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The new Legion Y740 and Legion Y540 gaming machines don't have crazy designs like you'll find in other notebooks made for gamers. The laptops do pack new GPUs as well as updated display options. Welcome to Legion Gaming! Our goal is to provide you with best gaming communities available. Join today to always have a group to play with! Our goal is to provide you with best gaming communities available. Join today to always have a group to play with!
Hi guys. I am undecided if I wanna buy a new laptop or a new PC, but I am inclined more for the laptop, because I can play from the bed. If any1 plays from a gaming laptop, can TERA run on it? I am asking because I know TERA is badly optimized.
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- A gaming laptop with an elegant design and strong performance for less than $1,000? The Lenovo Legion Y530 is a sleek budget gaming laptop that offers great looks, a wide range of.
My budget 1k dollars and the gaming laptop I wanna buy is a lenovo legion Y520.
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It has a GTX 1050 4gb
7700HQ CPU
8GB DDR4 RAM
and I am gonna upgrade it with a 250GB SSD.
Now If I make a PC with keyboard/mouse/monitor the whole deal in the same price I can get a i3 8100 CPU, GTX 1050 and 8GB of ram. Mostly the same stuff but with a slightly better CPU.
What do you guys think?
- Pros
Proficient gaming performance. Spacious hard drive plus boot SSD. Restrained, but stylish design. Well-built keyboard.
- Cons
Tacky touchpad design. Red accent coloring might not be to everyone's taste.
- Bottom Line
The Lenovo Legion Y520 is a budget gaming laptop that requires you to make no compromises in build quality or performance. It delivers smooth 1080p gaming at high settings alongside a full feature set.
At the start of the year, Lenovo announced it would be launching the Legion brand, seeking a more defined identity and community for its gaming machines. The Legion Y520 (starts at $919.99; $1,239.99 as tested) is the first laptop in the line to make its way to our lab, and there's a lot to like. While it doesn't have a price as low as the Editors' Choice , it's a reliable and well-priced gaming laptop in its own right. You get a wide array of ports, a solid-state boot drive plus a roomy hard drive, and a sturdy (but still tasteful) design, making the Legion Y520 easy to recommend.
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Less Is More
I've never loved the aesthetic of the Ideapad gaming systems, but Lenovo's done a much better job hitting the mark with the Legion line. For a laptop that doesn't cost a ton, the Y520 is a well built, sturdy machine with a distinctive look that shows some design restraint. The lid features a textured rectangular pattern, with a few subtle muscle lines and a tapered front edge that give it an angular shape. There's no flashy iconography on the lid, and even the Lenovo logo is black-on-black and placed out of the way in the corner.
When you open up the laptop, you'll see plenty of red. The keyboard and touchpad (which has a chintzy glossy black plastic design flourish) are trimmed with it, and it's the color of the keyboard's backlighting. It's almost too much; I could do without the touchpad outline or the red key siding, but your opinion may vary. Along the top of the keyboard deck, just in front of the display hinge, is a brushed black plastic bar that holds the Power button and adds a little style. The speakers are located on either side of the screen hinge in each corner, and fire sound both up and forward. Their design has been toned down from the Ideapad's speakers, which featured some pretty aggressive sizing, coloring, and geometry. This new look is more industrial, complementing the lid pattern and matching the stylized but understated design that permeates the whole system.
Size-wise, the Legion Y520 is a thin and fairly light laptop, another plus for a 15.6-inch gaming machine. It's just over an inch thick, making it reasonably totable. And although at 5.53 pounds it's not a super-light ultraportable, for a system with gaming chops, it's definitely travel friendly. I said the same about the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming, another 15.6-inch 1050 Ti system, which weighs 5.84 pounds, so it's in good company at this weight. The is a pound heavier, which starts to push what feels comfortable to sling around your shoulder, so take comfort that the Legion is on the lighter side.
The 1,920-by-1,080-resolution display on our test unit makes sense with the components—any higher and your frame rates would suffer. Viewing angles on the screen are nice and wide, with little to no distortion or darkening when viewed way out from the side. There's some glare when used in direct lighting, so keep that in mind if you'll use it around bright overheads or with your back to a window. Generally, though, the picture quality and color reproduction are solid, and I have no complaints with brightness or vibrancy.
Color preferences aside, the keyboard itself is another positive. The keys don't use mechanical switches, but they feel solid, reliable, and responsive for a midrange laptop, and still offer good travel (Lenovo claims it's 1.2mm). The touchpad is similarly dependable, with a nice soft feel and left- and right-click functions relegated to dedicated buttons beneath, so the pad itself doesn't move. Sound quality is also a high point: The Y520's Harman speakers fill the room, and there was no distortion or tinny sound at maximum volume in my testing.
Despite the Y520's relatively thin build, ports are plentiful. Lenovo packs in an Ethernet jack on the left side, alongside the headphone jack, the power port, and a USB 2.0 port. On the right, there's an HDMI connection, two USB 3.0 ports, an SD card slot, and a USB-C port. There's really nothing missing from this array, unless you want to be picky about DisplayPort connections. For storage, there's both a 128GB SSD and a 1TB hard drive. The Y520 also features Bluetooth and dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi. The laptop is covered by a one-year warranty.
Power Sweet Spot
Packing a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor, 16GB of memory, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, the Y520 is quite capable on all fronts. The 1050 Ti isn't a high-end graphics card, but it is part of Nvidia's newest GPU line, and adept at handling modern games in 1080p. On the 3DMark Cloud Gate and Fire Strike Extreme benchmark tests, the Y520 scored just higher than the Inspiron 15 Gaming and ROG Strix GL753V, two 1050Ti-bearing laptops in the same price range.
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On the Heaven and Valley gaming tests, which are better indications of what you'd see when playing, the Y520 averaged 42 frames per second (fps) and 50fps with the resolution at 1080p and graphics quality set to Ultra. That translates to solid real-world performance, as only the most demanding modern titles will push your frame rates below the playable 30fps mark. Doomalso ran very smoothly, even when I cranked the settings up to Ultra, which surprised me. It frequently held firm at 60fps, and during the most frantic moments still stayed around 50. It is a very well-optimized game, it should be said, but don't worry about the laptop's general gaming chops. The GTX 1060 is generally given as the floor for VR gaming, so while you may be able to achieve playable frame rates in some less demanding titles, I wouldn't endorse this as a VR-ready system.
I didn't experience any slowdown or long wait times during general use in testing; the Y520 should be sufficient for day-to-day needs or side projects when you're not gaming. Its processor is equipped to handle productivity without much struggle, as proven by its score on the PCMark 8 Work Conventional test, which falls right among (and even ahead of) those of some more expensive or similarly priced laptops. The same hold true on multimedia tests—it won't leave you hanging long, and is just as efficient any laptop outside of specialized workstations.
As for battery life, the Y520 is serviceable, if unremarkable. It turned in 5 hours, 45 minutes, on our rundown test, which won't exactly last you all day (especially if you do some gaming off the charger), but it does give you some freedom away from an outlet. This time is about standard or just above average for 15-inch gaming laptops: The ROG Strix lasted exactly 5 hours, the 5:16, and the 3:28. The Inspiron 15 is far and away the exception, managing 11 hours on the same test.
Plenty to Love
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Lenovo's rebranded gaming effort is a success in my book, even if that ultimately boils down to a new name, aesthetic tweaks, and good timing with incorporating the latest hardware. The Legion Y520 is well designed, with a full feature set, and performs well. The 1050 Ti won't blow anyone's socks off, but the power is ample for a sub-$1,250 system—I like it more than the ROG Strix on several fronts, and it costs less. It's not quite the extreme bargain that the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming is, but it does have more storage as configured, and the display is of better quality. The Inspiron 15 remains our budget Editors' Choice for the superb value you get in a system with the same graphics card, but if you can spend a few hundred extra dollars more, you won't be disappointed with the Legion Y520.
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Bottom Line: The Lenovo Legion Y520 is a budget gaming laptop that requires you to make no compromises in build quality or performance. It delivers smooth 1080p gaming at high settings alongside a full feature set.
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