Nahimic audio software comes pre-installed and allows you to change presets for music, movies, gaming, and communication. The display, meanwhile, is a 16in 2,560 x 1,600 (165Hz) number, with a slightly square aspect ratio of 16:10. The Lenovo Legion 7i is a flat laptop with a backside that notably stretches past the device’s hinge and houses most of the computer’s ports. It turns out the best Intel gaming specs you can get on a laptop also make for pretty strong productivity performance, at least against other high-spec gaming laptops.

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Our time spent playing Cyberpunk 2077 on the highest settings with ray tracing on looked like a movie, and the display played a big part in that. It's easy to use the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility to undervolt and overclock the i7 to achieve better than i9 results. The Lenovo Legion 7’s 16-inch QHD IPS display with a 16:10 aspect ratio has a resolution of 2560 x 1600 and up to 165 Hz refresh rate.

The roughly three-hour-long battery life this device managed in our testing wasn't great especially compared to some other laptops out there. On the downside, however, the keyboard lacks a numeric pad, the sound system is just good rather than great and it costs more than the Legion 7.

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Combined Nvidia and AMD internals The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 is a good mainstream gaming GPU, and AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800H. Rise of the Tomb Raider, set to its most demanding settings with ray tracing enabled, scored 99fps at native resolution, while the lowest score I got from Wolfenstein: Youngblood was 105fps and that was with ray tracing on, DLSS off and running maximum detail levels at 2,560 x 1,660.That’s a little ahead of other premium competitors like the Alienware x17, and well ahead of laptops like the Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE. At least the battery is recharged quickly with the 300-watt power adapter, especially when the express charging function is active. The machine does get hot to the touch after 30 minutes or so of gaming, and the fans are loud enough to overwhelm the audio system (all real gamers use headphones, anyway), but this is common to all gaming laptops.

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This is easily among the most powerful Intel/Nvidia laptops we’ve reviewed yet, and what makes it better is that its lack of lifestyle branding leaves it just a touch cheaper than what you’ll find with competitors like Alienware. Additionally, the graphics mode can be switched in the Vantage software and you can set it so that only the dedicated graphics card should be used. Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest. When gaming, you can expect around 250 watts, and is even slightly above 300 watts for a short time in the stress test. Performance remains completely stable even under prolonged load, but consumption quickly levels off at around 40 watts in battery mode, which corresponds to a performance loss of a whopping 75% in the multi-core tests.According to Lenovo, the laptop’s body is made from aerospace-grade aluminium and is as solid as a brick outhouse, while the Storm Grey colour both looks and sounds the part for a serious gaming notebook. Full power ahead: Lenovo combines the fastest components on the market in the Legion 7 16 and installs them in a stylish aluminum case with extensive lighting. Maybe its most noticeable feature is its stylish but bulky vents, which sit along the laptop’s sides, under its screen and along its bottom to provide it with plenty of cooling without ruining its slick appeal. Across all of our performance tests, this laptop achieved scores that put it well above almost every entry in our best gaming laptops list.

Lenovo Legion 7 Review: Hot and Heavy Powerhouse

We tested the Lenovo Legion 7 with Windows 10 Pro, but most configurations now ship with Windows 11. Combine this with the G-Sync display and you get an impressively smooth experience with incredible graphics.I thoroughly enjoyed using this keyboard, despite generally disliking laptop keyboards with a number pad.