Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “We’ve gone TOO far – Lenovo Legion 7i”.
Let’S go on a journey of discovery, my friends., Let’s see what’s in ( hand knocking ) the mystery box.. So of course, I wan na give a shout out to our friends at Lenovo Legion and Intel for sponsoring this video and sending out this very large, mysterious. Box. We have the laptop 2023 is a uniquely great time to buy a gaming laptop..
The stars have aligned my friends, because what we’ve seen here is an upgrade that rarely happens at the same time.. Traditionally, if you’re buying a gaming laptop you’re, gon na see a new model come out and it’s gon na have a new CPU or a new screen or a new GPU., But very rarely do all of those things happen at the same time., And that is exactly What we have here with the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i, not only the brand new 13th Gen Intel Core processors, but also the brand new Nvidia RTX 40 series graphics., When you consider the CPU performance of this system, and you consider the fact that you can go all The way up to an RTX 4090 you’ve got a ton of performance and a package which you can, thankfully assume won’t be immediately out of date. When something new comes out in three months., You go “. Ah, I should have waited !”. You don’t have to wait..
Now this is part of the Legion Pro series, which includes not only this Pro 7i, that I have to take a look at, but also the Legion Pro 5i, which is very much meant to give you that high performance just on a slightly lower budget.. So, let’s start by talking about these new Intel processors., So the system I have behind me has an Intel Core: i9 13900 HX with a whopping 24 CPU cores. Thanks to things like Intel’s Thread. Director means, of course, with that many cores you’re going to have some excellent multitasking performance., But on top of that you also have a ton of performance for gaming., So with tech such as Intel’s Thread Director, which essentially allows Windows to accurately schedule programs and services based On what kind of cores you’ve got right So you’ve got those efficiency cores which are going to help you with battery life.
They’Re gon na be much more energy efficient, but we need the absolute maximum performance. Thread. Director will then say: “, Oh hey, “. Let’S schedule this onto the big cores ,”, which is certainly gon na, have a hit to like your battery life for example.. But if you’re gaming or you’re doing super intense tasks, you want every bit of performance, you can get. And as you’ll see in the gaming demo here in a minute, the amount of performance you’re getting out of the laptop which actually fits in your bag has been Tremendously improved., Not that long ago we were using Quad Core laptops and GPUs that were, like, I don’t know, half as powerful as their desktop counterparts.. Now, with some of the stuff that specifically the Lenovo have done with this Legion Pro 7i, you get so much more performance to the point where you could arguably say this could replace your desktop. Part of the reason that you do get so much extra performance are Through features such as Lenovo’s AI Engine, Now, the way this works is really interesting..
Not only is it leveraging software, which is what the older version of this did, but it also has the dedicated LA1 chip built in.. Now you may hear the words, AI and think “. Oh, my laptop needs. Ai too got it ,”, but it actually is a little bit more clever than you might expect..
So there are two aspects of this, one of which is understanding what the laptop is doing. Right now., So traditionally, you’ve got yourself a CPU and you’ve got yourself a GPU.. Each of these have their own dedicated power budgets, so maybe 45 watts for your CPU and 125 watts for your GPU, at least in the past.. Now that was fine.
That was great, but the thing is a lotta times. You actually didn’t need the max on either. At the same time, right So say I maybe have the cooling for 200 watts, but my GPU’s, taking it all up and my CPU’s just sitting around doing nothing for specific games.. Well, in those scenarios, you are actually leaving performance on the table while still having your system running, really hot and really loud, et cetera, et cetera., Now with the Lenovo AI Engine.
What you’re getting here is something which is constantly trying to learn the games that you’re playing and adjusting your settings completely independent of anything you’re seeing right. So it’s not actually like changing the settings of the game. It’S changing the actual power budgets of your individual chips.. This is really cool because to you as a user, you don’t have to do anything., It is constantly running in the background., And while it does not work for all games, this smart engine that is built inside has a ton of potential..
Now all the 13th gen Intel CPUs and the RTX 40 series graphics have a lot of performance. They also do need a lot of cooling, which is part of the reason why Lenovo brought out their ColdFront 5.0 tech.. There’S a few things involved here, including an optional vapor chamber, as well as super thin fan, blade that are up to or down to 0.1 millimeters. Wait how thin is a piece of paper, [, Kinsey ], So a regular coffee paper ranges from .05 to .1 millimeters..
So there you go., These fan blades are as thin as paper, except that they have a whole lot of them and they’re not gon na be as floppy as paper.. Actually that’s kind of interesting to think about.. Sorry, I was just getting a wild tangent here.. The thing is: having good cooling is incredibly important.
And again we’re pushing 175 watts on the TDP on this laptop, while also still preserving the rear ports.. So last year I made a video discussing why I personally think that gaming laptops have gotten good enough to replace desktops for a lot of people. And the big reason for that is just how portable this performance is.. What you’re getting here is not only.
It comes with a slimmer charger, so it’s gallium, but also on top of that you’ve got an absolutely massive battery inside 99.99 watt hours AKA the largest legal battery. You could possibly take with you onto an airplane. In addition to the brick that it comes with.
As is, you also can take advantage of USB-C charging.? In fact, you can go all the way up to 140 watts. Good luck, finding a 140 watt USB-C charger, but it will take that or obviously it’ll take like 100 watt or 65 watt charger for more regular use., And you also have yourself the AI light sync Which, as you can see behind me, will mirror your display if you’d like, which is definitely my favorite mode., Look my keyboard matches. My screen.
You’ve also got the TrueStrike keyboard, which not only has 1.5 millimeters of key travel, but it also does have the full per R key RGB per key RGP. Per key RGB per key ( beep ), But that also will pair with the RGB. That is all built all around the rest of the system, which means that it actually can look pretty nifty.
If you want to tinker.. Look, that’s a whole lot of spec talk.. Why don’t we actually play some games and see what the latest and greatest really can do.
Starting out? We have Microsoft, Flight Simulator.. Oh, this is the oh, oh we’re just doing it now.! Oh, I didn’t realize I was already taxied out., Okay! Well, let’s see if a 747 can take off at John Wayne. We’re flying., So the Tobii Horizon tech, which is built into this laptop, essentially means that for certain supported games such as Flight Simulator, I don’t have to actually use my controls to look round..
I can look right. I can look left up down., It’s a really cool bit of tech. [ Kinsey ]. Try tilting your head.. What the oh I didn’t realize it did: tilt. [, Kinsey ]. It’S got yaw pitch and roll.
Pitch and yaw.. The fact that you’re getting this level of graphics in a laptop is really impressive.. Does anyone think they’re gon na make it to the airport? I don’t think I’m gon na make it to the airport. [ Matt ]. I’M not even convinced you’re flying in the right direction., Oh god, oh god.
Wait! Wait! Wait., Okay, we’re just gon na make an aggressive turn. Here. We’re just gon na shave off a few minutes. We’re running a little bit late, here., Oh okay, but that was not what I meant to do. [ Joanna ], Hey uh! I think you crashed.
Uh-oh Moving on.. Next up, we have Forza Horizon 5, which is actually included with the three months of free Xbox Game Pass, which comes with the Legion.. So performance is one thing, but the screen quality is an entirely other area. That laptops have come a long way. The last couple of years. – This has a 2560 by 1600 display which can run up to 240 hertz, which, especially with the 4080 inside, is important, because you really wan na be able to take advantage of all of the performance that your laptop is capable of.. Now we do have a display here and I’m gon na play on that in just a second., But honestly, if you’re pushing anywhere close to 240 frames per second in games, it’s very difficult to really find the need for an external display..
Unlike a lot of older gaming laptops where the displays were just kind of okay, this is terrific. This is incredibly good. All right.
Let’S go, let’s go! Let’S go.! Oh I’m not gon na make it.! I’M not gon na make it.. I’M not gon na make it. Ah.. Okay, I’m not gon na go through the whole song and dance about why you don’t need a desktop.
If you really want a desktop by all means, go for it.. Obviously, there are still advantages there., But when you consider just what you’re able to get out of a fully portable laptop, it makes me really. Second guess things., It really does. Look.
This is so impressive. Next up, we’ve got “, Halo, Infinite” And for this I’m actually gon na be using the display.. So this is the Lenovo Legion Y27-QF-30., And what I’m getting here is a 27-inch 1440p display that can run all the way up to 250 hertz.. Normally, you would need a very powerful gaming computer to do this., However, I’m actually getting pretty solid frame rates directly on the laptop.. You’Ve also got an HDMI 2.1 port built into the laptop, which does mean a big difference. If you’re going to be playing at higher frame rates, higher resolutions., You don’t really have to worry about it too much. And wow.
I am …. These bots are really bad.. If I’m killing you, you know that you’re not very good at this..
This is such a rare moment where you have the new tech across the board between CPUs GPUs, the hardware.. This Legion has so much going for it that I would highly recommend you to check it out at the link in the description. And, of course, huge.
Thank you to both Lenovo Legion as well as Intel for sponsoring this video., I’m going to go, beat the bots again, so I feel better about my gaming prowess. Because, as we all know, it’s one thing to have great hardware. It’S another thing to actually be good at gaming.
I have half of those things. .