The gaming laptop that’s more than a gaming laptop
We live in awkward times, and our homes have become ad-hoc offices where a significant number of people are still struggling to find the right work-life balance due to obvious reasons. It’s pretty clear already that 2020 and 2021 had different plans for us, and there’s a good chance 2022 wouldn’t bring any change in this regard. In other words, home will continue to be the best place to be, and the devices will use will remain an essential companion for almost everything we do, including working, getting in touch with others, and playing games. What do all of these have to do with a gaming laptop? It’s all pretty simple actually. Many people want to buy a device that does everything, so when they spend thousands of bucks on a gaming laptop, they also want to use it for work, to watch videos, or to just make a video call and stay in touch with friends and family. This is why Lenovo’s Legion 5 Pro laptop series is actually more than what it seems at first glance. Of course, the Legion 5 Pro is a gaming laptop by all means, and nobody can deny it. After all, its specifications and the gaming legacy of the Legion lineup are certainly pointing in this direction. Powered by the AMD Ryzen 7 5800H and a choice of four different NVIDIA GPUs, the Legion 5 Pro looks and feels like a premium laptop. It’s not very lightweight, given its weight starts at 2.54 kilos, but it’s not too heavy anyway, and this makes perfect sense for a device whose main focus is gaming. With a 16.5-inch display sporting a 2560×1600 pixels resolution and topping at 500 nits, this new model makes playing games quite a breeze, at least as far as the screen is concerned. The display has solid response times (165Hz and 3 ms), so if you enjoy fast-paced games, there’s nothing to complain about on this front. Paired with up to 16GB of RAM and up to 2TB SSD storage, the processor easily lives up to the expectations, and it can handle mostly anything you throw at it. Of course, it’s not the most powerful gaming laptop, and the PCMark results pretty much speak for themselves. PCMark 10 puts the tested configuration (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060,16GB RAM, Windows 11) slightly above the standard gaming PC for 2020 with a score of 6933 points.
