Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 10 Review: An All-White Wonder

Stunning achromatic design. Incredible, HDR-ready OLED display. High-quality keyboard and touchpad. Tons of ports.

Crummy webcam and speakers. Short artillery life. Still thicker and heavier than nan competition.

An all-white gaming laptop would person been bold 5 aliases six years ago. In fact, it was rather a connection erstwhile Alienware primitively made that move, followed by galore copycats.

These days, it’s a spot little shocking, but I person to admit: When done right, it’s still a ace cleanable look that stands retired from different gaming laptops. The all-white Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 10 is gorgeous, and though it's expensive, it's 1 of nan best gaming laptops of nan twelvemonth truthful far. That's very overmuch acknowledgment to its unthinkable OLED display, not conscionable nan snazzy design.

All-White Wonder

The 10th procreation of nan Lenovo Legion 7i doesn’t make immoderate drastic changes complete past year’s exemplary connected nan exterior. The Legion logo is now centered connected nan lid, and nan Lenovo logo has been moved arsenic well. Not precisely earth-shaking. The all-white artistic is simply a cleanable look—every spot arsenic caller arsenic nan ROG Zephyrus G14, different celebrated gaming laptop that embraced white.

One of nan problems pinch all-white laptops is that they’re often made retired of plastic. This tin springiness them a flimsy, inexpensive aesthetic. Lenovo counters that connected nan Legion 7i by utilizing a heavy chunk of aluminum underneath nan achromatic plastic, which tin beryllium seen from nan sides. It moreover has a tasteful brushed-metal decorativeness that shines successful nan correct lighting. That metallic halfway intends nan instrumentality has very small flex, whether successful nan thenar rests aliases successful nan lid.

The Legion 7i Gen 10 weighs 4.39 pounds and is now 0.7 inches thick, taking a trim from past year's model. It’s not nan thinnest 16-inch gaming laptop successful nan world—that’s nan Razer Blade 16. But it’s overmuch thinner than nan company’s Legion Pro laptops, which are up to an inch thick. The Legion 7i Gen 10 feels for illustration a happy mean betwixt nan ultrathin Razer Blade 16 aliases ROG Zephyrus G16 and much performance-driven gaming laptops.

The ports connected nan Legion 7i supply everything you request for connectivity. The near broadside has 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports (which tin slow complaint nan laptop successful a pinch), arsenic good arsenic a USB-A larboard and headphone jack. (There's nary Thunderbolt 5 here, because Lenovo reserves it for its high-end gaming laptops.) The correct broadside has an further USB-A port, an physics shutter webcam switch, and moreover a full-size SD paper slot. That SD paper slot isn’t thing nan mean PC gamer mightiness need, which hints astatine nan crossover entreaty of this laptop.

Like each Legion laptops, this 1 besides includes immoderate ports successful nan back—notably nan powerfulness jack and nan HDMI port. I still find this to beryllium an appealing and convenient spot to spot these types of ports. The other room connected nan backmost is besides wherever nan vents are, pushing retired nan basking aerial distant from your hands. This does make nan Legion 7i a spot bulkier and larger than it needs to be, though.

Too often, nan value of gaming laptops is compromised by shoddy keyboards and touchpads. Not truthful pinch nan Legion 7i. The touchpad is ample and responsive, and nan solid aboveground feels ace soft erstwhile gliding your digit crossed it. The click is simply a spot louder than I’d prefer, but that’s conscionable maine nitpicking.

The keyboard, likewise, is simply a joyousness to type on. The keycaps are firm, pinch a gentle curve for your fingers to remainder on. The 1.6-mm cardinal recreation is capable to springiness each keypress immoderate weight without a learning curve. Meanwhile, nan per-key RGB backlighting looks awesome against nan achromatic thenar rests and keyboard lattice. I for illustration nan full-size arrow keys arsenic well, though I’d person gladly traded nan number pad for immoderate usability keys that didn’t consciousness truthful crammed in. I besides don’t for illustration that nan NumPad forces nan touchpad to beryllium off-center, arsenic they ever do.

There is nary fingerprint scanner, but it has an IR camera by nan webcam for Windows Hello login. Speaking of nan webcam, it’s a 5-megapixel sensor. The image processing is rough. It tends to really overexpose if it’s not successful an perfect lighting condition, though it’ll suffice for nan occasional video telephone erstwhile needed. The speakers are likewise bare-bones. You get a brace of two-watt speakers, which are capable for strategy sounds and a video telephone if you can’t find your headphones, but beyond that, you’ll want a bully gaming headset aliases computer speakers.

Superb Gaming

There are 2 show options, some of which are OLED and person a 2,560 x 1,600 resolution. The only quality is successful refresh rate, pinch nan action of either 165 Hz aliases 240 Hz. Regardless of which refresh complaint you choose, you get nan aforesaid fantabulous OLED panel. These are thing new, but OLED displays stay nan very champion action for gaming laptops. OLED offers overmuch faster consequence times, which will make games consciousness smoother and snappier—not to mention nan unthinkable opposition and HDR.

To my surprise, nan Legion 7i is rated to deed 1,000 nits of highest brightness, and I measured 1,060 nits successful a 4 percent window. That’s brighter than galore different OLED laptops I’ve tested, which really brings games to life. Even much surprising, however, is that nan surface is rather agleam successful SDR arsenic well. A batch of OLED laptops and monitors can’t get brighter than astir 300 nits, but nan Legion 7i maxes retired astatine 486 nits. That is really bright. The Legion 7i’s show besides features top-notch colors. It’s 1 of nan astir color-accurate displays I’ve tested, pinch an mean colour correction of conscionable 0.88. That’s calibrated amended than a MacBook Pro correct retired of nan box.

My reappraisal portion has nan higher 240-Hz refresh rate, which is awesome for fast-paced games. Heading into testing, I was unsure whether nan RTX 5060 was really powerful capable to request that precocious a refresh rate. The Legion 7i Gen 10 uses nan afloat 115-watt type of this GPU, which is an important spec that companies seldom talk about. That's paired pinch nan Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX, a high-end gaming CPU that performs arsenic I'd expect successful Cinebench R24.

I tested Cyberpunk 2077 first and fto it default immoderate settings for me. To my surprise, it could play nan crippled astatine autochthonal solution pinch Ray Tracing connected Low and still averaged 67 frames per 2nd successful nan game’s benchmark. That’s utilizing DLSS upscaling group to Quality, but nan image value successful nan crippled still looked good. To usage much of that refresh rate, I tried reducing nan graphics to High, which brought nan framework complaint up to 82 frames per second. Even erstwhile dropping nan solution to 1200p, I ne'er sewage past 165 frames per second—at least, not without using multi-frame generation.

Marvel Rivals proved to beryllium a amended usage lawsuit for nan precocious refresh rate. After dropping nan solution to 1200p, I was capable to easy mean good complete 200 frames per second, moreover without utilizing upscaling. The crippled looked and felt awesome connected nan accelerated screen, and I was impressed by really good nan RTX 5060 kept up. All this testing was done pinch nan strategy group to Best Performance successful Windows, which was nan default option.

Across each nan games I tested, pinch nan Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 10, you’re getting a best-case script for nan RTX 5060 to shine. Despite nan truth that it only has 8 GB of VRAM, nan bully thermals and beardown CPU capacity of nan Core Ultra 7 255HX group it up for success.

None of that intends you're going to get bully artillery life, though. I was only getting astir 4 and a half hours successful a very ray video playback test. That's beautiful short, limiting nan laptop's viability arsenic a hybrid instrumentality for travel, work, aliases school.

Close Competition

The RTX 5060 exemplary is disposable only astatine Best Buy, starting astatine $1,870. I would not bargain this correct now—at slightest not astatine this price. Currently, nan amended woody is complete astatine Lenovo.com, wherever you tin prime up an RTX 5070 exemplary for $1,795 connected sale. Though I haven’t tested it (and some GPUs travel pinch only 8 GB of VRAM), stepping up to nan RTX 5070 is surely worthy it. Both configurations get you 32 GB of RAM and 1 terabyte of storage.

The Legion 7i Gen 10 is 1 of nan astir costly gaming laptops to usage nan RTX 5060. You’re paying other for nan keyboard backlighting, faster HX-series Intel chip, higher-resolution OLED display, and superior design. These each adhd a batch to nan laptop experience, but they are, for nan astir part, quality-of-life additions. For example, nan Alienware Aurora 16 (a laptop I’ll beryllium reviewing soon) besides starts pinch an RTX 5060 and a akin solution screen, but it’s IPS alternatively of OLED.

Just beryllium observant pinch nan inexpensive RTX 5060 laptops retired there, such arsenic nan Gigabyte Aero X16, which is connected waste for conscionable $1,150 correct now. I haven’t tested it yet, but it uses nan 85-watt version of nan RTX 5060, which will mean a important driblet successful capacity compared to nan Legion 7i Gen 10. That’s stone bottommost for RTX 5060 gaming laptops. Lenovo has its ain type of a cheaper RTX 5060 correct now, nan LOQ 15, which will beryllium disposable successful October, gets you an RTX 5060 for adjacent to $1,000, but comes pinch a modular 1080p IPS display.

With that successful mind, nan Legion 7i Gen 10 is intelligibly not for those who worth capacity supra all. But it's 1 of nan nicest looking gaming laptops I've reviewed lately that isn't a Razer Blade, and it has capable capacity and high-end features to make it worthy nan money—just make judge to opt for nan RTX 5070 while it's still connected sale.