Lenovo - Legion Pro 7i 16" 2.5 K OLED Gaming Laptop - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX - 32GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 - 2 TB SSD - Eclipse Black

This laptop checks almost every box I was looking for in a gaming laptop. It has solid build quality, and is much quieter than the previous Lenovo Legion products I've owned, especially if gaming on balanced mode. This thing is a beast... You can pretty much max out the graphics settings in most games and it'll still run buttery smooth. The cooling that exhausts through the back is surprisingly efficient, and I think justifies the relocation of the ports to the sides of the machine vs. the previous generations that had them on the back. The fans move A LOT of air, so I feel confident in the cooling over time. The powerful Intel CPU runs hot, and can spike well above 90C under load, but average temps are usually much much lower. Overall, the selling point for me on this particular model was the 240Hz OLED screen, which is by far the greatest I've ever played on. The glossy screen effectively preserves those deep blacks and super rich OLED colors unlike any matte screen could, and I've found the screen brightness is adequate enough to easily use the laptop without issue even in a well-lit room. I'm incredibly happy with this machine, and I think Lenovo absolutely nailed it with gen 10.

Honestly wasn't planning on buying one of these when I initially saw the design and first impressions - however due to this being available before any of the new ASUS products I decided to pull the trigger. I have to say, I'm impressed - the screen is gorgeous, the keys are nice, and the speakers sound surprisingly good (I'd say they're not as good as the G14/G16 but close and I'm happy with them). I did immediately turn off pretty much all of the rainbow vomit lighting except for the keyboard. Also as a pleasant surprise, this comes with 2TB of storage (2 x 1TB), contrary to the Best Buy listing saying it only had 1TB. I've been playing Forza Horizon 5 (where it averages about 155fps without any DLSS) and Sniper Elite. The system stays remarkably quiet on balanced mode. I haven't noticed any issues with overheating. Also this came with a minimal amount of bloatware pre-installed, mostly just McAfee and some Microsoft rubbish. The new LegionSpace app seems efficient and well organized - no issues with it so far - much better experience than Armoury Crate or Razer Synapse. At one point in the last year I had a G16 4090 so I'll use that as my point of comparison. The Legion was priced about $300 cheaper than the old G16 and the new 5080 G16, has the 275HX instead of 285H the G16 has, and has user serviceable RAM. The Legion also runs at the full 175W of the GPU whereas the G16s have reduced power limits due to the thin size and cooling restraints. I think that the design of the G16 and speakers might be the two points I'd give to ASUS, but for the money, the Legion is solid. I also like that Lenovo offers an option to extend the warranty an additional 3 years for just over $100. I've seen a number of folks gripe about Lenovo removing the rear I/O on the Legion - I personally don't mind - the charging port is located in the back corner, so its out of the way and I don't plug much of anything else into my laptop (wireless mouse and keyboard). All in all, I'm hanging on to this one and recommend it 100%.

This is a costly machine, but has outstanding performance and quality. I have real enjoyed my new laptop so far. It does weigh a little more than I would have hoped for at almost 6 pounds and the power cord is on the large size. The screen is outstanding as well. The 16” size is great. I would have liked the screen to be a touch screen.

I bought this laptop to replace my old gaming laptop that is starting to have motherboard issues. Had it shipped to me and was my doorstep the next day. Upon unboxing my newest toy, I couldn’t help but admire the build quality and how fast it was. The OLED screen is amazing. The colors pop at you and the difference is night and day from LCD/LED screens. I ran a 3DMark Steel Nomad benchmark and scored a 5240. Not bad at all. I will be running benchmark again as I had several applications running in the background which may skew the score. Overall, I am very happy with my purchase.

This is one of the most impressive laptops ive seen from best buy. Lenovo knows how to keeps the prices fair compared to competitors. This is a beast of a computer. One of the specs isnt right on best buys website. Unless mine was a fluke. I opened it up to insert a another ssd thinking that there would be an empty slot.. to my surprise there was another 1tb ssd for a total of 2tb! The sound is definitely not as good as the asus zephyrus oled g16 but the screen is way better in my opinion. Lenovo really killed it this year with the oled panel. Smooth and beautiful even without gsync.. lenovo seems to use its own adaptive sync that really didn’t work for me in the past but this time they nailed it. This thing is a little heating pad. The cpu runs VERY hot. In performance mode the cpu stayed over 100c while gaming. Doesnt seem to healthy but im no expert. It didn’t seem to effect performance at all. They make it easy to set your desired max temp in the customized performance setting and i couldn’t even tell if it slowed it down at all. Its not the prettiest laptop on the world. They did decorate it with a lot of led lights but when they are off its very plain. Its very light and easy to halndle. Overall, I think its a keeper!