1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,440 If you guys have seen my laptop unboxings in the past, you know I compare it to my Lenovo Thinkbook. 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,840 Well, Lenovo must have seen that because they sponsored this video 3 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:12,560 for me to check out their Lenovo Legion 7 AMD. 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:17,400 And maybe it's good enough that I can finally retire my daily driver, 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,320 or we gotta open it up first and take a look. Out of the two chips that you can get in this laptop, 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:26,320 this is the higher end one, which is the AMD AI9. 7 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:32,400 At a stroke. The AMD Ryzen AI9 HX470, 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,440 a 12-core 24 thread processor 9 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,560 that can boost up to 5.2 gigahertz. 10 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,560 And I think the white version looks a lot better than my silver. 11 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,480 Look, is it gonna get my fingerprints all over it? Actually, that's not bad. 12 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:49,560 I got pretty greasy fingers too. Well, okay, we'll look at the rest of this in a second. 13 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,440 Let's see what else is in the box. Some cardboard. 14 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:58,320 And our power cable, which uses Lenovo's rectangular plug here, 15 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,760 because this can actually deliver, where's the wattage? 16 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,360 A 245 watt charge to this bad boy, 17 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:11,320 which is higher than USB-C can do. Saying that this laptop can still charge over USB-C, 18 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:14,560 which is nice. So you don't need to lug around the power brick, 19 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,720 unless I guess you're gonna be doing some physical demanding tasks on it, 20 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,120 but we'll see when we get there. Let's go through the IO here. 21 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,360 On this side, we have a full-size SD card reader, 22 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,640 our camera switch for our electronic shutter there. It's not a physical one like you would see 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,440 on the camera housing. This is, is this, oh, that's USB. 24 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:37,040 I thought that was the power cable for a second, boop. Around back, we have a full-size HDMI, 25 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,040 and there's the power cord, which I like rear IO on laptops, 26 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,640 especially if you're gonna be using this at your desk all the time. You can have it plugged in, 27 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,380 all the IO at the back that you would need. I do wish they maybe moved one of these USB-C ports 28 00:01:49,380 --> 00:01:52,840 over to the side, because on the left, we have two of our USB-C ports, 29 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:58,520 another USB-A and a headphone audio jack. It's not the most IO I've seen on a laptop, 30 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:03,780 but they definitely could have cut corners, so I appreciate having two USB-As and two USB-Cs. 31 00:02:03,780 --> 00:02:08,320 And these USB ports are actually USB-4, which means you can get 40 gigabit a second on them, 32 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,920 and the rear one here is the 140-watt charging. 33 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:15,000 They both can do charging. You just can't do them both at the same time. 34 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,600 And the HDMI I actually skipped over is a HDMI 2.1, 35 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:23,400 which means 8K display, because you're totally gonna be doing that on this laptop, 36 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,000 obviously not. But hey, it's an option for you. 37 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,160 The one person who has an 8K display. I wanna open this up. 38 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,600 I guess while it's booting up, I can go over the rest of the specs that are in this device. 39 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,280 In our laptop here, we have 32 gigabytes of LPDDR5X memory 40 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:46,040 at 8,533 mega transfers a second. It's able to hit that speed because it is soldered memory, 41 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:50,200 so you will not be upgrading it yourself after, but if you want, 42 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:54,440 you can upgrade the kit when you purchase it to 64 gigabytes, 43 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,320 which in a laptop, I always think that 64 seems overkill, 44 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:02,240 unless maybe this is your primary station, and getting into that later, 45 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:08,960 you will be able to do some productivity work because this display is really good. 46 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,960 I mean, I don't think it's very good on the glare side of things, you can see, 47 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:17,000 but I'm also shining it directly out of light, so that's probably not the best showing for it. 48 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,960 But at an initial glance, just when I power it on here and I see it, 49 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,720 oh, I like it. Look at that pretty wallpaper. And continuing on the specs, sorry, 50 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,960 it's got a one terabyte Gen4 SSD in here. 51 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:32,200 That is something you can upgrade. There are two SSD slots in this device. 52 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,160 They say it can go up to Gen5, but they only ship it with a Gen4, 53 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,880 so maybe that's an upgrade after the fact for you. And as for the GPU that's in here, 54 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,040 it is the RTX 5060. It draws 115 watts, 55 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:48,000 which our Labs was able to verify, and right away, like I said, man, 56 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,880 I like the colors on this. It is an OLED display. It's not a touch display, which for me is a downer. 57 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,760 I like to have a touchscreen on a laptop. I find it really nice when I'm on set or something, 58 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:04,440 I just need to quickly scroll or find some information. Little bit of a downgrade, but it is 240 Hertz, 59 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:08,680 which maybe if I'm gaming at work, that could be pretty nice, I guess, that's pretty good. 60 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:13,240 It's also a 16 by 10 display instead of a 16 by nine display, 61 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,720 which gives a little bit more vertical room. Again, for someone like me who has a lot of scripts on it, 62 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,040 I think that that's great. I think 16 by 10 is a better aspect ratio, 63 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,240 and we should all just adopt it, even for desktops personally. 64 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:29,000 We're gonna get right into a typing test here, which what I do the most on my laptop, 65 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,640 I don't really game that much, so. 66 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:39,000 Gotta do the side by side. Actually, it's on par with my current daily driver, 67 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,920 and I love this laptop's keyboard. So if I love this keyboard then, 68 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:47,600 it actually feels really, really good to type on. I think the only thing is maybe it's a little quieter, 69 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,760 but I can't tell if that's just because I've abused this keyboard pretty aggressively. 70 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:55,540 I like it though. Trackpad on the other hand, when I first gave it a click, 71 00:04:55,540 --> 00:04:58,640 I don't think I'm as big of a fan as my current one. 72 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:03,000 It feels a little bit too mushy for me. Saying that gliding over the trackpad feels really nice. 73 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,160 It's just the click that feels a little off to me. One thing that would worry me though, 74 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,640 is because this is an ultra thin and ultra light, how much does it flex? 75 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:13,380 Oh wow, let's see if I can get it on camera here. 76 00:05:14,380 --> 00:05:21,380 I'm going pretty aggressive. And because I walk around with my laptop like this 77 00:05:21,380 --> 00:05:25,300 all the time, that would be the only thing I scare is the screen falling. 78 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:30,020 The actual chassis itself feels pretty good. And even the screen, I mean it's got flexed 79 00:05:30,020 --> 00:05:34,580 because it's a screen, obviously it's so much thinner, but I feel like I just need to keep making comparisons. 80 00:05:34,580 --> 00:05:38,700 I should stop putting this laptop on the floor. I mean this laptop has more bend. 81 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:44,020 I can feel it for sure. Screen's about the same, but my screen is also thicker. 82 00:05:44,020 --> 00:05:49,060 So do with that information what you will. But let's watch a YouTube video. 83 00:05:49,060 --> 00:05:52,300 70% volume, it's already like deafening, 84 00:05:52,300 --> 00:05:56,020 but we got to crank it. 100% for the drop baby. 85 00:05:56,020 --> 00:05:59,740 Here we go, here's crab rave. Holy cow. 86 00:06:04,140 --> 00:06:09,340 Wow, you would be the annoying kid in college with this. That is a loud, loud speaker. 87 00:06:09,380 --> 00:06:14,220 For how loud they are, I was expecting them to sound a lot worse. 88 00:06:14,220 --> 00:06:17,660 And these are down-firing speakers, as you can see right here. 89 00:06:17,660 --> 00:06:22,540 And they're firing into this soft mouse pad here, so I'm not even getting probably the best reflections 90 00:06:22,540 --> 00:06:26,220 out of it, but man. Now that I'm listening again, 91 00:06:26,220 --> 00:06:31,940 there's a tiny bit of crackling, but I guarantee you if I went down like 20%, 92 00:06:33,580 --> 00:06:38,460 much better immediately. So you could still annoy your college friends with this. 93 00:06:38,460 --> 00:06:42,700 That's good to know. We removed the mouse pad now, and I want to see if it sounds even better. 94 00:06:42,700 --> 00:06:48,980 We're still at 80%. They're pretty good speakers, man. 95 00:06:48,980 --> 00:06:53,100 Now that we're done our audio test, I want to look at the display here. This is our Arri footage 96 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:56,500 that you can find on our ShortCircuit channel. It's a very pretty display. 97 00:06:56,500 --> 00:07:01,260 Am I at max brightness too? Where am I? I am at max brightness. Okay, let's crank this down, see how dim it gets. 98 00:07:01,260 --> 00:07:05,300 Wow, it gets quite dim. It can't even pick it up on her camera anymore. 99 00:07:05,300 --> 00:07:09,420 Why are there so many fingerprints on the screen? They've got pretty greasy fingers too. 100 00:07:09,420 --> 00:07:13,420 Greasy fingers, oh, oh, oh. 101 00:07:13,420 --> 00:07:18,300 When our Labs did the testing on the screen, they also were pretty impressed with the results. 102 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:21,620 In SDR, it's decent in the color accuracy field, 103 00:07:21,620 --> 00:07:24,900 and it was able to hold its 500 nits claim brightness, 104 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:27,940 but in HDR is where this thing really does stand out. 105 00:07:27,940 --> 00:07:31,020 By their definition, an amazing HDR experience 106 00:07:31,020 --> 00:07:36,940 or close to the artist's intent, it's able to hit the 1,100 nits that they claim 107 00:07:36,980 --> 00:07:41,940 in a 50% window, which I guess if you're using it for outdoor use is incredibly bright, 108 00:07:41,940 --> 00:07:44,980 or if you are in a properly light-controlled environment, 109 00:07:44,980 --> 00:07:49,780 you would probably be able to get some professional video editing done on this. 110 00:07:49,780 --> 00:07:55,340 Maybe not quite like a mastering display, but it is an unbelievably good display in HDR. 111 00:07:55,340 --> 00:08:00,820 Should we get into some gaming? Hell yeah. 1% lows hitting about 47 or so, 112 00:08:00,820 --> 00:08:05,220 and it did take a while for the fans to ramp up, which is nice, so maybe if you're playing 113 00:08:05,220 --> 00:08:08,460 like a lighter indie game, the fans wouldn't get as loud, 114 00:08:08,460 --> 00:08:12,860 but now that I've been driving around a little bit, I can tell the fans needed to pick up, 115 00:08:12,860 --> 00:08:17,660 saying that it's still quieter than a lot of other gaming laptops I've used. 116 00:08:17,660 --> 00:08:22,660 I wouldn't necessarily define it as quiet though. 117 00:08:22,980 --> 00:08:27,820 Oh, got in a car crash. But I think that the fans are quiet enough that if you had a pair of headphones on, 118 00:08:27,820 --> 00:08:32,460 they wouldn't bother you at all. And while I was just browsing and watching YouTube videos, 119 00:08:32,460 --> 00:08:36,660 it was dead silent, which again, like I said, some other laptops I've looked at 120 00:08:36,660 --> 00:08:41,860 would ramp up when loading a YouTube video. So in terms of the noise, seems on par 121 00:08:41,860 --> 00:08:45,460 or better than what I would expect. A good thing about having a big chunky power brick, 122 00:08:45,460 --> 00:08:50,860 like I mentioned earlier, the 245 watt one, is that this laptop draws about 125 watts, 123 00:08:50,860 --> 00:08:54,580 meaning if you're using that, you know you're gonna stay fully charged the entire time. 124 00:08:54,580 --> 00:08:58,220 If you were plugged in with a USB-C to that 100 watt charging port, 125 00:08:58,220 --> 00:09:02,700 you would slowly drain battery over time. One thing our Labs did note when they were testing 126 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:07,820 was depending on the turbo frequency and everything, it was able to draw 160 watts total, 127 00:09:07,820 --> 00:09:13,220 which would even mean that that top USB-C port, which does 140, wouldn't be good enough either. 128 00:09:13,220 --> 00:09:17,820 So I prefer USB-C charging devices. So at least I can charge it idly, you know, 129 00:09:17,820 --> 00:09:20,980 when it's on my desk, but if I'm gaming, you need to bring the power brick. 130 00:09:20,980 --> 00:09:24,220 Since I was just mentioning Labs, we might as well go over their gaming results. 131 00:09:24,220 --> 00:09:28,780 And across our three games in a couple of different resolutions, it did pretty well. 132 00:09:28,780 --> 00:09:31,900 I always consider 60 FPS average or 1% lows, 133 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:34,900 kind of the bare minimum for a portable device. 134 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:40,900 And the only thing that really stressed tested was Total Warhammer 3 when we did our 1600 P benchmark. 135 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:45,060 Our 1% lows dropped to 45 and the average dropped below 60. 136 00:09:45,060 --> 00:09:49,460 The last thing I wanna take a look at before I open the laptop is the camera. 137 00:09:49,460 --> 00:09:54,540 I do a lot of video calls on my laptop, so this is very important to me. 138 00:09:54,540 --> 00:09:57,660 We'll do a quick recording here. So that way you can hear how the audio sounds 139 00:09:57,660 --> 00:10:02,860 on this microphone, but this is how the camera looks as well. I'm gonna try the electronic shutter here. 140 00:10:02,860 --> 00:10:05,940 I think it worked. It was immediate. There it is, and I'm back. 141 00:10:05,940 --> 00:10:09,140 But now it's time to dissect this bad boy. 142 00:10:09,140 --> 00:10:12,940 All the screws are accessible, so that's nice. At least what I can see right now, 143 00:10:12,940 --> 00:10:17,500 it doesn't look like I have to peel back any feet. Finally got the back off here. 144 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:21,500 And man, this looks kind of like a picture perfect tear down 145 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:26,020 skin for D brand or something. It's very pretty. But you can see here are our two SSDs. 146 00:10:26,020 --> 00:10:29,020 R came with two. Yours will come with one if you buy one. 147 00:10:29,020 --> 00:10:32,260 I don't know why they shipped us two, but this is an engineering sample device. 148 00:10:32,260 --> 00:10:35,780 So maybe something's gonna be slightly different in yours. 149 00:10:35,780 --> 00:10:39,700 I hope not because this looks fantastic. I love the looks of this. 150 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:42,780 I was, okay, what is, is this, hold on. 151 00:10:42,780 --> 00:10:50,140 Oh, I think this is an adapter so that you can either do a 2280 SSD or a 2242, 152 00:10:50,140 --> 00:10:53,820 and it comes with the 2242. That's why it looks so strange. 153 00:10:53,820 --> 00:10:57,580 I was like, what the heck is this thing? But hey, that's kind of a nice little adapter then. 154 00:10:57,580 --> 00:11:02,460 And then this one is only a 2242. You won't be putting a full size SSD in this one. 155 00:11:02,460 --> 00:11:05,700 Right here is our Wi-Fi seven and our Bluetooth card. 156 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:10,180 Down here are our speakers. Our battery here is an 84 watt hour battery, 157 00:11:10,180 --> 00:11:13,300 which they claim can get you up to 12 hours of battery life. 158 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:18,300 Our Labs testing only got six. And we're not 100% sure why. 159 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:21,820 We did kind of think it was maybe because this is an engineering sample. 160 00:11:21,820 --> 00:11:26,780 And it could be because either they have perfected their test conditions to get 12 hours 161 00:11:26,780 --> 00:11:30,580 or in our case, our BIOS maybe didn't get the latest revision. 162 00:11:30,580 --> 00:11:35,220 We're not 100% sure. They claim 12 hours though. One thing you, again, might not have noticed, 163 00:11:35,220 --> 00:11:39,300 which I mentioned earlier, is no upgradable RAM. And that's again, because it's kind of soldered 164 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:43,380 directly to the board with the CPU, that AI9-HX470. 165 00:11:43,380 --> 00:11:48,780 And it has its NPU built in. So that way, if you do decide to do any local AI workloads, 166 00:11:48,780 --> 00:11:54,200 it'll kind of help offload that to the NPU. So that way, hopefully it'll help your battery performance 167 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:58,440 or you can save your CPU cores for any other demanding tasks that you may be working on. 168 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:02,520 Which that NPU is the AMD XDNA2 NPU. 169 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:07,080 And it delivers up to 55 trillion operations per second. 170 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,080 Or as I've taken to call it, ops per second. We've all got ops out there. 171 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:12,960 AMD has 55 trillion. 172 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:20,000 Hey, that joke's funny, okay? So whether it's for multitasking, fast image generation, 173 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,600 or any sort of other local thing like voice translation, 174 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:28,560 it should be very efficient in that. Efficient, just like I'm efficient with this ShortCircuit. 175 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:32,720 Done, boom, it's over. Thanks Lenovo, thanks AMD for sponsoring it. 176 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,840 If you guys are interested in getting your own device or at least just checking them out, 177 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,080 make sure you use our links in the video description. And you know what? 178 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:43,240 I hope you have a good day. You know, everyone needs a good day now and then.