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The gaming laptop that delivers insane hardware and performance at a competitive price relative to competitors in the market

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Lenovo's gaming monster: Legion 5i pro

The gaming laptop that delivers insane hardware and performance at a competitive price relative to competitors in the market

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Design, keyboard and touchpad

After many years in which the gaming computers have suffered from excess weight and quite shocking designs, the Legion 5i pro does not suffer from these problems like the gaming computers that preceded it. When we take the computer out of its package, we find a computer with a gamer look but not one that screams to the sky, a heavy weight relative to the ultra-light laptops of the business world, but if you take into account the crazy hardware under the hood, it is not bad weight at all.

While many gaming companies are trying to make their computers in the category ultra-thin and light, Lenovo has taken a completely different direction, and they have scored a bull. Instead of giving us the lightest computer with a relatively thin design, the computer is wrapped in a rigid and impressive aluminum packaging, and has dimensions that provide it with the ability to accommodate a much more efficient cooling system than most competitors in the market right now.

With an excellent fan system (and quite noisy it should be noted), efficient vents, and excellent heat sinks located right on the motherboard, this is a size that is no less necessary and even necessary.

(Photo: Official Website, Lenovo)

Throughout the company's rich history, Lenovo has always been recognized in the computer industry as the best computer maker when it comes to its computer keyboards.

Well, the Legion 5i pro's keyboard also hits the mark.

Every click feels steady, the depth of pressing the keyboard buttons provides us with the feedback we need to be confident in each and every one of our clicks and clicks, and I did not get to feel any unnecessary clicking or sudden double click.

Because of the decision to put a 16-inch screen inside a 15-inch computer frame, thus leaving super-thin sides to the screen frame, Lenovo put themselves in no small dilemma, what to do with the touchpad?

Well, unfortunately, the solution that the company's engineers came up with is no less strange, and even terrible at times.

(Photo: Official Website, Lenovo)

Make no mistake, the touchpad works great, and it comes with all the most advanced drivers, but the touchpad location is the issue here.

Since there is not much space on the bottom of the computer, Belanovo decided to put the touchpad not in the center of the bottom of the computer, but in the more left part of the bottom.

How about someone who designs a gaming computer who has not bothered to think for a moment what the game experience will be like for the user, if the touchpad is in a direct line below each player's most useful buttons - the W, A, S, D buttons?

This is a location that detracts from the game experience, because if we do not turn off the touchpad before every time we turn on a game, many times without noticing my palm pad accidentally touched the touchpad, thus moving my game camera, and tactical shooting games, and any contemporary action game , This is a serious glitch that also goes up in my performance as an actor.

(Photo: Official Website, Lenovo)

Briefly on the subject of RGB - the keyboard comes with a full RGB system and four different areas of lighting so you can play with the fairly wide range of colors that can be said to exist, in the software built into Lenovo's computer, the Vantage.

In terms of connections and connectivity, the computer comes with all the latest devices, and every possible connection you just want to connect to your computer.

Overall this is a gaming computer designed and ventilated just the right amount, but I highly recommend using an external keyboard and mouse while playing.

(Photo: Official Website, Lenovo)

screen

This may be the highlight for me. As I touched on earlier, Lenovo has managed to push into the body of a 15-inch computer, a 16-inch screen, and the panel itself is the best one could ask for. Instead of providing us with a full HD screen with a high refresh rate at a disproportionate and useful level of 360 Hz, this is a screen with a resolution of 2560 by 1600, with an excellent refresh rate of 160 Hz. The screen also supports HDR, reaching a maximum high brightness of 500 nits.

The panel itself is wrapped in matte, a protective layer that prevents reflections from various lighting fixtures, so that while playing there is nothing that can interfere with us seeing what is happening. It is important to note that instead of the most standard gaming screen format found in most computers, the screen found here deviates from the norm (16: 9 format) and has a 16:10 format.

This is the best format currently on the market in my opinion, as it actually increases our screen height so that more content can be inserted at the top and bottom, and for most people in the world, whose computer is the only solution for both games and studies / work, it is a great decision and one to appreciate .

Overall this is a screen that can provide the best gaming experience any gamer could ask for, as long as the computer hardware can provide it. And the Legion 5i pro definitely delivers the goods.

(Photo: Official Website, Lenovo)

The computer comes with one of the most powerful processors on the market, the Intel core i7 11800H, an eight-core processor with a speed of up to 4.60GHz, and an extremely powerful graphics card - Nvidia RTX 3070 (with a power output of 140 watts). This is hardware that is supposed to provide no less perfect performance in any type of game, and in any type of genre.

If we play at Full HD game resolution, we can also maximize the image quality in the game on ULTRA, and also get ultra-high frames of 140-160 frames in most modern games today, like Call of Duty, Overwatch, Apex Legends, and more.

If we increase the resolution to 1600p in a large part of the games, we can still reach the high frames that the computer screen can provide us, but in particularly heavy games like Cyberpunk 2077 (the name will be a demo) or Sony games like Horizon Zero Dawn, Days Gone, Death Stranding and Red Dead Redemption 2, all games that present a realistic picture that is second to none.

But on the other hand, they require super strong hardware to display the best image at the highest resolutions, so at 1600p we get about 50 frames to the 90 frame area for high / ultra image quality depending on the game (the heaviest cyberpunk and red dead from the list, there Frames can be expected between 45 and 55/60).

Throughout the game hours, I saw no crashes, no weird glitches, and just got to enjoy game performance, which no console can recover.

Just wow.

(Photo: Official Website, Lenovo)

In terms of the battery life of the computer, like any other gaming computer of this size and with such power, even here you can not find a particularly long battery life.

The 5 Pro provides about 5 hours of standard work at a maximum of 50 percent brightness, work that includes surfing the web, watching videos and writing in Word software.

And of course there is nothing to talk about playing time, a case where the computer also does not provide satisfactory performance to run the games at maximum power (because it does not rely on the power supply that significantly enhances its capabilities) and the battery does not enjoy much - about 45 minutes of playing time Paul puts enough effort into eliminating the battery completely.

(Photo: Official Website, Lenovo)

price

Since this is perhaps one of the best gaming PCs on the market right now, the price of the PC is accordingly high.

The suggested retail price of the Legion 5i pro is NIS 9800.

If we compare the hardware and performance specifications of the computers of the competing companies, it is quite a competitive price, so if we are looking for the best computer that can be obtained right now, you can buy the Lenovo Legion 5i pro, and even "save" about 1000 shekels compared to similar specifications at The corresponding models.

It is important to note that excellent gaming computers can be obtained at slightly lower prices, which will provide quite good performance, but the computer itself will not provide a complete and complete computing experience like the one found in gaming computers in this price category.

(Photo: Official Website, Lenovo)

In conclusion

The Lenovo Legion 5i pro is one of the best gaming PCs on the market.

It is a computer with first-class technical data, one of the best screens that can be found in a computer of any kind, a variety of connections and an excellent keyboard despite the most problematic touchpad.

If Money is not an Issue, and you do not want to settle for the next generation consoles of Sony and Microsoft, and it is important for you to find the best computer, it is probably the perfect package that goes head to head with the supply of competitors in the market.