Recent content by Lamoi

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    Question Was this Lenovo Legion 7 16-inch laptop a good deal ?

    I have to say — battery life ain’t great on most laptops, especially if you want to game. I did extensive research on gaming laptops before I pulled the trigger, even got a budget HP Pavillion to really get a feel for what I truly wanted to get out of a laptop. But after all my research — the...
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    Question Help choosing my first laptop

    What’s your budget?
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    Question Advanced Optimus vs dGPU

    It’s a Lenovo legion…
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    Question Was this Lenovo Legion 7 16-inch laptop a good deal ?

    Hold up ! this is a much better deal. Legion 5i PRO 2022 Legion 5i Pro Gen7 2022 - i7 12700H, 3070 Ti, 16" QHD+ 165hz, 16GB DDR5 (Lenovo Education Store) - £1480 with code @ Lenovo £1,48015% off...
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    Question Advanced Optimus vs dGPU

    Hi I have a question. just bought the NEW Legion 5i Pro 16 i7 12700H RTX 3070ti 1TB SSD 16GB DDR5 RAM And I have noticed that Advanced Optimus can cause this annoying freezing when switching from integrated graphics to the dGPU …. I have read that this is a thing. So I have now switched to...
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    Question Advice: Lenovo Legion

    Ended up being £1458 lenovo kindly applied a 10% e-coupon after I’d already purchased! As I had no idea about these coupons!
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    Question Advice: Lenovo Legion

    So I just bought the NEW Legion 5i Pro 16 i7 12700H RTX 3070ti 1TB SSD 16GB DDR5 RAM £1700 which is pretty good given I was gonna get the Legion 7 for £1699 quite excited, because this is the new 2020 to refresh laptops. Pretty poor marketing on the suckers though. You wouldn’t even know...
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    Question Advice: Lenovo Legion

    I was going to wait for the new refresh of the Legion View: https://youtu.be/qrtfT-eqVds But I’m not sure I’ll bother…. I mean from Lenovo website slight improvements — with CPU and DDR5 RAM. Not sure it’s worth the wait…
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    Question Medion Laptops

    Apparently thermals arnt great… from what I’ve read
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    Question Medion Laptops

    Thanks for the feedback guys… Yeah I mean the £1799 deal above seems pretty good. But I’m not entirely convinced that the Lenovo wouldn’t outperform the Medion, even with the RTX 3070. it is tempting though — given you get the RTX3080. but it’s gonna be cheap for a reason right? I’ve got to...
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    Question Medion Laptops

    Does anyone know anything about MEDION laptops? it’s very difficult to find out much info about them. Medion Erazer Beast X25 NVIDIA RTX 3080 16GB, 32GB, 17.3" 165Hz QHD, AMD R7-5800H Gaming Laptop £1799...
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    Question Advice: Lenovo Legion

    also — There’s no soldered RAM with any of the LEGION’s is there? I can’t see anything that would suggest that. and MAX RAM upgrade is 32GB?
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    Question Advice: Lenovo Legion

    Ok… thanks guys. I think I’m gonna go with the cheaper version. Yeah only using it for gaming and web browsing or watching movies. My old laptop was only 60Hz screen 1080p and that was fine. I also plug the laptop into my 4k TV when playing as well so, the screen is ultimately not the...
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    Question Advice: Lenovo Legion

    Hi folks, i’ve been patiently waiting for around a year looking at different laptops, and also sorting out my budget. All my research points to the Lenovo Legion laptop, as being the best bang for buck. Looking to get the RTX 3070 as the performance gains with the RTX 3080 are negligible...
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    Question Looking for suggestions for new gaming laptop

    Lenovo Legion 5 with RTX3070 By far the best bang for buck I’ve found. I’ve been researching different gaming laptops for around a year now. And the legion comes out on top every time. Lenovo Legions do full powered mobile GPU’s. MUX switch. G-sync and V-sync. The legion pretty much covers...