This ALL-AMD Laptop Is a BEAST
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It's time to look at an all-AMD laptop from Lenovo with cutting-edge specifications and a pack-a-punch gaming display. The Legion Slim 7 is a slim, portable, and powerful gaming device that checks all the right boxes! Let's dive in!
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Soldered RAM, gross. Framework has proven that a thin laptop can still use sodimms.
Except LPDDR RAM, no choice but tk solder that.
@@brentw8365 True, and the huge bandwidth increase is awesome...but most brands run it on 1/2 the bus size of dual channel DDR5. Ends up with a 64 bit bus total which ends up around 33% less bandwidth...I really hate that lol.
@@stuartlunsford7556 stop cappin Whyte boy
Only 1 module is soldered the other is socketed
@@East_Yeast dafuq
I got the previous gen Legion Slim 7 with the 5800h and RTX3060, 500gb NVME boot drive, and a 2560x1440p 165hz IPS. It's fantastic, I just love it, for basically all of the relevant similar reasoning you mentioned - the blend of real portability and performance (accepting some compromises), the beautifully machined metal chassis, the fantastic screen, and the understated design. Unfortunately the older model I have lacks the HDMI port which I do miss, and it doesn't have the AMD Advantage features either. I upgraded to 24gb of RAM and a 1tb NVME and frankly this is in the wheelhouse of my perfect laptop. I don't want a desktop replacement - I love my desktop - I want a portable machine which I can use for work (handling all my productivity sufficiently) but also handles some games. Since I'm not trying to run Cyberpunk or Hogwarts Legacy on the laptop (saving them for my desktop), it's perfect. I can jump into Division 2 with my friends at tweaked settings fine, or play a round of Civ 6 or a quick Vampire Survivors run on the couch. My desktop couldn't be used for a few days recently (due to construction works in the room) and I didn't miss a beat because the laptop covered all my usages.
have the same specs hardware in my Omen 15, only difference is a 1080p 144hz display. Upgraded to 32gb, but its amazing how powerful these systems are. super happy with it.
AMD Ryzen is a great platform- I have been pleased with an AMD desktop system for content creation and to see a laptop housing AMD is awesome!
2:10 unfortunate that they got rid of the 2nd m.2 slot, it looks like it almost made it to the design, considering the space next to the battery (the older 2 generations of slim 7s had one m.2 next to the battery and the other right below the caps lock key). I know these videos are a bit showcase-like, but just like the Slim 7 video it’s still nice to see what OEMs have been up to with the latest hardware
I sure wish someone would make a modernized & modern sized 4:3 ratio monitor. Like a 22" 16:9 monitor extended up to a 4:3 ratio. In effect a 16:12 ratio monitor.
Lenovo and Legion together is a win. I have a Y530 and sure, it's starting to fall behind on the hardware side, but it served me well for the last 4 years. if I ever buy a new one, I'll definitely go with Legion again.
Similar story with my Acer predator helios 300. but I wouldn't go for it again because I don't particularly like the body, unless they bring out something really nice.
Thinking of buying one... its on a sale right now for 1270$ Canadian, estimated 41% savings, should i buy it?
i love Legion , i am rocking with a Legion 5 Pro but with RTX
It's a big W laptop and never had any problems with this one. The cooling system is really great
Laptop is still a no go
@@DIYTech21 yea i don t know who asked you, i needed portability and gaming capability so i don t have to carry my whole unit and monitor across cities, don t think you tried any of strong laptop until now, silly hater. I don t get the hate lol
@@DIYTech21 for some it's pretty good
Rocking 😂 cringe
Bro, I couldn't find any ethernet port in the laptop in the video. Does it have any...?
Good point!! No wired ethernet, boo!!!!!!!!
Seems to not exist in Cucknada. 6800H version is like 1799CAD.
I have never felt a need to have a gaming laptop, but I am a big fan of ThinkPads. I have been buying them for years. My current is an X1 Yoga Gen 6. Lenovo makes great laptops. I think the best thing about this one is that it doesn't look like a gaming laptop. I would be embarrassed to use most gaming laptops in public. lol.
i would go with the Strix G15A (What i have) over this. its very similar in size, with the full 6800m instead of the S, nothing is soldered either
Fcuk that Laptop,the temps is ridiculous. Never again.
I see the sponsor disclosure in the description, but a verbal disclosure is always nice too so you don't sound like an agent of the company or brands.
Let the man make some money. Who cares.
u cant overclock the gpu tho...good to mention
In case anyone was wondering - Power Supply Maximum Wattage 230 watts (from the link specs).
Might be important if your using an off grid source.
This laptop is $1750. No way am I able to get it.
But I love watching the video and seeing what is out there.
I'll never try to buy a slim laptop again. the week after my warranty ran out 1.1 yesrs the battery is swelling so bad it's pushing the mouse pad up and key off the keyboard. The frame is bending too. These new gel pack batteries are utter garbage. I have to use this thing until I can buy something new but being out of work makes that impossible so now I sit here waiting for the battery to explode and catch fire.
I still have my ASUS ROG Strix laptop from 4 or 5 years ago. Has a NVIDIA 1050 in it and still runs great lol
16gb ram?
That's some amazingly small footprint for the CPU and GPU
Where is all the AMD laptops at? I feel like I aint seeing a lot of competition with laptop GPUs. Honestly Id like to even see an all Intel laptop with like a 770 or something in it
Watch out if you're switching from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu based especially)... Legion only works on Debian if you decide to switch...(LMDE is recommended)... I found this out the hard way...
What? A laptop like this should be fully compatible with any Linux distro
Not sure i like the idea of soldered RAM to be honest. But otherwise looks like an absolute powerhouse 👌💪
Have you ever considered making a video about how you got into doing PC youtube content? Like your education/technical background and what career you didn't pursue so you could pursue TH-cam?
I've already made this video :-) Loooong time ago!
Looks awesome! Just wish I could afford it!
Guaranteed price cuts. I saw an amd advantage 6800m/5980hx asus rog laptop for $720 open box on best buy. Constantly get good deals all over the place, and plenty of websites and a subreddit to track it. Honestly only thing reddit is good for.
Might have missed it Greg but does the laptop have VRR/Freesync? Having a hard time finding this out!
Amd advantage includes freesync premium. I have a much cheaper msi alpha 15 advantage edition even that has freesync
@@highjack2778 so the display on this Lenovo is 16”1600p, 165Hz, HDR 400 and FreeSync Premium? That’s pretty sweet!
Hand on the heart Greg, how many takes did it take to get all the numbers correct for the vid lol?
Well you know, I do like the wallpaper. How can I get a copy of it? 👀
Does it have a Mux switch?
Hi. From what I can see, this model works very well with Solidwork.!?
I hope they release a 14" version of this as most of my most commonly used bags only accommodate 14" sized laptops.
laptops need to be given more credit, i got a asus Rog with r9 5900HX and rtx 3060, love playing games at 1080p on it with dual monitors connected via USB C. it can not ONLY game, but stream and record NGS pso2 on almost Ultra settings. I agree the ryzen are a beast in clocks/ cores however i was interested in seeing the temps of the CPU; my ryzen with liquid metal gets to 93c when turbo boost is on, and around 78c with it off during uigene heaven benchmark. Many might look down on laptops, but they are a good alternative for those that don't wanna tinkle with PC componants and are planning to buy a new pc, especially with the current prices of GPUs. The big plus is being able to take it with you when having to travel for work or hoildays, as long as you got wifi, you can game MMO too. These laptops do put up a fight, at least way better than my amd FX desktop that i upgrade from.
Is an intel chip an available option? How long is the batttery life?
Are they readily available? Seems like every time Im in the market for a new laptop the only AMD stuff I can find is last gen
Great review - Awesome Laptop.
In Between Zephyrus G14 6800s and Lenovo slim7 6800s? Have 2 people selling I’m chatting with G14 for 900$ and Slim7 for 1200$ which one would you choose??
idk but amd advantage doing very good at p/p also handle the temperature when compared between nvidia for normal task such as gaming and work
I kinda feel bad for devs for games that end up just being benchmark games
Devs don't really care tbh. They get paid and then after launch they're onto the next thing.
Day 89: damn boi more laptops be going insane. Yo greg wassuppp
insert THIS IS RYZEN!! Meme here
Generally a big fan of this channel, but these infomercials are not good for a techtubers integrity long-term.
so whats the sticker price on this absolute unit of a laptop?
reminds me of my all amd laptop with its athlon 3150u
still runs every game i play fine tho its a very great laptop
if you think shreks a beast i guess.. hahahahaha.. ha
soldered Ram and and a limit on size? I'll pass if I were in the market for one.
I REALLY dont like the ‘island keys or in my head, banana keys, which again I REALLY dont like.
Timestamps? ):
Why get sponsored for a 2022 Ryzen 6000 series when 2023 7000 series launches in next couple of months? This is very disingenuous
and advantage is a joke every review i see there’s major stuttering in game
big w laptop tbh
3:24 Ehhh...I've upgraded displays on laptops, just recently "upgraded" the 1920x1600 300Hz IPS panel in my Aorus 17X YB with a 2560x1440 165Hz IPS panel, though I needed an eDP adapter to change from 0.4mm 40 pin to 0.5mm 40 pin. It was a lot easier on older laptops that had thicker bezels though, I will tell you that.
It's not a common practice and that was the only point I was trying to make.
I'll NEVER go with a Lenovo computer I don't care how good people say they are I've had nothing but bad luck with their laptops and think their pure crap lol
This is a great laptop. I'm still looking for one to replace my Zephyrus G15 2021 with. Like the CPU but I think the GPU wouldn't be an upgrade against my 3070 mobile. Still waiting for the current Gen Lenovo ones with AMD 7xxx + Current Gen GPU :)
Ain't nothing like building your own computer and enjoying the fruits of your labor into a tower of a massive Rig that just going to rock.
Both it. I love my custom built desktop, but I love being able to chuck my gaming laptop into my bag for a trip overseas and not losing any capacity.
You never covered it that I could tell, but does this have soldered on RAM to the board, meaning there is zero way to upgrade the ram in the future? If so, this is terrible and should NOT be supported. We need to stop supporting companies and platforms that are fine with or try to push the 'soldered on/non-upgradeability' crap like Apple is pushing hard. Even Acer/Predators still have easy access panels on the bottom, and the ability to upgrade the ram as high as 64GBs. It hurts my heart to see "gaming" laptops with like zero upgradeability besides NVMe storage. I'd love to return to the days of removable laptop GPU "cards" and "expansion bays" like the old Lenovo Y410/Y510P laptops(you could add a second card to replace the disk drive and run them in SLI!).
But people are more consumerish than ever, and I doubt the days of 'do it yourself' are ever coming back. Sad.
Edit: Just rewatched the video. You covered that it has a SINGLE slot for "up to" 16GB of added memory...this is honestly terrible. Especially for a "gaming" rig. Mismatched RAM, especially one being GDDR6 and the other being GDDR5..meh. This is a hard pass for me. Still recommend Predator laptops over anything modern Lenovo, which hurts. Because I adore older Lenovo stuff.
I think we are getting to the point where SoCs are so reliable that having modular design for RAM is moot in respect of repairability. As for upgradeability, then that is another story, and I do agree that in prosumer laptops which include gamers, then your request is reasonable. There are exceptions, and these are around business models, for example, Apple, they make most of their profits from revenue for RAM and storage upgrades when ordered. So for them, having upgradeable components would be a disaster and mean long term suicide.
Ultrabooks, like tablets and phones, will inevitably move to a SoC design with no modularity as it is not needed. Business ultrabooks maybe having removable storage for data protection compliance is the exception.
It has one slot soldered, one slot upgradeable
Eh a little too much like an ad for me.
It's... a sponsored video. It's literally an ad. We've made it clear that we largely avoid negatives in these videos for obvious reasons :-)
@@GregSalazar yo greg will you use that unut and if not can you send itcto me...
Looks like this is Lenovos answer to the Zephyrus G14 - which is in my opinion the better Laptop because its 14' with the same Harware spec.
Typically, TDP scales down with smaller footprints. Haven't looked closely at the Zephyrus, but in the case of our last Lenovo Yoga video, the 14" model featured a lower TGP than its 16" counterpart. Additionally, some may actually prefer the 16" model for its larger screen in games.
@@GregSalazar I value portability more than size, but you are obviously right, especially people with no external monitor at home will favor a bigger Display. Afaik the Lenovo is around 5-7% faster in benchmarks due to higher TDP.
I would say it’s main competition is the g15.
I think a laptop should be deemed a desktop computer long before reaching 1,000 lbs. I'd say 20 lbs is a good breakpoint.
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A friend of mine has an earlier Legion laptop, and it had the camera on the bottom of the screen bezel...and it is a horrible placement...it basically turns it into an up--nostral cam (coming soon to OnlyFans, LOL!)...as she is a university Prof and uses the system to record lectures, this would not do. So I sourced her a very good clip on webcam, and that is what she has been using with great satisfaction. It's good the Lenovo/Legion has fixed this problem.
ps.I am typing this on a dual AMD latop, an ASUS TUF Gaming with a AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with a Radeon RX560X GPU, and it was a great deal for the $600 CDN (~$450 USD). Runs Windows 10 and Manjaro Linux really well...although the wifi/bleutooth card is a tad flakey, so I am going to be replacing that.
vs a 12700H with a mobilty 3050, this laptop will struggle to keep pace. but at the cost point, its a freakin beast!
wut ? 6800x will trash even desctop 3050
Video is an ad.
Nice
Nice, but personally I prefer a more better looking laptop like an Asus ROG or an Alienware rather than the standard looking HPs, Lenovos, Acer and Microsoft laptops, I agree with the performance but I also like standing out.
not a video I was looking forward to today... too many other YTers have covered this very specific laptop.... I wouldn't even bother covering something that's been massively covered already by majority of YTers.... but otherwise an interesting piece of hardware, I may even consider looking into it myself later down the road (when prices drop a bit more)
Next time please make a test on real games
So Dirt 5, GTAV, and F1 22 aren't real games. Got it.
smh
To play devil's advocate maybe he means more modern played games like modern warfare 2 dead space resident evil 4 etc
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Nice review. I just wish Lenova wasn't a China-based company. I see a lot of good stuff coming from them, but I honestly do not trust that the company doesn't have ties with their government. I just don't trust them.
😂 best infomercial ever! Man your selling this hard!😂😂😂
$1700 for a laptop 💀 for that price just build a really nice pc, you can probably get a i7-13700k and a 3080 pc for around that price