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Review on Renewed Lenovo Legion 5 Gaming Laptop: 15.6" 144Hz, AMD Ryzen 7-4800H, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, RTX 2060 6GB, Phantom Black by Hideo ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Best product I have ever reviewed, I recommend it to everyone!

I’ll write more about installing Linux, in case it helps someone and you don’t have to sit for several nights with red eyes. The main problem is the non-working touchpad. The problem is discussed, for example, on launchpad bug 1887190. Answer 254 helped me, which describes how to patch the kernel. It seems that you need to rebuild the kernel no younger than version 5.8. I collected 5.92022. The touchpad worked. Accordingly, if you do not sign the kernel, then you need to disable secure boot in the BIOS. The second major problem is installing the video card driver (out of the blue). In the bios, you need to set the forced use of a discrete graphics card. Fresh versions of drivers do not get up (neither from the repositories, nor from the nvidia website. I only installed the driver version 440 from the ppa with drivers, which is easily googled. But even with this driver, everything is fun. The screen backlight is not adjustable from the keyboard, and after waking up from sleep, the screen loses some of the colors (everything becomes high-contrast). You can deal with highlighting in many ways, passing parameters to the kernel, configuring xorg. Conf, and so on. But none of this helped me. Only the brightness controller script works, which was posted on the github by the user momen84. With the violation of colors after waking up, the situation is still incomprehensible. It is recommended to pass the parameter to the vga kernel equal to 0 (in the hornbeam settings). It seems that the truth has become better, but sometimes the laptop has to be put to sleep again, and only after the second awakening do the colors return to normal. Despite all this circus, I am very pleased with the laptop, it is a pleasure to work with it))

Pros
  • 1. Gorgeous screen (IPS matte, brightness >300 nit, color reproduction). 2. An uncut processor that can compete with the desktop version. 3. Excellent cooling. Without load, it is generally silent and cold. No noise, does not heat up under moderate load. Under a serious load, it behaves adequately, there is no feeling that you are about to take off with the laptop. 4. The ability to increase the amount of RAM up to 32 gigs. 5. Good installed SSD, plus the ability to insert a second SSD (M2 PCI-e). 6. A high-quality case, it feels very durable, although in some places it is easily soiled. Calm, non-gaming design. 7. Curtain on the camera. 8. Two-level backlighting of the keyboard. 9. Capacious battery, which lasts for 4 hours of moderate work.
Cons
  • 1. The laptop itself is expectedly heavy, and this is normally perceived. But the "brick" in the form of a power supply exceeds all expectations. 2. Pretty mediocre keyboard and touchpad. Even in the cheapest Thinkpads, they are much better. The keys are noisy (especially the spacebar), slippery with sharp edges. Button sizes are strange, because. some buttons are too big, some are too small. The touchpad is a little loose. 3. Not the easiest in terms of disassembly. It was also necessary to guess that in order to replace the RAM, you need to remove a square tin plate, after bending the clips around its perimeter. 4. Lots of problems installing Linux. Most of them are solvable, but in general it looks like a mockery against the backdrop of excellent Linux support in all Thinkpads from the same Lenovo.

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