Lenovo Legion 5i (15″, 2021) – Top 5 Pros and Cons

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Vanaf: Severin Kolakov 31 December 2021 / 05:40 0

Without a doubt, the Legion 5 is one of the best gaming notebooks, period. Regardless of whether you pick the AMD or the Intel variant, you get so much more than just raw performance. The series has been perfected over a period of time and now is a staple in the gaming laptop market next to names such as the ROG Strix and Acer Predator.

It is also well priced, assuring that everyone who wants it, can get it. Today’s unit comes with Tiger Lake H and RTX 3000-series graphics, ensuring you get the most up-to-date hardware.

Today we are presenting you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the Lenovo Legion 5i (15″, 2021).

Lenovo Legion 5i (15″, 2021): Full Specs / In-depth Review

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Lenovo Legion 5 / 5i

Processor: Intel Core i7-11800H
Videokaart: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (Laptop, 130W)
RAM: 16GB RAM
STORAGE: 512GB SSD

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Lenovo Legion 5 / 5i

Processor: Intel Core i5-11400H
Videokaart: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti (Laptop, 95W)
RAM: 8GB RAM
STORAGE: 512GB SSD

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Lenovo Legion 5 / 5i

Processor: Intel Core i7-11800H
Videokaart: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (Laptop, 130W)
RAM: 16GB RAM
STORAGE: 1000GB SSD

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4 reasons to BUY the Lenovo Legion 5i (15″, 2021)

1. Upgradeability

The laptop brings great upgradeability, offering two SODIMM slots that can fit up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM, along with two M.2 PCIe x4 slots for storage expansion.

Here is our detailed teardown video, which shows how to access the RAM and SSD slots, along with the battery, cooling, and everything else.

2. Display quality

You get to choose between four displays, with three Full HD IPS panels with either 60Hz, 120Hz, or 165Hz refresh rate along with a single QHD panel with a 165Hz refresh rate, which would go great with the higher powered hardware options. Our laptop used the 165Hz FHD option, which brought excellent viewing angles, a max brightness of 279 nits in the middle of the screen and 266 nits as an average for the whole area, with a maximum deviation of 23%, with the bottom left corner being way out of line when it comes to brightness uniformity, which affects its ability to be used for color-sensitive work. The contrast ratio is decent – 1190:1.

In terms of color coverage, the laptop covers 97% of the sRGB color gamut.

The color accuracy is good even without our Design and Gaming profile, with a dE value of 1.7. Applying our profile makes it even better, lowering it to 0.7.

Below you can compare the results from before (left) and after (right) applying our profile.

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Office Work

Office Work is voornamelijk bedoeld voor gebruikers die de meeste tijd besteden aan het bekijken van teksten, tabellen of gewoon surfen. Dit profiel streeft naar een betere onderscheidbaarheid en helderheid door een vlakke gammacurve (2.20), native kleurtemperatuur en perceptueel accurate kleuren te behouden.

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Design and Gaming

Dit profiel is bedoeld voor ontwerpers die professioneel met kleuren werken, maar ook voor games en films. Design and Gaming haalt het uiterste uit beeldschermen, waardoor ze zo nauwkeurig mogelijk zijn in de sRGB IEC61966-2-1 norm voor Web en HDTV, met witpunt D65.

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Health-Guard

Health-Guard elimineert de schadelijke Pulsbreedtemodulatie (PWM) en vermindert het negatieve Blauwe Licht dat onze ogen en lichaam beïnvloedt. Omdat het op maat gemaakt is voor elk paneel, slaagt het erin de kleuren perceptueel accuraat te houden. Health-Guard simuleert papier zodat de druk op de ogen sterk wordt verminderd.

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3. I/O

The I/O is decently rich, and while it does lack an SD card reader of any kind, you still get a total of four USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) ports, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI connector, an Ethernet connector, and a 3.5 mm audio jack.

4. Input devices

As we have said before, the Legion 5 has the best gaming keyboard of any laptop. It comes with either a White, Blue, or RGB backlight, along with very long key travel and clicky feedback. The base is sturdy enough to resist harsh typing, while the keycaps are well-sized, including the Arrow keys, which are spaced out from the rest of the keys, eliminating the chance of accidental presses. The touchpad is smooth with its Mylar surface and has good accuracy.

1 reason NOT to buy the Lenovo Legion 5i (15″, 2021)

1. Battery life

The battery unit has a size of either 60Wh or 80Wh. We tested the 60Wh version, and it didn’t perform as well as we would have liked. The laptop lasted for 3 hours and 27 minutes of Web browsing, and 4 hours and 10 minutes of video playback. When you compare it to the AMD version, you get a much lower battery life, which might be evidence to show the power efficiency of the Zen 3 processors.

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