If you guys have seen my laptop unboxings in the past, you know I compare it to my Lenovo ThinkBook. Well,
Lenovo must have seen that because they sponsored this video
for me to check out their Lenovo Legion 7 AMD, and maybe it's good enough that I
can finally retire my daily driver. Well, we got to open it up first and
take a look. Out of the two chips that you can get in this laptop, this is the
higher-end one, which is the AMD AI 9
at a stroke. The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX470,
a 12-core, 24-thread processor that can
boost up to 5.2 GHz, and I think the
white version looks a lot better than my silver. [music]
But, is it going to get my fingerprints all over it? Actually, that's that's not
bad. I got pretty greasy fingers, too. Well, okay. We'll look at the rest of
this in a second. Let's see what else is in the box. Some cardboard
and our power cable, which uses Lenovo's
rectangular plug here because this can actually deliver Where's the wattage? A
245-W charge to this bad boy, which is higher
than USB-C can do. Saying that, this laptop can still charge over USB-C,
which is nice, so you don't need to lug around the power brick, unless I guess
you're going to be doing some physically demanding tasks on it, but we'll we'll
see when we get there. Let's go through the IO here. On this side, we have a
full-size SD card reader, our camera switch for our electronic shutter there.
It's not a physical one like you would see on the camera housing. This is Is
this Oh, that's USB. I thought that was the power cable for a second. Boop.
Around back, we have a full-size HDMI, and there's the power cord, which I like
rear IO in laptops, especially if you're going to be using this at your desk all
the time. You can have it plugged in, all the IO at the back that you would
need. I do wish they maybe moved one of these USB-C ports over to the side cuz
on the left, we have two of our USB-C ports, another USB-A, and a headphone
audio jack. It's not a the most IO I've seen on a laptop, but they definitely
could have cut corners, so I appreciate having two USB-As and two USB-Cs. And
these USB ports are actually USB 4, which means you can get 40 GB a second
on them. And the rear one here is the 140 W charging. They both can do
charging, you just can't do them both at the same time. And the HDMI I actually
skipped over is a HDMI 2.1, which means
8K display. Cuz you're totally going to be doing
that on this laptop. Obviously not, but hey, it's an option for you.
The one person who has an 8K display. I want to open this up.
I guess while it's booting up, I can go over the rest of the specs that are in this device. In our laptop here, we have
32 GB of LPDDR5X memory at 8533
megatransfers a second. It's able to hit that speed because it is soldered
memory. So, you will not be upgrading it yourself after, but if you want, you can
upgrade the kit when you purchase it to 64 GB. Which in the laptop, I always
think that 64 seems overkill. Unless maybe this is your primary station, and
getting into that later, you will be able to do some productivity work
because this display is really good. I mean,
I don't think it's very good on the glare side of things. You can see, but
I'm also shining it directly at a light, so that's probably not the best showing
for it. But at an initial glance, just when I power it on here and I see it,
oh, I like it. Look at that pretty wallpaper. And continuing on the specs,
sorry, it's got a 1 TB Gen 4 SSD in here. That is something you can upgrade.
There are two SSD slots in this device. They say it can go up to Gen 5, but they
only ship it with a Gen 4. So, maybe that's an upgrade after the fact for
you. And as for the GPU that's in here, it is the RTX 5060. It draws 115 W,
which our Labs was able to verify. And right away, like I said, man, I like
the colors on this. It is an OLED display. It's not a touch display, which
for me is a downer. I like to have a touchscreen on a laptop. I find it
really nice when I'm on set or something I just need to quickly scroll or find
some information. Little bit of a downgrade, but it is 240
hertz, which maybe if I'm gaming at work, that could be pretty nice I guess.
That's pretty good. It's also a 16 by 10 display instead of
a 16 by 9 display, which gives a little bit more vertical room. Again, for
someone like me who has a lot of scripts on it, I think that that's great. I
think 16 by 10 is a better aspect ratio and we should all just adopt it even for
desktops personally. We're going to get right into a typing test here, which
what I do the most on my laptop. I don't really game that much, so
got to do the side by side. Actually, it's on par with my current
daily driver and I love this laptop's keyboard. So, I love this keyboard then.
Okay, it actually feels really, really good to type on. I think the only thing
is maybe it's a little quieter, but I can't tell if that's just because I've
abused this keyboard [music] pretty aggressively. I like it though. Trackpad
on the other hand, when I first gave it a click, I don't think I'm as big of a
fan as my current one. It feels a little bit too mushy for me. Saying that
gliding over the trackpad feels really nice. It's just the click that feels a
little off to me. One thing that would worry me though is because this is an
ultra-thin and ultra-light, how much does it flex? Oh, wow.
See if I can get it on camera here.
I'm going pretty aggressive and
cuz I walk around with my laptop like this all the time. Uh, that would be the
only thing I scare is the screen falling. The actual chassis itself feels pretty
good and even the screen, I mean, it's got flex because it's a
screen obviously. It's so much thinner, but I feel like I just need to keep
making comparisons. I should stop putting this laptop on the floor. I mean, this laptop has more bend. I can
feel it for sure. Screen's about the same.
But, my screen is also thicker. >> [music] >> So, do with that information what you
will, but let's watch a YouTube video.
70% volume and it's already like deafening, but we're going to we got to
crank it. 100% for the drop, baby. Here
we go. Here's Crab Rave. Holy cow.
Wow, you would be the annoying kid in college with this. That is a loud loud
speaker. For how loud they are, I was
expecting them to sound a lot worse. >> [music] >> And these are down-firing speakers as
you can see right here, and they're firing into this the soft mouse pad
here, so I'm not even getting probably the best reflections out of it,
but man. Now that I'm listening again, there's a
tiny bit of crackling, but I guarantee you if I went down like
20%, much better immediately.
So, you could still annoy your college friends with this. That's good to know.
We removed the mouse pad now, and I want to see if it sounds even better. We're
still at 80%. >> [music]
>> Pretty good speakers, man. Now that we're done our audio test, I want to look at the display here. This is our RE
footage that you can find on our ShortCircuit channel. It's a very pretty
display. 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. Wow, it gets quite dim. It you
can't even pick it up on our camera anymore. Why are there so many
fingerprints on the screen? I got pretty greasy fingers, too.
When our Labs did the testing on the screen, they also were pretty impressed
with the results. In SDR, it's decent in
the color accuracy field, and it was able to hold its 500 nits claimed
brightness, [music] but in HDR is where this thing really does stand out. By their definition, an
amazing HDR experience or close to the artist's intent. [music]
It's able to hit the 1,100 nits that they claim in a 50% window, which I
guess if you're using it for outdoor use is incredibly bright, or if you are in a
properly light controlled environment, you would probably be able to get some
professional video editing done on this. Maybe not quite uh like a mastering
display, but it is an unbelievably good display in HDR. [music] Should we get
into some gaming? Hell yeah. 1% lows hitting about 47 or so, and it did take
a while for the fans to ramp up, which is nice. So, maybe if you're playing
like a lighter indie game, the fans wouldn't get as loud. >> [music]
>> But, now that I've been driving around a little bit, I can tell the fans needed
to pick up. Saying that, it's still quieter than a lot of other gaming
laptops I've used. I wouldn't necessarily define it as
quiet, though. Oh, got in a car crash. But, I think
that the fans are quiet enough that if you had a pair of headphones on, they
wouldn't bother you at all. And while I was just browsing and watching YouTube
videos, it was dead silent, which, again, like I said, some other laptops
I've looked at would ramp up when loading a YouTube video. So, in terms of
the the noise, seems on par or better than what I would expect. A good thing
about having a big chunky power brick, like I mentioned earlier, the 245 W one,
is that this laptop draws about 125 W, meaning if you're using that, you know
you're going to stay fully charged the entire time. If you were plugged in with
a USB-C to that 100 W charging port, you would slowly drain battery over time.
One thing our Labs did note when they were testing was, depending on the turbo
frequency and everything, it was able to draw 160 W [music] total, which would
even mean that that top USB-C port, which does 140, wouldn't be good enough,
either. So, I prefer USB-C charging devices, so at least I can charge it
ideally, you know, when it's on my desk, but if I'm gaming, you need to bring the
power brick. Since I was just mentioning Labs, we might as well go over their gaming results, and across our three
games in a couple different resolutions, it did pretty well. I always consider 60
FPS average or 1% lows kind of the >> [music]
>> bare minimum for a portable device, and the only thing that really stress tested
was Total War: Warhammer III when we did our 1600p benchmark. Our 1% lows dropped
to 45 and the average dropped below 60. The last thing I want to take a look at
before I open the laptop [music] is the camera. I do a lot of video calls on my
laptop, so this is very important to me. We'll do a
quick recording here so that we can hear how the audio sounds on this microphone,
but this is how the camera looks as well. I'm going to try the electronic shutter here.
I think it worked. It was immediate. There it is and I'm back, but [music]
now it's time to dissect this bad boy. All the screws
are accessible, so that's nice. At least what I can see right now, it doesn't
look [music] like I have to peel back any feet. Finally got the back off here
and man, this looks kind of like a picture-perfect teardown skin for dbrand
or something. [music] It's very pretty, but you can see here are two SSDs. Ours
came with two. Yours will come with one if you buy one. I don't know why they
shipped us two, but this is an engineering sample device, so you know,
maybe something's going to be slightly different in yours. I hope not because
this looks fantastic. [music] I love the looks of this. I was Okay,
what is Is this Hold on. Oh, I think this is an adapter
so that you can either do a 2280 SSD or
a 2242 and it comes with the 2242.
That's why it looks so strange. I was like, "What the heck is this thing?" But
hey, that's kind of a nice little adapter then. And then this one is only
a 2242. You won't be putting a full-size SSD in this one. Right here is our Wi-Fi
7 and our Bluetooth card. Down here are our speakers. Our battery
here is an 84-W hour battery, which they claim can get you up to 12 hours of
battery life. Our Labs testing only got [music] six and we're not 100% sure why.
We did kind of think it was maybe because this is an engineering sample
and it could be because either they have perfected their test conditions to get
12 hours or in our case, our BIOS maybe
didn't get the latest revision. We're not 100% sure. They claim 12 hours
though. One thing you again might not have noticed which I mentioned earlier
is no upgradeable RAM and that's again because it's kind of soldered [music] directly to the board with the CPU that
AI 9 HX470. And it has its NPU built in
so that way if you do decide to do any local AI workloads, it'll kind of help
offload that to the NPU so that way hopefully it'll help your battery
performance or you can save your CPU cores for any other demanding tasks that
you may be working on. Which that NPU is the AMD XDNA 2 NPU and it delivers up to
55 trillion operations per second or as
I've taken to call it ops per second. We've all got ops out there. AMD has 55
trillion. [laughter] Uh hey, that joke's funny, okay?
So whether it's for multitasking, fast image generation, or any sort of other
local thing like voice translation, [music] it should be very efficient in that.
Efficient, just like I'm efficient with the ShortCircuit. Done. Boom. It's
over. Thanks Lenovo. Thanks AMD for sponsoring it. If you guys are
interested in getting your own device or at least just checking them out, make sure you use our links in the video
description. And you know what? I hope you have a good day.
You know, everyone needs a good day now and then.