Quote from: AlexN on June 25, 2023, 04:53:03A real shame because other than annoying fan sound I really liked everything about this new model.

This model is an unconditional downgrade of the 2022 models - it has a shameful RJ45 1Gb / s, although in 2022 it was 2.5 Gb / s. And webcams can be infamous 720p...again.

Plus, they removed USB40/TB4 (and this is a complete shame) in versions with 4060-4070.

An even bigger shame in the L5 "Pro" line - there even the case became plastic, and USB40 / TB4 was completely removed, although in the 2021 line there were 2 TB4 ports ...

It is not surprising that Lenovo sales fell catastrophically already in 2022.

Just a warning: I tried several units of this model with same exact specs, had to return all of them. The high pitched noise of the fans was unbearable to use for long time, even on "Balanced" or "Quiet" modes. I don't know what Lenovo did with their fans, but the fans in my previous generation Legion did not sound so annoying - they did not have the droning high pitched sound, they just had pleasant low frequency "whoosh" at all fan speeds. A real shame because other than annoying fan sound I really liked everything about this new model.

Quote from: Olin on May 24, 2023, 20:57:48Just got this for $2200, beat everything even close and higher for that price.

Alright, that's definitely a good deal.

Just got this for $2200, beat everything even close and higher for that price.

I hope they fixed the glue or used another fixation between the hinge and the back panel of the screen. I own the previous model and the hinge got loose, wrecking the screen completely.

$2649 for mine and I love it. MSFS all ultra in 4K with ray tracing 80 fps. Fans ramp up but not the typical high pitch sound. More like a desktop. I'm a new fan of Lenovo

I just got one and scored 18777 on 3dmark timespy. I believe that this laptop swiftly beats the blade 16 2023 in most cases.

I wonder if NotebookCheck don't do laptop disassembly anymore? Haven't seen any photos of the internal in recent reviews like before, that's disappointing.

I find the price they listed odd, i ordered mine the day of release directly from Lenovo and only paid $2700 for the same spec. This replaced an alienware m15 R7 and i found this to be much queiter in all situatiosn, even play hogwarts on my lap i was suprised by how quiet the fan was in performance mode, no head phones needed. But the alienware was loud no matter what you are doing.

I wonder if the speaker testing is wrong. It's hard to imagine that it can be improved so much without any hardware changes from last year. In this case, it is even better than the 6-speaker blade 18, which is puzzling.

Obviously, in 2023, Lenovo has lost its "drive" and is no longer able to make better laptops. True, there are practically no alternatives, in terms of the totality of characteristics...

Hot, very noisy and completely pointless for such a price instead of a desktop that will just be 2 times faster and quieter at times. Previously, L7/L5Pro were a kind of universal solution, taking into account manual control of coolers, to work primarily in low-end configurations. But now this is some garbage not suitable either for games (new projects this model will not pull 100% at 60fps+) or for quiet work, having full upgrade options, a good keyboard and a set of ports. The screen clearly no longer meets the requirements of 2023 - at least 4k@120Hz.

16" is not enough. At this weight, no one will actively carry it around. This is a home laptop. It needs an 18" 4k@120Hz panel with a contrast ratio of 2000:1+. And of course, the cooling system, which is up to 40% at least in terms of the load on the cores, does not turn on coolers at all in a balanced mode. But with the new monstrosity Raptor Lake consuming 1.5 times more than my overclocked 95W desktop processor, it's out of the question.

We are waiting for restrictions from the authorities on the consumption of laptops for US/EU. Maximum 100W. This will be a good thrashing for the entire IT industry. Suppose that with a total consumption of 100W, they show us progress in performance. If they can't, sales will be reset...

Blade 16 is around $950 more expensive currently in the US. that lenovo can be had for $2649 whereas the blade 16 is $3599. and its even cheaper on the lenovo website when it comes back in stock, you can get it for as low as $2200 if you stack discounts and rakuten. the razer may be nicer but theres no way its $950 (or more) nicer.

Too expensive. And noise on simples tasks.

Basically unless a very specific need there is no reason to get this overmatch CPU.


OK Optix Blender GPU value of 15 sec in Classroom test.

It's ugly. Literally speaking a computer could hardly get any uglier at this price point, and the performance is inferior to the Razer.

Quote from: Alejandro on February 24, 2023, 15:42:25What's about the price? It is $2700 on Amazon

If so then that price would make all the downsides at least somewhat justified.

Legion 7 with 3080Ti 16GB was in stock for €2500 for a whole year here. Now we get a €4000 laptop with 12GB VRAM.
What are they smoking at NVidia?