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This laptop is perfect for my needs. Been using this since August. My only qualm was that I thought I was getting a RGB version but I ended up getting a white backlight, which ain't bad, but would have loved the RGB keyboard version. Maybe I can just replace the keyboard at some point of time in the future. Let's see. Battery could have been better. Without any settings change I get around 3 to 3.5 hours. With some changes like turning off backlight, reducing screen brightness to 20 percent, turning on the battery saver, reducing the refresh rate to 60 hertz, selecting silent mode and using only integrated GPU, some youtubers claim you can get close to 10 hours of battery life for just productivity tasks, but as far as I tried, I could get over 6 hours. I wish the battery life would actually come to around 10 hours and this laptop would have been perfect in every way.
I think the legion series Just looks amazing, Even for a gaming laptop, I've never seen a laptop well designed than this. The way the body is a bit extended on the behind looks amazing giving some life to the design of the laptop unlike other laptops which have a bulky rear profile with huge fan surrounds.
@@123Sulaymaan going down to 1600p makes negligible visual difference, any lower and you will see the graphics quality drop. But i have a 1440p monitor, so that solves the issue. Otherwise, when you are on the move, the 3.2k panel is perfect for content consumption at 4k. The videos are so crisp and vibrant, can't be compared to a 2k panel. The panel strikes a perfect balance between quality and performance.
@@123Sulaymaan You can play at 3.2K resolution but you won't get the best experience. Lower the resolution to 1440P and you get a good mix of performance and visuals. I play cyberpunk on 2K and the game looks great. Now I do not like playing on my 1080P monitor as much as I did.
@@126sangeet I still don't get it why would u prefer more fps over picture clarity and definition. I get 55 to 70 fps on high settings 3.2k display on most AAA titles and it looks mesmerizing alluring so much better than if I could get say 100 fps on 2k display. I know smoothness is nice but picture clarity is so much more beautiful. like when people can be normal about gaming on ps4 on 30fps so why not 60fps suffices. I don't get it. upgrade from 30 to 60 fps can be noticeable. but after that it is so negligible to the naked eye. prefer picture clarity more sorry. It's like when I first upgraded my HD 1366*768 resolution laptop to a 1920*720 resolution FULL HD laptop, it was so beautiful the screen
Wouldn't say that 54db is quite, or quieter that many laptops out there. 54db is very loud for a laptop, but if you are gaming using headphones, shouldn't be a dealbreaker. Other than that, great review!
While my Slim 7i is great a word of warning. If you need to have it serviced Lenovo makes you jump through hoops in order to get it fixed and even if you have the premium warranty, they will refuse to send a tech to your home until you do other things that in my case, I was told the tech on the phone shouldn't have told me to do. This is the reason I'm selling it and going to another company.
Looking to upgrade soon, I actually purchased the slim 7 amd version, But I knew little about laptops then. I have the Rx6600s in this. While this machine is capable. I have noticed the 4gb of vram I get in this card can sometimes hold me back. I think soon after this semester is over in school. I'm going to sell this and upgrade to the 7i for sure. I love the chassis and all. I just want that extra horsepower.
One thing I still don’t quite understand, is how can those surface temps be considered “normal”. If these are supposed to be cooler compared to other gaming laptops, then I’d hate to see other gaming laptops. My wife has this model and I have the AMD variant, and if both of us are using them for an hour, I swear it heats up the entire room by a few degrees. And after a gaming session, it’s hot enough near the power button that you can’t leave your fingers on it without hurting yourself. It’s approaching egg frying territory. How’s this not dangerous? Don’t get me wrong, I love this model and I get that comparatively the temps are an improvement over similarly spec’d thin gaming laptops. I’m just confused about the general consensus on what’s considered acceptable. This feels like new territory, and I feel like we probably shouldn’t be pushing the limits on this.
Hey there, great question. A few questions: 1. Are you ensuring you are using this on a flat surface? 2. Do the side vents have sufficient clearance? 3. Are there are heavy background programs running while gaming? (ie Anti virus) Assuming all of these are covered your laptop should not get so hot that it hurts your fingers. None the less the laptop getting hot during intense sessions is normal due to the slim body. For a slightly cooler experience you may want to consider the larger non slim variants which have more cooling space.
@@SoulOfTechNot on a flat surface, but elevated for more airflow, and vents completely unblocked. Both of us are playing BG3 at Ultra settings (not an unreasonable ask for a 4060-enabled laptop). It would be an unlikely coincidence for both to have the same defect, but I suppose it’s possible. That said, I do have a Llano cooling pad which is capable of keeping it completely cool. I just choose not to use it sometimes (it can be loud), and my comment was really more around what we tolerate in the industry now. I’d hope it would shut itself down before getting truly red hot, but I think our tolerances are slipping.
@@shanksworthy Bro I am getting the same surface temperatures too like on the speakers. When I called lenovo they said its completely normal. what i cant imagine is you cannot use it on your lap without it heating like other laptops. well ofcourse you are not supposed to use it but then what if you cant carry ur bulky cooling pad around and just wanna use it on your lap in travels and its this hot, phew. I suggest use it on performance mode and cooling pad if youre gaming, if not just use it on quiet mode and turn the brightness down to like 70 or 50% then the heat is lower. plus also you might have observed on vantage it shows the battery to be 41 or 42 C sometimes when its really hot which the support said is normal as well
Good day!! I can purchase this laptop with the 4060, 7840hs, 32bg ram and 1tb of storage for 1150 euros. Is it worth waiting for the new model presented at CES 2024, or even next year? or there will be no relevant improvements and should I pull the trigger right now?
Can i use it for long hour gaming sessions? Should i buy this for any other for heavy esport gaming , 4k high level video editing, or i should go for legio pro 5i or rog strix g16 ?
That’s what I thought at first too. However there are no vents or exhaust beneath the grill. No airflow, it seems to be for design only (like HP envy) :(
Hey, in the grand spectrum you are correct. However keep in mind this is not a creative laptop, its designed for gaming and in that capacity it focuses on lower response rates and higher refresh rates so color range is not the top priority. 100% sRGB is enough for most rookie level creative activities and content viewing.
@@SoulOfTech Yes, but this is not an entry level machine. Many creators do use gaming laptops for the power they need to render videos. Their competition, such as Asus Strix and Zephyrus, all support 100% DCI-P3 so I think Lenovo needs to address this.
There is Lenovo Legion 5 Slim 14" (14APH8) which has full aluminium chassis (top and bottom) like Slim 7, but it has AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS (8 core / 16 threads) CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GPU.
With this laptop AMD is clearly the way to go, it is the way more efficient 8-9h and sophisticated option and has a much much more powerfull integrated GPU on top.
Please DON'T BUY this Legion Slim 7i 13th Gen laptop. You're limited to Windows 11 OS only. Lenovo provides drivers only for this OS version. You can't install any other Operating Systems on this machine. It has provisions only for two RAM slots and two SSD slots. It generates more heat. I bought one by my wrong decision. Now I regret. Please don't buy this Legion SIim 7i 16IRH8. Will Lenovo provide Drivers for Windows 10, Windows Server, Linux ?
Most drivers on 11 are backward compatible on 10 so that shouldnt be an issue. 2 full RAM and SSD slots only? Are you expecting a desktop out of a laptop in the thinnest form factor? what issues are you facing except the surface heat
@@Noble_Isaac try playing online games with wifi and then with internet, you will see huge difference in latency. Laptop has good specs but they can make easily space for rj45.
They have to differentiate between the Legion Slim 7 and Legion 7 while working around different target budgets so they don’t offer the Ethernet port on the former. Ethernet dongles are available for that specific use case. Or one can step down to the Slim 5 and sacrifice some other features and build quality.
Thanks for your viewership! If you are interested in buying the laptop I have left links in the video description, every time you buy from these links it helps fund this channel and put some bread on the table at no extra cost to you :)
This laptop is perfect for my needs. Been using this since August. My only qualm was that I thought I was getting a RGB version but I ended up getting a white backlight, which ain't bad, but would have loved the RGB keyboard version. Maybe I can just replace the keyboard at some point of time in the future. Let's see. Battery could have been better. Without any settings change I get around 3 to 3.5 hours. With some changes like turning off backlight, reducing screen brightness to 20 percent, turning on the battery saver, reducing the refresh rate to 60 hertz, selecting silent mode and using only integrated GPU, some youtubers claim you can get close to 10 hours of battery life for just productivity tasks, but as far as I tried, I could get over 6 hours. I wish the battery life would actually come to around 10 hours and this laptop would have been perfect in every way.
I think the legion series Just looks amazing, Even for a gaming laptop, I've never seen a laptop well designed than this. The way the body is a bit extended on the behind looks amazing giving some life to the design of the laptop unlike other laptops which have a bulky rear profile with huge fan surrounds.
It really is a nice looking laptop!
All facts it make it so easy to cary with one hand the back provides a lot of grip
What about battery life and heating? Has it to be put it the freezer?
Really amazing review! Ticks all the boxes!
Glad you enjoyed!
Wow, It indeed looks like can cover all of my day-to-day tasks
Its more than enough for general productivity.
Great laptop! I got the same one with the 3.2k display and the all aluminium build feels absolutely amazing
Awesome :)
Can you give an idea of how games run on the 3.2k panel? And if you use a lower res than native, how does that look?
@@123Sulaymaan going down to 1600p makes negligible visual difference, any lower and you will see the graphics quality drop. But i have a 1440p monitor, so that solves the issue. Otherwise, when you are on the move, the 3.2k panel is perfect for content consumption at 4k. The videos are so crisp and vibrant, can't be compared to a 2k panel. The panel strikes a perfect balance between quality and performance.
@@123Sulaymaan You can play at 3.2K resolution but you won't get the best experience. Lower the resolution to 1440P and you get a good mix of performance and visuals. I play cyberpunk on 2K and the game looks great. Now I do not like playing on my 1080P monitor as much as I did.
@@126sangeet I still don't get it why would u prefer more fps over picture clarity and definition. I get 55 to 70 fps on high settings 3.2k display on most AAA titles and it looks mesmerizing alluring so much better than if I could get say 100 fps on 2k display. I know smoothness is nice but picture clarity is so much more beautiful. like when people can be normal about gaming on ps4 on 30fps so why not 60fps suffices. I don't get it. upgrade from 30 to 60 fps can be noticeable. but after that it is so negligible to the naked eye. prefer picture clarity more sorry. It's like when I first upgraded my HD 1366*768 resolution laptop to a 1920*720 resolution FULL HD laptop, it was so beautiful the screen
I think amd give much better battery life compared to intel
According to Notebookcheck's review, the AMD version's battery lasts around 7 hours of web browsing with lowered brightness at 150 cd/m2.
@@violett2811 what about intel, how long does it last
@@saianwesh1496 4hrs
@@saianwesh1496~4.5 hours
yeah
Wouldn't say that 54db is quite, or quieter that many laptops out there. 54db is very loud for a laptop, but if you are gaming using headphones, shouldn't be a dealbreaker. Other than that, great review!
While my Slim 7i is great a word of warning. If you need to have it serviced Lenovo makes you jump through hoops in order to get it fixed and even if you have the premium warranty, they will refuse to send a tech to your home until you do other things that in my case, I was told the tech on the phone shouldn't have told me to do. This is the reason I'm selling it and going to another company.
Looking to upgrade soon, I actually purchased the slim 7 amd version, But I knew little about laptops then. I have the Rx6600s in this. While this machine is capable. I have noticed the 4gb of vram I get in this card can sometimes hold me back. I think soon after this semester is over in school. I'm going to sell this and upgrade to the 7i for sure. I love the chassis and all. I just want that extra horsepower.
Your content is underrated ✌️
Thank you 🙏🏼
I just bought this laptop with 16gb ram, 1tb and rtx4070. But when I play warzone the fans blow very hard. Is that normal?
Same here did you run into any problems yet?
@@SadClix I returned it because it had an annoying noise coming from the speakers. Other than that is was great and really fast
One thing I still don’t quite understand, is how can those surface temps be considered “normal”. If these are supposed to be cooler compared to other gaming laptops, then I’d hate to see other gaming laptops. My wife has this model and I have the AMD variant, and if both of us are using them for an hour, I swear it heats up the entire room by a few degrees. And after a gaming session, it’s hot enough near the power button that you can’t leave your fingers on it without hurting yourself. It’s approaching egg frying territory. How’s this not dangerous?
Don’t get me wrong, I love this model and I get that comparatively the temps are an improvement over similarly spec’d thin gaming laptops. I’m just confused about the general consensus on what’s considered acceptable. This feels like new territory, and I feel like we probably shouldn’t be pushing the limits on this.
Hey there, great question. A few questions:
1. Are you ensuring you are using this on a flat surface?
2. Do the side vents have sufficient clearance?
3. Are there are heavy background programs running while gaming? (ie Anti virus)
Assuming all of these are covered your laptop should not get so hot that it hurts your fingers. None the less the laptop getting hot during intense sessions is normal due to the slim body. For a slightly cooler experience you may want to consider the larger non slim variants which have more cooling space.
@@SoulOfTechNot on a flat surface, but elevated for more airflow, and vents completely unblocked. Both of us are playing BG3 at Ultra settings (not an unreasonable ask for a 4060-enabled laptop). It would be an unlikely coincidence for both to have the same defect, but I suppose it’s possible.
That said, I do have a Llano cooling pad which is capable of keeping it completely cool. I just choose not to use it sometimes (it can be loud), and my comment was really more around what we tolerate in the industry now. I’d hope it would shut itself down before getting truly red hot, but I think our tolerances are slipping.
@@shanksworthy Bro I am getting the same surface temperatures too like on the speakers. When I called lenovo they said its completely normal. what i cant imagine is you cannot use it on your lap without it heating like other laptops. well ofcourse you are not supposed to use it but then what if you cant carry ur bulky cooling pad around and just wanna use it on your lap in travels and its this hot, phew. I suggest use it on performance mode and cooling pad if youre gaming, if not just use it on quiet mode and turn the brightness down to like 70 or 50% then the heat is lower. plus also you might have observed on vantage it shows the battery to be 41 or 42 C sometimes when its really hot which the support said is normal as well
Do you know where I can get the wallpaper from this laptop?
When does this come to Europe?
Good day!! I can purchase this laptop with the 4060, 7840hs, 32bg ram and 1tb of storage for 1150 euros. Is it worth waiting for the new model presented at CES 2024, or even next year? or there will be no relevant improvements and should I pull the trigger right now?
From Where are you getting this?
Can i use it for long hour gaming sessions?
Should i buy this for any other for heavy esport gaming , 4k high level video editing, or i should go for legio pro 5i or rog strix g16 ?
If u only need performance go with g16
Does it feel super heavy and bulky? I’m still looking at options. What do you think of the Slim pro 9i?
Its large no doubt though at 4.4lbs its not heavy for a gaming machine.
Since this laptop has solder 16gb memory and one slot. Can I put a 32gb in that slot for 48gb ram?
Is it worth buying than MacBook Pro 14 m3 pro?
how are the blacks? like in the black bars when watching movies
The grill on top is not for design but for cooling👍🏼
That’s what I thought at first too. However there are no vents or exhaust beneath the grill. No airflow, it seems to be for design only (like HP envy) :(
@@SoulOfTech oh okay… cause i read it everywhere. Strange
hi, can you low charge from the USBc port? Do I need to carry that brick everywhere?
Yes you can
That's my baby. In AMD.
So 100% sRGB is NOT great...that's only about 75% of the DCI-P3 color gamut that is needed for media creation/photo editing. Disappointing.
Hey, in the grand spectrum you are correct. However keep in mind this is not a creative laptop, its designed for gaming and in that capacity it focuses on lower response rates and higher refresh rates so color range is not the top priority. 100% sRGB is enough for most rookie level creative activities and content viewing.
@@SoulOfTech Yes, but this is not an entry level machine. Many creators do use gaming laptops for the power they need to render videos. Their competition, such as Asus Strix and Zephyrus, all support 100% DCI-P3 so I think Lenovo needs to address this.
If I upgrade the graphics card and ram would it impact the temperatures or battery?
You cannot upgrade the GPU on a laptop. As for ram there should be little to no impact to overall temps.
I mean as In choosing the 4070 card when I buy it as an option
@@maxvlogz8644 DO not go for the 4060 whatsoever. the extra money is definitely worth it for the 4070 as you can play most AAA title games 50-70fps
Wish they had this Slim 7 with 14" screen...
Likely would cause too much heat build up in a smaller form factor or they would have to scale down TPD ratings.
There is Lenovo Legion 5 Slim 14" (14APH8) which has full aluminium chassis (top and bottom) like Slim 7, but it has AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS (8 core / 16 threads) CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GPU.
With this laptop AMD is clearly the way to go, it is the way more efficient 8-9h and sophisticated option and has a much much more powerfull integrated GPU on top.
Please DON'T BUY this Legion Slim 7i 13th Gen laptop. You're limited to Windows 11 OS only. Lenovo provides drivers only for this OS version. You can't install any other Operating Systems on this machine. It has provisions only for two RAM slots and two SSD slots. It generates more heat. I bought one by my wrong decision. Now I regret. Please don't buy this Legion SIim 7i 16IRH8. Will Lenovo provide Drivers for Windows 10, Windows Server, Linux ?
Most drivers on 11 are backward compatible on 10 so that shouldnt be an issue. 2 full RAM and SSD slots only? Are you expecting a desktop out of a laptop in the thinnest form factor? what issues are you facing except the surface heat
Gaming laptop and no ethernet. It's garbage when playing online games.
The get a desktop PC?? It's kinda weird to ask for a portable gaming device and ethernet port.
@@Noble_Isaac try playing online games with wifi and then with internet, you will see huge difference in latency. Laptop has good specs but they can make easily space for rj45.
They have to differentiate between the Legion Slim 7 and Legion 7 while working around different target budgets so they don’t offer the Ethernet port on the former. Ethernet dongles are available for that specific use case. Or one can step down to the Slim 5 and sacrifice some other features and build quality.
Cut the crap and get to the point
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