The Lenovo Legion 9i may lastly change my opinion on gaming laptops

I’ve by no means been an enormous fan of gaming laptops, in my eyes it has at all times made extra sense to have a pleasant desktop system at dwelling and a slim and lightweight ultra-portable laptop computer for computing on the go.

That is to not say there aren’t extremely spectacular gaming laptops available on the market, however there has by no means been one that would persuade me that it is price carrying such a cumbersome machine regularly.

Then there’s additionally the truth that most of them are constructed from plastic, generally with fairly garish designs, and that is not precisely interesting when the value tags are within the hundreds.

After all, some gaming laptops are constructed with portability in thoughts, however there are often some large compromises made to attain this slimness. Whether or not it is the usage of a low-spec GPU or some extreme throttling of the efficiency.

Once you’re shopping for a machine for gaming, you need the perfect efficiency you may get, and that often means a hefty thick machine that you will be hesitant to hold from the lounge to your bed room, not to mention lug round in a backpack whereas travelling.

For all these causes, ultrabooks have at all times made extra sense to me. And so they’re nice for getting your work completed, however what about if you need to run Baldurs Gate 3? In that state of affairs, they’re removed from splendid.

Lenovo has simply introduced the Legion 9i gaming laptop computer, and it makes a wonderful first impression. It is extraordinarily highly effective, sporting as much as an Intel Core i9 13980HX processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 laptop computer GPU together with as much as 64GB of 5600Mhz DDR5 and 2TB of PCIe Gen 4 SSD storage. However regardless of, that, it weighs in at simply 2.58kg and is fairly slim, for a gaming laptop computer a minimum of.

That is partially achieved by the usage of supplies like cast carbon, which covers the lid. Not solely is it a particularly sturdy and lightweight materials, but it surely provides the laptop computer a really distinctive look, and as a result of manner it is manufactured, no two laptops will look precisely the identical. After all, being a gaming machine, there’s loads of RGB lighting, probably the most LEDs Lenovo has ever placed on one in every of its laptops, in truth. The remainder of the chassis is constructed from recycled aluminium, there isn’t any cheap-feeling plastics right here – even the keyboard has ceramic keycaps!

So with monstrous {hardware} in a slim chassis, we are able to most likely anticipate thermal throttling, proper? If Lenovo’s advertising is to be believed, that will not be the case.

The Legion 9i must be able to a 230W TDP and 150W for the RTX 4090 alone. That is achieved with a brand new hybrid cooling system developed with Cooler Grasp that integrates liquid cooling with vapour chambers to maintain every thing cool beneath stress.

Whereas I noticed the laptop computer in individual, I have never been capable of put it by its paces simply but. So take these claims with a grain of salt, however there’s nice promise right here, to say the least.

Elsewhere, the laptop computer encompasses a 99.9Wh battery, twin Harman audio system with Nahemic tuning, Thunderbolt 4 connectivity and as much as a 3.2K Mini LED show with 165Hz refresh charge and 100 per cent Adobe sRGB protection.

It is most likely probably the most engaging gaming laptop computer that I’ve come throughout, however, as you may anticipate, it would not come low-cost. Costs begin at €4499 when it launches in October. I may be able to make the swap, however I am undecided my pockets is.