Customer Ratings & Reviews

So, nice chassis on this computer and I was happy until a few glaring faults became impossible to ignore. First is the GPU. This is a low watt version that will be roughly equivalent to an Nvidia RTX 3060. I expected more in this price range, but I still would have kept the computer if that were the only issue. Next up we have 16gb of single channel RAM soldered to the board meaning you’ll be seeing plenty of stuttering and hiccups during more demanding games. Worse yet, if you want dual channel RAM you’re limited to an 8gb stick. Then there’s the backlight bleed. My goodness, the backlight bleed! What poor quality control! At this price it’s unconscionable. Finally, AMD CPU’s don’t like iTunes for some crazy reason. I’ve been unable to load and view a single movie from my library despite extensive trouble shooting. This is a poorly thought out computer, avoid it and spend your money wisely.

This pc has been amazing over the months that I have been using it

It has been quite some time since I have used an all AMD product and it is good to see they are staying up there in competitive power. This Lenovo Legion Slim 7 is surprisingly fast, has a huge sharp screen and my fingers aren’t getting cooked like some other high end laptops I have used. I think the only real downside to this system is the limited ability to upgrade it. With no second M.2 slot and only 1 replaceable RAM slot, you can’t expand much other than externally. As with any new computer, you get through setup and perform all the latest Windows updates. Then, you have to grab the Radeon drivers because the ones Windows keeps installed are not the latest. Once you finish all that, everything is zipping right along. Had a couple crashes before I realized I didn’t have the latest Radeon drivers though. Also, I was about to drop it a star because I didn’t see the FN+Spacebar to enable the backlit keyboard with low/high/off toggle. The simple included manual just showed a symbol and I was looking all over the FN keys for that symbol. It is only white, but serves its purpose just fine. Once I was updated I was playing games and everything ran really well. Colors in everything are vibrant and the 165hz refresh really shows. With some things I do, it was odd to have a different resolution of 2560x1600 instead of 1440, but most things pick up on it just fine. Besides, you can always change the resolution, you just get the black bars added in, still prefer the larger screen aspect though. As with most slim laptops, ports are small as well. But, sufficient enough for most use and with USB 3.2 Gen 2 and Gen 1 you can use all kinds of expansion adapters. You have two USB type C with Display port 1.4 and two USB Type A ports, HDMI 2.1, SD card slot and 3.5mm headphone/mic port. It also has a 1080p webcam with a switch on the side to disable it. I personally prefer the physical covers because I can see it blocking the camera. This method, you just have to trust it is working. Another thing most computers come with is their own special software, like this one has the Lenovo Vantage and Legion Arena that gives you more personalization. However, a couple times in the first few days I would get interrupted with a pop-up reminding me to register or the chance to upgrade. When you get into the Lenovo Vantage, there is pretty much an upgrade option or subscription for everything. Extended warranty, security, privacy and they all have added benefits. Then you also get the typical notifications from McAfee which is pre-installed. The overall build of this laptop feels pretty rigid and tough. There isn’t much flex to the main body like I have seen on some and the bottom is made to maximize air flow. The cooling design really helps keep it cool as some I have had to keep fingers inside the keyboard at all times or risk feeling a bit cooked. However, it does make some fair fan noise. This can be changed through FN+Q or the Vantage software for a quiet mode, but you might get some throttling. The modes are also displayed by the color of the power button, which is also the fingerprint scanner. I found the placement visually pleasing, but functionally it feels awkward in the middle. Overall, if you want to step away from the Intel/Nvidia combo, I feel this is right up there in comparison. The 3DMark and PCMark came in a little lower than my i7/3070, but that could also have to do with 3D Mark not having updated information for the Radeon RX 6800S yet as it said “Graphics card not recognized”. With the larger screen you also get a 96% style keyboard with a full number pad in a compact design. This computer is certainly worth considering when you are looking around this range of gaming laptops.

I just purchased what I believed was a brand new Lenovo Legion Slim AMD Advantage 16” Gaming Laptop. Instead, I see not only is there a name on the opening screen of my CPU but as this person is the system administrator, there are certain things i cannot do. This seems like a pretty dishonest practice. I shop at Best Buy frequently. I’m a total tech member. Now im wondering how many other products i paid for as new bit are really used.

This is the first discrete Radeon GPU equipped machine that I’ve used in nearly two decades. Matrox and 3dfx were still relevant major players in gaming the last time I had a system with a discrete Radeon GPU. After a few days of heavy gaming on this system, I’m regretting being such a stubborn brand loyalist. I should have revisited the Radeon line a lot sooner because this machine packs quite a punch. The slim chassis has an attractive brushed aluminum finish and looks more like a business laptop than a powerful gaming machine. I wouldn’t call this machine heavy, but it does have a solid weight and feel. External ports include 2 USB-C, two USB-A (rear), HDMI (rear), 3.5mm mixed audio, and a 4 in 1 card reader. There is no built-in ethernet port, which is a little disappointing. I use a USB-C ethernet adapter but prefer a built-in dedicated port. There is a fingerprint sensor integrated into the power button. The fingerprint sensor works reliably with Windows Hello, although the position just below the screen is a bad spot for those with large fingers or long nails. This system has a large buttonless trackpad that supports multi-touch gestures. The backlit keyboard has plain white backlighting instead of adjustable RGB lighting. I don’t miss the RGB and the white lighting is more than sufficient for low light use. The keys have a nice sturdy feel with no looseness nor excessive play. There is a tiny webcam that is smartly positioned offscreen in a little notch along the top of the lid. This positioning allows me to install a privacy slider without being forced to stick the adhesive to the actual display. The 165Hz display is nice. There is a slight bit of light bleed in the bottom left corner, but no other visible faults. The light bleed is minor and only visible on dark backgrounds and in low light. The panel has good viewing angles and is free of any hot spots, bad pixels and other flaws. Screen brightness and color saturation are both excellent. The 2560x1600 resolution is vivid, and text and images are sharp and crisp in both gaming and desktop use. The color temperature and calibration are decent out of the box but Lenovo also included the X-Rite screen calibration app allows calibrating and tweaking colors even further if desired. The screen is HDR capable. HDR was initially too bright by default and my games were really blown out and overly bright. A quick tweak of the brightness in the Windows display settings fixed it right up and HDR now looks phenomenal in games. It’s worth mentioning that activating HDR automatically disables the X-Rite app. Gaming performance is outstanding. I compared this machine against a similarly equipped laptop containing a Ryzen 9 processor/chipset, 16GB RAM, 165Hz display, and an RTX-3070 GPU. I used the Forza Horizon 4 benchmark on both systems. Both produced similar results with negligible differences(+/- 1fps). They basically run neck and neck with the biggest differences being slightly better lighting effects on the 3070 and the fact that this machine runs cooler. I was surprised by the impressive cooling capability of this system, especially considering how slim it is. The RTX system turns into a portable space heater after 30 minutes but this system was barely warm to the touch even after hours of gaming. Both machines can run the latest gen games on high, ultra and even extreme settings. Games typically default to ultra with this machine and I average 97-105 fps in FH5 with everything set to ultra. Frame rates go as high as 165 fps at times in FH5. I verified the frame limiter in the Radeon app is disabled by default. The only time I encounter locked framerates is in certain games with v-sync enabled. I’ve played Flight Sim ‘20, Back 4 Blood, and Halo Infinite in addition to FH4 and FH5 on this system. All of the games run smoothly with high frame rates and no visual issues. I did notice a few hiccups and dropped frames while playing Forza over Wi-Fi. Attaching a USB ethernet adapter resolved the dropped frames. That’s a streaming issue because I encounter the same dropped frames over wifi on any system. I was only ten feet away from my wifi-6 router while dropping frames. This is why I feel ethernet is essential to gaming systems. Oddly, I never got any low streaming bandwidth warnings like I get on my other systems but the frame drops were definitely caused by low streaming bandwidth because they completely disappeared after switching to ethernet. I did curiously get a low system memory warning once while on wifi but nothing else odd was observed and it only occurred once. I’m treating it as a one-off unless it happens again. Gaming performance on ethernet is perfect. No dropped frames, no low streaming bandwidth, and no weird memory warnings. Even when playing Back 4 Blood and getting attacked by hordes of zombies with two other online multi-players, frame rates remained smooth, high, and consistent. The default internal storage is 1TB, which can handle several recent AAA title games. Space will likely become an issue with larger gaming libraries, especially if they contain multiple 120+GB games, like Flight Sim 2020 for example. On my system, Forza Horizon 4 and 5 and their associated DLC take up over half my drive space along with Windows. The Legion works well with my USB-C external gaming drive but doesn’t appear to be compatible with Thunderbolt drives. I tried two different Thunderbolt drives and neither worked. Sound quality is mediocre, even by laptop standards. This is the one category where the RTX system wins by a landslide. The RTX system has rich, warm sounding speakers. These Legion speakers sound like basic, run of the mill laptop speakers. The highs and mids are flat and lifeless and bass is virtually non-existent. I strongly recommend using external speakers, earbuds, or a headset. I even use a headset with the better sounding RTX system, so it’s absolutely warranted here. The speakers wil work in a pinch but not enough for a truly immersive gaming experience. Fan noise is moderate and the fans frequently run loudly, even when not gaming. For example, they tend to blow loudly whenever the system is applying Windows updates. Bluetooth works well and I haven’t had any issues with a connected Bluetooth headset, mouse or Xbox controller. The power brick and cord are both large and heavy. The cord is a thick gauge, like a desktop or printer cord. The brick also gets moderately warm during use but not warm enough to burn or harm people or property. This Lenovo Legion has restored my faith in AMD and the Radeon RX6800S feels on par with the RTX 3070. The one thing I wish I could test is an RTX GPU with Intel CPU and chipset against this Radeon system. AMD processors are an obvious better match with AMD GPUs than Nvidia. That’s based on actual experience with several systems containing various configurations. I had two Ryzen 9 systems with Nvidia RTX graphics (desktop and laptop). Both had a Ryzen 9 CPU, AMD chipset/w Radeon integrated graphics, and an Nvidia RTX 3000 series GPU. Both systems always seemed disjointed, especially when it came to graphics switching. I’ve had instances where one system tried to play games on the integrated Radeon graphics rather than switching to the discrete Nvidia GPU. I’ve also had the Nvidia GPU disappear completely after updating the graphics switching software. A Ryzen CPU and chipset matched with Radeon integrated and discrete graphics feels much more natural. I have no issues with graphics switching and everything feels much more cohesive. From my experience, Nvidia GPU’s seem to work better with Intel chipsets and CPUs, and Radeon GPUs seem to run better with AMD chipsets.

I have been using Gaming Desktops and laptops and looking for a high-end slim gaming laptop for portability. I got a Lenovo - Legion Slim 7 AMD Advantage Edition 16" WQXGA Gaming Laptop. The packaging is excellent, and this laptop is very slim with an elegant design. It has premium look and is beautifully crafted. In the box, it came with a laptop, charger, and User guide. Setup is relatively easy. I have connected the desktop with 32inch 4K monitor using an HDMI cable. It came with Windows 11 operating system. It took less than 10 mins to connect with Microsoft account and update all necessary drivers with the latest version. It has an excellent configuration to play any PC games. It has AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX @ 3.3GHz mobile processor with smart eight-core, sixteen-way processing performance. The 16-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600) display with a 165Hz refresh rate boasts impressive color and clarity. It has 16GB DDR5 onboard for advanced multitasking and substantial high-bandwidth RAM to smoothly run complex games and photo- and video-editing applications, as well as multiple programs and browser tabs all at once. This laptop came with a 1TB SSD. Due to SSD, boot-up is very fast and data access is instant. The graphics card is AMD Radeon RX 6800S GPU with 8GB GDDR6 dedicated video memory for a fast, advanced GPU to fuel any type of game. AMD Radeon RX 6800S is an amazing graphics card, and I was able to use my Samsung Neo 49" monitor to pair up with this laptop. I must admit that the graphics are simply superb. Due to the high-end graphics card, the picture quality is really crystal clear on the big screen for 4K videos. There is no Thunderbolt port and ethernet port on this laptop. This laptop has Windows 11 Home operating system and weighs 4.51 lbs and measures only 0.83" thin. This laptop has many ports 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack, 1x HDMI, 2x USB 3.2 Type-A, and 2x USB 3.2 Type-C. It comes with a 1080P Built-in HD webcam with a microphone for video calls and office calls. There is a physical switch on the right side of the base to turn the webcam on/off. The keyboard is Backlit for easy typing in dim or dark locations. It supports Wi-Fi 6(802.11ax) for faster downloads while playing online games. The sound quality of the speaker is great during Streaming, recording, and gaming. Battery life is excellent and provides 8 hours of continuous usage. The speaker’s sound quality is not great and it could have been better. It is not a big issue for me as it is connected to my external speakers. I have been using this laptop for a week now and played various games. All games were working perfectly without any issues. It is running very quietly and did not get warm either. I am using it every day and can play any PC games and video / photo editing as it handles everything without any glitches. Lenovo Legion Slim 7 laptop is an excellent gaming laptop except speaker sound quality, and it comes with 1 year manufacturer warranty.

I am on the computer ALL day and I am a hard core gamer/computer user. I am an Engineer by trade and a total Geek to PCs. This Lenovo Legion is pretty nice. Setup was fast. Typical windows updates and I was in. I ran a benchmark software and the specs came out what was advertised. Dual fans and charger ran super hot so the benchmarking really pushed this PC. Peripheral connections are nice... 2 USB C ports. 1 headphone jack. Camera off button... Nice... 1 SD card slot. 1 HDMI and 2 USB A ports. Charger is pretty big. Just fyi. Fingerprint reader is pretty responsive and easy to use. Screen is nice.. no cut off with viewing angles. Colors are vivid and bright. No lag or latency. No lag with game play. 10 key is plus for those who need 10 key. Keyboard is responsive. Build is nice. Metallic feel. Weight is solid. WiFi has good speeds. Hard disk speeds are good too.. This is my first Lenovo laptop. I have owned a Lenovo desktop that is mid grade gaming and it lasted a while with no issues. With that in mind, I would recommend this product for game play. Good job Lenovo.

From testing quite a few “Gaming Laptops”, I’ve got to say, of all the ones I have, this may be my favorite. That’s not to say there’s some downsides, but most of what I’ve experienced has been great. Front and center is the aesthetics. This is on the opposite side of looking like your average jet fighter or thick dictionary like laptop. There’s some sleekness here and there, but it’s kind of got a Business up front, Party in the back look to it. There’s a full keyboard with a generously sized touchpad. For I/O, we got some standard Type A USB ports on the rear along with a very welcome HDMI 2.1 port and a proprietary rectangular port for the AC Adapter. There are 2 USB Type C ports on the left of the laptop, and on the righthand side you can find the 3.5mm Audio Jack, and SD Card Reader. Sadly, I didn’t have an SD Card available to test out the port. Battery life seems to be pretty decent. There’s a built-in option within Lenovo’s software to keep the batter at 80% if you’re using it primarily plugged in to prevent wearing out the battery quickly which is a big plus since most others will always fully charge and keep it fully charged. Didn’t get around to testing out just how long, but given I had it fully charged, enabled the 80% charge mode, turned it off after some test and fired it up a few days later, it was still at around 65%, I’d say even during gaming, you’re probably going to see a couple hours. Performance wise, it was surprising. This is a lower performance 6800M chip that’s focused more on power efficiency than outright performance. That doesn’t mean it’s not capable of playing anything modern cause it certainly can. For Cyberpunk which is a pretty standard bench for me and the latest update has helped some things, with Ray Tracing on Ultra with FSR on Ultra, I saw around 35-40 FPS on average with jumps to 60 FPS. Not nearly RTX 3070M territory like on my other laptop, though DLSS does work more efficient. 2077 unfortunately only makes due with FSR 1.0 and AMD has long since moved to 2.0 plus there’s the option of RSR if running below native resolution. Without Ray Tracing things improved substantially. Sadly, I can’t find the screenshot, but I did manage with a mix of settings see a high of 160 FPS. I believe that was using the Performance FSR setting with mostly High settings. The screenshots in the review here I’ve labeled. With FSR Ultra quality and the High Preset averages were in the upper 50’s with spikes as high as 100. Ultra-Preset was averaging a little higher for the average, just under 60 but the peak was only 88 FPS. Quite a respectable showing for a thin and not quite top trim Laptop with all AMD hardware. This is all also to be taken in mind that the native resolution is 2560x1600 with a 165hz Refresh rate. Not a resolution we see much of anymore as it’s typically 1080p, 1440p and 2160p. For another game I tested out The Division 2 as it’s always been pretty partial to AMD. I didn’t get the screenshots saved, but running it with max settings with no upscaling I was seeing around 60-80 depending on the location and how much happening on screen. I did turn a few settings down like Volumetric Fog as even on my desktop with a 6900 XT it can take a major hit to performance. There’s really only 1 con with the laptop and it’s one that really confuses me and that I agree with in other reviews, and that’s the Storage capability. This thing, for nearly $2000 has only 1 NVME slot. There’s even room on the board where another slot could have been added. I don’t know if this was a cost cutting measure or something they’re holding out for with a higher priced model with higher end 6800M or even a 6900M but again, it’s very surprising. The last 3 laptops I’ve had have all had 2 slots so I just don’t understand this decision. It limits you with your storage options, where instead of just adding a cheaper large secondary drive, you’d have to spend more money on a single larger drive and depending on your needs, that means between $200-750 for upwards of a 4TB drive. I do hope that moving forward they acknowledge this misstep and give us, the users more options. I’d happily forgo a SD slot in favor of another NVME slot. All in all, it’s a great laptop aside from a boggling compromise with the storage options. At $2000, I’d find it pretty hard to recommend over the Intel version of this which has a second NVME slot. You’re essentially trading performance and storage for something that’s going to last a bit longer on battery. If you’re less concerned about performance and want more off charger time, the AMD model will better suit, otherwise if you don’t want compromises and more storage capacity, look at the Intel Legion model.

This has everything you need for gaming, but it is also great for work/everyday processing needs. I really like the design of this laptop a lot (elegant comes to mind) and since I have always had Intel I am impressed with its AMD processing power and video capabilities. All of this wrapped up in a size that is more portable (4.5 lbs.) than most gaming laptops. If you are looking for something to game with but can also help you in daily processing needs this fits the bill nicely. It has run anything I have thrown at it. Running my games seamlessly (I don’t game nearly as much as I used to and when I do, they are more pedestrian these days and I don’t use RT). Running 2021 Adobe Photoshop and Premier (video) Elements editing is very fast as is moving files, word processing, excel, etc. Also, I looped a 1080P video with Bluetooth off and Wi-Fi on and it ran for almost 9 hours before battery went into safety mode. It was very quiet during most of the Windows and Lenovo updates as well as doing my editing, etc. There are confusing options to wade through between MS, Lenovo and 3rd party software to tune performance/functions. The design is sleek and looks great in flat/ shiny grey. The LCD QHD matte screen with 16:10, 2500x1600 resolution, 165Hz, 10bit color and 500 nits – provides fantastic reflect free viewing. It is also Dolby Vision, HDR400 certification. Screen lays completely flat and is connected at each end to base. Seems very sturdy. On/off/fingerprint is in the top middle of keyboard and close to screen hinge. This makes it hard to get finger read sometimes. 1TB SSD looks to be Samsung MZVL21T0HCLR-00BL2 PCIe 4x4. CrystalDisk score was fast at 6629.11 MB/s read and 4971.33 MB/s write speeds. Looks like 2TB is max you can add with no 2nd internal drive – why? 16GB with 8GB soldered in and 8GB DDR5 4800 slot. Specs indicate 16GB is max which is a tad disappointing, especially given 1 slot is soldered. Backlit keyboard options seem to be off or on low/high. Option to turn on when dark and touching a key doesn’t seem to be available, at least I could not find it – but again many different software/hardware controls to wade through so I may find it yet. With laptops size the keys are quite large and easy to read but I found them to be a tad resistant when pressing. You can control array of keyboard color options which is fun to play with. Trackpad is decently large with offset to the left but is centered on space bar. Moving mouse is very responsive but I don’t do taps, just left/right clicks so cant speak to that functionality. Speakers - Harman 2 x 2W with Nihimic sound technology. I initially didn’t have this on and was dis-appointed with the sound but once Nihimic was turned on and tuned I was very happy with the sound. Wireless is AX is as fast as it gets. SD card slot. Why use SD – why not micro-sd so card does not stick out when using/traveling? 1 Headphone/Mic jack E-shutter button to turn off camera. Nice for security. 2 USB-C 3.2 Gen 1 connections – 5Gbps on left side. 2 USB-A Gen 3.2 gen 1 connections in back with 1 powershare always on. Power connection is in the back. Power cord is long and has reasonably sized inline block. I have a USB-C 100W charger and was able to charge using that as well. So, you can leave the brick behind… No Thunderbolt port and I wondered why. Seems Thunderbolt is licensed by Intel – which explains why AMD doesn’t support/have it. No ethernet connection. No displayport. 1-year warranty. There are a lot of things to like about this laptop, especially if you want a portable gaming rig. But it doesn’t seem to be very up-gradable friendly as some competitor’s machines are. But overall, a nice user experience and do recommend

Great Gaming Laptop! The Lenovo Legion Slim 7 Gaming Laptop is a solid laptop for work, gaming, and personal use. I have a gaming desktop and have to say this is a great alternative, especially for a portable device. This is my first PC using an AMD graphics card, so this was a new experience for me. I’ll go over the likes and dislikes of this laptop… My Likes: Design – Sleek, lightweight laptop with minimal bezel, and number keypad is always a bonus for me. Performance – My favorite thing about gaming laptops, is their general performance, not just for gaming. Everything runs smooth and fast, this laptop is no exception. Multitasking is great! Gaming Performance – I play a lot of First Person Shooter games, been on a kick of mostly Modern Warfare and Cold War lately. With the settings on high, I still get 130-150 FPS on MW running with High settings, and 50-60 FPS on Cold War with Ultra Settings. Everything runs smooth, just have your V-sync enabled since its an AMD graphics card. Make sure to run the gaming profile under AMD Radeon software to squeeze out extra performance. See benchmark scores below. Fingerprint Scanner – Has worked perfectly so far. Fast and responsive, nice green light circle around it when its ready to log you in. Also begins to flash when battery is running low. Screen w/Dolby Vision-Atmos – HDR on another level. - Bright screen with rich colors @500 nits…exceptional quality for a laptop - Great resolution with 165Hz refresh rate. Makes gaming and movies detailed and smooth - Tested Dolby Vision with a sample video from Dolby’s site of glass blowing (download it for best results, right-click and save-as). Using the new Windows Media Player will let you know its Dolby Vision when the video loads. Looks pretty good. - HDR for Modern Warfare looks amazing. I love rich bright colors that are not saturated, and this particular game supports HDR. Battery - Battery life is pretty good considering how powerful and relatively light this laptop is. Ran a heavy workload doing Windows updates and updating game settings for over an hour, and only dropped to 50%. Charged up to 89% while gaming in less than an hour. - I did confirm it has a pretty fast recharge time. Started charging at 5% for 30 minutes and it made it to 62% while the computer was running…not bad. Other notable pros: - DDR5 is the latest and fastest memory, so its nice to be future-proof there. - “Flip to Open” software setting allows you to turn your laptop on just by opening it (neat feature IMO) - Has a USB-C 4.0 port for 40Gbps transfer speeds - Speakers sound pretty good and get to a decent volume Benchmarks - Crystal Disk (Hard Drive speed test) – See attached image. Good speeds! - AMD Graphics - 3d Mark exceptional comparison to a 3070ti scores with the exception of Raytracing which Nvidia does have better technology for this, but I find this less important when playing multiplayer games - 3d Mark Scores: o Time Spy Overall Score – 8363 o Time Spy Graphics Score – 8297 o Time Spy CPU Score – 8297 o Port Royal (Raytracing Benchmark) – 3454 o 3d Mark CPU 16 thread Profile – 7464 (Beat my 5800x AMD Desktop Processor!) - PC Mark Creative Profile – 9264 ( Beat both my desktop and previous gaming laptop!) My Dislikes: Lack of upgradability – Memory is limited to 24GB, comes with 16GB (8 Built-in and 8 removable). Most gaming systems or heavily multitasking systems these days need at least 32GB to run flawless on a heavy load. Also, no room to add a second NVMe hard drive. This is not very common for laptops, but I feel like a high-end system should have these options. See attached picture of the internals. Design of ports – The 2 USB-A ports are on the very back of the laptop. This is just extra hassle for adding peripherals. There are 2 USB-C ports on the left side, but most of my accessories still use USB-A. Also, there is no ethernet port. I always try to use a hard line for my internet as you get the best speeds and minimal latency, but there is no option built-in. Luckily I have a mini-docking station I can use that adds this. --------------------------------- Overall, this laptop performed very well. I didn’t experience issues like I have with Nvidia graphics cards on certain settings which was a nice change. CPU outperformed my Desktop in several tests. I do think this laptop should have included at least 32GB of memory or at least be capable of upgrading to it. I can max out 16GB no problems these days (I’m currently using 47% with only a few browser tabs opened). One other thing that was annoying was the location of the touchpad which is set off center to the left, which can cause problems when gaming with having your palm accidentally press it, but this can be disabled with the function button. I think the Pros strongly outweigh the Cons, so if you’re on the fence, this would be a great a laptop for most people.

I have gone through a number of gaming laptops the past few years. My use case has changed a few times resulting in swapping devices. With that in mind, this one checks a lot of boxes and stacks up well compared to some of the other ones I have used. The keyboard and screen in particular are awesome on this machine. It is one of the best keyboards I have used on any laptop, let alone a gaming specific one. It has a little less travel than I typically prefer but has very nice tactility overall. I really enjoy the typing experience. Which is great because I am currently using it for school. The touchpad is also solid but nothing to write home about I feel. The screen is probably the best I have used. It is large, bright and seems pretty color accurate to my eye. Now I do not do professional video or photo editing. However, games and content look great. Though from reviews I have seen, I believe the Asus m16 outpaces this display a bit, namely in color accuracy. The high refresh rate is also great for gaming. Lastly, the high resolution and 16:10 aspect ratio are great for even general use. Just nice having more screen real estate to work with when you only have a single screen. To shift gears towards some of the other things about this device. The battery, so far, is decent. With a lighter power profile and the screen set to 60hz and about 60% brightness, I get around 6-7 hours of lightish use. Solid for a gaming laptop, though there are still better options if battery is your primary focus. Thermals seem to be another strong point. I have not done much temperature testing on the hardware but the laptop stays cooler to the touch when under load than most others I have used. The fans also dont get too loud. It is very reasonable under load and I could use it without headphones comfortably. I/O is solid but unspectacular. Lenovos software is solid and allows you to toggle between hybrid mode or only using the dedicated graphics card. Which, weirdly, reduced graphics performance in synthetic benchmarks on my unit. As well as some other things like capping the battery to 85% to improve longevity. The build quality is quite strong, with it feeling well built and certainly not cheap. One of the most notable flaws for me is the lack of an extra m.2 storage bay on the all AMD model here. I was not aware of this until after I bought it. It is not the biggest deal and I probably missed somewhere obvious saying it but it is still a bit of a bummer. Though I am sure 1TB of solid state storage will be enough for most users. I hadn't touched on graphics performance but it is also very solid. Especially considering the relatively low fan noise and high resolution display. I can play most of my library with no issues at native resolution. Should easily max out the 165hz refresh rate in esports titles too. According to 3dmark timespy, admittedly not a perfect indication, it performs similarly to a desktop 3060. In any case I am very impressed overall. So far, I have not found any clear shortcomings. Seems it might be a laptop I use as my primary for a long while. I would certainly recommend it to anyone who is interested.

Bought this laptop a few months ago, have played with it for a while to get a feel for it and I'm writing now to say that I love it! It runs the games I enjoy playing very smoothly, the battery life is decent and the display is large. My only issue would be the hotness of the laptop when it's running something that's a bit taxing on the system. I've actually burnt my fingers before. Other than that, I love it, and have no more complaints!

I got to say I’m pretty excited to see what this Lenovo Slim 7 AMD Advantage Edition with the Ryzen 9 can do. I use an older Ryzen 7 desktop for everyday use and an I7 11th edition all-in-one for gaming. I opened up the box and this laptop looks well made. The aluminum/magnesium blended material used to case the PC is light, strong, and beautifully crafted. I then pull out the power brick and it’s a brick. This thing is big and heavy. It has a heavy-duty power cord to let you know it means business. It comes with 16GB of ram, but one is non-removable. An online tool says you could remove and replace the slot one module with a 16GB up to a 32GB stick, but I read on the Best Buy site that you can only upgrade the slot one module from 8GB to a 16GB. That was posted by a Lenovo Product Expert. It ships with Windows 11 and only needed a few updates. It doesn’t ship with a bunch of bloatware, which is awesome. A lot of manufacturers are doing that now. Nobody wants that stuff to begin with. The 1TB SSD is upgradeable to 2GB, but there isn’t an extra slot, so you would need to clone it and use the old drive elsewhere. The laptop has the AMD Radeon RX 6800s GPU with 8GB of GDDR6. While it’s not comparable to a desktop, it’s right up there with laptop graphics. The keyboard can be backlit in white (not RGB) or not and there is a headphone/microphone combination jack. The laptop includes (2) USB/C 3.2 ports on the left side and (2) USB/A 3.2 ports on the back. Oh, and there’s an SD card reader on the right side, I’ll post pics. There is a front-facing camera (1080p w/ E-shutter and dual array mics) at the top of the monitor which is barely visible. Unless I have something checked wrong, the camera doesn’t look to be compatible with facial recognition (Windows Hello). So let us charge this up and see what it can do. I opened up a paid streaming music channel and picked a song with good vocals and bass. I wanted to see how it sounded. The Nihimic music default settings sounded good, with decent separation and not at all muddy, but it just lacked punch. Not much bass and at 100%, it was just too low. Adding a Bluetooth speaker to the Nihimic surround sound setting fixed that, albeit a need to carry an additional item. I didn’t experience surround sound as the laptop speakers stopped playing or I just couldn’t hear them over the Bluetooth speaker, which sounded great as it always does regardless of the source. It’s nice to have an easy way to pair up the BT speaker. I wanted to try Forza 7, which seems to have issues on different PCs. Maybe that’s why it’s no longer available? It’s a fun game though and I thoroughly like playing it. Once I got it downloaded through the store and installed, I plugged in a controller and fired it up. I usually play it on an all-in-one 34” PC and it does great. To me, the game loaded faster on the Lenovo Slim 7 than on my daily gaming rig. This game is known for not being very optimized. I played the game for 71 minutes and it averaged 42.7 fps. Not great, but very playable. I didn’t notice any lag or glitches while racing or going through the menus. I did however notice the loud fan noise when loading the game. The noise lasted for minutes after shutting down the game, which seems normal, and I didn’t find the noise bothersome once I was immersed in the race. The laptop has the Lenovo Coldfront 3.0 which allows 20% more airflow through the side vents and fans. I should add that I downloaded the latest AMD software Adrenaline Edition and that’s where I got the information. I’ll post a pic. With AMD Adrenaline installed, I played about an hour of Madden 22, and it ran beautifully, but when I went to fire up the software, the driver had updated somehow. I got this version doesn’t match your installed driver. I rolled back the driver, and it opened up the software but didn’t log the game..ugh. I’ll just say it didn’t lag, the music played without issue, and I won the game. I also ran a benchmark on the system, and it scored a 4490, which isn’t anywhere near the top with desktop gaming rigs, but the GPU scored in the top 99th percentile, which if I’m reading correctly, is the best you can get with this setup. The CPU scored 75% so not a slouch. There’s a pic of the results included. Just FYI, I was updating some of the software and discovered that Fn Q controls the power mode. Press them once and the power button turns red (power mode full if needed), press them again and it turns blue (quiet mode), and finally press them once more and it turns back to white (auto). I’ll have to see what other function combinations I can find useful. Finally, it’s a great gaming laptop and plays well. I’m a bit concerned about the lack of being able to upgrade the ram, add storage, etc. Things can be exchanged for a larger item, but not added if that makes sense. I’d recommend the laptop to someone that wants to install their games and start playing. If they’re looking to play and then tweak the machine, I’d suggest looking at some alternatives.

The Legion Slim 7 AMD Advantage Edition is both an excellent laptop, and a showcase for AMD’s latest laptop technology. It comes to the table sporting a slim profile, top notch screen, and a high end CPU and GPU. It does this while sipping power and staying quite quiet if asked. First of all, inside the box you’ll find a well protected Legion laptop and a 230W power brick with the standard square Lenovo power plug (you’ll recognize this if you’ve ever had a Lenovo ThinkPad or IdeaPad). The laptop itself is quite handsome. The system is a dark gray gunmetal color with a matte finish. The casing is anodized aluminum with chamfered edges that lead into a brushed metal finish on the sides. Up top the keyboard is white backlit with a full complement of function keys and a number pad. Above the keyboard is a power button with built in fingerprint reader - flanked on either side with drilled holes for the speakers. Also interestingly the screen doesn’t quite hinge at the rear. Instead there is a slight overhang that provides room for the vents, and ports. Overall the build feels quite solid and premium. A note on style; The Legion is a powerful gaming laptop, but doesn’t scream gamer like some laptops I’ve owned. Its subtle styling would fit in an office environment no problem. Even the backlit keyboard on this model is only white and very function over form with a layout similar to many of the other Lenovo laptops. It's thin and relatively light (weighing in around 5lbs on my scale). On the rear there are 2 USB-A Ports, the Lenovo power port, and a full sized HDMI port. It’s nice having these markings illuminated because reaching around trying to plug in power or HDMI can be a pain given the similar port sizes. Around on the left side you find 2 USB-C ports, the first (closest to the back) supports USB 4.0 (40Gbps) while the second is a USB 3.2 20Gbps port. Over on the right side an SDXC card reader and combo headphone jack are found. Sandwiched between those is a camera disable switch. Obviously Windows 11 is featured on this laptop and it comes relatively decluttered, save a McAffee LifeSafe install (which to each their own, but I just use Windows Defender). Lenovo’s suite of software to manage, monitor and give you a tour of your device are adequate with Lenovo Vantage being the most useful. It links to all the other useful utilities and features. There is a game library aggregator, call Legion Arena. It allows you to hook together multiple storefronts into a single launcher. As far as the hardware goes, the 6900HX is a potent chip. 8 speedy cores, and 16 threads put this chip into desktop grade category - yet it sips power when asked. It doesn’t hold up against Intel’s latest 12th gen mobile in synthetics, but for gaming it’s more than adequate. Boosting up to 4.9GHz, the chip represents AMD’s latest mobile Zen 3+. It includes the Radeon 680m built in GPU, operating at 2.4GHz, and offers 10 RDNA 2 compute units. The chip can consume nearly 90w when in performance mode (double its TDP rating). The RX 6800s is supposed to be a more power efficient RX 6800m. Instead of a more power limited 6800m chip, we get a fully enabled Navi 23 chip (desktop 6600 XT). This chip offers less memory bandwidth and less infinity cache than Navi 22 - truly giving a different performance profile. That said it keeps pace with a 3070 in many games. AMD’s drivers have come a long way as well. The included SSD in my unit was an SK Hynix that read sequentially at 7GB/s and wrote at 6.5GB/s. This is a very fast NVMe PCIe 4.0 drive. At 1TB of storage, it hits the needs of most gamers for storage. Bootup was quite fast, and general performance very speedy I played multiple games and benchmarks and found the 6800s to be a powerful enough GPU to handle most games sans ray tracing at native resolution and high details. Elden Ring ran excellent at native resolution and very high settings and my old standby - StarCraft 2 was smooth as butter. Running on battery the GPU goes to a lower power state, but does still run fast enough to be playable in many scenarios. The battery won’t last that long gaming, but you should be able to get over an hour easily depending on the game. Perhaps even more is achievable using the frame limiting capabilities of the latest Radeon software. One nice thing about this laptop is that it does come with 3 months of Xbox Gamepass Ultimate - which gives access to a huge library of games through the Xbox app. Lenovo has taken the time to make quite a few hotkeys, tweaks, and otherwise impressive hardware extras to this laptop. Fn+Q will switch between different hardware profiles for power limits. Performance, Balanced, and Quiet round out options - and each has its place, but Performance essentially allows the CPU and GPU to max out their power limits nearly indefinitely (or at least until thermally limited, which we’ll see happens with the CPU more than the GPU). Silent keeps the CPU limited to 25w package power, keeping it nice and cool while still offering great performance. Auto allows a short boost to max power limits before ratcheting down to the sustained 45w power limit the chip is rated for. These settings really can allow you to dial in the right amount of performance/power usage. Now, most gaming laptops are somewhat serviceable. For those interested, removing the back cover is a simple task of removing 8 screws. Once the cover is off, there is a single ram slot, single M.2 (already populated w/ the 1TB SSD), and wifi card accessible. The Ram slot is DDR5, and is populated with an 8GB chip. The M.2 SSD is PCIE gen 4 4x. The WiFi card is a 160Mhz RZ616 from Mediatek. Beyond that, there are only fans to clean out and a relatively easy battery to remove/replace. Not the highest serviceability but definitely not horrible. Overall the Legion Slim 7 offers a really nice package. You get top notch performance and great cooling/thermal performance. For the price, it’s not the fastest machine, being outpaced by Intel and Nvidia’s offerings near this price range. However, as a showcase of what’s possible from AMD. Zen 3+ is an extremely power efficient setup, and the 6800s maintains great thermals and sips power in its own right.

Laptop has great performance and a battery life of 6+ hours while on quiet mode and less than maximum brightness. Fans are almost silent on quiet mode but can get very loud on balanced or performance, which has kept it from getting too hot in moderate gaming. When I first purchased the laptop, the network drivers gave out after 13 days. After a few quick fixes didn't work, I factory reset the laptop, but it still couldn't connect to internet upon start. Was on hold with Lenovo support for over an hour before giving up and exchanging it for a new model. After a week, this model has already "blue screened" a couple of times. While I have longevity concerns, this laptop does everything I need it to do and more.

This is the first time buying a gaming PC. Not a huge gamer, but I'll play 45 minutes every few days. Mostly wanted a new laptop to replace my 2012 Macbook that I do some browsing, small tasks, etc on. This laptop is more discreet than the other flamboyant RBG keyboard gaming laptops ive seen and that was a big selling point. You could take this to the office, coffee shop, class and nobody would know you're a gaming nerd. Downloaded Apex Legends and it gets consistent 140 FPS in balanced power mode (I didnt mess witg any other settings as i dont know how yet). Laptop stays cool in balanced mode, but can get very hot in performance mode. You shouldn't need performance mode IMO as balanced mode is still very powerful. One downside if you are going to use this laptop for school, travel, etc is the powerbrick is absolutely massive. You'll be lugging around 7 lbs with the laptop and power brick combined. Build quality is excellent though and its a handsome machine. Would recommend finding an open box version of you can and saving $600 like i did.

Open Box was horrible. I purchased it rated “Excellent” and the display was damaged on the bottom. I immediately took it to BestBuy to get my return.

While it may look like a business laptop with some gaming flair thrown in, this Legion Slim 7 AMD Advantage packs a pretty good punch - and does it sipping power. What I liked: [Screen and Graphics] The screen is bright and crisp. With thin bezels and a 16" 165 Hz screen, it didn't exhibit too much flex. The Radeon RX 6800S performs much better than the Nvidia RTX 3060, but below the RTX 3070 gaming laptop I normally use - but it still takes care of business; and playing VR games - both Steam and Oculus (including Air Link) was no problem at all. [Network, Storage and Memory] Wifi 6 gave me good connectivity and I had no problems streaming content and games, although I still would have liked to see an ethernet port on the back. But I got around that with an ethernet-USB-C dongle. The storage is FAST with a Samsung PM9A1 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe drive. I got speeds close to its 7000MB/s read, 5000MB/s write specs. This 1TB version may not be enough to keep all of your games on it though; but the 16GB DDR5 RAM is fast and seems to be just fine for my level of gaming. [Power] Yes, it's a gaming laptop, so it comes with a big power brick. But this kid is packing 230W and isn't really THAT big considering. I've also had this thing running for about 6+ hours on battery, just doing basic work (no gaming) and often just on standby, and the battery is just now about to hit 50%. I'm sure a good gaming session won't see that kind of battery life, but the architecture seems pretty efficient and the key combo to quickly adjust the power use works wonderfully: Quiet Mode really is quiet! [Other Good Stuff] * Definitely a thin gaming laptop. Great as a travel gamer. It's not the lightest, but also not the heaviest for what it does. * A healthy dose of ports (except for ethernet). * A 1080p HD webcam. It does the job, but not for Windows Hello. * The power button is also a fingerprint reader. What I didn't like: * The keyboard is just "OK." I find the curved chicklet style buttons to be a bit stiff. Also the number pad keys are squished. * Again, no onboard ethernet jack. * The speakers. I find the audio to be...lacking and not impressive at all. Even after some tweaks in the Nahimic Audio settings, there just wasn't any "oomph." Higher bass settings didn't compensate for the seemingly distorted treble - and trying to mitigate it resulted in a more muffled tone. But all in all, I like this laptop and will use it for my quick gaming needs.

I bought this today for my new gaming PC. Upgrading from a HP with a GTX 1650. After setting it up and doing all the updates it is outstanding. The screen is bright and very crisp images. Playing CyberPunk 2077 at Max setting(No RT) and the native screen resolution was very smooth and around 80-90fps..Fortnite looks amazing on this screen and was sitting right around 120-130fps on epic/high settings. Sniper Elite 5 runs super smooth max settings also as does Resident evil village. I have it on a laptop stand with a keyboard and mouse hooked up so haven’t used the onboard keyboard much but it feels solid and the track pad is very sensitive and responsive. I can’t see needing a new computer for many years hopefully.

Purchased mine open box, around 1,400 dollars shipped after tax in excellent shape. Notes on the condition: laptop was indeed in excellent shape. No scratches or damage of any kind. The screen has barely any bleed which was a nice surprise! I always expect more screen bleed than this one has. Notes on build quality: I really like the build quality. I was comparing this to a Asus G15 and the build quality of this laptop feels much more premium. It Is solid feeling and no quality control issues I could find. Keyboard feels very nice, and has little to no flex. Screen hinge is tight and little wobble. Screen has little to no bleed, the G15 would bleed pretty bad, and you could even see the bleed change as you opened and closed the lid. Not with this one. Notes on the screen: Other than the screen bleed, I will say the G15 had much nicer colors and contrast, but this Lenovo has a taller screen and it’s much brighter. It’s still a beautiful screen. Notes on the performance: Honestly this was where I was a bit impressed. The G15 I was trying had the same processor (except the HS version) and the RTX 3060. This RX8600 was on average 10-20% faster in all the games I tested. With everything set to Ultra, basic RTX on and FSR On Quality in Cyberpunk 2077, I am able to get an average of 80 ish fps. Even in the big parts of the city it hardly drops to 60. The RTX 3060 with DLSS on instead dropped nearly 20fps less than this one. This was at the native 2560X1600 resolution. I’m excited to see what performance we can get out of this chip when FSR 2.0 begins to be implemented in more games, where it could potentially put perform DLSS. Forza Horizon 5 on Ultra/Extreme with ray tracing on high resulted in 52fps without AMD FX, 57fps with it at native resolution. The RTX 3060 got 42. A note on temperatures: The temps seem very in control, but I disabled turbo boost. If you need to know how to do this, just look up “disable turbo boost registry windows” on google. This keeps my CPU temp under 75 during heavy loads (actually even in the high 60s sometimes while gaming). The GPU with no tweaks seems to hover in the mid to high 70s, the “hot spot” has gotten as much as 92, but I only really care for the average. The laptop has not gotten too hot to the touch even after hours of gaming. The center bottom can get a little hot, but not unbearable. Final verdict: At the price I got this at (around 1,450 shipped) this is an amazing value. At full price, I’m not sure if I would consider it, but even if you buy at full price, you are still getting a well balanced, competent machine with just the right mix of build quality, portability and performance.