7.5 / 10
SCORE Lenovo LOQ 15 $1,029 at Amazon Pros Good 3D performance for the price
Roomy, comfortable keyboard
Room to expand RAM and SSD Cons 15.6-inch, 16:9 display looks outdated and limits overall use
Drab design and no RGB lighting
No biometrics for easy, secure logins
Lacks fast Thunderbolt 4 or USB4 port
The Lenovo LOQ 15 is an old-school 15.6-inch gaming laptop powered by present-day AMD and Nvidia silicon. Most gaming laptops have transitioned from 15.6-inch, 16:9 displays to taller, more modern 16-inch, 16:10 panels. But the LOQ 15 is helping to keep the widescreen tradition alive. Most games are still designed for 1080p and other 16:9 resolutions, but you can still play games at 1080p on a 1200p display, and I like the added vertical space for non-gaming pursuits, such as web browsing, writing and spreadsheeting, because more lines of text or rows of a spreadsheet fit on the screen.
Just based on the display aspect ratio alone, I prefer a 16-inch gaming laptop such as the Alienware 16X Aurora, HP Omen 16 or Lenovo's own Legion 5i Gen 10. But if you don't mind the outdated look of the 15.6-inch LOQ 15 or seek it out for the types of games you like to play, then you'll get good bang for your buck from its AMD Ryzen 7 250 processor and Nvidia RTX 5060 graphics. Lenovo smartly puts most of the LOQ 15's budget toward the RTX 5060 graphics, which helps its 3D framerates compete with those of pricier models, albeit at the expense of general application performance. That's a trade-off most gamers on a budget will make.
Lenovo LOQ 15AHP10 Price as reviewed $1,029 Display size/resolution 15.6-inch 1920x1080 IPS 144Hz CPU AMD Ryzen 7 250 Memory 16GB DDR5-5600 Graphics 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 @ 115W Storage 512GB SSD Ports USB-C 3.2 Gen 2, 3x USB-A 3.2 Gen 1, HDMI 2.1, Gigabit Ethernet, combo audio Networking Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 Operating system Windows 11 Home Weight 5.36 pounds (2.43 kg)
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