WEBVTT 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. 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:08.840 Well, Lenovo must have seen that because they sponsored this video 00:00:08.840 --> 00:00:12.560 for me to check out their Lenovo Legion 7 AMD. 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:17.400 And maybe it's good enough that I can finally retire my daily driver, 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, 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:26.320 this is the higher end one, which is the AMD AI9. 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:32.400 At a stroke. The AMD Ryzen AI9 HX470, 00:00:32.400 --> 00:00:35.440 a 12-core 24 thread processor 00:00:35.440 --> 00:00:38.560 that can boost up to 5.2 gigahertz. 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:42.560 And I think the white version looks a lot better than my silver. 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:46.480 Look, is it gonna get my fingerprints all over it? Actually, that's not bad. 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. 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.440 Let's see what else is in the box. Some cardboard. 00:00:53.400 --> 00:00:58.320 And our power cable, which uses Lenovo's rectangular plug here, 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:01.760 because this can actually deliver, where's the wattage? 00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:05.360 A 245 watt charge to this bad boy, 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, 00:01:11.320 --> 00:01:14.560 which is nice. So you don't need to lug around the power brick, 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:17.720 unless I guess you're gonna be doing some physical demanding tasks on it, 00:01:17.720 --> 00:01:21.120 but we'll see when we get there. Let's go through the IO here. 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:24.360 On this side, we have a full-size SD card reader, 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 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:32.440 on the camera housing. This is, is this, oh, that's USB. 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, 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:41.040 and there's the power cord, which I like rear IO on laptops, 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, 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 00:01:49.380 --> 00:01:52.840 over to the side, because on the left, we have two of our USB-C ports, 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, 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. 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, 00:02:08.320 --> 00:02:11.920 and the rear one here is the 140-watt charging. 00:02:11.920 --> 00:02:15.000 They both can do charging. You just can't do them both at the same time. 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:18.600 And the HDMI I actually skipped over is a HDMI 2.1, 00:02:18.600 --> 00:02:23.400 which means 8K display, because you're totally gonna be doing that on this laptop, 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:27.000 obviously not. But hey, it's an option for you. 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:30.160 The one person who has an 8K display. I wanna open this up. 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. 00:02:36.600 --> 00:02:40.280 In our laptop here, we have 32 gigabytes of LPDDR5X memory 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, 00:02:46.040 --> 00:02:50.200 so you will not be upgrading it yourself after, but if you want, 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:54.440 you can upgrade the kit when you purchase it to 64 gigabytes, 00:02:54.440 --> 00:02:58.320 which in a laptop, I always think that 64 seems overkill, 00:02:58.320 --> 00:03:02.240 unless maybe this is your primary station, and getting into that later, 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:08.960 you will be able to do some productivity work because this display is really good. 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, 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. 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:20.960 But at an initial glance, just when I power it on here and I see it, 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:24.720 oh, I like it. Look at that pretty wallpaper. And continuing on the specs, sorry, 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:27.960 it's got a one terabyte Gen4 SSD in here. 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:32.200 That is something you can upgrade. There are two SSD slots in this device. 00:03:32.200 --> 00:03:36.160 They say it can go up to Gen5, but they only ship it with a Gen4, 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, 00:03:39.880 --> 00:03:43.040 it is the RTX 5060. It draws 115 watts, 00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:48.000 which our Labs was able to verify, and right away, like I said, man, 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. 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, 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, 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. 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:13.240 It's also a 16 by 10 display instead of a 16 by nine display, 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, 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:21.040 I think that that's great. I think 16 by 10 is a better aspect ratio, 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:24.240 and we should all just adopt it, even for desktops personally. 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, 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:30.640 I don't really game that much, so. 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:39.000 Gotta do the side by side. Actually, it's on par with my current daily driver, 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.920 and I love this laptop's keyboard. So if I love this keyboard then, 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, 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. 00:04:51.760 --> 00:04:55.540 I like it though. Trackpad on the other hand, when I first gave it a click, 00:04:55.540 --> 00:04:58.640 I don't think I'm as big of a fan as my current one. 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. 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, 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:10.640 is because this is an ultra thin and ultra light, how much does it flex? 00:05:10.640 --> 00:05:13.380 Oh wow, let's see if I can get it on camera here. 00:05:14.380 --> 00:05:21.380 I'm going pretty aggressive. And because I walk around with my laptop like this 00:05:21.380 --> 00:05:25.300 all the time, that would be the only thing I scare is the screen falling. 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 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. 00:05:34.580 --> 00:05:38.700 I should stop putting this laptop on the floor. I mean this laptop has more bend. 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. 00:05:44.020 --> 00:05:49.060 So do with that information what you will. But let's watch a YouTube video. 00:05:49.060 --> 00:05:52.300 70% volume, it's already like deafening, 00:05:52.300 --> 00:05:56.020 but we got to crank it. 100% for the drop baby. 00:05:56.020 --> 00:05:59.740 Here we go, here's crab rave. Holy cow. 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. 00:06:09.380 --> 00:06:14.220 For how loud they are, I was expecting them to sound a lot worse. 00:06:14.220 --> 00:06:17.660 And these are down-firing speakers, as you can see right here. 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 00:06:22.540 --> 00:06:26.220 out of it, but man. Now that I'm listening again, 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%, 00:06:33.580 --> 00:06:38.460 much better immediately. So you could still annoy your college friends with this. 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. 00:06:42.700 --> 00:06:48.980 We're still at 80%. They're pretty good speakers, man. 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 00:06:53.100 --> 00:06:56.500 that you can find on our ShortCircuit channel. It's a very pretty display. 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. 00:07:01.260 --> 00:07:05.300 Wow, it gets quite dim. It can't even pick it up on her camera anymore. 00:07:05.300 --> 00:07:09.420 Why are there so many fingerprints on the screen? They've got pretty greasy fingers too. 00:07:09.420 --> 00:07:13.420 Greasy fingers, oh, oh, oh. 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. 00:07:18.300 --> 00:07:21.620 In SDR, it's decent in the color accuracy field, 00:07:21.620 --> 00:07:24.900 and it was able to hold its 500 nits claim brightness, 00:07:24.900 --> 00:07:27.940 but in HDR is where this thing really does stand out. 00:07:27.940 --> 00:07:31.020 By their definition, an amazing HDR experience 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 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, 00:07:41.940 --> 00:07:44.980 or if you are in a properly light-controlled environment, 00:07:44.980 --> 00:07:49.780 you would probably be able to get some professional video editing done on this. 00:07:49.780 --> 00:07:55.340 Maybe not quite like a mastering display, but it is an unbelievably good display in HDR. 00:07:55.340 --> 00:08:00.820 Should we get into some gaming? Hell yeah. 1% lows hitting about 47 or so, 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 00:08:05.220 --> 00:08:08.460 like a lighter indie game, the fans wouldn't get as loud, 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, 00:08:12.860 --> 00:08:17.660 saying that it's still quieter than a lot of other gaming laptops I've used. 00:08:17.660 --> 00:08:22.660 I wouldn't necessarily define it as quiet though. 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, 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, 00:08:32.460 --> 00:08:36.660 it was dead silent, which again, like I said, some other laptops I've looked at 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 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, 00:08:45.460 --> 00:08:50.860 like I mentioned earlier, the 245 watt one, is that this laptop draws about 125 watts, 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. 00:08:54.580 --> 00:08:58.220 If you were plugged in with a USB-C to that 100 watt charging port, 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 00:09:02.700 --> 00:09:07.820 was depending on the turbo frequency and everything, it was able to draw 160 watts total, 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. 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, 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. 00:09:20.980 --> 00:09:24.220 Since I was just mentioning Labs, we might as well go over their gaming results. 00:09:24.220 --> 00:09:28.780 And across our three games in a couple of different resolutions, it did pretty well. 00:09:28.780 --> 00:09:31.900 I always consider 60 FPS average or 1% lows, 00:09:31.900 --> 00:09:34.900 kind of the bare minimum for a portable device. 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. 00:09:40.900 --> 00:09:45.060 Our 1% lows dropped to 45 and the average dropped below 60. 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. 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. 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 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. 00:10:02.860 --> 00:10:05.940 I think it worked. It was immediate. There it is, and I'm back. 00:10:05.940 --> 00:10:09.140 But now it's time to dissect this bad boy. 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, 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. 00:10:17.500 --> 00:10:21.500 And man, this looks kind of like a picture perfect tear down 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. 00:10:26.020 --> 00:10:29.020 R came with two. Yours will come with one if you buy one. 00:10:29.020 --> 00:10:32.260 I don't know why they shipped us two, but this is an engineering sample device. 00:10:32.260 --> 00:10:35.780 So maybe something's gonna be slightly different in yours. 00:10:35.780 --> 00:10:39.700 I hope not because this looks fantastic. I love the looks of this. 00:10:39.700 --> 00:10:42.780 I was, okay, what is, is this, hold on. 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, 00:10:50.140 --> 00:10:53.820 and it comes with the 2242. That's why it looks so strange. 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. 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. 00:11:02.460 --> 00:11:05.700 Right here is our Wi-Fi seven and our Bluetooth card. 00:11:05.700 --> 00:11:10.180 Down here are our speakers. Our battery here is an 84 watt hour battery, 00:11:10.180 --> 00:11:13.300 which they claim can get you up to 12 hours of battery life. 00:11:13.300 --> 00:11:18.300 Our Labs testing only got six. And we're not 100% sure why. 00:11:18.300 --> 00:11:21.820 We did kind of think it was maybe because this is an engineering sample. 00:11:21.820 --> 00:11:26.780 And it could be because either they have perfected their test conditions to get 12 hours 00:11:26.780 --> 00:11:30.580 or in our case, our BIOS maybe didn't get the latest revision. 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, 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 00:11:39.300 --> 00:11:43.380 directly to the board with the CPU, that AI9-HX470. 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, 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 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. 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:02.520 Which that NPU is the AMD XDNA2 NPU. 00:12:02.520 --> 00:12:07.080 And it delivers up to 55 trillion operations per second. 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. 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:12.960 AMD has 55 trillion. 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:20.000 Hey, that joke's funny, okay? So whether it's for multitasking, fast image generation, 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.600 or any sort of other local thing like voice translation, 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:28.560 it should be very efficient in that. Efficient, just like I'm efficient with this ShortCircuit. 00:12:28.560 --> 00:12:32.720 Done, boom, it's over. Thanks Lenovo, thanks AMD for sponsoring it. 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, 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:39.080 make sure you use our links in the video description. And you know what? 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.