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日本Lenovo Legion 5 (15″, 2022) – Top 5 Pros and Cons
The Legion 5 from Lenovo is probably the best-looking gaming laptop out there. With every year, it gets sleeker and sleeker, with the 2022 model looking more like an office device than a gaming one.
Still, it keeps supreme power under the hood, with today’s unit featuring AMD’s Ryzen 6000H-series and high TGP versions of the RTX 30-series. However, the laptop does also get a slight price increase.
It’s not without its competition, as the new TUF Gaming laptops from ASUS pose quite the challenge, sorting out their cooling issues from before and offering more powerful hardware.
Today we present you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the Lenovo Legion 5 (15″, 2022).
Lenovo Legion 5 (15″, 2022): Full Specs / In-depth Review
4 reasons to BUY the Lenovo Legion 5 (15″, 2022)
1. Design and build quality
You’ll fall in love with the device from first sight, thanks to the aluminum lid that shines with its brushed finish and diamond-cut edges. The rest of the laptop is made from plastic, but it still has a very good appearance. The backside extends past the lid, housing some of the I/O. Durability is really good, with a sturdy lid and base that give little flex, despite us trying our hardest.
The lid opens with one hand, and we’ll mention here that the hinges are really stable and smooth, so no screen-wobbling. The bezels are slim while managing to fit a FHD webcam. The base has a keyboard with a NumPad and a backlight. The keys have a darker grey color, along with either a White or a 4-zone RGB backlight. Typing and gaming are great, thanks to the long key travel and clicky feedback. The touchpad is quite large and covered in Mylar, which is standard Lenovo. It is smooth, accurate, and responsive. All in all, the input devices are some of the best.
2. Upgradeability
Any gaming laptop that respects its consumer will offer upgradeability, as RAM and Storage requirements keep rising up. The Legion 5 has two SODIMM slots for up to 64GB of DDR5 memory, while the storage is accessible through two M.2 PCIe x4 slots that fit Gen 4 drives.
Here is our detailed teardown video, which shows how to access both the RAM and SSD slots.
3. Battery life
Inside you’ll also find the 80Wh battery pack, which lasts for 15 hours and 13 minutes of Web browsing, or 9 hours and 22 minutes of video playback, when in tandem with the AMD Ryzen 7 6800H. Now, we conduct the battery tests with the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits, and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with.
4. Display quality
The display selection is full of options, with both FHD and QHD panels with different refresh rates. We tested a QHD IPS panel with a 165 Hz refresh rate, which comes with comfortable viewing angles, a maximum brightness of 391 nits in the middle of the screen, 372 nits as an average for the entire display area, and a max deviation of 10%. Overall, brightness is pretty even across the whole panel, so colors won’t be skewed. The contrast ratio is high enough, at 1130:1. The panel covers 97% of the sRGB color gamut.
When applying our Design and Gaming profile, the panel reaches a dE value of 1.0, which makes it accurate enough for color-sensitive work. Here are the results with the stock settings (left) and with our profile applied (right).
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Since our profiles are tailored for each individual display model, this article and its respective profile package are meant for Lenovo Legion 5 (15″, 2022) configurations with 15.6″ QHD IPS BOE NE156QHM-NY4 (BOE0A2D).
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Office Work
Office Work moet vooral worden gebruikt door gebruikers die de meeste tijd besteden aan het bekijken van stukken tekst, tabellen of gewoon surfen. Dit profiel is gericht op het leveren van een betere helderheid en duidelijkheid door het behouden van een vlakke gammacurve (2.20), native kleurtemperatuur en perceptueel accurate kleuren.
Ontwerp en spel
Dit profiel is gericht op ontwerpers die beroepsmatig met kleuren werken, en ook voor games en films. Design and Gaming brengt beeldschermen tot het uiterste en maakt ze zo nauwkeurig mogelijk in de sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standaard voor Web en HDTV, bij witpunt D65.
Health-Guard
Health-Guard elimineert de schadelijke Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) en vermindert het negatieve Blauwe Licht dat onze ogen en ons lichaam aantast. Omdat het op maat is gemaakt voor elk paneel, slaagt het erin de kleuren perceptueel nauwkeurig te houden. Health-Guard simuleert papier zodat de druk op de ogen sterk wordt verminderd.
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1 reason NOT to buy the Lenovo Legion 5 (15″, 2022)
1. I/O
While the I/O is absolutely stacked, with three USB Type-A 5Gbps ports, three Type-C 10Gbps ports, an HDMI 2.1 port, an Ethernet port, and a 3.5 mm audio jack, an SD card reader is not present, which might be important for photo editors and videographers.
