here we have the lenovo legion 7i 16 inch and it's a gaming laptop but it
doesn't have all of the gamer looks about it which makes it great to use as
an everyday laptop as well it's a great combo so thanks to lenovo legion and
Intel for sponsoring this video and let's get straight into it power brick
first of course so let's see here 300 watts that's
a lot of watts for a laptop i think this thing has a 3080 in it though so no
wonder oh
got a sticker okay here we go though
there's the main event let's have a little look at the i o here
so headphone jack Thunderbolt 4 love to see that we also have our power input
usba three of them HDMI 2.1 we also have
another Thunderbolt 4 port right here full size Ethernet and then usb type c
not Thunderbolt and it looks like a little webcam hardware shut off the
look overall is not too over the top for
a gaming machine it just seems like it's all
mostly stamped aluminum with some plastic stuff i think that this right
here is plastic but along here is all
metal build quality is
fantastic this thing is like i said pretty much all aluminum
very stiff around the whole thing
no complaints it's also just set up in like
a logical way for a laptop like we've got a nice big track pad
very generous keyboard even has num keys i know some people love those
the real star of the show here though is the display what i love most about this
display is the 16x10 it's the sort of thing where it adds a lot of versatility
to the laptop where you're able to do things like web browsing using words
spreadsheets basically all of your productivity crap is a lot easier to do on a display like
this as opposed to 16 by 10 but then you also have the 165 hertz
and it makes everything smoother oh and also has g-sync support
this one's a 30 60 i thought we had the 3081 jono i guess
it is good we get to see how this one holds up as opposed to the 3080 version
that i've already used before and is expectedly incredibly fast
let's just do a full rundown of the specs here so we have an Intel core i7
11800h so that's eight cores 4.6
gigahertz max turbo we also have 16 gigabytes of RAM 3200 mega transfers per
second 512 Gigabyte SSD
i would probably spec it with a little bit more if you want a bunch of games
but we'll see if we can upgrade that later for wi-fi we have Intel wi-fi six ax-201
so that is basically the best wi-fi card that you can get and our rtx 3060. this
right here looks like it's the six Gigabyte version so this is
what i would probably recommend that you get it's the kind of thing where this
chassis will handle a 3080 or a 30 70.
it's not going to care it can do the cooling i believe this is vapor chamber
cooled but as a laptop i would much rather have a
3060 in it because it's still it's going to be fine for playing all of your games
it can most likely we'll see in a bit but do 1440p 165 hertz in the majority of
things and g-sync will help you out if it can't
quite and then you don't have to worry about being
super loud or being super power hungry
when you're on battery and so on i think 3060 is where i would go with this one
lenovo legion specifically said in their notes that they want some high octane
gameplay for this so uh should we turn
over the farm in valheim jonno yeah
uh we should probably make this guy some clothing first
i haven't really used him yet so we've got a bunch of carrots here
well a bunch of carrot seeds actually here we go
we're getting 98 FPS while planting
carrots lenovo also has their legion ai
engine so that basically just allows you to
well it decides when it needs to be loud and quiet and so on you basically
don't have to screw around with Windows
power management profiles and i lost about 30 FPS let's uh
let's go back to auto so we can just figure out what it needs to do yeah now
we're back up to 90 FPS that's a lot better
so silent mode does work yeah it it just doesn't make your
performance great so overall i would say that that was
an excellent seed planting experience i
still have 65 carrot seeds but those can be for another day 30 60 is doing great
as expected i am seeing some dips to like
70 60 FPS not really a problem and it is
absolutely cranked right now so i'm sure that if i wanted to i could easily get
an extra 30 40 FPS from it by just
turning off a couple of kind of dumb settings there's a situation that we're
like this screen just looks so good at
this size you really do not need
4k and with this GPU you could not run
4k like just full stop it wouldn't do it but it's pretty happy running 1440p
and it looks great like it's real nice and bright colors are good
165 hertz that's probably my favorite bit along
with the g-sync which means that like we are dropping to like
70 60 FPS in spots but the whole thing
still feels smooth and there's no tearing or crap so you're not noticing
it i don't know if you saw that but down in the bottom right corner a little
pop-up came up that said display mode dedicated GPU mode only which is awesome
because this has a dedicated muk switch and i think that that means that it has
NVIDIA optimus plus or two whatever the crap it is
doesn't matter basically means that in some laptops you have your GPU and your
igpu and GPU goes through the igpu to the display and you lose like 10
performance and this right here goes straight from the GPU to the
display you get those extra frames love to see
it now we get some real high octane gameplay oh HDR i can enable it let's see what
happens but we do have ray tracing in this game i don't think i'm gonna turn
it on but what i do think i'm going to do is enable dlss so
that's kind of the thing where when you have a 3060 what i would lean on
their tensor ai ray tracing cores to do
the legion 7i is powered by the latest 11th gen Intel core h-series mobile
processors it offers streamers and content creators a choice of
high-performance processors for superior streaming low latency high FPS and close
to desktop caliber performance on mobile it's basically the best gaming processor
you can get these days i just love the display it's a big selling feature for
me personally one thing i did notice while we were gaming there
is that the keyboard seems like it's tuned for games so um
yeah so the keyboard on this has a really short
snappy throw and not a whole lot of force to hit the keys
it's quite good for typing on although it's not quite as like tactile as you
would want for like a real productivity focus machine but it trades that off to
make it way easier to game on so sort of thing where when you're hitting wasd the
low actuation force makes it just easier to do that and you're not going to get
like hand cramps from having to push down control and shift and
use a lot of force to do that and it's not like the typing experience
is bad it's just it's clearly geared
towards gaming specifically this is the kind of keyboard where it's super easy
to have really fast inputs because it's like a real nice little snap at the
start so you can really like trackpad is good
it's the kind of thing where if you have a trackpad on a gaming
laptop that's not bad you've basically won this one right here it's big enough that
i'm not mad at it and it tracks well enough that i haven't
noticed anything bad about it again and even looks like
the latency on it is quite decent as well you can
sometimes notice when you have like a high refresh rate display like this one
right here that the experience between using a
mouse that's pulling at whatever this is like 500 or a thousand hertz and then
you go to your track pad and just kind of feels jelloy this one's really quite good i'm
actually curious what it's pulling at okay yeah it's not magic so it is
pulling at 144 hertz like pretty much every track pad does you're not going to
get super high pulling rate track pads these days
just because the trade-off is the more hurts it has the more battery life it
uses
okay that's not bad they're like a bit on the
muddy side but there is some bass there which is a lot more than you can say
about most laptop speakers i would say adequate
heck yeah look at that 80 megabytes per second over wi-fi
that wi-fi six card is pretty legit oh one thing that i forgot to talk about
before that i really like about this laptop are the markings
here for the i o they light up when you have it on and it
makes plugging stuff in when you're looking like back and around way easier
that was a very simple disassembly just some phillips head screws now
this looks like a pretty typical stamped aluminum part
which is fine i think it's these days probably the most sense making way to
manufacture laptops because you get the nice rigidity without it being super
balls expensive like unibody chassis so it looks like we have two m.2 slots
so there we go take off this little heat spreader thing we see our wi-fi card and
our SSD looks like it is what is this it's made by samsung excellent on the
other side we have an empty m.2 slot
as long as you have a phillips head screw and a guitar pick you're going to
be able to upgrade your storage in this without much issue now under right here
the RAM i really hope that's upgradable sick it
is so here are two sodium slots it's eight gigabytes 1r x16 memory so this is
the more slower stuff but also big oems can't get the more
faster uh 8x stuff so
there you go this is a sort of laptop where you could easily do double duty as
like a school engineering creator
video editing or you know architect
laptop as opposed to just gaming only and the rest of what we see in here is
all vapor chambers so all the way down here up here we've got CPU GPU
presumably probably a bunch of vrm crap in here and it goes to exhausts there
and there got two fans that have little legion logo on them very nice i love
vapor chambers they allow you to have laptops like this that are relatively
quiet and relatively cool and finally we
have what is this an 80 watt hour battery which is pretty decent for a
laptop of this size up to 6.6 hours
now if you get the non-eye version of this you should be able to eat a bit
more battery life out of it this is the kind of laptop where what you're doing
is what will determine your battery life if you take it down to 60 hertz on the
display and drop the brightness and don't game
you'll probably get those six hours and apparently there's rapid charging it'll
do zero to 50 percent in less than 30 minutes which is pretty cool that that's
the kind of thing that can save your bacon if you're doing a big long trip to the library or group
project or something there you go awesome laptop great display just
love the display on this thing that's the selling feature for me personally
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