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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways
- Lenovo announced its upcoming gaming lineup astatine IFA 2025.
- The Legion Go 2 handheld brings respective updates, including a much ergonomic plan and amended hardware.
- We besides got a first-hand look astatine Lenovo's tenth-generation Legion Pro 7 laptop and LOQ midrange gaming desktop.
The IFA (Innovation For All) 2025 tech commercialized amusement is presently underway successful Berlin (you tin deliberation of it arsenic a European mentation of CES), and with it, immoderate next-gen tech from Lenovo for its Legion and LOQ gaming lines.
What instantly caught my oculus was the caller Legion Go 2 handheld. This peculiar bid is Lenovo's reply to the Nintendo Switch arsenic a gaming handheld with detachable TrueStrike controllers. For this generation, Lenovo redesigned the controllers to beryllium much ergonomic, present sporting a smoother plan and a smarter layout.
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The Legion Go 2 volition beryllium a Windows-based gaming handheld, and though I was hoping for SteamOS, it does enactment FPS mode, different large feature. The close controller tin crook into a vertical mouse, allowing for a much earthy consciousness erstwhile playing definite types of games, similar first-person shooters, hence the name.
Around it are 3 user-programmable buttons, configurable via the Legion Space app. What's large astir the controllers is that they are backwards-compatible, meaning they tin link to the archetypal Legion Go.
The upgrades don't halt there. The Legion Go 2 volition location an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor and up to 32GB of 8000MHz RAM for resource-intensive games. It inactive has an 8.8-inch screen, but the show present runs astatine a solution of 1920 x 1200 pixels alternatively of 2560 x 1600 pixels.
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Visual prime whitethorn person suffered; however, the Legion Go 2 makes up for this by present having an OLED surface certified for HDR TrueBlack 1000. Other notable features see an up to 2TB SSD, a microSD paper slot, and a bigger 74Whr battery. The Legion Go 2 launches this October with an expected starting terms of $1,049.
Next-gen gaming power
For gaming laptops, Lenovo announced the 16-inch, 10th-Gen Legion Pro 7. It's not arsenic flashy arsenic the Legion Go 2 handheld, but judging from the specs, it's a beast. Under the hood, it runs an AMD Ryzen 9955HX3d processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 GPU. The 16-inch PureSight WQXGA (2560 x 1600 pixel) OLED surface features a 240Hz refresh complaint and a 0.08ms effect time.
Basically, it screams "power", but it retains a alternatively sleek physique arsenic acold arsenic gaming laptops go. We reviewed the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i (the erstwhile mentation of this laptop, with an Intel chip) and noted its streamlined aesthetic.
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In presumption of cooling, devices similar this tally hot, truthful Lenovo is giving the Legion Pro 7 a Coldfront Vapor thermal absorption system. Expect each this hardware to beryllium powerfulness thirsty, with constricted artillery beingness compared to wide user PCs. The laptop is acceptable to motorboat aboriginal this November successful North America, starting astatine $2,399.
Finally, determination is the LOQ Tower 26ADR10, a desktop that Lenovo says is its archetypal 26L operation powered by an AMD Ryzen 8000 bid processor and Nvidia 50-Series GPU. The desktop offers up to 64GB of DDR5 RAM and up to 4TB of storage. It besides comes loaded with ports -- 1 of the champion reasons to opt for a desktop -- and supports Wi-Fi 7.
Judging by the price, the desktop volition beryllium Lenovo's mid-range offering successful aboriginal releases. The LOQ Tower 26ADR10 volition beryllium disposable aboriginal successful September, starting astatine astir $1,000.
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