. You can adjust your thermal mode. Is this just, whoa, what just happened? 91 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:16,880 Yes. Okay. Thermal mode is your power profile for the processor. That's a little bit unintuitive. 92 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,320 There's also that like weird thing that was hanging around there. Once you get used to it, 93 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:26,560 I'm sure you'll figure out the navigate. Oh shoot. Navigation in here. Ah, this is important. You can 94 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:31,840 adjust the mode that the display operates in. So 2560 by 1600 is of course the native resolution, 95 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:38,800 but you can run at one quarter of that. So that's half in either dimension. In order to make your 96 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:46,880 games run a little bit faster, we tested a variety of games at 800p and 1600p to show you guys that, 97 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:54,160 yes, you can run some lighter titles at 1600p, but if you want to take advantage of that 144Hz 98 00:09:54,160 --> 00:10:01,840 refresh rate, you're probably going to want to turn it down to 800p, which looks a little bit 99 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:07,680 rougher on a display of this size, but is still very usable. I don't want this video to just turn 100 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:14,400 into trashing on Legion space, but like, how is there not controller-based navigation in here? 101 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:22,880 Oh my God. Okay. I go to the page for Curse of Monkey Island. Wait, is this, what is this? This is 102 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:31,520 just steam? What is Games Planet? Anyway, the point is I go back and it just dumps me at the 103 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:36,880 top of this page again. It doesn't remember where I was called to. Wait, am I even allowed out of 104 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:44,000 Games Planet? I already clicked back. It's just flashing. No, unacceptable. This should go back 105 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:53,920 and this should go back. Ridiculous. Wait, what? Do I go here now? No. Oh, come on! You know, I get 106 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:58,400 what Lenovo was thinking with this, right? Looking at the landscape out there and going, 107 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:04,640 you know what? Everyone needs another place to organize all their games. Steam, what's that? 108 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:10,560 It's like water, but weaker. How the f*** do I actually get back to this? Is this it? Home. Okay, 109 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:15,760 back to home. God, I'm afraid to click on Cloud Game now. It's just the Microsoft website. 110 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,120 What'd you expect? I don't know what I expected! 111 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,600 While we wait for this to launch, let's look at all the ways that you can use the kickstand. Well, 112 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,920 there's handheld mode, which you guys have already seen plenty of. There's kickstand mode, which I 113 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:35,760 kind of showed you guys before, but then what about if you're playing a two-player game and you 114 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:46,400 make your move and then it's your friend's turn? Whoa. Whoa. Yeah, I mean, wow, you wouldn't have to 115 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:54,320 do this. No, no, no. Boom. Oh, cool! There's an RGB LED in the power button that changes color 116 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:59,760 depending on what profile you're in. I'm in custom right now and I can quickly change that if 117 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:06,240 I just press this button. And, oh, dang it! Change my quick settings. Hey, there we go. 118 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,600 Are there lighting effects for the joysticks? Yeah, you should leave those off to conserve 119 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:17,680 battery, but hey, they're there. Oh, hey. Speaking of power mode and full fan speed mode, we found 120 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:22,400 that Thermals reached very reasonable levels, actually a little bit better than the Ally. 121 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:28,720 And while the fan is pretty loud in full speed mode in gaming, actually not too bad, even if it 122 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:37,360 does have a bit of a high-pitched tone to it. Yeah, as expected, 800p, not super sharp at this size, 123 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:42,480 but not bad. Not bad at all, especially with a little bit of, 124 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:50,320 a little bit upscaling. To be clear, you'll notice some aliasing from time to time, 125 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,400 but it's absolutely very usable. Oh, are the speakers? 126 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:06,800 Very top-firing. I've heard top-firing speakers that are not bad actually have a pretty good 127 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:13,600 soundstage. These are not those speakers. I would strongly recommend using Bluetooth speakers or 128 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:19,680 the integrated three and a half millimeter jack. Did I mention the SSD yet? Comes in 512 gigs or 129 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:27,760 one terabyte? Gen 4? I love the big screen. No question. It's big, it's bright, the colors are 130 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:34,880 decent, but it's almost two pounds, guys. Of course. You don't have to hold the whole thing. 131 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:42,800 What about FPS mode? Here's the stabilizer. Oh yeah, magnetic. Okay, cool. All we got to do 132 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:51,120 is flip this little switch. FPS mode. And now let me see if I can figure out which way is supposed 133 00:13:51,120 --> 00:14:03,200 to be. Okay, yeah. Okay, M1, M2. Got the trigger. Got the bottom trigger. 134 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:12,560 It's hard for me to put into words how unintuitive it is to be holding a controller 135 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:16,480 and using it as a mouse. Did you guys have a lot of success with this? 136 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:22,320 I played a little bit of CS2 with it. The thumbstick does come off the joystick. 137 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,200 The thumbstick comes off the joystick, like an elite controller kind of thing. 138 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,480 Oh yeah, okay. It doesn't seem like that's super... 139 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,840 Sorry, who said they're playing Overwatch with this? Dave2D said that? 140 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:48,640 Hey, you know, maybe it's me. It's got to be user error, right? How the hell do I get out of the car? 141 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:54,960 Seriously, it feels like, you know, like it got the mouse and the controller and I just 142 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,480 got no idea what's going on. I don't know what it is. It just feels like it should be... 143 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,360 No, no, I'll get out of the car. I'll get out of the car. I'll get out of the car. How do I break? 144 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:10,880 Oh god, I'm freaking... Okay, I'm gonna find someone to fight. This guy looks tough. Are you tough? 145 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,040 How do you like bullets, tough guy? 146 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:25,600 I think the thing that makes the least sense about this is the fact that there's a six-axis gyroscope 147 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:30,960 in this thing. So if I really wanted to aim better, man, I would just use gyro-assisted aiming, 148 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:38,240 like we showed in that recent video on LTT. That's a very, very good way to improve your 149 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:42,640 accuracy if you're not great with aiming with thumbsticks. That's right, my friends. All this 150 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:49,440 can be yours for just 700 US dollars. In fairness to Lenovo, yeah, that's about the price of an ROG 151 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:56,560 ally and the performance is very similar with some perks like the larger, higher resolution 144 hertz 152 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:01,520 display and the fact that the controllers are detachable. It comes with some downsides, the 153 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:07,440 software being a major obvious one, but the good news is software is something that can be improved 154 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:12,480 as long as Lenovo remains committed to this product line. And if its initial success is anything 155 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:18,720 to go on, I think that there is a at least greater than zero chance of that. 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