LAST YEAR’S LENOVO Legion 5 Pro laptop won many fans by packing an AMD Ryzen 5 5600H processor, RTX 3070 GPU, and 16inch 16:10 display into a 15-inch chassis and a $1,600 price tag. It was released at a time when being able to buy a desktop 3070 was near-impossible, and it marked itself out as one of the best value gaming laptops on the market as a result.
The 2022 version of the machine is here, albeit in Intel form (the “5i” moniker signifying the Intel version—an AMD model will follow later this year). The Legion 5i Pro is a significant step forward from a tech perspective, with Intel’s 12th gen i7-12700H also allowing for the inclusion of DDR5 RAM as well as a PCIe 4.0 SSD. Other improvements include a Wi-Fi 6E card and an RTX 3070 Ti 8GB, with a better cooling system than last year’s model. The 16-inch, 2560x1600 G-SYNC enabled IPS display seems to be the same as before, which is no bad thing.
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