Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Don’t Underestimate This… Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 9”.
When it comes to choosing a gaming laptop Legion alongside Intel, who are sponsoring, this video have a different approach for the 2024 lineup.. So there’s the Legion Pro 7i, which is focused on packing in sorta that big performance with up to an RTX, 4090 and top-of-the-line Intel Core i9-14900HX.. But this year there’s another contender which I personally like a lot.. The Legion 7i brings a lot of what’s great about the top-of-the-line 9i to a more affordable price point and, importantly, for me, a thinner, more portable form, factor. Speaking with the Legion team. One of the main targets that they have with this 7i was for students who needed a device that can take on heavier workloads like 3D modeling, video, editing and obviously proper gaming, but can still be carried around all day long. After spending some time with the 7i. I think the Legion team have done a good job of cramming, not only the power of the Intel, HX processor and some proper RTX graphics in the package here, but importantly, they did it in a way where it’s not an overheating mess., If you are unfamiliar with The state of laptops in 2024, especially on the gaming side, just because you see the specs on the box, doesn’t mean an enormous amount, because the cooling has an absolutely massive massive bearing on the actual performance that you get.. You can get the world’s highest end, graphics, card and CPU, but if it’s not cooled correctly, you’re going to be left with subpar performance and an incredibly toasty device.. You need more than just cooling, though, which is why the 7i does come with a very nice PureSight.
3.2K panel, which kinda checks all the boxes. 165hz refresh rate, which is plenty for gaming.. It’S also an accurate and vibrant display, which you can rely on for accuracy.. I mean in one word it’s pretty. In two words, it’s real pretty..
It also is using the newer design language, which means that it has these nice squared-off sides and they’ve moved a lot of the ports that used to live on the back to the side for easy access.. The nice thing about this is yes, while you’re doing gaming or intensive tasks for a long period of time, you will wan na use the big boy power, brick that it comes with, but for everyday use. You can easily carry around the USB-C charger and it will absolutely keep you topped off. Now buying either of these systems. The power is absolutely one of the main strong suits.. So when you equip it with up to a Core i9-14900HX, you’ve got some serious firepower on board.
24 cores eight performance and 16 efficiency.. The way to think about it is, you can certainly get good, acceptable performance out of thin and light laptop that is going to easily fit in your bag. You’re, not even gon na think about it.. Not a lot of people are probably cross-shopping a thin and light and a gaming laptop, but with something specific like the 7i, which is a little bit thinner, still a sixteen-inch device, but still a little bit thinner and a little bit more portable.
It opens up the kind of tasks that you can do in a way that it’s important.. I think a lot of people are gon na, be much better served carrying this around for four years in school, as opposed to a thin and light and trying to max it 100 % all the time just to get an experience which is only a fraction of What this could deliver. Just like the big brother 9i, it’s also outfitted with Lenovo’s AI Engine LA3 AI chip., It’s a lot of buzzwords, but it enables a few main features., smart FPS scenario, detection and smart control.. It might sound like marketing, but what it’s doing is constantly scanning.
What’S on your display and tweaking the actual settings behind the scenes to make sure that you’re getting the best performance possible., All of that combined with up to an RTX 4070, the 7i should be able to handle pretty much any AAA game you throw at it.. So jumping into a match of Fortnite. This is a good way to evaluate a few different elements of the 7i.. I mean the first and the biggest is just the display right. So it’s a PureSight display 3.2K resolution 165 hertz., It’s kind of a do-it-all system, because you’ve got the thinness and the portability to carry it around with you all day.. You have the gaming performance with the cooling and the RGB and all the 165 hertz that you would need. But importantly, it is designed to be good for creators., So you’ve got an SD card slot. You’Ve got yourself a very color-accurate display, which does make a difference right. I mean yes when you’re in gaming. Of course, you just care about the frames and the response time and everything, but having a color-accurate display does make a difference, even if you’re, just consuming content. And not to mention this color in Glacier White looks so good. There we go all right., That’s how you Beat bots with the Legion 7i.
Now when you’ve got a gaming laptop with some high-end components, it is going to generate heat., There’s no way around that, but the way that you handle that heat can vary quite drastically.. So the fact that they put so much emphasis on not only trying to improve the TDP, but also to do it in a way which is comfortable, I appreciate.. How many kills am I at right now? Am I at six? This is a device which, depending on how you configure, it, obviously can get a little bit pricey. But it is not going to break the bank.. It is not going to be an insanely overkill, expensive gaming laptop and when I think about something which is easy to recommend for the long haul, you’re not going to be spending time with this and thinking.
Oh, if only I would’ve got X or Y, because you’re not really missing, anything. Specs and gaming performance are important.. I mean we’re talking about a gaming laptop here, but I like the Legion 7i, because it is the overall package.
I mean it’s a actually pretty decent, daily driver. Sure it’s a 16 inch laptop a little bit on the larger side, but there’s a lot going for It., So when it comes to everyday usability, there are a couple of things I would like to see improved. So how long it takes to wake up.. I think it takes a couple seconds longer than it really should. Like an Intel Core Ultra laptop tends to wake up a little bit. Quicker..
The other thing would be a nice improvement would be the actual size of the touchpad.. The touchpad itself is terrific, but this is something you’re using all day. Every day., I think considering this is a 16-inch laptop.
It could have been a little bit on the larger side., But all this being said, these are all fairly minor things, but nonetheless areas that I do think the Legion team could improve on.. Now the cooling system is one of the things that really makes Legion laptops. So compelling, because, with the 7i, what they’ve done this year is they have two huge fans which flank what Lenovo call a HyperChamber, a sealed chamber where the laptop gathers as much heat as possible and forces it out the back.
There’s a lot of stuff that they’re Doing here., So the fans are spinning in opposite direction, which sort of concentrates the air and pushes it out, and that alone brings the chassis temperature down about two degrees Celsius. But it especially makes a difference on the bottom of the deck, meaning that you really shouldn’t be burning your wrists or your lap.. One of the things that makes that important is that the 7i is less thermally constrained compared to a lot of other gaming laptops. You’re. Pushing up to 25 more watts of power, meaning that you get way more mileage out of that Core i9 and RTX 4070.
For all that it weighs around 2.3 kilos or five pounds. That might sound like a lot.. Remember! That’S how much a normal non-gaming laptop weighed! Just a few years ago., It’s very reasonable for a daily carry..
If all of that is not enough for you, maybe you should go pro. If the Legion 7i is the laptop that’s designed to deliver solid performance alongside portability. Well, the Legion Pro 7i cranks things up to 11., More powerful GPUs, with much higher TDP up to an RTX 4090 more ports, more cooling, more RGB, I mean the Pro 7i is for gamers, who do not want to compromise.. You want all the performance and you want it now, and you want that performance to be awesome for years to come..
Now the lack of compromise is really a theme. With this system., You’ve got a 240 hertz PureSight display paired with the Coldfront vapor cooling system, which is a ridiculous up to 250 watts of TDP in extreme mode.. The word “ throttling” is not in the dictionary or the thesaurus of the Legion Pro 7i..
I mean you pay for the specs and with this system you are getting every single one.. The impression I get is that these Legion devices, while they aren’t the flashiest it’s a forward-looking lineup.. You know they’re expanding it in a few different ways, but at the end of the day, you’re getting devices which should be reliable, which have the features which have all of the core functionality. You need that, I’ll be honest, aren’t always the most exciting.. You know, I think about me as a YouTuber, I’m always looking for something with two screens and some crazy nonsense, but at the end of the day, what kind of gaming laptop should you purchase, One that is reasonably priced that has tons of performance that will last You the long term and that’s exactly what we’re looking at here.
Now the Lenovo team are expanding the Legion lineup in a few different ways. Right So on the budget end they’ve got their new LOQ brand, but also. they’re expanding the Legion brand with peripherals and devices that are sorta outside that normal PC beat.. It just shows that Lenovo are trying to push the gaming space forward in a different way than other manufacturers are and with tech like the cooling which again pushing 200 plus watts of TDP or having these great displays or the HyperChambers there’s good stuff that they’re doing Here. And again I want to give a shout out to the AI chips because they deliver actual performance, not just buzzwords, not just marketing nonsense., It’s to me and obviously I’m biased, but to me it’s kind of hard to not respect what they’re delivering right now.. Thank you very much for watching. Make sure to subscribe to the website and also big, thank you to the Lenovo Legion team and Intel for sponsoring this video..
You can check out both the Legion 7i and the Pro 7i in the description. and until next time, my friends may your RGB be bright. Your frames be high and your lap not be on fire.
From your laptop of course. .