The Tenth-gen Legion Professional 7i gaming laptop...

Lenovo has a brand new collection of up to date Legion gaming laptops at CES 2025. The star of the present is the Tenth-generation Legion Professional 7i. It helps as much as an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop computer GPU, due to its cooling system that permits as much as 250W thermal design energy (TDP). It additionally has an AI engine that dynamically adjusts CPU and GPU wattage for optimum efficiency.

The 2025 Legion Professional 7i helps as much as an Intel Core Extremely 9 275HX processor and the aforementioned RTX 5090 on the graphics aspect. Lenovo’s Legion Coldfront Vapor cooling helps it help that high-end {hardware}. Tack on as much as 64GB of 6400Mhz DDR5 (2 X 32GB) RAM and the built-in LA1+LA3 AI chip, and also you’re taking a look at a souped-up machine for on-the-go gaming (and absolutely anything else you can throw at it).

The laptop computer has as much as a 16-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600, 16:10) OLED show. The display helps as much as a 240Hz body charge and has a 1ms response time. It may possibly attain 500 nits of brightness. The Legion Professional 7i has two USB-C ports (one in every of which is Thunderbolt 4), three USB-A ports and HDMI 2.1. With all that high-end {hardware} inside, it’s fairly the beefy machine, with a beginning weight of round 6 lbs.

It launches in March. However all that horsepower doesn’t come low cost: Lenovo says the Legion Professional 7i has an anticipated beginning worth of $2,399 — and you’ll safely wager that RTX 5090 variants will fetch a premium on prime of that.

In the meantime, the Tenth-gen Legion Professional 5i (Intel) and Legion Professional 5 (AMD) provide as much as an Intel Extremely 9 275HX (the identical because the Professional 7i) or AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX, respectively. Their thermal energy helps as much as 200W, which allows as much as an RTX 5070 Ti Laptop computer for graphics. You’ll be able to order configurations with as much as 32GB (2 X 16GB) of 6400Mhz DDR5 RAM.

It additionally has as much as a 16-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600, 16:10) OLED display at as much as 500 nits with a 1ms response time. However at 165Hz, its most body charges don’t go fairly as excessive because the Professional 7i.

Just like the Professional 7i, the Professional 5 collection makes use of Lenovo’s AI Engine+ with a Situation Detection characteristic that dynamically tweaks the CPU and GPU wattage based mostly on the second’s wants. It has the identical port setup because the Professional 7i, however a minimum of it weighs a bit much less (a minimal of 5.58 lbs).

Sadly, you’ll have to attend longer for the extra inexpensive Professional 5 collection. The Legion Professional 5i launches in Might (beginning at $1,499), whereas the Legion Professional 5 arrives in June (beginning at $1,399).

Lenovo additionally has a Tenth-gen model of the (non-“Professional”) Legion 7i, which the corporate’s oddly particular PR copy says is for “avid gamers actively learning in STEM applications and fields.” It additionally helps as much as an Intel Extremely 9 275HX and RTX 5070 GPU and has as much as a 16-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600) OLED with as much as 240Hz and 1ms. Nevertheless, its Coldfront Hyper cooling maxes out at a decrease 145W TDP, so that you received’t get the identical top-level efficiency because the dearer Professional fashions.

Beginning at 4.4 lbs., it’s notably thinner and lighter than the Professional fashions. (The truth that it’s extra transportable however nonetheless decently highly effective doubtless explains Lenovo’s unusual “STEM pupil” framing.) It has an all-metal chassis. It will likely be obtainable in June for $1,599.

Lastly, there’s additionally a Tenth-gen Legion 5i. Sticking with the oddly particular PR framing, Lenovo says this mannequin is for “college avid gamers in non-STEM applications.” (Gotta nail down each area of interest!) It has as much as a 15.1-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600, 16:10, 165Hz, 1ms) OLED and helps as much as an Intel Core Extremely 9 275HX and RTX 5070 Laptop computer GPU. (There’s additionally an AMD variant with as much as a Ryzen AI 7 350 CPU.)

The Legion 5i is slated for a Might launch, beginning at $1,299.