GoKawiilIf you're in the market for a monster gaming laptop that wil serve you just as well on the go as it will at home, then Best Buy's $1,000 discount on this eye-catching Lenovo Legion Pro 5i might be the deal for you. Right now, you can score this 16-inch laptop, replete with one of Intel's top Arrow Lake mobile processors, 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and Nvidia's RTX 5070 for just $1,749 at Best Buy. That's down from its usual price of $2,749 and even brings you within spitting distance of the savings we saw on this same model last year, pre AI-price crunch.
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The CPU that powers this laptop is the excellent Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX. This 24-core beast has eight performance cores and 16 efficiency cores, with max boost clocks of up to 5.4GHz. Overall, given the current state of the PC market, this is an excellent gaming laptop at a very enticing price, just $150 more than when we saw it in October last year. While those prices are a thing of the past (and unlikely to return soon), this is one of the best gaming laptop deals we've seen in some time.
While we haven't reviewed this specific model of Lenovo Legion laptop, we have reviewed its big brother, the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10, which features many of the same specs and a few key differences. One of the most impressive aspects of this laptop is the OLED display. You're getting the same 16-inch OLED panel with 2560 x 1600 resolution, which performs very well in testing versus rivals, as you can see from our benchmarks below.
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Crucially, the model on sale is "only" 165Hz refresh rate, rather than the 7i's 240Hz. The screen is rated for 500 nits of brightness.
The Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX features in not one but two of our best gaming laptop picks, including the best choice overall, the Razer Blade 18, so you know you're getting a great CPU that can handle productivity and games alike. The RTX 5070 comes with 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM and should make light work of most games at this resolution.
As mentioned, you also get 1TB of SSD storage and 32GB of DDR5 5600 RAM. Connectivity-wise, there's one HDMI 2.1 port, one Thunderbolt 4 port, three USB-A 3.2 ports, and a single USB-C 3.2 port (four total). There's also a headphone jack and a microphone, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi 7, as well as an Ethernet port. Finally, there's a 5MP webcam.
This would make a fantastic gaming companion or a college laptop for a student who can also support a bit of downtime on the sides. As noted, this is a really excellent discount on a great all-around gaming laptop.
The Lenovo Legion Pro 5i can be bought from Best Buy online or collected in store, but you'll want to move fast to secure one at this excellent price.
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