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Legion 5 Pro Gen 6 AMD (16) with RTX 3070

AMD Ryzen 7 5800H Processor (3.20 GHz, up to 4.40 GHz Max Boost, 8 Cores, 16 Threads, 16 MB Cache)
Windows 11 Home 64
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB
32 GB DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16 GB)
1 TB PCIe SSD

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It's like $2k but I have a $400 code so it'll bring it down to $1600ish

I have a much weaker Legion 5 and it destroys everything I throw at it, even on an ultrawide 144Hz display.

Garioshi posted...

I have a much weaker Legion 5 and it destroys everything I throw at it, even on an ultrawide 144Hz display.

Is this slang for a good laptop or a bad laptop

I have a weaker one as well and have had no issues with it. Obviously the battery won't last long but I basically use it like a desktop so in my case it didn't matter.

AlCalavicci posted...

Is this slang for a good laptop or a bad laptop

Good.

Yes it's a really good laptop that's extremely hard to beat at that price

That's a good laptop. I bought a i7 MSI Leopard with a 2070, 16GB of RAM, and 1.5TB of storage (one HDD and one SDD) for $1300 right around when the pandemic started--so computers were cheaper then. And people love the color LED keyboard!

I love it.... however, the battery life is shockingly bad when gaming. I've been playing InfraSpace lately (basically City Skylines in space). The graphics aren't anything special but it drains my laptop from 100% to 10% in less than an hour. It pretty much stays plugged in. If I'm doing web browsing the battery might last a little over 3 hours.

Whats the read on Windows 11? I thought I saw something recently about it needing an internet connection at all times?

AlCalavicci posted...

Whats the read on Windows 11? I thought I saw something recently about it needing an internet connection at all times?

iirc it needs an active internet connection to set up, but people have found workarounds

kelemvor posted...

That's a good laptop. I bought a i7 MSI Leopard with a 2070, 16GB of RAM, and 1.5TB of storage (one HDD and one SDD) for $1300 right around when the pandemic started--so computers were cheaper then. And people love the color LED keyboard!

I love it.... however, the battery life is shockingly bad when gaming. I've been playing InfraSpace lately (basically City Skylines in space). The graphics aren't anything special but it drains my laptop from 100% to 10% in less than an hour. It pretty much stays plugged in. If I'm doing web browsing the battery might last a little over 3 hours.

I have the leopard with the 3080 in it and while I don't use the laptop on battery at all it's pretty nice. Intel chips have really bad battery life but better performance then the AMD chips. It's not a huge difference for the great battery life you get from AMD though. I'd recommend AMD if use your laptop for more then just a plugged in gaming machine.

I'm pretty flush with cash right now so that's kinda tempting, but also I don't really need a laptop anymore since I have a custom built desktop, and my current job doesn't allow me to just sit on my laptop and play games like I did at my last job.