Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “WHY Does a $4000 Laptop Exist?”.
This is a $ 4,000 gaming laptop. And my number one question is why., So Lenovo Legion reached out to sponsor this video.. They came to me with a very unique proposition.. I can do and say whatever I want, which I guess thank you to the Legion team.
For trusting me with your shiny prototype laptop., But it really got me thinking.. A $ 4,000 laptop is an outrageous sum of money, but clearly they’re making this for a reason. People are buying these laptops, obviously not a ton of people, but this is a real market.
That’S out there and it really gets me thinking like surely no one’s spending $ 4,000 on a gaming laptop right. Are you using this for video editing or rendering or …? I’M super curious, but I will say one thing.. This thing for $ 4,000, as it should be, is loaded with tech..
I mean you name a spec, and this thing pretty much has it. Core i9 64 gigs of RAM RTX, 4090 165 Hertz 3.2K mini LED display that gets eye. Searingly bright.
Watch yourself, I’m gon na go crank to full brightness. Eyes, ( manic, laughter ). Now this particular version of the Legion 9i that I have here actually costs $ 4,400..
One of the most striking parts of this is certainly the forged carbon fiber.. So this is real carbon.. Now what they’ve done is actually something kind of interesting.. I was able to speak with the Lenovo engineers about it and they actually had to develop an entirely new manufacturing process to make this happen.. So if you look at it, every single one of these chassis are completely unique..
These little carbon chips are hand-laid by someone and it’s a multiple step process where it has to go through like different factories., Like there’s a lot involved in actually making this the way it is., And on top of that, the material of the laptop is also unique.. The choice of forged carbon is really interesting., So, unlike aluminum, which is on pretty much all gaming laptops from the last decade, forged carbon not only is stronger and lighter, but importantly, it also has some environmental impacts.. So it is a lot of work to do the R .