Lenovo Legion Pro 7i ZDNET's key takeaways The Legion Pro 7i (2025) is a top-tier gaming laptop, on sale now for $2,799.
It effortlessly runs the latest gaming titles, exudes premium power, and features a 16-inch OLED display that demands your attention.
Besides the high price, all that hardware runs hot, it's power-hungry, and it has a big, bulky power supply. $2,799 at B&H Photo-Video
The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is the latest gaming laptop in the Legion series, sticking to an accessible 16-inch size and putting all its stat points into the quality of the display and hardware.
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The result is a sophisticated laptop with dramatic (but fully customizable) RGB lighting, a sleek form factor, and a stacked set of hardware. It starts out with 32GB of RAM, (upgradable to 96GB), 2TB of storage, a 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 processor, and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 GPU. All this, combined with the 16-inch 500nit, 240Hz refresh OLED display makes for not only a competitive gaming machine, but a capable workstation for pro creatives, animators, and designers.
A design with commanding presence
The Legion Pro 7i is hefty, to be sure, but for a gaming laptop, it is actually on the sleek side. This puts it in a sort of middle ground: it's a little too big to be something you'd want to regularly commute with, but it's certainly not bound to the desk.
Unfortunately, the matte black finish is a fingerprint magnet, like many of Lenovo's other laptops (ahem -- ThinkPads) that, if this bugs you like it bugs me, will compel you to keep a cloth on hand. All of this is mitigated by the keyboard lighting, however, which can be adjusted per key to be as subtle or loud as you want.
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