Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 9 Reviews

Switched from a MacBook plus gaming laptop to this as the only daily driver. Performance, keyboard and battery are strong, but weight and the big power brick hurt portability, though they decided to stick with it and it holds up well.

Loved the 4070 open box unit for a year, then it suddenly would not power on and became a paperweight; advises buying the warranty extension.

Bought new for about 1300 dollars, swapped the Realtek Wi-Fi card, added a second NVMe and upgraded to 96GB DDR5 for under 200 dollars.

Daily drives their 7i and travels for work with it, packing the big brick in luggage and using a small charger on planes. Accepts the size as the price of a large screen.

Owns the i7-14700HX and RTX 4060 version; the CPU rarely hits 100 but the GPU sits around 85C constantly, and they find the thermal design a limit versus the Legion 5i.

After a few months the i9 and RTX 4070 version still runs well with good temps and strong performance, but battery life is very poor and the brushed sides scratch easily.

Found the white 4070 model sleek, beautiful and performant but the CPU constantly hit 100C; undervolting was blocked by virtualization, so they returned it for a Pro 7i.

Tamed intense i9 heat by forcing a lower voltage in the BIOS with negligible performance loss, but a later BIOS update removed that option.

Owns the same Legion 7i Gen 9 and had CPU temps hitting 100C until they disabled turbo boost via a hidden power setting, which brought temps to 75-85C while still playing ray traced games at 1600p.

Gets about 32.5k multi in Cinebench R23 in custom mode with a slight undervolt, but says cooling is weaker than on the Pro model.