Decent enough for the price. Bonus $200 Lenovo reward points. Choose these options for the price:
you also get $301 in Rewards for a monitor or something
Referrer and referee get $20 after referee's 1st purchase of $90+.
Credit where credit is due. This is a much more realistic and constructive comment compared to what you usually dish up. Well done.
Well it is one of the cheapest RTX 5070 laptops I've seen at this point in time, the other being the HP Omen awhile back with better RAM.
100W variant RTX 5070 of the 250W desktop RTX 5070
Well actually the desktop 5070 and laptop 5070 aren't the same silicon.
The 5070 mobile is more closely related to the desktop 5060.
Thank you NVIDIA, for the excellent naming scheme.
True. Like the RTX 4090 Mobile in my HP Omen is just an RTX 4080
Seems like the 5070M has the same silicon as 5060Ti, albeit with a far lower clock speed. The one in this laptop can probably clock very close to a desktop 5060Ti
This.
Also power and performance on GPUs doesn't scale linearly.
You can drop 30% power and only lose around 10% performance on desktop gpus
Interesting - all tdp and silicone considered, what desktop gpu does this compare to performance wise? Anyone know?
I’d love to find a gpu list that compares desktop and mobile gpus side by side
Clicked on the link and it has 5050 at that price.
Gives the price on the deal after upgrading to the 5070 for me.
Rtx5070 in name as still only 8gb
F**king Lenovo's website is a pain in the ass, constant popups, just let me see the damn product
why do we still have 10nm CPUs in 2025?
that aside, this would be a good portable photo and video editing rig with OLED panel and dedicated graphics, plus gaming too
just not sure about battery life
still would get a refurb MBP 16 at this price for that purpose..
but if you don't want to touch mac, this is not bad, with the disclosure of CPU process which is ancient at this point
If you choose Intel you'll get 10nm
why do we still have 10nm CPUs in 2025?
Intel making a lot of mistakes, and fab production capacity constraints now they are outsourcing.
The i7‑14700HX (10nm) in this Legion 5i is made by Intel in their own fabs.
The CPU / GPU / NPU for new generation 3nm chips (EG, the Core Ultra 7 255HX) are made by TSMC. And TSMC is at max production capacity so Intel is limited in what it can get produced.
Keep in mind as well that 10nm and 3nm are marketing terms that are not used the same was by different brands, not an actual processes size, so are not directly comparable. In terms of actual spec, Intel's 10nm is more like TSMCs 7nm.
Intel's 10nm is still old tech, but real world not that far behind the newer Intel chips that use TSMC's 3nm process. EG, Intel 10nm, i7‑14700HX vs the newer TSMC 3nm Ultra 7 255HX. The 255HX is about the same for most single threaded loads, and 15 - 20% faster for heavy multithreaded loads. It has much better integrated graphics performance, but that is mostly due to more EUs. And isn't something that matters too much for a gaming laptop with a discrete GPU.
Don't get me wrong, Intel has dropped the ball pretty hard with its CPUs and fab tech and is now way behind. And while suboptimal, the i7‑14700HX is fine in a cheapish Legion 5i.
Battery life won’t be amazing. $20 extra for the 80Wh battery (vs 60Wh by default) is a critical upgrade to add. Still, based on testing the previous gen (with a very similar i7‑14650HX), for tasks that don’t use the discrete GPU, I doubt it will get more than about 5 hours of battery life.
While the MacBook Pro is a fine machine if you are in that ecosystem, it's a completely different beast and use case to a gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 GPU.
Wait for it to drop more.
100W variant RTX 5070 of the 250W desktop RTX 5070. Tflops is about half (about 15 tflops to 30). Hmm… Realistically 40% of the desktop counterpart. It's actually decently priced enough at this point in time, especially since the RTX 6000 mobile reportedly won't have major leaps (at least going by reports at this time). Still would rather drop to $1.7k for an RTX 5070 but some time later in the year.