WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.400 I didn't think we were getting one of these. Here it is, guys. 00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:10.720 The leg. Sorry, no. The leg. I mean, wait. Legion Go. That's right, guys. 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 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. 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:35.920 7,500 megatransfer per second. And of course, the big gimmick is... 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. 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:48.480 True strike controllers, which, like the Nintendo Switch, can be removed from the device 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. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:03.040 Scratch that. It's a lot closer to the Switch than the weave. The point is, 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:06.880 you can flip out the kicks down to a little something like that and boom! 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:10.720 You've got a portable gaming system that you can use any way you want to. 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. 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. 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:24.000 Can't say it's my favorite disc mechanism. A little bit of wobble, but 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? 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 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:38.080 even finished looking at it physically yet. At the top, we've got two stereo speakers, 00:01:38.080 --> 00:01:43.360 volume adjustment, a USB 4 port, which people have apparently already been hooking up 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:51.120 Thunderbolt eGPUs to, a micro SD slot that apparently doesn't have any overheating issues 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. 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 00:02:02.160 --> 00:02:07.840 turn up the heat on your foes and guarantee smooth, uninterrupted gameplay. 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:11.840 Well said. Yeah, your mileage may vary, but while the trigger feels pretty good to me, 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 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, 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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, 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:03.120 touchpad has got to be better. Hopefully this is something they can fix in software. 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. 00:06:11.280 --> 00:06:13.200 Realize I never did the accessories here. 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 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 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 00:06:33.200 --> 00:06:42.000 charge. No, no, that's Qualcomm. Rapid charge technology. Oh, sorry. Excuse me. Super rapid 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. 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:56.320 I got it. Are you proud yet, mom? Oh, no. 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, 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:16.240 super high resolution, pretty accurate colors overall, and about 99.8% coverage of the sRGB 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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. 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. 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:13.760 One thing that's missing though is support for variable refresh rate. So you will neither 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 00:08:19.200 --> 00:08:24.800 life from refreshing the display less often. However, given the 50 watt hour battery that 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. 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 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:44.000 resolution, 50% brightness, 60 Hertz, playing back a YouTube video. But in our stress test, 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 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 00:08:55.360 --> 00:09:02.640 drive such a gigantic high resolution display. Let's launch Legion Space. There's definitely 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? 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. 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, 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 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 00:10:07.680 --> 00:10:14.400 into trashing on Legion space, but like, how is there not controller-based navigation in here? 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 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 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 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:44.000 Games Planet? I already clicked back. It's just flashing. No, unacceptable. This should go back 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 00:10:53.920 --> 00:10:58.400 what Lenovo was thinking with this, right? Looking at the landscape out there and going, 00:10:58.400 --> 00:11:04.640 you know what? Everyone needs another place to organize all their games. Steam, what's that? 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, 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. 00:11:18.400 --> 00:11:21.120 What'd you expect? I don't know what I expected! 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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. 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:11.600 Are there lighting effects for the joysticks? Yeah, you should leave those off to conserve 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 00:12:17.680 --> 00:12:22.400 that Thermals reached very reasonable levels, actually a little bit better than the Ally. 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 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, 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:42.480 but not bad. Not bad at all, especially with a little bit of, 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:50.320 a little bit upscaling. To be clear, you'll notice some aliasing from time to time, 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:54.400 but it's absolutely very usable. Oh, are the speakers? 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 00:13:06.800 --> 00:13:13.600 soundstage. These are not those speakers. I would strongly recommend using Bluetooth speakers or 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 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 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. 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 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 00:13:51.120 --> 00:14:03.200 to be. Okay, yeah. Okay, M1, M2. Got the trigger. Got the bottom trigger. 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 00:14:12.560 --> 00:14:16.480 and using it as a mouse. Did you guys have a lot of success with this? 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:22.320 I played a little bit of CS2 with it. The thumbstick does come off the joystick. 00:14:23.760 --> 00:14:27.200 The thumbstick comes off the joystick, like an elite controller kind of thing. 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:32.480 Oh yeah, okay. It doesn't seem like that's super... 00:14:38.160 --> 00:14:41.840 Sorry, who said they're playing Overwatch with this? Dave2D said that? 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? 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 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... 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? 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? 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:13.040 How do you like bullets, tough guy? 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 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, 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 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 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 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 00:15:56.560 --> 00:16:01.520 display and the fact that the controllers are detachable. It comes with some downsides, the 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 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 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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