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Legion Pro 5 (16", Gen 8) AMD, R7 7745HX, 32GB, 1TB, WQXGA 240hz, RTX 4060, $2,181.99 Delivered @ Lenovo

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It's been a minute since I've paid close attention to gaming laptops but given few available AMD Gen 4 options, this seems like a reasonable deal for the right person.

Specs
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 7 7745HX (3.60 GHz up to 5.10 GHz)
  • RAM: 32 GB DDR5-5200MHz (SODIMM) - (2 x 16 GB)
  • SSD: 1TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 TLC
  • Display: 16" WQXGA (2560 x 1600), IPS, Anti-Glare, Non-Touch, HDR 400, 100%sRGB, 500 nits, 240Hz, Narrow Bezel, Low Blue Light
  • GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060 Laptop GPU 8GB GDDR6
  • Wireless: Wi-Fi 6E 2x2 AX & Bluetooth® 5.1 or above
  • Battery: 4 Cell Li-Polymer 80Wh
  • Power Cord: 300W Slim 3pin AC Adapter - ANZ
  • Warranty: 1 Year Courier or Carry-in
Options
  • Upgrade to an RTX 4070 for +$329 (probably not worth it) for + $200
  • Keep the (preselected) 3YR Onsite warranty upgrade for +$85 (worth it)

This is my first deal posting, so please let me know if there's anything critical that I've missed.

EDIT: Updated expiry date
EDIT: 12% cash back with CashRewards for the next couple hours
EDIT: 12% cash back expired

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  • Jasonio on 23/07/2023 - 16:26
    +1

    Not bad tbh

  • WIND on 23/07/2023 - 16:29

    Wish there's a Legion 7 deal coming soon.

    • bluey47 on 23/07/2023 - 16:51

      They are between 32 and 35% off at the moment.

  • John Doh on 23/07/2023 - 16:39

    Does anybody have these Legion 5 and 7 laptops? How noisy do these get when watching YouTub/ fast forwarding or scrolling through a website very fast etc.

    • mckayver on 23/07/2023 - 16:54
      +2

      Not noisy at all for watching YouTube and website use. They're Powerful enough to not ramp up fan speed unless under high load like gaming.

      I have the legion 5 pro amd 5800x 3070. Only issue is the trackpad stops working occasionally but I use a wireless mouse so I don't really care.

      • John Doh on 23/07/2023 - 18:08

        Ah nice good to know. I had a metabox given from office with 10800H and a 3060 that ramped fans up even while surfing or watching youtube at 2x. The fan noise used to be annoying.

        • Koolchops on 23/07/2023 - 18:11

          My older metabox does the same. Even from new.

          • John Doh on 23/07/2023 - 18:15

            @Koolchops: I dont know how the these legion laptops are designed, but when i opened the meta to replace the RAM, I saw that the CPU was connected to oneside of the HSF and GPU to the other. If they had linked them together, it would have run much cooler IMO distributing the heat to both coolers.

        • joshx on 24/07/2023 - 00:36

          Had a Metabox in 2016, and it was great but noisy AF. Feel like they don't really care about noise, as they consider them portable workstations?

          • John Doh on 24/07/2023 - 07:06

            @joshx: Yup, their performance was quite good. They just didnt design the cooling properly. I hope they have improved now, but if I am to buy a laptop, i would pick up a legion now.

    • colbolt143 on 23/07/2023 - 19:39
      +2

      By pressing fn + q you can select 3 modes. Quiet, Balance and Gaming modes. There's basically no noise in quiet mode.

      • John Doh on 23/07/2023 - 21:10

        It does slow down quite a bit tho. For some reason, when my colleague who had similar laptop ran linux, it ran much silent and there was no seperate drivers or fan software installed.

        • raisinberry777 on 23/07/2023 - 21:54
          +1

          On my Legion Slim 5 2023 (obviously not the same but not that different either, quiet mode is much quieter for only a very minor drop in performance.

  • billadm on 23/07/2023 - 16:45
    -3

    Gigabyte Aorus 5 SE4, i7 12700H, RTX 3070 30% better than 4060 $1,850.

    https://www.msy.com.au/product/gigabyte-aorus-5-se4-15-6in-f…

    3070 VS 4060 laptop: https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-4060-Laptop…

    • Harsh Deep on 23/07/2023 - 16:47

      and i thought 4000 series is better than 3000

    • denserham on 23/07/2023 - 16:54
      +9

      That link compares a 4060 Laptop GPU with a full fat Desktop GPU…

      • billadm on 23/07/2023 - 17:10
        -1

        My apologies, I got that by a Google search.
        This is the laptop version, the 3070 laptop is still ~5% better than the 4060 one.
        And the 3070 desktop version GPU is still slightly more expensive than the 4060.

        https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-4060-Laptop…

        • denserham on 23/07/2023 - 17:17
          +5

          That is the TI version the example Laptop you posted doesn't have a TI card.

          But yeah your example is very similar GPU performance wise and $300 cheaper.

      • gfunk zero on 23/07/2023 - 17:12
        +2

        Yep not much difference on the surface , the 4060 probably uses less power and has benefits outside of raw power

        https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-4060-Laptop…

        • rocket142 on 23/07/2023 - 22:38
          +2

          Yes with the 4060 you can use frame generation, makes a big difference in some games.

    • [Deactivated] on 23/07/2023 - 21:00
      +11

      Please don't use Userbenchmark. The site is insanely biased and the owner is just outright insane.

      • APD2022 on 23/07/2023 - 21:16

        Please elaborate for me, I use this site sometimes.

        • itchy scratchy on 23/07/2023 - 21:52
          +1

          https://youtu.be/RQSBj2LKkWg

          Not only is userbenchmark extremely biased (towards Intel), but the quality of data they have isn't that great either. They gather data from systems with very different setups and lump them all together, resulting in rather questionable stats. Read the review for the AMD 5800X3D

          You can't pretend like these guys aren't clowns when they proceed to out everyone as neanderthals for agreeing that the 5800X3D was a good improvement.

          • billadm on 23/07/2023 - 22:50

            @itchy scratchy: I also use Userbenchmark quite often when I need to see the difference between 2 or more cards.
            Of course it can't be 100% reliable but at least it give me an idea of what I'm looking for.

            Above I put a link of a test between the GTX 4060 and the GTX 3070 (laptop) and it shows that the 3070 has ~5% more power.
            Here is a test from Technical City where they show that the 3070 is 10-15% faster than the 4060 (desktop).
            Of course the data is different if compared with Userbenchmark but it shows that the 3070 is faster than the 4060 and that is all I need to know.
            But if you know a better and trustable "free" web site that offers benchmarks, then you're welcome to tell it.

            https://technical.city/en/video/GeForce-RTX-3070-vs-GeForce-…

            • itchy scratchy on 24/07/2023 - 01:14
              +2

              @billadm: I'll admit that it can give a rough idea of what you're looking for - but to answer your last question, personally, I'm a fan of Hardware Unboxed on youtube / Techspot.com (run by the same people) and Gamers Nexus. Both test thoroughly and objectively. Both make videos that are easy to digest too.

              In your case if I wanted to see how the 4060 compared to the 3070 I would take a look https://www.techspot.com/review/2701-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060… here and see how they compare on the graphs.

              Of course, there are other sites and whatnot, but these come to mind for now.

              • billadm on 24/07/2023 - 18:36

                @itchy scratchy: Thanks very much for the web link, indeed their reviews and tests are much more in deep and professional.
                That web site is very useful if I wanted to check more specific details and again the tables show that the 3070 is faster than the 4060 so for a quick (when I'm busy) check I'll go to Userbenchmark but if I need more details, I'll go to Technical City.

          • joshx on 24/07/2023 - 00:38
            +1

            @itchy scratchy: I was hoping it was this meme: https://youtu.be/pSpIKoA6vsM

          • APD2022 on 24/07/2023 - 21:33

            @itchy scratchy: Thanks for the info, I'll definitely check out your other recommendations.

  • Pacify on 23/07/2023 - 16:59

    An okay price.

    I bought the same laptop during the EOFY sale, with 16gbs ram and 4070, for $2k with the cashback.

    Its a nice laptop tho, the thermal design is pretty solid, and everything about it feels pretty good

  • Brrrrt on 23/07/2023 - 17:08
    +2

    Lenovos rrp is extremely bloated as always, dont think it needed to be added to the title as thats not a good measure of discount. These machines see ~30% discounts every now and then. Would much rather suggesting waiting for cashrewards rate to come back up before making a purchase for the best bang for your buck.

    If you cant wait, sure go for it.

    Also note dragon ridge =/= phoenix. These HX chips offers much better performance at the cost of hardly any igpu power to speak off on the go and battery life no better than intel counterparts.

    • chrisandrew on 23/07/2023 - 19:02
      +3

      I considered leaving out RRP for that reason. Damned if I do, damned if I dont.

  • dosada on 23/07/2023 - 17:20

    Not that great of a deal. Paid that much for the same laptop with 4070 after cash back

    • bananabendera on 23/07/2023 - 18:29

      From where, when, with what code?

      • dosada on 23/07/2023 - 18:54
        +1

        From lenovo during the17% cash back offer

    • chrisandrew on 23/07/2023 - 19:03
      +1

      It sounds like you got a great price. Did you also get it with 32GB and 1TB SSD?

      • Pacify on 23/07/2023 - 20:07

        Nah, during that offer they wanted an inane amount of money for those two upgrades, so most people would have gotten 16gb and 500gb. But both are pretty easy after market upgrades, especially the ssd.

        • chrisandrew on 23/07/2023 - 20:16

          Okay, so that in part explains the price difference. This configuration might suit some better than others.

          • Pacify on 24/07/2023 - 00:14

            @chrisandrew: But then there was another deal recently for the 4060 version that had those 2 upgrades for like 50$ each

            • chrisandrew on 24/07/2023 - 08:45

              @Pacify: Yes, they were $59 each and were added as part of this deal configuration.

  • abctoz on 23/07/2023 - 17:44
    -8

    Problem remains, how u gonna game on a 16in screen, it’s too small innit

    • billadm on 23/07/2023 - 18:29

      Some people use the gaming laptop for work or study and so they need to carry.
      In my case I prefer the 17" one but that will be very expensive.

      • abctoz on 23/07/2023 - 21:02
        -2

        I used to have a 17” one sold it after 3m it’s too small innit, completely useless for gaming

        And who works on a 16” screen that’s way too small, it was small for screens 20 years ago and it’s minuscule now

        • itchy scratchy on 23/07/2023 - 21:55
          +1

          In that case, you buy a monitor.

          It's a laptop, it's meant to be portable. How are you gonna carry around a 20" laptop?

          • abctoz on 23/07/2023 - 23:26
            -2

            @itchy scratchy: that’s the point gaming laptops are an oxymoron, you can’t be portable and also have a decent gaming experience. If you buy a screen then a small desktop is usually faster for the cost

            • NoApostrophePlurals on 24/07/2023 - 03:16
              +1

              @abctoz: Did you know that in real life, not every experience is available on decent, let alone maximum? For those outside of the confines of perfection, such a concept as "an alternative" exists. I know, it might be mind boggling, but once you wrap your head around it, there's actually hundreds of thousands of gaming laptops sold in the world.

            • Dyson8r on 24/07/2023 - 10:24

              @abctoz: Nintendo Switch users ヽ(⊙_⊙ )ﾉ

              • NoApostrophePlurals on 24/07/2023 - 10:31
                +1

                @Dyson8r: Steam deck, ROG Ally? It's not the same as a desktop experience but it's a portable PC game experience.

          • billadm on 24/07/2023 - 18:40

            @itchy scratchy:

            How are you gonna carry around a 20" laptop?

            Who ever mentioned a 20" laptop here?
            I love my 17" gaming laptop with a GTX 3070 and I've no problems to carry it around when I need to.

  • chode on 23/07/2023 - 17:49

    What's the shipping like? It says 5-6 weeks delivery.. Is that spot on? Cheers

    • Brrrrt on 23/07/2023 - 17:57
      +1

      it will vary but prepare for the worst. These are dispatched from China per order and maybe your order will happen to be in stock n included in the lastest shipment and once its 'here', it will be delivered to you soon. but in most cases, yeah prepare to wait.

      • chode on 23/07/2023 - 18:12

        Cheers mate, was hoping to get it for an international flight in mid Aug to play some Baldur's gate 3..

        • Brrrrt on 23/07/2023 - 18:19
          +1

          yeah i probably wont count on it arriving in time. Wait for a better deal when cashrewards also raises their % in conjunction to these 30% off coupons

          • chode on 23/07/2023 - 18:43

            @Brrrrt: Will do.. Thanks ya legend!

          • chrisandrew on 25/07/2023 - 22:38

            @Brrrrt: CashRewards is 12% until midnight, if you're thinking of pulling the trigger.

        • monkeymuffins on 23/07/2023 - 23:38

          I was in the same situation with flying out the last time I ordered a customised laptop from Lenovo. I called them and they said they'd put through a request to expedite the order. Can't say if that had any effect, but I did get it pretty quickly after that.

        • coxymla on 24/07/2023 - 10:24
          +1

          Using a L5P on a tray table is gonna be awful.

  • HappyJoyJoy on 23/07/2023 - 19:03

    Thanks, im looking to switch from HP to Lenovo , but, might wait for Black-Friday sales (4months away) and get a very high spec laptop

    • simb24 on 23/07/2023 - 22:34

      Is it Lenovo better than HP? I thought that HP was always better known as a reliable brand.

      • HappyJoyJoy on 23/07/2023 - 22:54

        i have had a few Omens and its getting Boring
        also i have a 17-cb100 witch i require a BIOS update which its not available , and had to bring in Department of Fair trade as their complaints is stupid and not assisting with the drivers i need for Windows 11 …..

        im currently using a very old 15-ce0 Omen which its starting to slowly die off
        so that why i want to go Lenovo , something different

        also, what i have read, they are both good quality

        • simb24 on 23/07/2023 - 22:59

          Thanks for explaining.

  • nigel deborah on 23/07/2023 - 19:05

    Not a bad price but yeah as others have said this config +4070 has been as low as 2k

    • chrisandrew on 23/07/2023 - 20:36

      The last person who said it opted for 16GB/512GB, explaining in part the difference.

      • NoApostrophePlurals on 24/07/2023 - 03:18

        That person only explained one example. Read his subsequent reply. "This config + 4070 has been as low as 2k" no exception.

        • chrisandrew on 24/07/2023 - 08:50

          I didn't find a comparable deal in recent history but I didn't search back too far. Just about everything electronic was cheaper pre-covid but this is the price now for people who are in the market now. It sucks but we're all forced to live with it unless we all start voting against inflation and corporate greed with our wallets.

          • NoApostrophePlurals on 24/07/2023 - 10:29

            @chrisandrew: I appreciate it's your first deal, but there's no need to defend it like it's the holy grail, but you're really reaching now, making unrelated links to pre-COVID prices. The better deal was only a few weeks ago. This laptop didn't exist before covid.

            There are always Lenovo sales being stacked with cashrewards but you couldn't find the deal probably because you were only searching for Legion Pro 5. The double discount stack is very common, hence people pointing out to you that it has been cheaper. They usually don't list individual products as there are too many on the Lenovo site.

            This is still a good deal, just not a great one and not close to the best price in recent times. Don't be discouraged from postingore deals in the future, just come off like a km*b disagreeing with people.

            • chrisandrew on 24/07/2023 - 13:30
              +3

              @NoApostrophePlurals: I stated in the deal description that it "seems like a reasonable deal for the right person". Infer what you will from that.

              I'm not sure what you mean to re: disagreeing with people..? Regardless, I don't care to die on this hill; if it's been cheaper, thats fine.

  • Raj09 on 23/07/2023 - 19:25

    Good one

  • hippo2s on 23/07/2023 - 19:58

    Your price seems to include 3Y onsite warranty. I removed it (in the bottom of the right hand summary box) and found it to be $2064. I am not in the market tho. Thought others that is chasing ultimate no-frills might want to know.

    • chrisandrew on 23/07/2023 - 20:08

      Edit: Just checked and I'm not getting that price. Did you add the RAM and SSD upgrade?

      • hippo2s on 23/07/2023 - 20:28

        Hmm… I see now your post is for spec with 32GB and 1TB SSD, but the click thur link gives me 16GB and 512GB SSD and 3Y onsite warranty.

        Just double check the warranty is base 1y or 3y I personally don't think it's worth it.

        • chrisandrew on 23/07/2023 - 20:33

          The deal price is based on one year. The URL doesn't change with the config, unfortunately.

          You don't think the extra warranty is worth it?

          • syousef on 23/07/2023 - 20:52
            +1

            @chrisandrew: Both my kids and I have Lenovo Legion 5 laptops. Both the kids laptops have had screws migrate in and short the internals (one fatally. The other was fine after I removed the screw). I have no idea how that managed to happen with 2 different children and 2 different machines - those laptops live in padded school backpacks, but they are school bags after all. BYO sucks. I've had Lenovo fix 2 issues under warranty at my home (including the fatal short). I think it's well worth the on site warranty, and it's not something other manufacturers offer.

            • chrisandrew on 23/07/2023 - 21:03
              +2

              @syousef: $85 over 3 years isn't worth dwelling over, for sure. Thanks for sharing!

            • hippo2s on 24/07/2023 - 08:50

              @syousef: Wow never heard of this behaviour before and never had it happen to me unless someone servicing it overtightened…like when adding RAM. I have had around 8 Lenovo personally and played with over 50.

              PS. Most of the screws screw into plastic protrusions, the metal screws don't move nor would they touch metal parts. Unless it has a metal chassis then which there would be a dab of lock tight on the threads to prevent it moving, again someone opening the bottom and screwing it back normally wouldn't bother dabbing some fresh lock tight on there.

              • syousef on 24/07/2023 - 10:14

                @hippo2s: These screws actually found their way into the body somehow. It's bizzare. I'd call it a freak occurence but it's happened on 2 different machines, one of which hadn't been opened since I received it from Lenovo. (The other had a prior on site repair so I initially thought it was a lazy or careless service person.)

  • sw10022 on 23/07/2023 - 23:30
    +2

    I have the RTX 4070 version with 32GB version
    - you can add a second 2280 SSD
    - can be quiet you can also customize power allocation (heat generation) and fan profiles.
    - I dont need it need turboboosting agggresively all the time so I customized "Processor Performance Boost Mode" (enable via regex , google/youtube it) and laptop runs whisper quiet in my experience playing games and running VMs
    Edit: you probably want to do this, or else you will hear the laptop… I don't know if it is lenovo or windows or AMD processor scheduling logic , but if I wiggle my mouse around, the processor tries to turboboost sometimes past 5 ghz…
    - Typical gaming temperatures: 62 degree GPU/ 60 degree CPU
    - Battery life on the go is bad, ~3.5 hours ( did anyone expect different?)
    - can charge off usb-c power but laptop will limit power to GPU

    Feel free to reply for any questions.

    • DrDan on 25/07/2023 - 04:31

      wait for rtx 4070 or get this, have a surface book 2017. Have always used a laptop but am tempted to get a PC but hate the lack of portability. Have also got a 27" screen.

      I mostly do video editing and photoshop. Gaming sometimes. How does this fair in that, play diablo 4 at 1440p max?

      • sw10022 on 25/07/2023 - 11:02

        I don't have diablo 4 but can play battlefield 2042, elden ring, cyberpunk 2077 without any issues. You probably will not be able to hit >200 fps on max with a 4070 laptop but as long as you can accept around or greater than 100 fps the legion 5 should be fine.

        Check out benchmarks (has diablo 4 ):
        https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-4070-Laptop…

        I cap my FPS in nvidia control plane and disable turboboost since I want sustained performance and consistent low noise/heat emissions in gaming. I don't think I need to do this as the GPU when uncapped stays relatively cool for laptop, <67 C - it's mainly the CPU that causes heat and noise generation as it keeps trying to unnessecarily boost past 5ghz.

        Even when the fans are on at full power, they don't sound too unpleasant ( I am just very particular about noise… )

        If you're doing video editing and photoshop, can they be GPU accelerated? If not, you might need to leave CPU turboboost ( Processor Performance Boost Mode default setting is aggressive) on for bursty workloads.

        From googling seems like they can?
        https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-cc-gpu-card-f…
        https://helpx.adobe.com/au/x-productkb/multi/gpu-acceleratio…

        Else, probably better off going for a desktop as they're cheaper (I'm assuming you have a good monitor already for photoshop and video editing) , quieter and cooler.

        • DrDan on 25/07/2023 - 14:39
          +1

          Legend thanks a ton for the reply. Yeah I do have a good monitor.

          Ended up going for this laptop. Instead of spending the same on a computer which I can't move around.. haha

          Thank you again

    • Kegsta on 24/07/2023 - 09:03

      @tightarse
      Just purchased this with 15% cashback and tracked at 3%.

      • tightarse on 24/07/2023 - 09:41
        +1

        @eecan @Kegsta

        Lenovo Pro Business Store only?

        • eecan on 24/07/2023 - 09:43

          It said standard rate 15%/Motorola 3.5% at midnight, must have been changed.

        • Kegsta on 24/07/2023 - 09:44
          +1

          It did not say that when i ordered, it had standard rate 15%, motorola 3.5%

          • tightarse on 24/07/2023 - 09:46
            +1

            @Kegsta: I've only just logged in so will flag with the team. If it was advertised as standard, then I'm sure they'll update your cashback :)

            • Kegsta on 24/07/2023 - 09:51

              @tightarse: Cheers, I cancelled my previous order with 10% CR for the 15% so hopefully it gets all sorted quickly.

    • eecan on 24/07/2023 - 09:45
      +1

      UPDATE: 15% no longer valid, has now been changed to business store. Have unpublished comment to avoid any confusion.

  • mike6969 on 24/07/2023 - 07:21
    -3

    "It's been a minute"?
    Are you actually Australian or a Lenovo rep using a US sales script?
    This is the most stupid yank phrase out there, and there are a lot

    • chrisandrew on 24/07/2023 - 08:03

      Thanks for sharing your valuable insights…

  • bboybra on 24/07/2023 - 08:44

    Not a gaming laptop but I thought the new yoga pro 9i seemed pre good now now with 15% cash back

    Specs:
    Display: 3072x1920 165hz 2ms 1200nits peak HDR mini led touch screen glossy
    CPU: i9 13905H 14 core (6P+8E cores) 5.40 GHz/4.10GHz max boost respectively
    GPU: 4070 8GB (80 watts)
    RAM: 64GB LPDDR5X 6400MHz Soldered

    Also charges via USB c @ 140 watts which is pre cool

    $3397 - $463.23 = $2933.77

    Edit: This is the 14 inch model^

    • eecan on 24/07/2023 - 09:00

      I was very interested in that laptop too but I saw a few concerning anecdotes in relation to poor feedback regarding build quality for it and there are only limited reviews - basically only sponsored reviews out there.

      • bboybra on 24/07/2023 - 12:09

        Fair aha, was finding it hard to find a non sponsored review XD

        Looks like cashback is now only 3.5% lame

        Edit: Disregard original comment of 15% cash back Cashrewards has updated their terms only 3.5% now.

    • Dodo1203 on 26/07/2023 - 09:33

      How you got the 4070. Only 4060 available for me

      • bboybra on 26/07/2023 - 11:02

        You have to select the i9 13905H then 64gb ram option, it will the automatically select the mini led 3k touch display and upgrade to 4070. check the specs to confirm. Afaik rn it’s the only config of this laptop lenovo au sells with the 4070.

        Edit: if you did want to buy I’d personally wait till at least 10% cashback was 15% the other day and 12% yesterday. Happy hunting!

  • DrDan on 25/07/2023 - 04:46

    Cashrewards shows a 12% cashback. That's pretty good right?

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