Lenovo Legion 7 16" -pelikannettava, Win 11 64-bit (83FD005AMX)

The only thing good about it is the material of the cover, the keyboard lights can do some interesting tricks. That's it.

My expectation was to upgrade from i7 1660Ti 64GB DDR4. According to the specs, this would be 2x faster. In reality, my old laptop outperformed this one on every metric.

Display: it's a 16" screen and for some reason the resolution is 3K. That means if you run any games or a virtual machine, the characters, menus, tabs, will be tiiiiiiiiiiiny. Windows 11 is doing some screen zoom, but the mouse pointer drove me crazy. But, the display is very bright, although for that price it is NOT touch screen.

Processor: I bought it specifically for a CPU intensive game. The frame rate was exactly the same as on my old machine. Windows 11 boots just as slowly as it would on a much slower machine and there are lags in performance. I'm sure it would make a difference if you're running some specialist software, although I'm not really sure how much this mixture of cores with different clocks is a good idea.

Heat: When I turned it off I almost burned my finger. And it was positioned on a wooden laptop table.

Bloatware is unbelievable, it would take me a whole day to take it off. When I did a fresh install, Win11 didn't recognize touchpad and wifi card. Having had to download them separately and install them via a hack, I managed to do a clean installation. But, benchmark app wouldn't even recognize most of the components, and the audio sounded awful.

Wifi card is Realtek, not Intel, which means they were cutting corners. I'm sorry but for 2.400 EUR at the very least there should be no regrets for buying it for at least 4 years.

More than casting a bad light on Lenovo, it is also a teachable moment on how much to trust all those video reviews online, praising it from all angles.

The brand new laptop got a hardware failure on its WiFi Realtek card after a week of using it at home. A call to Lenovo revealed "it's normal for Realtek adapters, we can replace it". No, it is NOT normal. When you buy a relatively expensive device you expect higher quality. By the way, this is the second Lenovo Legion, which has problems soon after the purchase. The first one, which I bought 3 years ago for the company, had severe problems with its motherboard. A tendency indeed.