Lenovo’s Legion 5 Is A Fast, Oled-equipped Gaming Laptop For $1,050

You tin drawback nan AMD-based model, aliases walk an other $150 connected nan somewhat faster Intel type that besides has double nan soul storage. | Image: The Verge

As portion of our Amazon Prime Big Deal Days sum earlier this month, I was tasked pinch spotting notable discounts happening astatine Walmart. My favourite was nan $600 disconnected woody connected Lenovo’s Legion 5 gaming laptop, which has a 15.1-inch 2,560 x 1,600 (16:10 facet ratio) OLED surface pinch a 165Hz refresh rate, Nvidia’s RTX 5060 GPU, and different coagulated specs. The waste value was $950, but if you missed retired connected nan sale, it’s still a awesome worth astatine $1,050, aliases $500 off.

The Legion 5 is simply a amended entry-level gaming laptop than $1,050 tin usually get you. Getting an RTX 5060 wrong of 1 astatine this value is rare, but not unheard of. But getting it successful a instrumentality nether $1,500 that besides touts a tin AMD Ryzen 7 260 processor, user-replaceable RAM and retention (it comes pinch 16GB DDR5 and 512GB, respectively), and an OLED surface is decidedly a rarity.

The Ryzen 7 260 is tin and efficient, but if you’d alternatively opt for nan type of nan Legion 5 that has a somewhat faster Intel Core i7 14700HX processor, positive double nan soul retention (1TB versus 512GB), it’s disposable astatine Walmart for $1,199 ($301 off).

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