Lenovo Legion Pro 5i Gaming Laptop, 16″ 2K 165 Hz Display, Intel 24-Core i9 14900 HX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, 32 GB DDR5 RAM, 2 TB SSD, Backlit, Windows 11 Pro & Microsoft Office Lifetime License Electronics

5.0 out of 5 stars

Great for price. Expected downgrades are not deal-breakers, except maybe battery

This is an all-plastic laptop, but has a fairly rigid build, not like metal, but far less flex on the screen than my 5 year old Acer Aspire which needed many replacements due to flexing including a cracked screen, hinges, and back cover. This has 8 GB memory. This has and older GTX 1650. This has a 120hz display (unheard of at this price point) This has 256SSD m.2. It has a backlit Keyboard. It has an amazing processor: AMD Ryzen 5.Here’s the deal. You can get similarly priced laptops that have more storage and RAM, touchscreen, etc… but you will trade down the pieces that future-proof this machine. I can walk into Walmart and get a similarly priced Pentium, i3 or a similarly priced i5 with more RAM or storage or maybe a touchscreen (if that’s important to you), but no dedicated graphics, no backlit keyboard, or expansion slots for ram or SSD. However, I can always buy more RAM or hard drive later when the price will actually be lower. I can NOT come back later and upgrade the CPU, add slots to increase the RAM, and all of a sudden make my keyboard visible in the dark when I want to work late at night sometime. I can’t later upgrade the screen to 120hz as this one has. And, the GPU at this price range is perfectly adequate (Although not as future-proof). The Battery has a LOT to be desired and could be a deal breaker. I can get 5 to 6 hours if optimized back (all but battery-saver mode). My old Acer had 12 hour battery, but the screen was a significant tradeoff.Some people are saying only 6 GB RAM. That is because of the new way Ryzen processors use dedicated RAM instead of shared RAM. There is 8, it is just that old processors shared the RAM with the system. Now the new processors are dedicating part of the RAM to the processor permanently. It isn’t too much different than before, but does change the way the RAM is handled and displays for availability for Windows.My system is gaming fine right now with the existing setup, but I’m not a power user. I’ll wait until I can’t live with the performance and then I’ll go buy more RAM and SSD when it comes down lower in price, because I can. Beware of machines that downgrade built in pieces to give you more memory and hard-drive, but will be outdated in 4-7 years instead of 7-10+ years depending on what you plan to do with the machine. Those are not good tradeoffs. Lenovo seems to have hit a sweet spot in this price range with its optimal upgradeability and good built in features for for the price you pay.If you need a power machine, this is not it. This is a good midrange machine that will allow you to do a diverse amount of tasks without lagging out or crashing, and should last a long time with the specs it has.

36 people found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Fantastic Value Buy!

I did alot of research prior to my purchase and this deal hands down was the absolute best for my use case. I needed a new laptop for work and with the next gen console nightmare I thought Id get one that can do a bit of intermediate level gaming as well.Firstly the look of most laptops in this price range were a no go for me. The hp pavilion and acer nitro look too “gamery” as I carry this to work with me most days. This laptop unlike those looks standard and Lenovo is a brand I’ve had many positive experiences with before.The speed is lightning quick and I’ve added an additional 8 gb of ram and a 1tb m.2 ssd which has improved performance even more and covered my one gripe which was the lack of storage. The upgrade itself was pretty easy to do myself.As for the gamimg experience, with only a gtx 1650 you do have to tone down your settings in most titles to come close to capping out your 120hz screen but I’m fine with that. I’ve attached two pictures of apex legends in the firing range after running around, shooting and using abilities for 5 mins each doing my best to simulate what your in-game experience would be. One picture shows the results at all min settings and the other at all max settings. At all max the fps dips to between 30 to 40 with alot of stuff happening on the screen (bangalore smokes and simultaneous ultimates for example). This isnt really playable in a game where frames matter. At all min you sit at 110 to 130 most of the time with a dip to maybe 70-80 under the conditions I detailed above. The textures are pretty bad however. I’ve settled on a low-med mix that nets me around 80-90 most of the time. Compared to my ps4 (RIP my next gen ownership ambition btw) this feels amazing. If you want to experience games at their full graphical intensity and dont want to be forced to skimp on visuals look elsewhere but be prepared to pay at least 100% more for a 3060 laptop or at least 30-50% more on a 3050ti laptop.If this is your budget then I DEFINITELY recommend this laptop.

19 people found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Best Budget Gaming Laptop

When I first had my Nitro 5, there was a lot I loved about. It could reach 120fps and was decent for most of my games. I loved it. But when I had to upgrade, I genuinely didn’t want to spend too much as a working student. I did a lot of research and yes, the top brands of ACER , ASUS, HP, ALIEN they had great laptops obviously. But finding this one was a god sent. I can clock out at 240fps on most of my games. The upgrades to 16gb RAM and to add my HYBRID drive was flawlessly easy. The design is very sleek, mint fresh and effortlessly classy and simple. In fact, it stays well hidden as a gaming laptop. It’s lightweight and easily portable for travel as a student compared to the 7lbs most gaming pcs start with.The cons I had with this were it was a bit smaller than the average 15.6 laptop. A bit. Measured, it’s a direct 15.6 but still pales by a slight inch to normal laptops. The other issue is that the fans are beneath and there is no air flow towards the back of the laptop. So, I would advise investing in a cooling pad for playing demanding games in order to protect your laptop. Furthermore, it only has two USB ports. Not a massive deal as I can easily buy an external USB device to add more ports but it was a let down. Apart from that, those are all the cons I would say, which pale in comparison to the pros.In conclusion, this is a beast of a laptop. To find an affordable laptop which upgrades easily and has amazing fps and runs smoothly while providing easy portability is rare. The cons are things which can be easily overlooked due to the vast amount of pros this offers. If you’re looking for a budget gaming laptop as a student, this is definitely your buy.

48 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

You get what you pay for…

This is no means a bad review, just be mindful that this is a gaming LAPTOP not a PC. The reviews are not wrong when they day that this is a laptop with p*ss poor battery life. Just my advice you may need to upgrade to a TB gb storage only because this laptop blows through the storage space fast. Overall its very quick loading compared to most laptops I’ve had, though if you dont want to spend the money on a TB storage card. Spend a couple more dollars, and Buy the +500 gb laptop on this listing.

2 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

It’s good, but…

For some reason, windows won’t recognize the touchpad, but I plug in a regular mouse and it’s fine. It could be a windows 10 home edition issue, but I’m not sure. Other than that, it really blew my expectations out the water.Productivity:I use Davinci resolve 17, adobe Photoshop, illustrator, and after effects. Despite it only have 8 gigs of ram to work with (will upgrade to 16), the 6 core Ryzen chip smashes it out the water, no freezing, and gets it done pretty well.Gaming:Gtx 1650 isn’t the best, but it’s more than enough for what I play.Been playing fallout 4 with max settings and hardly drops below 60fps.Although the monitor is a 120hz panel, you won’t be seeing that with AAA titles, but if you play eSports, it really won’t be an issue.Battery life:Although, I play on the charger 100% of the time, but when I do use it on battery, it holds a 2-4 hour charge doing video editing and media consumption.All in all, a $700 laptop with these specs, it’s pretty good. The rgb keyboard in the ad is misleading, it only has a white backlit keyboard, and that mouse issue, it’s a good bang for the buck productivity, and budget gaming laptop.Recommendations:Buy a 1tb SSD upgrade, 256 gigs simply isn’t enough in 2021, bump up the ram to 16 gigs too, it’ll help out that Ryzen chip be even better.

5 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Great laptop, horrible battery.

I really like the laptop itself. They did advertise that it was windows 10, even though it’s windows 11, which makes me pretty mad because I hate windows 11 and all of my other devices are windows 10. Not a super big deal but slightly annoying. I use it for school and for games occasionally. One thing about playing games is that it throttles your fps unless you’re plugged in, which was annoying initially, but not a big deal. This makes more sense now that I realize how bad the battery is. I’m lucky if I get 1 minute per 1% of battery life, even just doing school on battery saving mode. It’s unfortunate but it just means you’ll have to be charging constantly. Don’t expect to be able to take this to a coffee shop and study without having to make sure you’re sitting next to an outlet. Overall 4/5 stars, great, fast laptop, horrible battery!

13 people found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Budget Gaming laptop King (highly recommend)

Ive had this laptop for 2 weeks now and if I consider the one I had before , this is a massive upgrade, as a software developer who does gaming as a hobby and a bit of content creation , I wanted a machine that could handle coding workload and android emulation (for mobile apps) and could also handle big gaming titles ,not just esports titles at a respectable framerates (atleast 60fps) . I’m telling you this laptop is a beast, powers through anything I did throw at it. Haven’t tested the emulation part but it should handle that pretty well. I was having a hard time to pick between this and the HP Pavilion gaming laptop which has the same specifications, but what really made me pick this was the *upgradability* which allows one to add another nvme M.2 drive albeit you have to buy a standoff for it or a 2.5 inch Ssd/hard drive and 2 soddim slots (i highly recommend adding the RAM and storage).The only con I have with this laptop is the battery life, its pretty average but to be honest I didn’t expect it to have a great battery life.

One person found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Good as listed under $700.00 base gaming laptop…

Ryzen 5 with RTX1650 model, came with an 256GB M2 2242 SSD I’ve upgraded to a Sabrent 512GB M2 2242 SSD I had lying around collecting dust. There is a 2nd M2 slot without an standoff screw set, my only negative on this laptop. I installed an Samsung SATA SSD 1TB with the provided mount, screws, and plug.There is a open 2nd RAM slot to expand memory I’ve added Crucial 8GB DDR4-3200 card to make it 16GB combined. Only had a few days on my laptop battery life was about 5-6 hours at default settings. As noted laptop will not support a 2nd screen using the usb c. Students could enjoy this laptop and office workers, the power brick is quite small in size about 3 smart phone stack on each-other. No RBG lights just white lights on the keyboard.So once again just enjoying my first week by the time this is posted. My first Lenovo laptop, looks to be now my goto brand. Last laptop Dell.

One person found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Good for the price

I like what it does for the price. It did not come with the caddy and cord for the hard drive upgrade. I contacted Lenovo several times to get these parts and no one seemed to want to help. Be warned, if you have issues be prepared for poor customer service from Lenovo. Other than that, I’m happy with my purchase.

One person found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Great laptop, but undercut on RAM.

It’s great for the purposes I use the laptop for, being obviously gaming, but the false advertising on the RAM is a bit annoying. It is stated there are 8 gigabytes of RAM installed in the Laptop but in actuality, there are only 6 GB (5.9 if we’re being technical). It isn’t too bad but some games won’t run all that well with a lower amount.

4.0 out of 5 stars

good potential but with some disadvantages

powerful machine within reasonable price, nice designbut with some disadvantages like ridicules ram size (only 8GB), limited SSD (256GB) and very short battery life.Lan port is also not user friendly.it is also very heavy.I wish I had the ability to upgrade the spec at buy time like ram and SSD upgrade.

5.0 out of 5 stars

Good enough…

This is my personal review.I bought two of these for my nephews. I have enquired from them as to the performance.1 is being used quite rarely, the other is used almost continuously. Both said that these are doing what they are expected to do.One is being used for music and games, and from what I am told it can do with some more “space”.When asked if they would recommend this, they both said “yes”.

One person found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Pretty Decent

This laptop was a very good purchase. I originally got it for university and have since use it for some gaming and now work. 2 years in and it is still going strong. I recently ran Baldurs Gate 3 and it looks pretty good and runs smoothly. Its a bit on the heavy side but that is expected of most gaming laptops. My only complaint is that the battery life is pretty poor. Other than that its a good laptop.

3 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

It’s a good laptop, but I was a little disappointed.

I like basically everything about the laptop except the battery life, it feels like it doesn’t last that long and I have been using it for around a year and a couple of months, what really bothered me is that the camera hasn’t been working for no reason at all, I have taken the best care with this computer and nevertheless, the camera is effed up, its disappointing, but not a deal breaker. Im glad I dont reaaaally need the camera, because if I did, it’d be a huge problem. Other than that, the rest is great.

3 people found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Very Pleased!

I’ve used this machine to replace both my productivity and gaming solutions. I was using an All in One Inspire for working, editing and occasionally producing music. (It was horrible.) I also was using the original SKU of the PS4 as my primary gaming machine.This laptop is running all of my productivity apps without issue as well as running games at comparable or better performance without any upgrades thus far (I bought the 8gb RAM model.) For a fast reference, I’m running Halo Infinite at 50 – 60 FPS; this is also my first PC, I have no idea if I’m running the correct graphic drivers, etc.Overall very pleased with this. The product deserves an extra star for the fact the screen brightness can be completely minimized, alone.

4.0 out of 5 stars

Buena Laptop para iniciar

La pantalla es de buena calidad y buena taza de refrescamiento, el teclado es muy cómodo, tanto el procesador ryzen 5600h como la grafica gtx 1650 te da una buena base para gaming puedes agregar otra ram para y desbloquear el dual channel, la laptop incluye todo lo necesario para agregar otro disco duro de 2,5”, y material de construcción a pesar de ser plástico es bastante rígido. Su mayor desventaja si lo puedes ver así, es su tiempo de batería, sin hacer mucho dura a lo sumo 3 horas, pero las laptops deben estar conectadas a la corriente para rendir al máximo. (actulizacion) la compre en 2021 y hoy a 2024 sigue al 100 con su respectivo mantenimiento)

One person found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Great for it’s price

The PC is one of the best for it’s price less than 750 with taxes, it feels extremely solid and well built, has a very nice industrial design plenty of ports, a good white backlite keyboard, it is also thiner than I expected it to be. One little detail is that trackpad and the material gets a lot of finger prints, battery life is a little bit short but understandable due to the specs, general I love your getting 4 gigs GPU, 8 RAM upgradable to 16 gigs, 256 SSD m.2 nmve which you can switch to 1TB and add another TB Ryzen 5 5th gen it is a great PC I would say one of the best budget options

3 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Works great with games but does have its limits

I believe this laptop is pretty good the first gaming laptop I’ve ever had I have my own desktop that I built but the quality is amazing I’m glad that there’s an option to add another ram stick and storage device but the latest driver for the mouse pad is kinda broken so whatever u do don’t update the mouse driver other than that it’s a really good laptop once u throw another 8gb ram stick in it and another storage device which isn’t that bad

4.0 out of 5 stars

Sound volume is very low at max

Soo, I bought a four post to three post 3.5 mm cable to plug to plug into a car stereoport. It did not work. Now the left speaker does not work. I suspect the socket is broken.ArrghUpdate. I took the back panel off. Next I reseated every connector associated with the sound.Now the speakers work. It still has low sound. Bluetooth speakers solved my problem.Otherwise, decent laptop. I bumped it up to four.

One person found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Bang for the buck!

Owned this laptop for a week now and been playing God of War with no hiccups. No regret buying this laptop, easy to open the back for upgrades. The only thing I don’t like is no M.2 standoff to install a 2280 SSD. Now my Samsung EVO 970 is useless since I cannot install it. 4 Star unless Lenovo will provide free M.2 stand-off and screw 😀

5.0 out of 5 stars

Great office sleeper

If you’re like me and travel for work the. You have the burden of shlepping around a laptop. But you don’t want to stand out in a meeting so you don’t buy an RGB gamer for double use.That’s where this comes in. I added in a 1TB SSD and 32GB of RAM and this thing is smoking fast.Also the Windows 11 upgrade was free on mine. So don’t waste your money. Just let windows update automatically to it.

One person found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Solid gaming laptop

This is a good laptop for gaming, especially at its price point. I would recommend upgrading the storage because it comes with 256GB. I upgraded the ram as well and this laptop can run almost any game with no problems. The battery life could be better but I usually have it plugged in anyways for better performance. Overall, its a good laptop for anyone wanting to start PC gaming.

One person found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

It wasn’t new warranty was already activated

I love my computer this is the brand i always buy. However this computer was not new the warranty had already been activated leaving me with only 8 months of coverage I will only purchase from Lenova like beforehand.

One person found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Buena laptop barata

Las especificaciones que tienen son demasiado buenas para su precio, es ligera, sirve tambien para codigo, facil de trasladar.Lo malo es que se ensucia feo y la bateria puede ser mejorable