None of this hardware is bad, but it’s a generation behind the curve – the Legion’s competitors have DDR5 memory and PCI-E 4 SSDs alongside newer GPUs and CPUs.

th Generation Intel ® Core™ i7-10875H Processorwith vPro™ (2.30 GHz, up to 5.10 GHz with Turbo Boost, 8 Cores, 16 Threads, 16 MB Cache) READ NEXT: Maximise your potential with these top gaming mice Lenovo Legion 7 review: Design and build qualityThe GeekBench 5 CPU stress test tells a similar tale, with the Legion 7 scoring 1,436 single-core and 7,322 multicore to the Core i9-powered M16’s 1,618 and 9,025. The difference between those productivity benchmark scores is like the difference between a 175mph Ferrari and a 185mph Lamborghini: indistinguishable and irrelevant in real-world use. Our final productivity test is Puget Systems' PugetBench for Photoshop, which uses the Creative Cloud version 22 of Adobe's famous image editor to rate a PC's performance for content creation and multimedia applications. It's an automated extension that executes a variety of general and GPU-accelerated Photoshop tasks ranging from opening, rotating, resizing, and saving an image to applying masks, gradient fills, and filters. The laptop's camera quality is very poor. My face was blurry, pixelated, and a lot of details on my tattoos and beard were missing. I had trouble accurately capturing bright colors from my LG CX’s rainbow-colored screen saver, which could be seen behind me. When I tried capturing footage in a brighter room, I noticed how much blur was removed. But the better lighting only makes the pixelation more noticeable. Software and Warranty on the Lenovo Legion 7

Portability isn’t a strong suit, but this mobile gaming PC is otherwise hard to fault. The Lenovo Legion 7 Gen 7 earns a well-deserved Editors' Choice award among high-end, 16-inch gaming laptops as the Gen 6 model did before it. We’ve boosted our rating by half a star for now including a fingerprint reader, USB 4 ports, and a sharper 1080p webcam.WQXGA (2560 x 1600) IPS, 500 nits, 16:10 aspect ratio, 165Hz (3ms response time), 100% sRGB, up to VESA DisplayHDR™ 400 Certified, Dolby Vision ® support, AMD FreeSync™ Premium, TÜV Rheinland ® certified The “Rembrandt” Ryzen 6000 series is AMD’s first mobile CPU to support DDR5 RAM. The Legion 7 Gen 7 uses the most powerful H- or HX-class versions with a 45-watt (W) thermal design power (TDP) rating. On the graphics front, the Radeon RX 6850M XT is the flagship AMD mobile graphics card and goes head-to-head with Nvidia’s flagship GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. The Legion 7 Gen 7 seamlessly switches to the Radeon graphics on its Ryzen CPU in power-saving scenarios, and it pays off: over nine hours of battery life for a hulking gaming laptop like this is noteworthy. The next-best time from the Gigabyte Aero 16 was 6 hours and 34 minutes. The Legion 7 Gen 7 also impressed with its peak screen brightness of 512.2 nits. It doesn’t have the most colorful display in this group, covering 75% of the popular DCI-P3 gamut versus the Razer’s 100%, but it still looks quite colorful. FHD (1920 x 1080), IPS, anti-glare, 240Hz, < 1ms response time, 100% sRGB, 500 nits, VESA DisplayHDR 400-certified, Dolby Vision™-enabled.