Lenovo Legion Pro 7i ZDNET's key takeaways The Legion Pro 7i (2025) is a top-tier gaming laptop, on sale now for $2,450.
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. View now at B&H Photo/Video View now at Lenovo more buying choices
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The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is the latest gaming laptop in the Legion series. It is accessible at 16 inches and puts 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 also 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.
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