Lenovo and Intel sponsored this video where we're going to be looking at well
there's a legion gaming laptop here we go look at how thin this is
70 in it first of all the power adapter this is a slim charger that does up to
230 Watts not bad now if you want you
don't need to use this and if you have a USB type-c charger you can plug it in
right here this will accept up to 140 watts of fast charging looking at the i
o we have headphone microphone combo Jack USB type-c which supports power
delivery and DisplayPort 1.4 Thunderbolt
4 which also does that power delivery around back we have DC charging HDMI 2.1
love to see it three USB type A's
awesome you normally only get like one of those on a laptop
and around the right side we have a full size SD card reader awesome if you want
to do video or photo editing and a little switch for the webcam now
what you've probably noticed though is that this is very thin this thing's just
over 17 millimeters thick which for something that has a 40 70 in it hot
dang guys I hope that this right here isn't well super loud find it soon also
while we're here the design of this looks really good like it just looks
rather plain like from a distance but when you get close the details are
excellent like if you look at this we have what is likely CNC diamond cut all
around the edges in this way that just looks absolutely fantastic can we catch
the light with it here oh there we go you can really see how it's just like a
nice fancy little flare you don't need RGB when you just have nice materials
um
one finger very easy oh that's a big
display I absolutely love that they're going to 16 by 10 on all of the gaming
devices because like you still want to use a gaming device
for productivity and that just makes it better
oh
this is a well-built chassis look at this oh
oh okay you can you can kind of get some Flex around the keyboard if you try
he that is legit one of the stiffest chassis that I've seen in ages Jake just
asked what I think of the reverse Notch up here
and I think that's a really great way to sort of compromise it like you're not
getting a huge bezel up here and also
boom awesome overlooking at it they have
so much cooling here so look just all of
like the back half of this all along
here and then same on the other side there is just so much heatsink wrapping
all the way around this now normally I would be concerned when laptop makers do
something like this that you can't have easy access to the i o because like it's
out here it gets in the way but they have it on the back and it is really
nice when you have these little lights back here which lets you know what you
want so let's just turn it on and I'll show you that that is so nice when you
like need to Fumble around and figure out where these are that little bit of
light oh love it Lenovo
how heavy is this thing well I know it's 4.4 pounds but let's just check
4.7 4.8 pounds what's that in real units
uh uh 2.1 kilograms so that is a bit
heavier than they quoted but at the same time that is still very like for a
machine like this and particularly one that is this well built can you see any
Flex nothing yeah this is really well built
what's up with Windows at the manatees not the first time but we have like a
whole spread here facts about sea cows
explore their Hidden World
wow that is distracting okay but before
we go to notepad I need to adjust this RGB because that is ridiculous yeah
threes okay all right function space bar allows you
to change the RGB to something that's not completely obnoxious I want to test
out the keyboard because like you know having a good gaming
laptops all good and stuff but if you don't have the basics down it doesn't
really matter this has 1.5 millimeters of travel and let's have a little test
keyboard is great I would give it an a maybe an A plus it doesn't have the most
tactile or like forceful actuation but
at the same time there's loads of travel the keys are well stabilized and also
since it doesn't have quite as much actuation force it's really nice for
gaming because like if you're holding shift or control or whatever for a long
amount of time W it can get kind of
fatiguing if you have like really heavy switches these are just very simple
nice little soft boys as for the trackpad they didn't quite
maximize the space that it takes up here but at the same time it looks like it's
glass topped and the tracking overall is good it is pretty great honestly that
Windows devices have good track pads these days kind of just across the board
I haven't felt an awful one in a while which is really saying something when
you review as many gaming laptops as I do and all of them are
generally pretty good I don't think this right here gets like a
a minus it needs a little bit more to
get all the way there I like a big one oh well whatever points
they don't get for having a smaller track pad they do get back for having a
much larger keyboard so over on the right here we have a full num key set
which I personally take it or leave it don't really care but I know a lot of
people just absolutely die to have a numb pad like just freak here if you're
an accountant or I don't know putting stuff into Excel spreadsheets all the
time from your laptop engineers and SolidWorks love having one of these
overall just a good thing to have for display the one that we have right here
is the optional 3200 by 2000 panel so
that's a little bit higher resolution at 165 Hertz but uh I don't think this is
the one that you should get they also have a 240 hertz model that goes up to
500 nits this one right here is only 430 so I don't know just get the one that's
slightly lower resolution but still enough resolution that is a higher
refresh rate and brighter probably that said if you're a video editor or a photo
editor you might want this higher resolution one and 165 Hertz is not a
refresh rate that I'm about to complain about I also really appreciate that
they've gone with a matte display on this it's something that's kind of come
and gone in popularity and I really like that matte displays are having a
comeback right now especially on gaming devices like you don't want the I don't
know your RGB lights that are behind your streaming setup to be flickering
off of your display you want just the nice mat
165 Hertz level all right uh I was a
little bit concerned that we wouldn't be able to uh get this quite working at
this really high resolution and I think I was correct but we're gonna we're
gonna click the GPU overdrive and the overdrive GPU working mode D GPU mode
Hell yeah save just doing a quick restart to ensure
that the GPU is connected directly to the panel now you can do it kind of
either way you can either have the GPU connected directly to the panel or it
can go through the integrated Graphics to the panel and you lose about 10 of
your performance we're just gonna lock it down make sure that it's always doing
it correctly maybe we'll get better performance we'll see all right we got
over 10 FPS by doing the GPU and
increasing the GPU power which makes sense and is awesome all right Paul did
Paul die did someone kill Paul someone killed Paul where's my Dev commands
yeah super Paul all right we've now
successfully cheated our way to having good gear ha ha
goodbye Paul's not OP P of course this being a 40 70. there is
a massive bread of how fast a 40 70 can
be and this right here lands somewhere in the middle this right here has a 125
Watt tgp and a total of 140 Watts
available to everything so you might be thinking uh there's not a whole lot of
power left over for the CPU once you you know use up 125 of that for the GPU but
Lenovo has a way around that all we've got in here is Lenovo AI engine plus and
what that is doing is it is looking at how you are using your computer and how
different programs are using your computer's resources at optimizing your
computer for that so like some games will absolutely love drawing a whole
bunch of CPU power and on other laptops if you have your like turbo Ultra mode
where your GPU gets all the power it will actually go slower because your CPU
is being sacrificed this right here is going to over time learn how your game
like to behave and slowly in theory at
least make them faster now like I said before there is a 240 hertz panel option
and I'm just going to knock it down to that resolution and see what we get so
now at 1600 P we're looking at
110 115 FPS
this is oh there we go
so yeah this Hardware that we have in here even though it does seem like it is
quite capable is much better suited for
the 1600p as opposed to the 2000. for
the gaming there I did have overdrive on which is you know it's the fans give it
mode but they still were not too bad like it was really going full bore there
and even though the fans were kind of loud like I'm sure you were able to hear
them they weren't like high pitched whining or had any
like distracting elements to it it was more just like a whoosh and like white
noise as opposed to like like those really annoying ones for the
CPU get the Intel I9 13900h that is six
performance cores eight efficiency cores and a max turbo frequency of 5.4
gigahertz insta like this I saw can't believe how
fast laptops have gotten recently particularly in the CPU space for the
RAM we get 32 gigabytes of dddr5 at 5200
Mega transfers per second now Lenovo does have some slightly faster ones I
think some of their Legion line goes up to 6000 but it's kind of like going from
the fastest that everyone else has to the absolute fastest for the SSD it's a
Samsung one terabyte excellent Wi-Fi 6E
yep they got it and of course like I said the RTX 4070 with 125 watts
dedicated to it well available to it
it's not always going to get that and one thing to note is that the laptop
version of the 4070 is first of all not actually a 4070 but also we only get
eight gigabytes of RAM which
is sort of enough but we are starting to see in some games that not quite cutting
it if you are concerned about having the best graphics and the most modern of
titles maybe look at one of their thicker Boys in this one
sounds good so far all right all right
that's nice and loud it has a nice enveloping sound as they say but does it
have the bass
that's respectable that's pretty darn
good I'm curious
oh
yeah okay
so what I just discovered there is that they have these down firing little
Tweeter chummies in here you can see it right yeah there
and you actually get quite a bit more clarity and high end when you have it on
a table so it can bounce that sound off of here and just kind of makes the whole
thing sound larger and generally more better excellent job while we're here
let's just have another little look at the display from you know a Content
consumption point of view this supports Dolby vision and HDR 400 and it looks
pretty darn good like you're not getting OLED levels of Darkness there but you're
also not getting older levels of battery drain most likely Lenovo says this will
get you up to 12 hours of battery life which I think is
pretty optimistic given the amount of power that this thing has but at the
same time if you treat it really really nicely you might be able to get that
also Intel thread director it allows it
to you know balance the tasks between all of the different programs and stuff
that we have open and as you saw we were able to screen record and play video
games at the same time it had no trouble you have you have 20 threads
it's pretty darn good at multitasking and also we have a webcam which has
Toby Horizon support what the hell is that okay
Toby Horizon is like a type of head tracking and even though I don't quite
know the usefulness they did show a Euro Truck Simulator version that uh looks
pretty sick honestly if that's a game that you like maybe this will be a great
feature for you also this webcam it is
doing a pretty good job of exposing for my face actually it had some trouble at
first but it figured it out this is an incredibly challenging situation because
we have like a light there and a light there and you even still get some detail
in like this black sound isolation stuff let's see also uh we're on the crappy
set for ShortCircuit today so there's there's just Warehouse there
empty Warehouse over there if you're wondering why the uh the sound sucks
it's temporary it's temporary but like I
moved it all around there and it still is exposing for my face which is the
most important thing in a webcam it's a little bit on the grainy side
but it's a webcam you can only ask so much let's just verify that the disabler
switch Works goodbye cool it does
oh wow I was not expecting to see heat
pipes in here but uh this one right here is a chungus
yeah we don't need that so it said in task manager that we had
two sodium slots but I only see one now
the RAM is confusing so some of them
will have eight gigabytes on board others will have 16 but all of them only
have one RAM slot so that means that it might be very easy for you to upgrade to
32 gigabytes or you might be only upgrading to 24 but either way you can
upgrade the RAM that's a pretty great in 2023 also what you can upgrade is the
SSD so we have one right over here and if you want a second boom goes right in
there great job guys also big old
battery 99.9 Watt hours the largest that you can take on a plane which excellent
It's you know I still have no clue how good the battery life is on this thing
but it's as good as it can be
more heat pipes ah for cooling we get
lenovo's cold front 5.0 which basically
means heat pipes fins they cool it good
as you can see they have done quite a good job so we have fins here fins back
there big old heat pipe like this this is a fat boy right there and then a
couple smaller ones which still like what's that like a 15 millimeter heat
pipe something stupid like that absolutely massive the fans they have a
fancy Liquid Crystal polymer system
that's a really fancy way of saying that they put glass into the plastic which
does actually make it more rigid and is good now of course this being a
sponsored video I cannot give you a recommendation but I couldn't anyway
because I don't know the price yet that said though I can almost certainly
guarantee you that this thing is not cheap it is well built and fast which in
these days means it is going to be expensive if you want something that's a
little bit less the Lenovo Legion slim 5i is already out and that one comes in
at 2120 which
yeah huge thanks to Lenovo and Intel for
sponsoring this video you can check out the 7i down below and I don't know just
go get yourself a little treat you deserve it have a great day