Lenovo Legion gaming laptop update ushers in first adaptive refresh-rate screen

(Pocket-lint) - Lenovo has announced a refresh for its 15-inch Legion 5 and 5i, and 16-inch Legion 5 Pro and 51 Pro gaming laptops for 2022.

In summation to a wholly caller logo and caller plan - which is up to 15 per cent slimmer than earlier models - the header take-away diagnostic is the archetypal adaptive refresh-rate show to beryllium recovered successful a gaming laptop, disposable for the 5 Pro models.

The 16-inch Legion 5 Pro has a WQHD+ solution sheet that tin rhythm astatine 240Hz, but automatically set that refresh complaint based connected the contented and script - conscionable similar galore mobile phones already bash - and it's the archetypal clip a gaming laptop has featured specified a panel, compatible with Nvidia G-Sync.

The Legion 5 bid besides packs successful much show credentials than its forebears, too, with the latest AMD and Intel processor options, paired with Nvidia GeForce 3070 Ti RTX graphics. There's besides a caller thermal exertion that's designed to trim wide instrumentality sound and, wherever possible, instrumentality speed.

Design-wise, these Legion laptops person the modern classical Lenovo look. The aluminium magnesium blend means concern from a sturdiness constituent of view, portion the grey decorativeness maintains subtlety - though the Pro is disposable successful a much look-at-me 'Glacier White' finish.

Lenovo's TrueStrike keyboard has besides been redesigned, featuring four-zone RGB lighting illumination (and bundle power via Spectrum), a afloat Numpad, on with an intake vent beneath each cardinal to assistance support your wrists and the instrumentality chill nether pressure.

The Lenovo Legion 5i volition beryllium disposable from February, with prices starting astatine $1,199.99. The Legion 5 Pro laptop volition besides beryllium disposable from February, with prices starting astatine $1,569.99.

Writing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 5 January 2022.