Lenovo’s Legion Slim 7 laptop weighs just 4 pounds and is...

In a nutshell: Lenovo’s latest addition to the Legion family is a slim gaming laptop that has powerful internals such as the Ryzen 4900H APU from AMD, the Max-Q graphics from Nvidia RTX 2060 and plenty of RAM and SSD in a relatively thin, weighing case contains less than 4 pounds.

When Lenovo refreshed its Legion gaming laptop line this year, one of the notable changes was the addition of Ryzen 4000 mobile processors as an alternative to Intel’s 10th generation Comet Lake-H CPUs. With the Legion Slim 7 gaming laptop, the company is now introducing a new member of the family.

This is a 15-inch device that Lenovo is touting as the “lightest gaming laptop in the world” that features Nvidia RTX graphics. Most importantly, it can be configured with a Ryzen 5 4600H up to a Ryzen 9 4900H processor, the flagship of the Ryzen 4000 series from AMD.

This is important because the Ryzen 9 4900HS – a 35W, 8-core, 16-thread chip with a base clock of 3 GHz and a boost speed of up to 4.3 GHz – delivers impressive performance per watt at Gaming and productivity tasks compared to the Intel Core i9-9980H CPU, with very few exceptions. Now consider that the Ryzen 9 4900H is essentially a 45W version of the same chip that can handle a 300 MHz increase in base clock speed and boost speeds of up to 4.4 GHz.

We achieved similar results when comparing the Ryzen 7 4800H with the tenth generation Intel Core i7-10750H. It even held its own against the Core i9-10980HK in multicore tests, as did the Ryzen 9 4900HS.

The Legion Slim 7 combines these powerful CPUs with up to 32 GB DDR4-3200 RAM and up to 2 TB NVMe SSD storage. Ideally, you want to use an RTX 2060 Max-Q GPU in your configuration, but you can also opt for a GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q or a GTX 1650 Ti.

Lenovo offers several options for the 15.6-inch screen, such as: B. a 1080p IPS panel with 60 Hz, another with 144 Hz and a 4K 60 Hz panel with 100% Adobe RGB color coverage and VESA DisplayHDR 400 certification. In terms of connectivity, the Legion Slim 7 has two USB Type C (Thunderbolt 3) ports, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB-A ports and an SD card reader. You can opt for a Killer AX1650 module that supports Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1.

All of this is surrounded by an aluminum case that is just under 18 mm thick and weighs 1.86 kg. According to Lenovo, the company has found a way to keep this relatively thin gaming laptop cool with a new system called Legion Coldfront 2.0 – essentially a vapor chamber cooling system and two fans with liquid crystal polymer blades.

This probably won’t be a champion for battery life, but Lenovo claims that the 71 Wh battery should last over 9 hours with light use. If that fails, the Legion Slim 7 can quickly charge from 0 to 50 percent in less than 30 minutes.

The Legion Slim 7 is expected to go on sale later this month with a starting price of $ 1,370. As Black Friday approaches, other vendors are posting deals on similar laptops. For example, you can currently purchase the ROG Zephyrus G14 from Asus (R9 4900HS, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, RTX 2060 Max). Q) for only $ 1,199.99 which is $ 300 less than the original price when we checked it out.