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