Lenovo Legion 7 – The Best Ryzen Powerful Gaming Laptop

The new Lenovo Legion 7 gaming laptop offers some excellent improvements over last year’s model but it’s not perfect there’s still at least one major issue that you need to know about.

 Lenovo Legion 7 Specs

The first change in the Lenovo Legion 7 move over to AMD Ryzen 5000 processor I’ve got the highest spec configuration here with a full-powered Nvidia RTX 3080 Graphics card and 32 GB of Ram but it is also available with lower specs.

The Legion 5 Pro also just arrived, you can read this blog if you want to know about this laptop.

Overall, I think the Lenovo Legion 7 is a nice build quality it’s got a metal aluminum lid and bottom panel while the interior seems to be plastic.

Lenovo Legion 7  got a 16 inch 165-hertz screen with good response time decent color gamut no backlight bleed, and it gets fairly bright.

It’s also got a 16 by 10 aspect ratio, which means there’s more vertical space compared to your regular 16 by nine resolutions like 10 ADP now the behavior in games will depend on the specific game some games like Sega scary, for instance, have support for both 16 by nine and 16 by 10 resolutions.

If I set a 16 by nine resolution like 10 ADP or 1440P, we just get black balls on the bottom and top of the screen.

If the game supports 16 by 10, then it uses the full screen as expected.

But there are also some games that will run 16 by nine resolutions like 10 ADP, but just take up the full screen, which means that they end up being a bit stretched out.

Overall build quality feels nice. both the top and bottom panels are aluminum.

While the interior seems to be a hard gray plastic with no sharp corners or edges.

Lenovo Legion 7 Weight

The Lenovo Legion 7 laptop alone weighs 2.5 kilos or 5.5 pounds then about a killer or 2.3 pounds heavier with the large 300-watt power brick and cables the dimensions two different compared to most 15 inch laptops.

It doesn’t look that good, but it seems to vary by game based on that support.

I suspect that’ll just be a thing until 16 by 10 screens are more common, which hopefully won’t take too long given there do seem to be a fair few laptops with this new 16-inch panel launching just like the newest Susa, for some 16 that I covered in this one.

The Lenovo Legion 7 also lets you disable optimist which does result in a speed boost in games and you need optimist disabled in order to use g sync.

If you do have optimists enabled, you still have the option of free sync.

The best of both worlds a feature that most laptops don’t have, it’s usually the one or the other.

That combined with the high-end specs in my unit such as that full-powered with NVidia RTX 3080 means we get some pretty good gaming performance.

I’ve tested this configuration in two different resolutions in 13 games and compare it against other laptops.

Otherwise outside of games raw CPU performance is also next level it was offering the best multicolor performance and cine bench 23 that I’ve ever seen out of any laptop so far and single-core performance was up there to the keyboard is nice and clicky and I personally liked typing on the touchpad has also improved over the last year is Lenovo Legion 7  last year.

The touchpad would flexible or the chassis if you pushed hard but that’s not an issue this year.

While I am on the topic of improvements, the hinge is also an area that sees an improvement generation last year people were reporting failure with the seven items and that seems to be because the metal parts down the bottom were just stuck to the lid without any further reinforcement.

But this year with these images that are available through the Lenovo website, we can see that it does appear to be improvements to the hinge plus one over has also told me directly that there are improvements.

Now, unfortunately, I can’t personally do long-term testing as this is a board review unit that has to get some back I’ve only had it for a few weeks.

So I can’t say whether or not the hinges will hold up long term but it does at least seem that one over is aware of this issue with the last-gen model and has made steps in the right direction to fix it.

Lenovo Legion 7 Lighting Effect

The Lenovo Legion 7 has plenty of RGB lighting if that’s your thing.

There are six built-in firmware effects that don’t need software so you can control the effect or even turn it on or off during birth.

When windows loads through the whole set IQ software will take precedence.

If you have any lighting effects that through software, they’ll be applied to overwrite whatever the default firmware setting was.

There’s actually a really subtle problem with allegiant Lenovo Legion 7  lighting.

While the Lenovo Legion 7 just spewing RGB, but the light down the front seems to be stuck.

It’s much more obvious. If I set all the lighting to one color like say red or turn it off that light down the front just seems to be a stuck blur.

Now to be clear, if I do turn all the lighting off with say function and the down arrow keys like this, it is often it’s not an issue.

The example before had all of the RGB set to black, which I guess is essentially off, there’s a nice selection of IR most of which is on the back so cables stay out of the way I liked the icons on the back above the ports, they’re actually useful.

It made it much easier when standing in front of the machine and plugging in cables.

You don’t have to turn it around and you can optionally use this shortcut to turn those lights on or off the Lenovo Legion 7 is cold with a vapor chamber cooler.

Otherwise, inside we’ve got an 80-watt hour battery to me, two storage slots, two memory slots, and Wi-Fi 6 to the right of that.

Lenovo Legion 7  Battery

the battery life is that one major issue I teased in the start as mentioned the core site IQ software is used to manage the RGB of this laptop.

That was the same with the last generation Legion 7i now when just sitting here completely idle and doing absolutely nothing when plugged into wool power I found that it was drawing 40 to 50 watts from the wall.

That was what the RGB lighting completely turned off.

If I instead close the course IQ software and stop the courser service this drops down to 15 watts quite a big difference.

And this is what the difference in battery life looks like with that simple change with the software disabled I can get significantly better battery life and much more in line with what I’d expect with a battery of this size.

Now this is at least a simple fix just close the software and it won’t drain the battery as hard but then this means that you don’t have the option of customizing the lighting.

I suppose if you’re perfectly fine with the six built-in effects, then that might not be an issue be something to be aware of.

And given that was present with the seven last year it’s hard to say whether or not this will be fixed it might just be how that software is we can also further improve the battery life by simply pressing the phone and the Lenovo Legion 7 shortcut, which will change the screens refresh rate from the default 165 hertz down to 60 hertz.

It would have been cool if it automatically changed this when you unplug the power like a serious laptop stir, but this is still a nice easy shortcut that most laptops don’t all fall holistically.

If you’re running on battery power, I don’t think you’re going to need 165 hertz anyway, especially given things like Nvidia battery boosts capital gains to 30 FPS by default anyway, unless you’re going out of your way to make tweaks, something I personally would have really liked to have seen with allegiant seven is fan control.

Previous generations of Lenovo laptops have had the option of pressing a shortcut to simply set the fan to max speed.

And that’s not an option at all here whenever it did tell me that they didn’t want to offer fan control because setting specific RPM values might confuse users who don’t understand what’s going on.

And yeah, kind of get that point. But at the same time, I don’t see why you can’t just have a hidden shortcut that you need to read the manual to know about.

If you want to set the fan to max speed, then you should have the option to do it. If you don’t, then don’t press the shortcut.

I also personally would have liked to have seen an SD card slot, but that’s just the creator inside me talking I do understand that this is a gaming laptop.

So the crowd buying that might not necessarily need that.

Otherwise, I didn’t think the giant 300-watt power brick was particularly good for portability.

It seems like you get that same size of power brick even if you pick a low spec model like the RTX 3060 and Ryzen 5800H configuration hits not just because I’ve got the max back here battery drain issue aside which appears to be due to that core software.

I think the Lenovo Legion seven is a pretty good gaming laptop.

There’s plenty of nice features on offer that other companies simply don’t have gone into far more depth on the Lenovo Legion 7.

This is a Lenovo Legion 7 simple review. Thanks for reading this blog.

See you next time.