**Lenovo Legion Pro 5i Review: A Powerful Gaming Laptop with Room for Improvement**

The Lenovo Legion Pro 5i is a powerful gaming laptop that promises to deliver exceptional performance, capable cooling, and impressive display quality. In this review, we'll take a closer look at the machine's features, performance, and overall value.

**A Refresh of Last Year's Model**

The Lenovo Legion Pro 5i is a slight refresh of last year's 13 Gen processors, which are also codenamed Raptor Lake. While there are no new architectural upgrades or IPC boosts to speak of, the 14 Gen chips do offer slightly better benchmark numbers. However, these improvements are unlikely to be noticeable in everyday usage.

**Performance and Gaming Capabilities**

To test the Legion Pro 5i's performance, I switched to it for an entire day while editing my videos using Premiere Pro with multiple effects, animation layers, and 4K project files. The laptop handled the workload with ease, displaying impressive performance even when working on large files. In addition, I tested seven different games at both 1080p and 1440p high graphic settings, and the Legion Pro 5i proved itself to be a fantastic gaming machine.

**Thermal Performance**

One of the standout features of the Legion Pro 5i is its thermal performance. The laptop's thermals are thoroughly impressive, with temperatures hovering around 43°C after 30 minutes of gaming in Performance mode. However, if you want the best performance out of this machine, you'll need to switch to the Custom Thermal Mode and enable Extreme Mode.

**Fan Noise**

While the Legion Pro 5i's thermal performance is impressive, its fan noise can be quite loud. With my headphones on, I found the fan noise hovering in the high 50s D territory during intense gaming sessions. However, this wasn't a significant issue for me.

**Battery Life**

Unfortunately, the battery life of the Legion Pro 5i is not good enough for a gaming laptop. Even with the thermal mode set to Quiet and the refresh rate reduced to 60Hz, I found it lasting only around 2 hours during casual office work. In comparison, the ASUS Nitro V16, which has an AMD Ryzen 8000 series CPU, can last up to 5 hours on a single charge.

**Display Quality**

The Legion Pro 5i's display quality is also worth mentioning. While not perfect, it offers impressive performance and color accuracy. However, if you're looking for a better display experience, there are other options available at similar price points that sacrifice in some areas but deliver superior results.

**Conclusion**

Overall, the Lenovo Legion Pro 5i is a powerful gaming laptop with a lot to love. Its exceptional gaming performance, capable cooling system, and impressive display quality make it an attractive option for those looking for a high-end machine. However, its poor battery life and lackluster port selection are notable drawbacks. If these issues matter to you, there are other options available that may better suit your needs.

**Recommendation**

If the Legion Pro 5i's performance, cooling system, and display quality are important to you, then this laptop is still the best mid-range gaming SL editing laptop available for under $1,500. However, if battery life and port selection are top priorities, there are other options available at similar price points that may better suit your needs.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the best mid-range gaming SL editing laptop out there what's up everyone it's me pratima so last week I reviewed the AA Nitro V16 which was a fantastic budget value for money gaming laptop and today I have this the Lenovo Legion Pro 5i 2024 it's got Intel's latest 14 Gen processor paired with up to RTX 4070 graphics and all the glory that I have come to expect from a legion laptop including a premium design a great display excellent performance and everything else and if you're in the market for a new gaming laptop under 150,000 Indian rupees or some $1300 I am sure this was one of your top choices cuz there are definitely a lot of things that I like about this guy but I've also found a couple of issues with the legion Pro 5i that you will definitely want to know before spending all your money so let's get started right away okay I want to start with the design side of things because as always this is something Lenovo does does so so well with Legion laptops there actually is nothing new on the design front compared to last year's model but you know what I am okay with it after all if it ain't broke why fix it the legion Pro 5i still arrives in this graceful design that I love it's lid still has that premium metal build and everything from the hinge to the keyboard deck feels solid Leto has gone with plastic for the keyboard and the rest of the laptop to shave off some weight but let me assure you for you it does not feel cheap not even a little bit the only thing that I'm am kind of disappointed with the legion Pro 5 I design is that even though it's got an Intel chip inside you don't get a thunderbolt 4 or USB 4 connection here in fact both its USBC ports have a Max data transfer rate of just 10 gbps the usba connections are even slower at 5gbps so if you're a video editor or someone who is constantly copying large files from a high speed external storage drive to your laptop expect that process to be really slow on the legion Pro 5i anyway this 16in display is pretty great Lenovo lets you pick between three options all of which come with an IPS mat panel of course and the one I have here is the base variant with a 165 HZ refresh rate around 350 nits of peak brightness and 100% srgb color space it's a perfectly fine screen for casual users and Gamers and this this is also a gsync compatible display to prevent from screen tiering but anyone who plans on doing some color sensitive work like photo and video editing should definitely upgrade to the pricier model since that one covers 100% of the dcip 3 gamut which means that it can show roughly 25% more color than srgb and besides better colors that one has a few other perks like an even smoother 240 HZ refresh rate and up to 500 nits of brightness as well the legion Pro 5i speakers are not too bad either they're still not front firing as I would prefer but it gets the basics right that's uh so much more than I can say for most other gaming laptops actually the loudness is there the clarity is there and I like how it does not sound completely flat either which is pretty much all I could hope for on a gaming laptop as far as audio is concerned I am also a big fan of the keyboard on the legion Pro 5i it has membran keys with that 1.5 mm travel distance and fairly soft key cabs it's quiet and has one of the best tactile feedbacks I've ever used on a gaming laptop you also get for Zone RGB lighting that you can quickly shuffle through with the FN plus space shortcut as always the legion Pros trackpad is decent enough too nothing special I wish Lenovo would have moved to a larger glass trackpad this time around but no it's got the same plastic one as the one we have seen before um now don't get me wrong I had little to no problem getting around it at all but it's just not my favorite thing about this machine kind of like its webcam it does look and sound decent in favorable lighting conditions but that's literally it all right so with that out of the way I better get to the performance side of things now so this year Lenovo has configured the legion Pro 5i with Intel's newest 14 CH Raptor Lake CPU although that's probably the least interesting thing about this machine since you might know that this is is simply a slight refresh of last year's 13 gen processors which are also codenamed Raptor Lake by the way so there are no new architectural upgrades no IPC boost no efficiency improvements nothing The Benchmark numbers are slightly in favor of the 14 gen chips yes but that's not something you are going to notice in everyday usage anyway hopefully the upcoming AOL L processors will finally shake things up anyway the one I have here uses the core i7 14650 HX CPU and RTX 4060 graphics with a 140 W tgp 16 gigs of ddr5 memory and a terabyte of Gen 4 SSD now to test the performance I first switched to the legion Pro 5i for an entire day for editing my videos and I am positively delighted with its performance even when working on large 4K project files on premere Pro with multiple effects animation layers and all that the legion Pro 5i handled it all like a chap likewise I tested seven different games at both uh 1080P and 1440p at high graphic settings and I can conclusively tell that the legion Pro 5i is a fantastic gaming machine as well I did have to turn on frame generation in a couple of GPU hungry titles like Starfield cyberpunk 2077 and Star Wars Jedi Survivor especially at 1440p but yeah you can expect most of the games in your library to play perfectly smoothly on this guy uh maybe not the rate race once at 1440p if you keep maxing out the settings but you always have the option to lower the resolution at 1080p for better fps the legion Pro 5 ice thermals are thoroughly impressive too the one thing I need to tell you right away is that if you want the best performance out of this machine you will need to switch to the custom thermal mode and take the enable extreme mode checkbox cuz I found that the performance mode does not really kick the fans to the fullest for some unknown beir reason for example after around 30 minutes into Star Wars game I measured the surface temperature near the WD keys at around 43° under performance mode whereas the laptop was much cooler to touch at somewhere between 35 to 37° with the custom mode enabled and uh as expected the fan noise does get pretty loud here hovering in the high 50 D territory but with my headphones on that was not a big issue for me what's left then uh yes the battery life and what I can say is that the legion Pro 5 ice battery life is not good even for a gaming laptop it's got a sizable 80w battery but even after setting the thermal mode to quiet for the best efficiency Bringing Down the refresh rate to 60 HZ and enabling Advanced Optimus instead of blasting just the Nvidia Graphics it would only last like 2 hours during my casual office work to put it into context just how bad that is the ASA Nitro V16 which has AMD ryzen 8000 series CPU would go on for around 5 hours even though it has a much smaller 57 wat battery so yeah that Intel chip on the legion Pro 5i is not efficient at all and you will have to wait for like an hour and a half for this comically large 300 W power brake to fill up the battery on this guy so guys that was all for my full review of the all new Lenovo Legion Pro 5i this is a powerful gaming laptop with a lot to Love headlined by it gaming performance and the capable cooling system itself it's not perfect of course the battery life in particular really sucks here and I also think Lenovo could have done a better job in terms of Port selection on this year's Legion Pro 5i so if these things matter to you you can actually find a couple of last gen options that too with RTX 4070 Graphics at a similar price range as well but let me tell you this all of them sacrifice in some crucial areas mostly in terms of the display and the Bild quality so for me the legion Pro 5i still is the best mid-range gaming SL editing laptop you can buy for under 1.5 LHS or $1,500 so everybody that was all for this video and I hope you liked it if you did don't forget to give it a thumbs up and do let me know in the comments below if you would like us to cover more laptops saying this I'm pratima adikari and thank you so much for watchingthis is the best mid-range gaming SL editing laptop out there what's up everyone it's me pratima so last week I reviewed the AA Nitro V16 which was a fantastic budget value for money gaming laptop and today I have this the Lenovo Legion Pro 5i 2024 it's got Intel's latest 14 Gen processor paired with up to RTX 4070 graphics and all the glory that I have come to expect from a legion laptop including a premium design a great display excellent performance and everything else and if you're in the market for a new gaming laptop under 150,000 Indian rupees or some $1300 I am sure this was one of your top choices cuz there are definitely a lot of things that I like about this guy but I've also found a couple of issues with the legion Pro 5i that you will definitely want to know before spending all your money so let's get started right away okay I want to start with the design side of things because as always this is something Lenovo does does so so well with Legion laptops there actually is nothing new on the design front compared to last year's model but you know what I am okay with it after all if it ain't broke why fix it the legion Pro 5i still arrives in this graceful design that I love it's lid still has that premium metal build and everything from the hinge to the keyboard deck feels solid Leto has gone with plastic for the keyboard and the rest of the laptop to shave off some weight but let me assure you for you it does not feel cheap not even a little bit the only thing that I'm am kind of disappointed with the legion Pro 5 I design is that even though it's got an Intel chip inside you don't get a thunderbolt 4 or USB 4 connection here in fact both its USBC ports have a Max data transfer rate of just 10 gbps the usba connections are even slower at 5gbps so if you're a video editor or someone who is constantly copying large files from a high speed external storage drive to your laptop expect that process to be really slow on the legion Pro 5i anyway this 16in display is pretty great Lenovo lets you pick between three options all of which come with an IPS mat panel of course and the one I have here is the base variant with a 165 HZ refresh rate around 350 nits of peak brightness and 100% srgb color space it's a perfectly fine screen for casual users and Gamers and this this is also a gsync compatible display to prevent from screen tiering but anyone who plans on doing some color sensitive work like photo and video editing should definitely upgrade to the pricier model since that one covers 100% of the dcip 3 gamut which means that it can show roughly 25% more color than srgb and besides better colors that one has a few other perks like an even smoother 240 HZ refresh rate and up to 500 nits of brightness as well the legion Pro 5i speakers are not too bad either they're still not front firing as I would prefer but it gets the basics right that's uh so much more than I can say for most other gaming laptops actually the loudness is there the clarity is there and I like how it does not sound completely flat either which is pretty much all I could hope for on a gaming laptop as far as audio is concerned I am also a big fan of the keyboard on the legion Pro 5i it has membran keys with that 1.5 mm travel distance and fairly soft key cabs it's quiet and has one of the best tactile feedbacks I've ever used on a gaming laptop you also get for Zone RGB lighting that you can quickly shuffle through with the FN plus space shortcut as always the legion Pros trackpad is decent enough too nothing special I wish Lenovo would have moved to a larger glass trackpad this time around but no it's got the same plastic one as the one we have seen before um now don't get me wrong I had little to no problem getting around it at all but it's just not my favorite thing about this machine kind of like its webcam it does look and sound decent in favorable lighting conditions but that's literally it all right so with that out of the way I better get to the performance side of things now so this year Lenovo has configured the legion Pro 5i with Intel's newest 14 CH Raptor Lake CPU although that's probably the least interesting thing about this machine since you might know that this is is simply a slight refresh of last year's 13 gen processors which are also codenamed Raptor Lake by the way so there are no new architectural upgrades no IPC boost no efficiency improvements nothing The Benchmark numbers are slightly in favor of the 14 gen chips yes but that's not something you are going to notice in everyday usage anyway hopefully the upcoming AOL L processors will finally shake things up anyway the one I have here uses the core i7 14650 HX CPU and RTX 4060 graphics with a 140 W tgp 16 gigs of ddr5 memory and a terabyte of Gen 4 SSD now to test the performance I first switched to the legion Pro 5i for an entire day for editing my videos and I am positively delighted with its performance even when working on large 4K project files on premere Pro with multiple effects animation layers and all that the legion Pro 5i handled it all like a chap likewise I tested seven different games at both uh 1080P and 1440p at high graphic settings and I can conclusively tell that the legion Pro 5i is a fantastic gaming machine as well I did have to turn on frame generation in a couple of GPU hungry titles like Starfield cyberpunk 2077 and Star Wars Jedi Survivor especially at 1440p but yeah you can expect most of the games in your library to play perfectly smoothly on this guy uh maybe not the rate race once at 1440p if you keep maxing out the settings but you always have the option to lower the resolution at 1080p for better fps the legion Pro 5 ice thermals are thoroughly impressive too the one thing I need to tell you right away is that if you want the best performance out of this machine you will need to switch to the custom thermal mode and take the enable extreme mode checkbox cuz I found that the performance mode does not really kick the fans to the fullest for some unknown beir reason for example after around 30 minutes into Star Wars game I measured the surface temperature near the WD keys at around 43° under performance mode whereas the laptop was much cooler to touch at somewhere between 35 to 37° with the custom mode enabled and uh as expected the fan noise does get pretty loud here hovering in the high 50 D territory but with my headphones on that was not a big issue for me what's left then uh yes the battery life and what I can say is that the legion Pro 5 ice battery life is not good even for a gaming laptop it's got a sizable 80w battery but even after setting the thermal mode to quiet for the best efficiency Bringing Down the refresh rate to 60 HZ and enabling Advanced Optimus instead of blasting just the Nvidia Graphics it would only last like 2 hours during my casual office work to put it into context just how bad that is the ASA Nitro V16 which has AMD ryzen 8000 series CPU would go on for around 5 hours even though it has a much smaller 57 wat battery so yeah that Intel chip on the legion Pro 5i is not efficient at all and you will have to wait for like an hour and a half for this comically large 300 W power brake to fill up the battery on this guy so guys that was all for my full review of the all new Lenovo Legion Pro 5i this is a powerful gaming laptop with a lot to Love headlined by it gaming performance and the capable cooling system itself it's not perfect of course the battery life in particular really sucks here and I also think Lenovo could have done a better job in terms of Port selection on this year's Legion Pro 5i so if these things matter to you you can actually find a couple of last gen options that too with RTX 4070 Graphics at a similar price range as well but let me tell you this all of them sacrifice in some crucial areas mostly in terms of the display and the Bild quality so for me the legion Pro 5i still is the best mid-range gaming SL editing laptop you can buy for under 1.5 LHS or $1,500 so everybody that was all for this video and I hope you liked it if you did don't forget to give it a thumbs up and do let me know in the comments below if you would like us to cover more laptops saying this I'm pratima adikari and thank you so much for watching\n"