Lenovo Legion 5, 17.3", AMD Ryzen 5 5600H, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, 8GB, 256GB NVMe TLC SSD, Windows 11 Home, Phantom Blue, 82K00045US

I bought it on Black Friday for $699 $45 tax, so I got it at a good price. Honestly, I freaking love this laptop, I might be biased cause my previous laptop was a total potato, but nonetheless. It's a Lenovo Legion and it's well made even if it's a 'budget entry level' gaming laptop. I honestly see myself using this laptop for a very long time, especially since I upgraded the RAM to 16GB and storage to 256GB 1TB. It's a nice, simple looking laptop compared to other gaming laptops that have that weird military grade tuff look. It IS heavy, but that is expected with gaming laptops, as is its short battery life, but I keep it plugged in constantly anyway. Most cable/ usb inserts are on the back of the laptop, with one usb port and an SD card insert on the right side and wired headphones one the left side. Lenovo Vantage is a cool feature, it gives you an overview of you CPU/ GPU/ storage, gives you immediate access to various features, from network boost, thermal modes (quiet, balance, performance), windows updates, macro keys, and Nahimic (microphone Stuff). No RGB keyboard :( but it still lights up with 2 adjustable brightnesses. Also, it has a little sticker on the front reminding you of the shortcut keys for the performance mode you wanna use. Neat! I use this laptop for Adobe Photoshop/ Illustrator and playing games, primarily Destiny 2 and Runescape. I have had 0 issues or crashes with this laptop while using those programs or while playing games, or otherwise. 2 RAM slots, unsoldered, installation was super easy. For Storage, there is space to add either a 2.5" HDD, or a 2nd SSD card. I did have issues with this, as the bracket needed for the 2nd SSD was hidden but included in the laptop nonetheless. Double TRIPLE check what SSD/ HDD/ RAM is compatible with your laptops and always watch a million videos and read as many guides as you need!!! I didn't know about The Bracket and spent way longer than needed on this. Here's what I used to upgrade my laptop SSD -- Crucial P5 Plus 1TB PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD CT1000P5PSSD8 - $135 at the time RAM -- Crucial RAM 8GB DDR4 3200MHz CT8G4SFRA32A - $31 at the time An electronic repair kit, with yknow screwdriver heads and opening picks, were essential in getting me to open this laptop up and get inside. It's up to you to decide if the current price is worth it, especially since upgrading RAM and storage is needed for longevity of this laptop. But ye overall 10/10 good Black Friday buy :D

Great for everyday use and (light) gaming. I quite like the physical design of this laptop with the large dock-like protrusion on the rear containing all of the connectors. The appearance is at the very least not 100% generic. The screen is large and bright and sharp, and it was a snap to set up and get going. Absolutely no issues in every day use, and this coming from a fairly heavy user with a bad habit of keeping hundreds of browser tabs open across different browsers, while also using other software. My gaming use has been limited so far with only 3 games - Apex Legends, GTA Online, and Hitman. They are not very recent so I expected pretty much perfect performance, which it is as long as the laptop is plugged in and not in power saving mode. Also i had to turn some graphics settings down from max slightly in GTA, but we can also chalk that up to the game being super old and poorly optimized. Have only had this thing for something like 5 weeks so it's a little early to talk about reliability, but I'll be sure to update this review and lower the star rating if I run into any problems.