Key takeaways

• Lenovo's Legion Pro 7i is a top-tier gaming laptop, on sale now for$3,099.
• It effortlessly runs the latest gaming titles, exudes premium power, and features a 16-inch OLED display that demands your attention.
• Besides the high starting price, all that hardware runs hot, it's extremely power-hungry, and it has a big, bulky power supply.

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TheLenovo Legion Pro 7i is the latest gaming laptop in the Legion series, sticking to an accessible 16-inch size and putting all its stat points into the quality of the display and hardware. 

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The result is a sophisticated laptop with dramatic (but fully customizable) RGB lighting, a sleek form factor, and stacked set of hardware. It starts out with 32GB of RAM, (upgradable to 96GB), 2TB of storage, a 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 processor, and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 GPU. 

All this, combined with the 16-inch 500nit, 240Hz refresh OLED display makes for not only a competitive gaming machine, but a capable workstation for pro creatives, animators, and designers. 

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Lenovo's 10th generation Legion Pro 7i knows its strengths and weaknesses, and is expertly designed around them. 

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A design with commanding presence

The Legion Pro 7i is hefty, to be sure, but for a gaming laptop, it is actually on the sleek side. This puts it in a sort of middle ground: it's a little too big to be something you'd want to regularly commute with, but it's certainly not bound to the desk. 

Unfortunately, the matte black finish is a fingerprint magnet, like many of Lenovo's other laptops (ahem -- ThinkPads) that, if this bugs you like it bugs me, will compel you to keep a cloth on hand. All of this is mitigated by the keyboard lighting, however, which can be adjusted per-key to be as subtle or loud as you want. 

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The gamer aesthetic is in full effect here, with a dramatic single bar of light across the front of the clamshell that reflects onto the surface and looks absolutely awesome. The back is illuminated across the diamond-shaped fan exhausts, and the "Legion" logo pulses with the rest of the effects. 

The full-sized keyboard with prominent arrow keys, appropriately-sized number pad (and a subtle branding on one letter key in particular) feels premium and well-made, if rather standard. Key travel feels good, and the trackpad -- aligned over the space bar -- is adequate and functional. 

The power button at the top center of the keyboard acts as a visual indicator of your performance profile: Quiet is blue, Balanced is white, and Performance is red. (It's called Silent mode both because of the fan and because muting the laptop automatically disables the lighting effects.) 

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All of these elements are individually customizable in the Legion app and can be shut off entirely if you need to save battery power or keep a low profile in the office or coffee shop. 

That being said, this is not exactly the type of laptop you're going to want to bring to the tiny bistro table in your neighborhood coffee shop. It's big, it's heavy (5.67 pounds), and it is thirsty for power. Even if you do have access to a nearby outlet, the 400W power brick is so massive, it's essentially the weight of another laptop. 

It's chonky, yes, but it's also powerful -- providing 70% battery power in just 30 minutes, a surprisingly rapid amount of juice for the huge 99.9Wh battery. 

The charger connects via a proprietary port on the left side of the laptop (not the back), which some will find more convenient, but is slightly less so if you're using the laptop as a desktop and are used to having your connections in the back.

In terms of other I/O, the laptop has two Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI and USB-A on the left side, two more USB-As, a headphone jack, and a 2.5GB ethernet jack. If you don't want to plug the laptop directly into your modem, it also supports Wi-Fi 7 for fast connectivity. 

The display is all about the visuals

The Legion Pro 7i's display is one of its best features. It is bright and vivid and absolutely pops at 500 nits and a 240Hz refresh rate. It features 100% of the SRGB color gamut, 93% Adobe RGB, and 100% P3 and swirls with deep, inky blacks and rich neons. 

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The 16-inch display is non-touch and has WQXGA resolution at a 16:10 aspect ratio. It is powered by the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU and offers a diverse set of use case possibilities for gamers, creatives, animators, and designers. Just note that this is a particularly glossy display, and will reflect light sources depending on its positioning, especially with how dark the blacks get. 

Performance: Bring on the boss fight

Let me not mince words here. This thing is a beast. The Legion Pro 7i is designed to shred through the most demanding titles out there right now, and the hardware on board well equips it to do so. 

The Nvidia GeForce 5080 GPU paired with the 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 results in responsive, snappy performance in "Cyberpunk 2077" and "Baldur's Gate 3", with older titles not breaking a sweat.

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That being said, all this powerful hardware heats up. Temperatures during intense gaming sessions can easily approach that 100