The build quality is pretty solid, with a well-made screen and limited flex in the main-deck. ![]() As for the multitude of stickers, you can easily peel those off. Lenovo went a bit heavy on the stickers and branding though, with LEGION branded on the lid and under the screen, LENOVO plaques on the lid and on the arm-rest, as well as audio by Harman writing under the keyboard, at the left. ![]() The Legion 5 is entirely built out of plastic, and it hasn’t changed much in terms of design language from the previous Legion Y540 generation.Īesthetically, this is a dark gray laptop without any gaming accents or RGB lights. Update2: Our review of the moost recent 2022 Legion 5 (gen 7) is also available here. Update: In the meantime, Lenovo updated this laptop, and our review of the 2021 Lenovo Legion 5 15 with 3050Ti graphics is available here, our review of the Legion 5 with mid-tier RTX 3060 graphics is available here, while our review of the Legion 5 17-inch RTX 3070 model is available here. They are also already available for the Intel-based Legion 5i model. Higher tier GTX 1660Ti and RTX 2060 models are also announced for sometimes later this year, and those are a much better match for the competent AMD processors in this lineup. We’ll touch on all these options in the article. Lenovo offer this laptop in a couple of other configurations, with various amounts of RAM and storage, Ryzen 5 4600H or 7 4800H processors, GTX 1650 or 1650Ti graphics, and several screen variants. Optional 4-zone RGB backlit keyboard with NumPad, 2x 2W stereo speakers, HD webcam Radeon Vega + Nvidia GTX 1650Ti 4 GB GDDR6 (50W, GeForce 446.14) – switchable modeġx 512 GB SSD (SK Hynix HFM512GDHTNI-87A0B) – 2x M.2 NVMe 80 mm slots on this variant ![]() Video review- Lenovo Legion 5ġ5.6-inch, 1920 x 1080 px IPS 60 Hz, 16:9, non-touch, matte, BOE NV156FHM-N6A panel That’s a good deal and what convinced me to go with it in the first place, however, the Legion 5 goes for significantly more in other regions, at least for now. My unit also gets a 60 Hz 300-nits panel with 100% sRGB coverage, the RGB keyboard, and the 80 Wh battery, and all these for a total of a little under 1000 EUR over here. Unfortunately, that’s the most powerful GPU option available for this laptop right now, and also its major bottleneck when it comes to GPU heavy loads and games. My configuration is the Ryzen 7 4800H processor with 16 GB of dual-channel DDR4 3200 MHz RAM, 512 GB of SSD storage, and the Nvidia GTX 1650Ti graphics chip. ![]() Spoiler alert: In many ways, this is even better than I was expected based on all the hype and my past experience with Legion products, but it’s not without issues. I’ve bought this locally about two weeks ago and have been using it since, and you’ll find my thoughts and impressions down below, with the strong-points and the quirks that will help you decide whether this is the right buy for you or not.
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