That 6800M is shockingly good. The chassis is surprisingly thin, but also surprisingly deep due that hinge design and extra buttons. I'm not sure that's a very worthwhile trade, the footprint is probably not *that* far away from an 17/18 inch one. Full RGB coverage and smart specs (16:10, 1440p) makes the screen is perfectly competent, but I wouldn't say great due the average brightness levels. They seem to be fairly uniform, and don't dip bellow 300, but they also aren't packing the 500/600 nit screens competitors can shove on these notebooks these days. To say nothing of mini-LED and OLED stuff. No wonder it's the best keyboard you've ever tested if it has actual Cherry switches. Ain't simply no way any other notebooks can possibly compete with that. Less battery life than I expected from the specs. Connectivity is a bad, tho. 4 USBs, headphone and SD card? No HDMI? No ethernet port, on a streamer-focused machine? It's bigger than all its competitors! There is space, where are the ports? However, what really sticks to me is the price. The second-tier configuration with 16 GB of RAM, 6800H and 1 TB of SSD is *one thousand euros cheaper*. What? And on top of that, the Lenovo 7 with a 6850M is in every way faster, has a better screen, has a solid 25% more battery life on light load, and *also* costs a thousand fewer euros for the top-spec than this one. Do I think the 6850M Legion 7 is, on the whole, unbeatable within its generation? Fair enough, I do. Clean aesthetic, built like the typical Lenovo tank, a ton of high-speed ports, seven hours of battery life on light use, trades blows with a 3080 Ti on the GPU side, thin and light enough to confortably carry... It's got it all. But if the Corsair were competitively priced against it, I wouldn't complain too much. The keyboard is outstanding, and there is merit to the whole system integration stuff, and fair enough, it looks nice. I can see it selling a bunch on name alone. I'd have expected a big name like Corsair to put out much, much more competitively priced product for their debut in the market. As is, you'd have to knock a good five or six hundred from the cheaper model, and a good thousand euros from this most expensive one, just to mach the competition.
I also think they have to revisit their pricing. But I could imagine this being their first device they did not make millions of them. Just rather a premium product in lower quantities to "scout" the market.
@@NotebookcheckReviews Fair enough, it does have a boutique look to it. Not bad for something that, say, they might give away in sponsorship deals either- it performs well enough to not sour the deal, and its expensive enough to make for a catchy headline too.
I am not sure that this was their reasoning, but who knows. I didn’t see it from that perspective! Let’s see what they do with it this year. I am sure they will „re-use“ the chassis and update the internals. Maybe they will decrease the price if they know they might sell more …
If you compare the 3070 laptop GPU's with the 4070 laptop GPUs the difference is really with the pixel generation. I would also go as far as to say that the 3000 series GPU could do frame generation but Nvidia locked it through software. I would not be surprised if later on down the year if NVIDA will give the 3000 series frame generation. But the GPU results are amazing for this 6800. This will be an interesting year. However for those who are still using the 3000 series machines, I would cringe to call a 4000 series machine as an upgrade.
The 4070 definitely seems to be the weakest one in the 40 series line-up. We will have to see how it fares when we tested more variants at different wattages. The 4080 might be the sweetspot if you are in the market for a new gaming laptop this year. Let’s see what happen to last-gen prices and what AMD can bring to the table. And yes, the 6800M is a proper unit! To bass they aren’t more laptops with it!
@@love2k380 If you are going to go with a 3000 series card, I would definitely recommend going with a 3070 as a bare minimum. This is because the 3060 and below has already been knocked down from a class 1 to a class 2 tier card after the introduction of the 4000 series. The 3070 is still a class 1 card. It has been said on multiple forums and youtuber's like dave2d, jarrodstech etc, that when it comes to 3000 series cards, the 3070 is the sweet spot and somewhat future proof over the 3060. Lo behold, after the arrival of the new bloods, it still tangos with the best of em. I hope I have given you insight in to this matter. You should be looking for something to the tune of $800 - $1,000 for a 3070 or 3070 Ti card if you can. That would be a better deal than a $650 machine that gives you class 3 performance and worse as time goes forward.
@@NotebookcheckReviews it just doesn't solve any problem. It creates even more. In some games even if u can change to 16:10 u still have loading screen 16:9 in valorant, cinematic sequences in hogwarts legacy and so on. The 16:10 just makes u suffer by looking at the awful ips back light bleeding in most games. I returned the Asus Rog Strix Scar 18 bc of that and ordered the 17 inch modeln.
Not quite sure why: 3DMark perf rating in this video, the gap b/w Blade 18 (4080) & Triton 500SE (3080Ti) is only 5%, but in M16 review the gap b/w Blade 16 (4080) & Triton 500SE (3080Ti) is 29%. does that mean Blade 18 is actually slower than Blade 16? Or maybe different power mode?
Excellent video, the Corsair laptop is excellent but in relation to the Lenovo Legion Slim, HP Omen, Asus Rog m16 and the Alienware m16 I don't know if it is a great purchase
Damn...this would've been my pick, as Im currently gaming laptop shopping, but the middling screen specs unfortunately kill it for me. Kind of sucks because only other alternatives are all Nivida 4070 mobile models, which have poor 1% lows due to lack of VRAM.
I feel you, I had a great time with this one, but I get the disappointment with the screen. Even though I admit doing gaming and video editing on it, it was fine.
How was the palm rest dueing your stream? Im really interested in this one, but would be awesome if they released one this year 😁. Great review as always 💪
How are the speakers and I have heard there is drivers issues which leads to non performing in games.Aslo should I buy this one or look for its next generation when it will get release
Speakers are very gaming-laptop average, unfortunately. We had no problems during our testing. But there was a significant firmware update at the end of last year. But please do not quote me on it!
I just bought my lenovo legion pro 7 in a flash sale with a 13900hx, a 4090 and 32 ram for exactly 3000.-; 1200 cheaper than the retail price due to the flash sale, guess im set for the next 2 years lol (maybe someone at lenovo pressed the wrong buttons to include the latest models in the sale)
The guy in the comment section of your comment is probably trolling. Sorry if i am wrong, but I already answered this question for you. Also, WTF! That is a steal for those specs dude! A STEAL!
Not bad, but some questionable missteps: pitch of fans is very annoying, surface and bottom temps bit too high, battery life kinda low for using AMD, and the usual: Speakers suck and screen should have been brighter & higher contrast. Thanks for the review! P.S. No Webcam & Mic sample? Seems important for a 'streaming' laptop if someone were to forget their dedicated devices.
Thanks for your input, but if anyone of you again complains about something missing in the video that is actually there I am going to loose it ;) 02:40 - Alex
your USB4 = Thunderbolt comment creates more confusion than clarification, "It should be" doesn't sound very convincing, now is there Thunderbolt functionality at the port or not?
I purchased this laptop and really liked the build quality but could not get past the extremely loud keyboard. I have a custom mechanical keyboard and honestly a laptop keyboard will never come close that experience. So for me I prefer a decent laptop keyboard that does not disturb everyone around me as I will want to use it in a public setting. Imagine getting kicked out of a library because your mediocre but extremely loud keyboard is a nuisance.
Really? Would it be a dealbreaker for you? I really do not mind it, makes it look different. And it makes the streamdeck buttons accessible when the laptop is closed ...
@@NotebookcheckReviews maybe their elegato acquisition has been put to good use but as far as I understand iCue across the rest of their peripheral lineup has been terrible with drivers and integration.
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That 6800M is shockingly good. The chassis is surprisingly thin, but also surprisingly deep due that hinge design and extra buttons. I'm not sure that's a very worthwhile trade, the footprint is probably not *that* far away from an 17/18 inch one.
Full RGB coverage and smart specs (16:10, 1440p) makes the screen is perfectly competent, but I wouldn't say great due the average brightness levels. They seem to be fairly uniform, and don't dip bellow 300, but they also aren't packing the 500/600 nit screens competitors can shove on these notebooks these days. To say nothing of mini-LED and OLED stuff.
No wonder it's the best keyboard you've ever tested if it has actual Cherry switches. Ain't simply no way any other notebooks can possibly compete with that.
Less battery life than I expected from the specs.
Connectivity is a bad, tho. 4 USBs, headphone and SD card? No HDMI? No ethernet port, on a streamer-focused machine? It's bigger than all its competitors! There is space, where are the ports?
However, what really sticks to me is the price. The second-tier configuration with 16 GB of RAM, 6800H and 1 TB of SSD is *one thousand euros cheaper*. What?
And on top of that, the Lenovo 7 with a 6850M is in every way faster, has a better screen, has a solid 25% more battery life on light load, and *also* costs a thousand fewer euros for the top-spec than this one.
Do I think the 6850M Legion 7 is, on the whole, unbeatable within its generation? Fair enough, I do. Clean aesthetic, built like the typical Lenovo tank, a ton of high-speed ports, seven hours of battery life on light use, trades blows with a 3080 Ti on the GPU side, thin and light enough to confortably carry... It's got it all.
But if the Corsair were competitively priced against it, I wouldn't complain too much. The keyboard is outstanding, and there is merit to the whole system integration stuff, and fair enough, it looks nice. I can see it selling a bunch on name alone.
I'd have expected a big name like Corsair to put out much, much more competitively priced product for their debut in the market. As is, you'd have to knock a good five or six hundred from the cheaper model, and a good thousand euros from this most expensive one, just to mach the competition.
I also think they have to revisit their pricing. But I could imagine this being their first device they did not make millions of them. Just rather a premium product in lower quantities to "scout" the market.
@@NotebookcheckReviews Fair enough, it does have a boutique look to it. Not bad for something that, say, they might give away in sponsorship deals either- it performs well enough to not sour the deal, and its expensive enough to make for a catchy headline too.
I am not sure that this was their reasoning, but who knows. I didn’t see it from that perspective!
Let’s see what they do with it this year. I am sure they will „re-use“ the chassis and update the internals. Maybe they will decrease the price if they know they might sell more …
I found the lower spec one with the Ryzen 7 for 1.3k gbp... would you think it would be a good deal?
If you compare the 3070 laptop GPU's with the 4070 laptop GPUs the difference is really with the pixel generation. I would also go as far as to say that the 3000 series GPU could do frame generation but Nvidia locked it through software. I would not be surprised if later on down the year if NVIDA will give the 3000 series frame generation. But the GPU results are amazing for this 6800. This will be an interesting year. However for those who are still using the 3000 series machines, I would cringe to call a 4000 series machine as an upgrade.
The 4070 definitely seems to be the weakest one in the 40 series line-up. We will have to see how it fares when we tested more variants at different wattages.
The 4080 might be the sweetspot if you are in the market for a new gaming laptop this year.
Let’s see what happen to last-gen prices and what AMD can bring to the table.
And yes, the 6800M is a proper unit! To bass they aren’t more laptops with it!
I predict there will be software hacks to enable the dlss3 software on 30 series cards
@@love2k380 If you are going to go with a 3000 series card, I would definitely recommend going with a 3070 as a bare minimum. This is because the 3060 and below has already been knocked down from a class 1 to a class 2 tier card after the introduction of the 4000 series.
The 3070 is still a class 1 card.
It has been said on multiple forums and youtuber's like dave2d, jarrodstech etc, that when it comes to 3000 series cards, the 3070 is the sweet spot and somewhat future proof over the 3060. Lo behold, after the arrival of the new bloods, it still tangos with the best of em. I hope I have given you insight in to this matter.
You should be looking for something to the tune of $800 - $1,000 for a 3070 or 3070 Ti card if you can. That would be a better deal than a $650 machine that gives you class 3 performance and worse as time goes forward.
yes. Now go and buy it
it does look good, but i disslike the weird screen height.... hope they make a version with 7900xt
It takes some getting used to, but I personally didn’t even notice it anymore after a few days …
- Alex
@@NotebookcheckReviews it just doesn't solve any problem. It creates even more. In some games even if u can change to 16:10 u still have loading screen 16:9 in valorant, cinematic sequences in hogwarts legacy and so on.
The 16:10 just makes u suffer by looking at the awful ips back light bleeding in most games.
I returned the Asus Rog Strix Scar 18 bc of that and ordered the 17 inch modeln.
@@Optora. 16:10 is a tad bit better for work.
It's an interesting approach at best.
I don't see a value near the asking price at all. But I am interested in the next generations that will follow.
Not quite sure why: 3DMark perf rating in this video, the gap b/w Blade 18 (4080) & Triton 500SE (3080Ti) is only 5%, but in M16 review the gap b/w Blade 16 (4080) & Triton 500SE (3080Ti) is 29%. does that mean Blade 18 is actually slower than Blade 16? Or maybe different power mode?
The Blade 18 we tested came with a 4070. :)
Excellent video, the Corsair laptop is excellent but in relation to the Lenovo Legion Slim, HP Omen, Asus Rog m16 and the Alienware m16 I don't know if it is a great purchase
Damn...this would've been my pick, as Im currently gaming laptop shopping, but the middling screen specs unfortunately kill it for me. Kind of sucks because only other alternatives are all Nivida 4070 mobile models, which have poor 1% lows due to lack of VRAM.
I feel you, I had a great time with this one, but I get the disappointment with the screen. Even though I admit doing gaming and video editing on it, it was fine.
Such expensive laptops should generally be designed with water cooling as an option. XMG have done this with their NEO lineup.
My only surprise is the laptop doesn't have a built in Elgato hd60 or something so you can effortlessly plug a console in for streaming.
Wait! You guys have already tested ASUS TUF A16? Lol amazing
Hehe yeah we did. I am working on the video right now, and thought I cheekily put in some benchmark positioning already ;)
@@NotebookcheckReviews keen for the review of this laptop as well
How was the palm rest dueing your stream? Im really interested in this one, but would be awesome if they released one this year 😁. Great review as always 💪
I was not bothered by it :D
I liked it a lot, I hope they will upgrade it for 2023. It would be such a shame if this chassis will not be used!
How are the speakers and I have heard there is drivers issues which leads to non performing in games.Aslo should I buy this one or look for its next generation when it will get release
Speakers are very gaming-laptop average, unfortunately. We had no problems during our testing. But there was a significant firmware update at the end of last year. But please do not quote me on it!
@@NotebookcheckReviews should we buy this one or wait for next generation
I can not tell you what to do with your money and especially not without knowing what the voyager will look like this year …
Thx for the good review.
Greetsz
My pleasure!
I just bought my lenovo legion pro 7 in a flash sale with a 13900hx, a 4090 and 32 ram for exactly 3000.-; 1200 cheaper than the retail price due to the flash sale, guess im set for the next 2 years lol (maybe someone at lenovo pressed the wrong buttons to include the latest models in the sale)
The guy in the comment section of your comment is probably trolling. Sorry if i am wrong, but I already answered this question for you. Also, WTF! That is a steal for those specs dude! A STEAL!
Let's hope they make interesting models with Zen 4!
Yepp, that would be awesome.
Strange that they cheaped out on the display on such a high end device
Crosiar makes laptops ?
Yes they do! It came out late last year!
Not bad, but some questionable missteps: pitch of fans is very annoying, surface and bottom temps bit too high, battery life kinda low for using AMD, and the usual: Speakers suck and screen should have been brighter & higher contrast.
Thanks for the review!
P.S. No Webcam & Mic sample? Seems important for a 'streaming' laptop if someone were to forget their dedicated devices.
Thanks for your input, but if anyone of you again complains about something missing in the video that is actually there I am going to loose it ;)
02:40
- Alex
@@NotebookcheckReviews Duh I even went back and checked before posting and missed it 2 times!
So sorry! Stay sane!
Haha no worries, I know how it is sometimes! :)
your USB4 = Thunderbolt comment creates more confusion than clarification, "It should be" doesn't sound very convincing, now is there Thunderbolt functionality at the port or not?
You are right, but unfortunately I wasnt able to verify, which is something I should have explained!
I purchased this laptop and really liked the build quality but could not get past the extremely loud keyboard. I have a custom mechanical keyboard and honestly a laptop keyboard will never come close that experience. So for me I prefer a decent laptop keyboard that does not disturb everyone around me as I will want to use it in a public setting. Imagine getting kicked out of a library because your mediocre but extremely loud keyboard is a nuisance.
Is it worth it for 1400 euro? on sale
I would say it is.
Price in nepal with discount
GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKKKKS
That screen gap makes it look ugly as sin to me a huge misfire
Really? Would it be a dealbreaker for you?
I really do not mind it, makes it look different. And it makes the streamdeck buttons accessible when the laptop is closed ...
Sounds like it's melting down
It was fine when we sent it back ;)
Gorgeous notebook. But still not it for me. Relatively close, though.
No number pad
Very observent
You look like MandJTV but with smaller eyes (no offense)
I would get this if it wasnt corsair.... Corsair iCUE is absolute dogshit, they need to get rid of that crap...
It actually worked flawless with the voyager ....
@@NotebookcheckReviews maybe their elegato acquisition has been put to good use but as far as I understand iCue across the rest of their peripheral lineup has been terrible with drivers and integration.
Not bad
Definitely not! :)
shtbook
If this is everything you have to contribute, I would kindly ask you to take it elsewhere.