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I own this Laptop. Some things not mentioned in the specs:
Fingerprint reader in the power button for Windows Hello.
1 spare m.2 slot for additional ssd (2x total)
USB-C charging is possible up to 140w (with Lenovo's 140w USB-C charger)
Some reviews state G-Sync can be enabled when using the d-GPU only, others state this does not have G-Sync. (I should test this, but am not sensitive to screen tearing so I don't notice it to begin with).
Aluminum lid and base plate.
Charging brick is significantly smaller than the bricks for the Legion 5 Slim 16" model and others with a 200W+ brick.
Dedicated calculator Fn button (lol).
I also purchased an Asus g14 and objectively the screen, build quality, and cooling on this laptop is head and shoulders above the g14 - all without any extra tweaking.
On the negative side, this laptop has all soldered RAM, but it's ddr5-6400 at least. In comparing 780m performance between games with the 32gb version I ordered from Lenovo directly, I haven't seen any marked difference. Power users may see a difference in some specific use-cases.
A little review after owning mine for a while. I've owned lots of laptops over the years, including several MacBooks/Pros, Alienware, Spectre x360, and have replaced my Zephyrus G15 with this Lenovo Legion Slim.
The size and weight are excellent. It's lightweight and thin, and gaming performance is still very good.
When not in gaming performance mode, I regularly get 8-9 hours on a charge with office and web use. Definitely a solid workday laptop that doesn't look like a gamer laptop to the untrained eye.
The keyboard is good. The touchpad is fantastic. Superior to my Zephyrus track pad, and on par with MacBook pro and HP Spectre quality. It's accurate, clicks are perfect, gestures are intuitive and smooth - it's easily one of the best track pads out there on a modern laptop. This surprised me, as I didn't think the Zephyrus track pad was particularly bad.
The screen is where this thing leaves competitors in the dust. Getting that sharp of an OLED screen with the taller aspect ratio for $1100-ish, WITH a 4060??
Hella fine deal. I am very pleased with the laptop over all, and even 16GB should be good for the lifespan of the laptop for gaming and basic work, at least. I did pay a little more and get the 32gb when I bought mine because I do heavy video and photo editing on mine.
Games don't ever use it all, but video and photo projects gobble up RAM in a hurry!
Overall, highly recommend this laptop, and am happy to answer any questions about it, including comparing to competing models.
One odd thing missing is USB4. You're stuck with the included 4060 graphics since an eGPU isn't an option.
edit: one other odd thing - going from performance graphics mode to integrated only for max battery life requires a restart. on my Zephyrus it didn't, so this is strange and inconvenient to me. If someone knows something I'm missing, please let me know.
A little review after owning mine for a while. I've owned lots of laptops over the years, including several MacBooks/Pros, Alienware, Spectre x360, and have replaced my Zephyrus G15 with this Lenovo Legion Slim.
The size and weight are excellent. It's lightweight and thin, and gaming performance is still very good.
When not in gaming performance mode, I regularly get 8-9 hours on a charge with office and web use. Definitely a solid workday laptop that doesn't look like a gamer laptop to the untrained eye.
The keyboard is good. The touchpad is fantastic. Superior to my Zephyrus track pad, and on par with MacBook pro and HP Spectre quality. It's accurate, clicks are perfect, gestures are intuitive and smooth - it's easily one of the best track pads out there on a modern laptop. This surprised me, as I didn't think the Zephyrus track pad was particularly bad.
The screen is where this thing leaves competitors in the dust. Getting that sharp of an OLED screen with the taller aspect ratio for $1100-ish, WITH a 4060??
Hella fine deal. I am very pleased with the laptop over all, and even 16GB should be good for the lifespan of the laptop for gaming and basic work, at least. I did pay a little more and get the 32gb when I bought mine because I do heavy video and photo editing on mine.
Games don't ever use it all, but video and photo projects gobble up RAM in a hurry!
Overall, highly recommend this laptop, and am happy to answer any questions about it, including comparing to competing models.
One odd thing missing is USB4. You're stuck with the included 4060 graphics since an eGPU isn't an option.
edit: one other odd thing - going from performance graphics mode to integrated only for max battery life requires a restart. on my Zephyrus it didn't, so this is strange and inconvenient to me. If someone knows something I'm missing, please let me know.
Could you please advise on your settings to get 8-9 hours on battery? I'm getting 2-3 hours, clearly something is wrong with my settings.
A little review after owning mine for a while. I've owned lots of laptops over the years, including several MacBooks/Pros, Alienware, Spectre x360, and have replaced my Zephyrus G15 with this Lenovo Legion Slim.
The size and weight are excellent. It's lightweight and thin, and gaming performance is still very good.
When not in gaming performance mode, I regularly get 8-9 hours on a charge with office and web use. Definitely a solid workday laptop that doesn't look like a gamer laptop to the untrained eye.
The keyboard is good. The touchpad is fantastic. Superior to my Zephyrus track pad, and on par with MacBook pro and HP Spectre quality. It's accurate, clicks are perfect, gestures are intuitive and smooth - it's easily one of the best track pads out there on a modern laptop. This surprised me, as I didn't think the Zephyrus track pad was particularly bad.
The screen is where this thing leaves competitors in the dust. Getting that sharp of an OLED screen with the taller aspect ratio for $1100-ish, WITH a 4060??
Hella fine deal. I am very pleased with the laptop over all, and even 16GB should be good for the lifespan of the laptop for gaming and basic work, at least. I did pay a little more and get the 32gb when I bought mine because I do heavy video and photo editing on mine.
Games don't ever use it all, but video and photo projects gobble up RAM in a hurry!
Overall, highly recommend this laptop, and am happy to answer any questions about it, including comparing to competing models.
One odd thing missing is USB4. You're stuck with the included 4060 graphics since an eGPU isn't an option.
edit: one other odd thing - going from performance graphics mode to integrated only for max battery life requires a restart. on my Zephyrus it didn't, so this is strange and inconvenient to me. If someone knows something I'm missing, please let me know.
Not to discount your assessment but it's impossible for the trackpad to be at the same level of macbooks, the diving board mechanism is already a notch below it.
Can't compare this to G14 since this technically a 15 incher in terms of size already.
Could you please advise on your settings to get 8-9 hours on battery? I'm getting 2-3 hours, clearly something is wrong with my settings.
Are you using Lenovo Vantage?
For sure! I use the included Lenovo software to completely disable the dGPU and force it into iGPU mode only, which requires a restart. What tasks are you doing on yours? You can dig into battery usage in the advanced task manager, too. I'm using chrome, edge, and office. Also adobe acrobat pro. That's about it when I'm on battery saving mode. I also set battery to "battery saver".
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Not to discount your assessment but it's impossible for the trackpad to be at the same level of macbooks, the diving board mechanism is already a notch below it.
Can't compare this to G14 since this technically a 15 incher in terms of size already.
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but at least compared to the last MacBook pro retina I owned, this definitely competes favorably. I'll give a newer one a try, because it's absolutely possible they've been updated since my last personally owned MBP.
Only negatives after owning this laptop is the speakers and the annoying power led, which are easily fixed. When I first ran the laptop the fans were running loud at idle which was odd, after windows updates and bios update through the lenovo vantage software I didn't see this problem again. The fans do get real noisy if you're gaming heavily.
What is your solution on fixing the always-on power led?
It's a 105 watt 4060. That is essentially "full powered" because Nvidia sets the voltage limit on all mobile 4060's, which makes increasing wattage over 105 leads to little, if any, gains.
This is a totally different laptop. Very different screen technology, different size, build quality and CPU.
I'm here to help people who might have questions about this laptop since I own it. You don't see me talking about my other setups unless it's for practical comparison purposes.
You'll see that I've responded to a few questions, and will continue to try and do so. What are you here for?
I'm glad you benefitted from it, but frankly, you can keep your thumbs up on "my" deal. In fact, I'll go into that deal and thumb it down, because I just don't care. SD makes the money on the referral, not me. I don't farm for rep like some other posters here who literally spend the entire day posting deals, when they're not even staff.
Hey..which non-hp windows laptop to consider for non-gaming but capable of extensive photo editing processing. I prefer Intel over ryzen for no apparent reason. Can you pls suggest.
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Fingerprint reader in the power button for Windows Hello.
1 spare m.2 slot for additional ssd (2x total)
USB-C charging is possible up to 140w (with Lenovo's 140w USB-C charger)
Some reviews state G-Sync can be enabled when using the d-GPU only, others state this does not have G-Sync. (I should test this, but am not sensitive to screen tearing so I don't notice it to begin with).
Aluminum lid and base plate.
Charging brick is significantly smaller than the bricks for the Legion 5 Slim 16" model and others with a 200W+ brick.
Dedicated calculator Fn button (lol).
I also purchased an Asus g14 and objectively the screen, build quality, and cooling on this laptop is head and shoulders above the g14 - all without any extra tweaking.
On the negative side, this laptop has all soldered RAM, but it's ddr5-6400 at least. In comparing 780m performance between games with the 32gb version I ordered from Lenovo directly, I haven't seen any marked difference. Power users may see a difference in some specific use-cases.
The size and weight are excellent. It's lightweight and thin, and gaming performance is still very good.
When not in gaming performance mode, I regularly get 8-9 hours on a charge with office and web use. Definitely a solid workday laptop that doesn't look like a gamer laptop to the untrained eye.
The keyboard is good. The touchpad is fantastic. Superior to my Zephyrus track pad, and on par with MacBook pro and HP Spectre quality. It's accurate, clicks are perfect, gestures are intuitive and smooth - it's easily one of the best track pads out there on a modern laptop. This surprised me, as I didn't think the Zephyrus track pad was particularly bad.
The screen is where this thing leaves competitors in the dust. Getting that sharp of an OLED screen with the taller aspect ratio for $1100-ish, WITH a 4060??
Hella fine deal. I am very pleased with the laptop over all, and even 16GB should be good for the lifespan of the laptop for gaming and basic work, at least. I did pay a little more and get the 32gb when I bought mine because I do heavy video and photo editing on mine.
Games don't ever use it all, but video and photo projects gobble up RAM in a hurry!
Overall, highly recommend this laptop, and am happy to answer any questions about it, including comparing to competing models.
One odd thing missing is USB4. You're stuck with the included 4060 graphics since an eGPU isn't an option.
edit: one other odd thing - going from performance graphics mode to integrated only for max battery life requires a restart. on my Zephyrus it didn't, so this is strange and inconvenient to me. If someone knows something I'm missing, please let me know.
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The size and weight are excellent. It's lightweight and thin, and gaming performance is still very good.
When not in gaming performance mode, I regularly get 8-9 hours on a charge with office and web use. Definitely a solid workday laptop that doesn't look like a gamer laptop to the untrained eye.
The keyboard is good. The touchpad is fantastic. Superior to my Zephyrus track pad, and on par with MacBook pro and HP Spectre quality. It's accurate, clicks are perfect, gestures are intuitive and smooth - it's easily one of the best track pads out there on a modern laptop. This surprised me, as I didn't think the Zephyrus track pad was particularly bad.
The screen is where this thing leaves competitors in the dust. Getting that sharp of an OLED screen with the taller aspect ratio for $1100-ish, WITH a 4060??
Hella fine deal. I am very pleased with the laptop over all, and even 16GB should be good for the lifespan of the laptop for gaming and basic work, at least. I did pay a little more and get the 32gb when I bought mine because I do heavy video and photo editing on mine.
Games don't ever use it all, but video and photo projects gobble up RAM in a hurry!
Overall, highly recommend this laptop, and am happy to answer any questions about it, including comparing to competing models.
One odd thing missing is USB4. You're stuck with the included 4060 graphics since an eGPU isn't an option.
edit: one other odd thing - going from performance graphics mode to integrated only for max battery life requires a restart. on my Zephyrus it didn't, so this is strange and inconvenient to me. If someone knows something I'm missing, please let me know.
Are you using Lenovo Vantage?
The size and weight are excellent. It's lightweight and thin, and gaming performance is still very good.
When not in gaming performance mode, I regularly get 8-9 hours on a charge with office and web use. Definitely a solid workday laptop that doesn't look like a gamer laptop to the untrained eye.
The keyboard is good. The touchpad is fantastic. Superior to my Zephyrus track pad, and on par with MacBook pro and HP Spectre quality. It's accurate, clicks are perfect, gestures are intuitive and smooth - it's easily one of the best track pads out there on a modern laptop. This surprised me, as I didn't think the Zephyrus track pad was particularly bad.
The screen is where this thing leaves competitors in the dust. Getting that sharp of an OLED screen with the taller aspect ratio for $1100-ish, WITH a 4060??
Hella fine deal. I am very pleased with the laptop over all, and even 16GB should be good for the lifespan of the laptop for gaming and basic work, at least. I did pay a little more and get the 32gb when I bought mine because I do heavy video and photo editing on mine.
Games don't ever use it all, but video and photo projects gobble up RAM in a hurry!
Overall, highly recommend this laptop, and am happy to answer any questions about it, including comparing to competing models.
One odd thing missing is USB4. You're stuck with the included 4060 graphics since an eGPU isn't an option.
edit: one other odd thing - going from performance graphics mode to integrated only for max battery life requires a restart. on my Zephyrus it didn't, so this is strange and inconvenient to me. If someone knows something I'm missing, please let me know.
Can't compare this to G14 since this technically a 15 incher in terms of size already.
Are you using Lenovo Vantage?
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Can't compare this to G14 since this technically a 15 incher in terms of size already.
https://slickdeals.net/f/17182957-legion-slim-5-14-5-oled-with-rtx-4060-512gb-ssd-16-gb-ram-1045
https://slickdeals.net/f/17192281-lenovo-legion-slim-5-14-5-2-8k-oled-120hz-ryzen-7-7840hs-rtx-4060-16gb-lpddr5-1tb-ssd-1099-99
This is a totally different laptop. Very different screen technology, different size, build quality and CPU.
I'm here to help people who might have questions about this laptop since I own it. You don't see me talking about my other setups unless it's for practical comparison purposes.
You'll see that I've responded to a few questions, and will continue to try and do so. What are you here for?
I'm glad you benefitted from it, but frankly, you can keep your thumbs up on "my" deal. In fact, I'll go into that deal and thumb it down, because I just don't care. SD makes the money on the referral, not me. I don't farm for rep like some other posters here who literally spend the entire day posting deals, when they're not even staff.
https://slickdeals.net/f/17182957-legion-slim-5-14-5-oled-with-rtx-4060-512gb-ssd-16-gb-ram-1045
https://slickdeals.net/f/17192281-lenovo-legion-slim-5-14-5-2-8k-oled-120hz-ryzen-7-7840hs-rtx-4060-16gb-lpddr5-1tb-ssd-1099-99
So it's arguably been close to this price but not "at or lower", for the same specs, at least not in your provided links.
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