Seems like a good price for a freshly released model which usually attract a significant premium. No GPU upgrade option at this stage, comes as-is.
So about 2k after cashback
yep
Seems pretty good deal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVp6aeF57hg - A user review for the Legion 5 Pro AMD but this is the 4070 model.
Didn't realise how big the power bricks on these things are!
On the Education store-> https://www.lenovo.com/au/edu/en/p/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-pro-series/legion-5-pro-gen-7-(16-inch-amd)/82rgcto1wwau1?groupId=education
Last years model- $1,989.00
I have the older (2021) version of the non-pro Legion 15 with 1650ti for both kids as BYOD devices for school. Use to think other than the battery life (trade off against discreet graphics) these were great. Not so much since I've had the same thing happen to two of them.
The flaw: The outer screws on the case finds its way inside the case (via the vents?).
On one child's laptop that caused a short and a smokey smell and the computer was dead from then on. It was fixed under warranty though and it was a second repair so until recently I thought the tech had messed up and not tightened an internal screw the first time.
However similar happened on the other child's laptop. On that one the screw was causing the laptop to power off if the case flexed a little at a certain point on the left hand side of the chasis, presumably where the screw was causing a short, but fortunately the unit was shutting down instead of getting fried. At first I thought it was a cracked motherboard but I could hear something rattling inside and once it fell out of the spot it was in I could no longer turn the laptop off by flexing the case slightly at that point. It is out of warranty so I pulled it apart and found the screw and it seems to be working fine
Reviews say this year's models have even more corners cut feature-wise, so that doesn't give me confidence that build quality is better. Certainly not worth it when you factor in Lenovo's price hikes in the last couple of years. Pity.
Thanks for sharing this. Always keen to hear about long-term durability. Although I was under the impression that the pro version is a different animal, particularly RE chassis material (plastic vs metal?).
I believe you're correct but I don't have any experience with the Pro or anything other than that 2021 model. On that 2021 model the selling points were the gorgeous (and I do mean gorgeous for that price point) screen, an 8 core Ryzen processor and entry level discrete graphics. My kids don't go out of the way to abuse it and they know they are meant to look after the laptops. So far no spills, major falls etc. but at the end of the day they are kids and these laptops live in a school bag. So durability might be fine for an adult treating it carefully. Then again I don't know what's causing screws to fall out and end up inside the chasis. Strange!
I ordered a Legion 7 at around $4k that would have been a beat during the last Black Friday sales but despite my emails and chats requesting an update the order fell through due to lack of stock after I had waited for over a week, so I missed out on any other deals I might have gone after. The Lenovo reps I spoke to didn't want to offer anything over the standard sales and discounts. I also got jerked around when I did put through my warranty calls with techs making appointments and not showing up or calling. (I had spent the extra on the on site warranty.) They didn't seem interested in fixing issues with missing screws on my son's machine. So yeah, that plus jacking their prices mean I'm not as keen on Lenovo as I was 2 years ago.
the code has expired. it is back to $3099 (0_0)
Tempting, plus cashrewards is giving 13% cashback too.