Customer Ratings & Reviews

Build quality and concept is miles ahead of their competitor, the ROG Ally, but unfortunately these two devices share the same mediocre hardware. Build: 8/10 | Build quality feels great compared to the ROG Ally. Screen appears to be high quality, but the controllers do lack the 'heavy sturdy' feel to them. I understand if this was a method to save weight, but the controllers feels more on the cheaper side. Performance: 5/10 | Unfortunately, this is the part that made me return the device. The device struggled to play modern games even at 20-30 FPS without having to lower the quality. Sure, you can lower the quality/resolution/refresh rate and play at 30-40 FPS, but that defeats the of the brilliant screen it came with. I guess if you bought this to watch videos it'd work, but this is marketed as a handheld gaming device. Overall | Long story long, if you're a gamer that loves the play older indie games, watch videos, want to have a portable Windows device, then this might be for you. However, for the vast majority who want to use this for real gaming, i'd wait a couple years until companies start putting REAL chips in these devices. I'm talking about ACTUAL sweet chips like Ryzen 7/9. It's entirely possible that AMD adds these chips to these devices with added cooling, but since portable gaming is fairly making it's way back to the market, I believe they're just testing the waters first. Given the amount of possible returns of these devices, I'm sure they'll reconsider!

Pre ordered mine and got it today and as soon as I touched it I knew I liked it more than the ally and deck. Love the design of it, the screen size, speed of it etc. Will be selling my ally and keeping this most likely. I got the 1TB version and it’s worth every penny. Love the case it comes with as well unlike what ASUS gave us. Performance wise, it uses the same chip as the steamdeck and Ally, but the extra ram and SSD def make things go smoother.

Overall, it is a great device, I been using it since launch and there is definitely an increase in performance over the months. Battery is not bad but could be better. Performance is great I usually do not play demanding games such as cyberpunk 2077 in this device but if you know how to teak it you can easly get 60-70 fps.

I've been an avid Steam deck user for most of that devices life. So all of my options are going to be colored by that experience. The Lenovo Legion Go is a very well equipped device that sadly fails to stand up under the weight of its own design. The Touchpad is a fantastic thing to have when navigating around windows. But its positioning causes me to have to readjust my grip on the device every time I switch to or from it. To make matters worse, when gaming sometimes the touch pad will registering a click or mouse move from my palm, which can cause a verity of problems. Fps mode is an AMAZING idea. The thought of having a real mouse with me whenever I need it is freeing in a way, especially since this is a windows 11 device. But the design used to achieve it is very lacking. The right controller just feels like a mass of buttons in both FPS mode and normal use, further reducing the ergonomics of the device. Speaking of Ergonomics, Its awesome that I can disconnect the controllers from the display and not have to hold the whole thing up all the time. That can get tiring and I find myself drooping down to my lap no matter how light the device is. That said, Who thought it was a good idea to make the sides of this thing hard edges!? They dig into my palms and its annoying that such a obviously bad design choice was made, presumably to favor the silhouette. The display is huge compared to my steam deck(LCD) and originally had me smitten with that feature alone. But At a resolution of 2560x1440 and refresh rate of either 144 or 60. This thing was never going to work well in a hand held. My desktop with a RTX 3080 couldn't meet those specs in most games. It does have the option of 1920x1200 which is MUCH more reasonable, but still a struggle with performance this thing can put out. It would have been MUCH better at 1920x1200 display running at 60hrtz with VRR. I played most things at a resolution of 1280x800, this was partially done to match the steam deck in like for like testing, but mostly it was because this device couldn't do much better than that. I was frankly very disappointed that my steam deck was almost always only 10-15 fps lower in like for like testing. Given that I've gotten an extra 5-10 fps from my deck when overclocking I was expecting the Z1E to put out much better numbers when given 20-30W of power. Especially given its much faster memory. Perhaps rather than going for faster they should have given it more, as I regularly hit max memory usage in game. I usually got around an hour and a half playing on the legion go, even when running in balanced mode, it just eats battery life. That's partially due to having to power 8CPU cores even when they aren't doing much and the big ole display. Not to mention the very fast ram, which as far as I can tell, is wasted on this device, Because... The software sucks. Windows is windows, Its a known quantity, its not efficient, its meant to be run on a billion different configurations of systems. So I can't be too hard on it. Legion space, is a big ole eye sore. I rolled by eyes every time I pressed that button. (which happened a lot since its where the pause button should be) The smaller system settings was much better. (but the button is still in the wrong spot) But even then, the custom TDP just didn't work, at all. I would set it at 5W and the frame rate wouldn't change. But if I dropped to balanced TDP suddenly the framerate would tank. The RSR button didn't seem to do anything. and the option to change resolution would cause all kinds of weird things to happen. Also the system monitor seems very lacking when compared to the steamdeck. I've perhaps been rather hard on the legion go, but that's mostly because I was really excited for it and feel rather let down. The design decisions seem made to either make it look pretty at the cost of comfort, or for the sake of bigger numbers on the box rather than efficient performance. Which is truly a shame, this device deserved to be better. So I'm sticking with my deck for awhile longer, and If you have one, I think you should too. I will miss that 8in display though.

Getting the legion go original on sale for 600 or less and installing steam OS on it is the best handheld pc deal around right now. For one thing UE5 games work properly, lumen lighting is still broken in windows, but works fine on steam OS. If you are in the market for a handheld PC and you want top end performance for less money, get this on sale and install steam OS.

This product is amazing buy it. But not from bestbuy.——————- i purchased this item full price, 2 days later they drop the price. I contact chat price match, agent complies and fails to submit a complete action, fast forward to never receiving the price match refund, only to be told it was not completed after i received confirmation, stating “chat disconnected” the new agent states out of 15 day policies. Good luck. Not honoring or accepting the failures of the processing. Great job best buy 5 stars

To everyone here complaining that the software is bunk; you’re right, its terrible. ChimeraOS is a free community developed alternative to SteamOS and even in its current pre-release phase for the Legion Go, it provides a much better experience than Windows and it’s getting better and better every week as it gets updated. If you are, at all, concerned about software that isn’t fully baked, it should be in a much more complete state by mid-December or early January at the very latest. Games are currently fully working, but some buttons to navigate the UI don’t work.

Great product amazing tbh but if youre gonna order this product order it from amazon or your local computer store. Anywhere but here. If youre not going in the store to purchase directly. DO NOT ORDER HERE YOU WILL HAVE CONSTANT DELAYS AND THEM SWITCHING YOUR DAYS AT THERE WILL WITH NO COMMUNICATION. REFUND POLICY, SHIPPING PROBLEMS CONSTANTLY HOENSTLY JUST BUY IT FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE INSTEAD OF WAITING 2 WEEKS. BESTH BUY STOCKS DIDNT DROP FOR NOTHING.

I am in love with my new toy, coming from a steam deck this is hands down. I can play any game especially call of duty which is my favorite. I actually purchased the open box and the legion looked new, so if you're curious about getting one, dont hesitate, its worth it.

I love the idea of having an on the go handheld PC, capable of playing my favorite games however there are some issues with this one. The intial setup took 2 hours for updates and drivers to install, the system is very slow on windows 11. After having downloaded a couple games I decided to see what it was capable of, first off if you expect to play any game on DirectX11/12 forget playing it on the 1440p resolution screen you will have to scale the resolution down to 1080p or lower, next the system would not get above 24 FPS in Cyberpunk (which I understand is a poorly optimized graphically intense game) with low settings and RT turned off. The system is great for smaller games like Stardew, Minecraft, and Diablo IV (if settings are scaled properly). I can’t justify spending $699 on this system or even the current $499 holiday prices, if you are going to spend this much I would recommend a lower end Gaming Laptop or even a PS5 or Xbox Series Console which is a big deal for me to say because I’ve been on PC so long. The Z1 Extreme certainly had improvements over the Z1 but FSR 3.0 frame gen lacks in improvements for the Z1 extremes FPS counter, it showed me very little improvement when toggled on (1-2FPS) in game. If you are looking for a handheld to play games that ARE NOT graphically demanding and you still want the functionality of Windows I would recommend this system to you. However if you are looking for a lower maintenance slightly faster OS and better overall UI I would strongly recommend the Steam Deck. The Legion Go also gets HOT I mean REALLY HOT, there were times even using this system where it was uncomfortableto touch the screen because it was so hot. Finally if you look at the actual specs of the Device the 7500MT/s RAM has very little added benefits and the 1TB SSD from SK Hynix has a underwhelming read/write speed leading to long loading screens and stutters in game. (Overall) if you are looking to buy a handheld at this price point, buy a low end gaming laptop, if you really need a handheld buy a Steam Deck, I think there is a future if Lenovo if they and AMD can resolve some pretty glaring issues with FSR 3.0 and lenovo needs to use a faster SSD.

Easy to adjust settings to get maximum output. The screen is big but also crisp and more vibrant then you would expect.

Fantastic device. I have no complaints. The display is awesome and it is very powerful.

very good big screem 8.8 inch , windows 11 easy to download all the game , also the FPS is very good .

Amazing picture, and almost all my games played well on ultra and high great work!

Using it as a tablet is a great experience since the screen is very good.

I have tog ally but this one is amazing, I recommend

I'm very experienced with handheld PCs, having had the Steam Deck, the ROG Ally, and two devices by independent Chinese manufactures. The Lenovo Go looks promising on paper but ultimately is just not a good device. To start, the positives. The build quality of the central unit is excellent and it feels heavy and solid in the hand. The screen is vibrant and beautiful to look at. The buttons and joysticks all feel decent. Now onto the negatives. The ergonomics is poor. The bottom edger of the controllers are not rounded off, so holding the device vertically is not comfortable. Holding it horizontally works fairly well, so this is quite subjective. In order to accommodate the detachable controllers, this device has multiple extra buttons on the sides and the back. Unlike the buttons on the Deck and the Ally however, these buttons are extremely easy to accidentally depress with normal use, leading to lots of random clicking sensation/sounds while gaming. The touchpad doesn't have haptic feedback, which makes operation not very satisfying. The speakers are mediocre. They're not awful but they're noticeably worse then the Deck and the Ally. The software is awful. It is barely functional and often just doesn't start up. There is no custom button mapping (you can only map the extra buttons to the existing face buttons). There is custom fan curves. There is no FPS capping. The gyro function basically doesn't exist. The custom TDP doesn't work. The overlay design is awful. Opening the useful overlay (on the R side) requires pressing the button THREE times. The installed drivers are outdated and the included AMD software won't even open due to this. The home screen of the gaming software looks ugly and instead of opening to your library, it opens to the ugly home screen. This device is overall not a good experience. If you are very experienced in tinkering with Windows and side-loading software to make it useable, then it might be for you. But if you just want a comfortable, competent gaming experience out of the box, DO NOT BUY this device.

I love this console. Its the perfect size for travel

i see some stuff saying that the production models are in landscape and not portrait like the early review models

I had an Ally that I returned to get this. I opted to put the money on a gift card so I could immediately go online and preorder. Up until launch day it said my order was expected to ship on launch day. Then "Launch Day", October 31st comes and all of a sudden my order says its expected to ship November 3rd. Now I wake up on November 1st to an email saying that my order is delayed, and if it is not fulfilled by November 15th, they will refund me. And the site on launch day said the item was out of stock, but even the day before it allowed you to preorder and still said it would ship on or by October 31st. Why is the communication with inventory and expectation so bad? You should have known inventory ahead of time and pre-orders at the least should have been fulfilled. It's even more upsetting to know my money is now locked to these gift cards if refunded, and I can't just go to Micro Center and pick up on, who has 50+ units in stock.