Customer Ratings & Reviews

Gotta say I’m very happy with this laptop so far it’s been reliable and passed every test I’ve put it through . After going through 2 different Alienware x15 r1’s that would get so hot and loud then shutdown after 15 min of arma 3 and halo I gave up on Alienware and moved to an Asus m16 which was a great laptop especially the bright screen but was missing 2 important features that ultimately brought me to this legion 7i, g-sync and advanced Optimus. Now compared to the asus m16 (12700h,3060) this is a lower wattage 3060 but your not losing much performance… it will maintain 100w on the graphics at all times and stays cool while doing it also not getting as loud as the asus either. On balanced mode in the legion application it will maintain 85w and run cool and quiet and still have great performance. On turbo it goes the full 100w and will still only stay between 70-77 on the temps which is pretty impressive compared to other laptops I’ve been through and not be near as loud as the Alienware and on par with the asus. The battery life has been great for a 71 watt hour but the asus m16 has a 90whr and will last longer. The screen gets decently bright but not near as bright as the asus. But the best part is the advanced Optimus. Not having to restart the Lenovo to switch to dgpu is just a must have imo u get full performance from 3060 automatically when booting up a game and it works flawlessly. It also has g-sync which is a great feature aswell. The keyboard is also rgb which I didn’t know until after I got it home and that’s a plus. This thing does not get to hot to touch either like the Alienware did it’s actually much cooler than I expected running full send. My only complaint is that the lowest brightness level on the keyboard is still pretty dang bright at night I wish it had more than 3 brightness settings. Doesn’t seem like there’s much difference from dimmest to brightest. This thing also feels very premium with all aluminum build better than the asus but it’s a tossup with the Alienware. It has fingerprint login but no facial recognition which isn’t an issue for me. The closest thing I’ve used to compare it to is obviously the asus m16 and they are both good so I’ll summarize and try to help someone choose between the 2. Legion 7i Advanced Optimus G-sync Runs cooler and quieter under full load Full per-key rgb Great build quality Some ports on back for cleaner setup Smaller battery Only has fingerprint for windows hello Asus m16 Brighter screen Bigger battery More tweaking available for cpu-gpu in armory crate Only single zone keyboard rgb Runs a little hotter and louder Higher wattage gpu Requires restart for full gpu performance on display Has facial recognition

TL;DR at the bottom for those who just want the bottom line. :) See photos for benchmarks and thermals. External Impressions: Laptop dimensions are 14.08 x 10.24 x 0.67 inches, and weighs just over 2kg. Very easy to handle with one hand, and should fit in basically any standard backpack or messenger bag. As someone that has used an ungodly number of different laptops, I will say, the first thing that impressed me was the build quality of the Slim 7i itself, both in terms of rigidity and appearance. The entire laptop is made of aluminum, and the trim was sandblasted to give it a polished/mirror-like finish. Lenovo also squared off the corners of the device a bit more than the prior generation to give it a more defined look. The top lid is pretty rigid, more-so than my Legion 7 Gen 6, but still isn't as solid as a Razer Blade or MacBook Pro. The keyboard deck and bottom panel were very sturdy though, and impressed me right away. The trackpad felt pretty similar to the last few Legion devices I've used, and is quite good, but isn't fundamentally different or better in any way. Seems to be the same glass precision trackpad. It didn't rattle, and had good feedback for physical clicks. It also handled gestures accurately and without any issue. The keyboard shares the same layout as the prior Legion devices, but has more travel than the nearly-identical Legion 7/7i, and was something I noticed immediately. My main gripe of my current Legion 7 was that the keyboard felt shallow to use, and albeit subjective, it certainly feels better and more tactile on the Slim 7i. Internals: The Slim 7i has two m.2 slots, 1 SoDIMM slot, a 71WHr battery, and a thick heatpipe cooler design. What caught my attention immediately was how big the fans were in relationship to the prior generation, and to the chassis itself. Made me curious how it would perform later when I started benchmarking it. My unit has an Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 NIC, and a Micron MTFDKBA512TFH Gen4 NVMe SSD. Repasting shouldn't be too hard if you wanted to do it -- I may do so later and record a video for it if it garners enough interest. Battery Life In mixed usage, I saw around 8 hours between YouTube, downloading and installing some applications, browsing the Internet, and writing a portion of this review, while at 50% brightness. While just watching a YouTube video, total system power draw lowered to around 6.5W, and stayed there for about an hour. This means you can realistically get 9-9.5 hours out of the 71WHr battery of video playback if no background processes pop up and eat system resources. System Thermals and Benchmarks First up, Cinebench R23, 10-minute burn test: The Slim 7i pulled 92W on average for the duration of the run, peaking at 129W. It thermal throttled pretty quickly at that spike (remember, this is 0.67" thick, about the same as a Blade 15). It eventually settled in around 85W in the last 4 minutes of the test and the CPU sat in the low-80s. My recommendation would be to use ThrottleStop to artificially limit the power to roughly 80W to keep temperatures in check and maintain the majority of CPU performance. Fans ramped up quickly, and settled around 49dBa using a rudimentary measurement tool. Next up is 3DMark Time Spy: CPU Score: 13883 Graphics Score: 7855 CPU performance is great, scoring 3000 more points than my 5900HX in my Legion 7 Gen 6. GPU performance is in-line with other 3060s at 100W power limits. GPU seems to sit in the 60s through the duration of the test after heating up. A VBIOS flash to a slightly higher power limit may be worth investigating after doing some thermal tuning and maybe a repaste. Fans weren't running as hard here, system acoustics were around 45-46dBa. Next up is Shadow of the Tomb Raider! 1080p Highest Preset, 102FPS avg. CPU hit 100C and throttled when power spiked to 110W, but maintained reasonable temperatures when power draw was reasonable. GPU maxed at 74C but averaged 69.3C. The massive power spikes for the CPU is causing the temperatures to rise to 100C+ and throttle back to a more reasonable value. This further calls for an artificial limitation on power through a tool like ThrottleStop to prevent these swings in power draw and temperature spikes, while maintaining most of the 12700H's stellar performance. The TL;DR The good: Build quality is top-notch Device footprint & weight are very reasonable Keyboard has improved over predecessor Advanced Optimus instead of traditional MUX is nice bonus 16:10 1200p screen makes it easier to run more demanding titles Great battery life (8-10 hours) The bad: Expensive when compared to slightly thicker devices with higher TGPs, currently $1699+tax High power limits lead to thermal throttling, calls for advanced users to repaste/tweak an already-expensive device; calls long-term longevity into question if left unchecked Currently no fan control and is loud under load (unless Rodpad wants me to help him get LegionFanControl updated for this SKU :P) Some may want a higher resolution screen for productivity work and smaller text scaling The easiest way for me to explain this device, is to call it a Blade 15 competitor, except with massive power limits. While Razer limits their CPU performance in favor of noise and thermals, Lenovo does the opposite and gives the user the ability to push the 12700H full-bore at the expense of system temperatures and fan noise. Overall, the Slim 7i is a well-built thin & light gaming laptop that is unfortunately stifled by its own power and price. Hope this was informative, thanks for reading!

This is quite a nice laptop! I love the fact that it has a full keyboard with number pad, and that the keys are where it's most standard (some makers get creative with the placement of some function keys like 'Del' and 'Fn') The screen is plenty sharp and bright, the keys feel good for a touch-typist, the webcam has good resolution, there's plenty of storage and RAM (but I added more ram to mine because I do a lot of RAM-hungry video editing), and the whole thing is made of metal, which I love, it feels quite solid! The only complaint I have is that it doesn't have a built-in network port. If you want to be wired, you need to get an adapter. And it can get a bit noisy when the fans are at full throttle, but I've heard worse; headphones solve that problem! ;)

It's been 6 months now and it's been doing good so far and no issues. I've waited 6 months before putting in a review because I think that's how reviews should be done. The fan can be heard when you play a game specially when graphics are set to high but not a big deal for me. I just really like the slim look and it's elegance despite being a beast for it's performance. Now I've paired it with Logitech G915 keyboard and logitech G502 mouse.

Best buy used deals are as good as it gets. This laptop is fast, slim and plays all my games to a high setting

Works great, very fast, plays all my games, could have more space.

The laptop is super fast however it doesn’t perform in the video editing and rendering sector as much as its competitors in its price range. Overall, the laptop is a beast and you don’t have to worry about it hinging like other windows os laptops

Performance was great but S key began popping off the hinges on day 3. Some days later, the CTRL, F, U, and L keys were popping up too. Was not an open-box purchase. Possibly an issue with that specific laptop, didn't exchange for the same model to find out. Despite the poor key design(?), it performed to a T

Had it for around 2 years now. Works well. Runs everything I throw at it.

The computer is very fast. I needed it for school, I wanted it for gaming. It does everything I needed/ wanted it to do.

Great laptop got it for $645 open box in excellent condition

Definitely one of the best gaming laptops I’ve had in a while. Slim lightweight design allows me to take it and store it anywhere! The resolutions and hardware are top notch and keep all my things running smoothly

It runs really good the material is basically metal which i like

Works amazing! The screen is really bright, build quality feels solid, runs really fast and has top notch specs. You can change the fan settings so it can be silent during normal work or can be sounding like a helicopter when your playing games (it isn't that loud though you zone it out). One complaint is that the num pad is kinda stupid its so small and unusable and just the entire keyboard in general feels kinda mushy. My wrist also feels weird on the edge of the computer when I'm trying to play videogames so I have to take off my watch but I guess thats not that big of adeal. Also, battery life sucks, trying to conserve power and just doing school work i get max 2-3 hours

the device is fast and powerful. i took a star out because the condition stated as excellent but there were a few nicks here and there. i have to mention Lenovo who were great as i got the device with one month left of the warranty but emailed Lenovo and uploaded the receipt and they renewed for 12 months. the coumputer can be loud and get hot if you are using demanding programs or games. Battery life is not the laptops storng suits as is the case with gaming laptops. i get 2-3 hours of use when it is not plugged.

Absolutely love this laptop. I wanted a gaming laptop so badly. A best buy associate helped me pick this one. It runs amazingly. Graphics are great. The rgb keyboard is beautiful. My only complaint is the memory, since similar machines are about the same peice with more memory. Ill definitely be upgrading the memory, but its not an end all be all. Im so glad I went with this. Its nice and thin. For a gaming laptop, its not that heavy or noisy.

I have owned and built many high-end desktop computers over the years, as well as I have owned some really high-end laptops. This machine blows just about everything out of the water. This is probably by far the best bang for your buck laptop that you could own. Easily upgradable. Durable metal case. Nice large 16-in display with ultra smooth 144 hz refresh rate. This thing can be either ultrafast, or you can put it to economy mode when working on battery, which makes it operate more like an eight core than the full 20 core comes with, but you get a decent battery life of 6 to 8 hours out of it and I would compare that to my Samsung Galaxy book which has an 11th gen core i7 eat core processor with 16 gigs of RAM, and the performance of the Galaxy book is about equal to this laptop when this laptop is in battery hybrid mode. Of course once plugged in and this thing is in full power mode this thing blows just about every laptop I've ever used out of the water. Be warned though you will not be using this laptop in a car, well maybe, I guess that depends on if you're willing to spend the money for a really high wattage power inverter, and if your car would be able to handle it as the power supply this thing requires is 240 Watts. The power supply and the fact that this does not have a touch screen are it's only two drawbacks. Man I'll tell you, I really miss having a touch screen, for times I need a very portable business type laptop I take my Galaxy book, whenever I just need a general purpose laptop on the go or if I'm say going on vacation, I'll take this legion laptop because it about matches my legion desktop computer. Sound quality is also above average for a laptop considering, but in reality I don't think I've ever heard a laptop that can produce decent bass. I love the way that the mousepad is set up on this machine, it's very large perspectively to a lot of other laptop manufacturers. I really wish that Lenovo had equipped this with the mouse that looks like a little rubber eraser head in the middle of the keyboard. That would have made this thing perfect for using on a airplane as when there's a lot of other movement it's really hard to use a touchpad mouse, but the rubber mouse makes it so much easier. But enough about the gripes, none of my negatives would ever be enough to take away from the rating, again these are all things that I wish the machine had or had come with. Otherwise, I would tell Lenovo to not really change anything, just allow the upgrade for the larger battery and other upgrades from their website so you can get this thing maxed out already when you buy it, instead of having to buy it and upgrade it like I did. This thing has 42 gigs of RAM now, and an additional two terabyte m.2 hard drive, I put all the games on the m.2 secondary to terabyte drive so I don't clog up my windows drive. For the average gamer or person I do not think that they would need to upgrade this machine RAM wise, but I definitely advise and upgrade of your hard drive so you don't run out of hard drive space just putting games on this. I could see this being somebody's main and only computer, but I would definitely either get a very high-end backpack or laptop case for this, Lenovo happens to sell a legion laptop backpack that I highly recommend.

This is an overall excellent laptop, fantastic, gaming laptop as well! Screen color graphics detail are excellent internal wireless and direct connect modem. Fantastic no lag noted multiple different environments and scenarios. Colors on screen crisp and sharp. Sound quality is excellent. Keyboard is responsive easy to use very comfortable backlit keys, beautiful easy to see not harsh on the eyes. Multiple options and customizable keyboard layout colors and brightness available. Terrific value lightweight. Easy to carry non-bulky. High intensity, graphics used for gaming would recommend a cooling pad although I’ve used it without one and not received any heat warnings but the unit does get rather warm.

amazing pc for gaming. spacious screen size with an enjoyable keyboard. really the only downside is the subpar battery. fully charged and unplugged im getting roughly 2 hours, but that's to be expected from all gaming pc since they almost always should be pluggin for optimal performance

I've had this laptop for a couple of years, and I got it originally to help me do school work (and be able to dual-use it to game). I tend to run heavy art and rendering programs, and it handles it like a champ! The battery life is pretty short in comparison to other Lenovo models I've had in the past; however, that could be attributed to the amount of resources I use (and it doesn't leave the house, so the charger stays handy)! It runs my second monitor/cintique just fine and honestly? I'm super happy with this laptop! I've had laptops give out on me when nearing year two, and it's operating just the same as it did day one.