[Video Review] Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (16″) – we were waiting for this one for a long time
Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (16" AMD, 2021) in-depth review
Ever since its announcement back in January, the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (16") has been the hotshot on the market. No matter if you are a gamer, content creator, or you need a device with huge performance, you should be excited about it.What you need to know before we start with the review is that first - it is neither a budget offering, nor it will completely obliterate your budget. Second - it is based on an AMD chipset with Ryzen 5000H processors, and Ampere graphics cards from NVIDIA. Thankfully, Lenovo is not one of the manufacturers that hide the specs of their GPUs, thus we know that t[...]
Pros
- High TGP GPUs
- Strong aluminum chassis
- 2x M.2 PCIe slots, 2x RAM SODIMM slots in dual channel, Wi-Fi 6
- Covers 94% of the sRGB color gamut and has accurate color representation with our Gaming and Web design profile (MNG007DA1-1 (CSO1600))
- Snappy panel with quick response times (MNG007DA1-1 (CSO1600))
- High resolution and high maximum brightness (MNG007DA1-1 (CSO1600))
- HDR + G-Sync (MNG007DA1-1 (CSO1600))
- Has a ton of ports
- Great input devices
Cons
- No SD card
- Gets a bit warm under the bonnet
- HDD/SSD
- up to 4000GB SSD
- M.2 Slot
- 2x M.2 PCIe x4 slots See photo
- RAM
- up to 64GB
- OS
- Windows 11 Home, Windows 11 Pro, Windows 10 Home, Windows 11, No OS
- Battery
- 80Wh, 80Wh, 4-cell
- Body material
- Aluminum
- Dimensions
- 356 x 264.2 x 21.7 ~ 26.85 mm (14.02" x 10.40" x 0.85")
- Weight
- 2.45 kg (5.4 lbs)
- Ports and connectivity
- 1x USB Type-A
- 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps), Sleep and Charge
- 3x USB Type-A
- 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
- 1x USB Type-C
- 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps), DisplayPort
- 1x USB Type-C
- 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps), Power Delivery (PD), DisplayPort
- HDMI
- 2.1
- Card reader
- Ethernet LAN
- 10, 100, 1000 Mbit/s
- Wi-Fi
- 802.11ax
- Bluetooth
- 5.1
- Audio jack
- 3.5mm Combo Jack
- Features
- Fingerprint reader
- Web camera
- HD
- Backlit keyboard
- Microphone
- Dual Array Microphone
- Speakers
- 2x 2W, Nahimic 3D Audio
- Optical drive
- Security Lock slot