Lenovo is asserting a brand new Tenth-generation Legion 9i gaming laptop computer coming quickly to China and scheduled for the autumn in North America. The 18-inch behemoth is filled with top-end specs, together with the choice for a 4K-capable 2D / 3D display screen, Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU, Intel Core Extremely 9 275HX CPU, as much as 192GB of RAM, and 8TB of SSD storage.
How a lot will an over-the-top configuration like that price? No one can say, as Lenovo isn’t speaking pricing in any respect but — not even the beginning value for the bottom mannequin with a 4K, non-3D display screen. However when the time comes you gained’t must rely solely on Lenovo to construct the configuration to your liking, because the 4 RAM slots and 4 SSD slots are user-accessible.
The elective 2D / 3D LCD can show 3840 x 2400 decision at as much as 240Hz in 2D mode or 1920 x 1200 in 3D mode. The display screen additionally has a twin mode akin to the Razer Blade 18, permitting as much as an ultra-fast 440Hz when displaying 2D content material in 1920 x 1080. Viewing 3D content material on the Legion 9i’s display screen doesn’t require glasses, because it makes use of eye-tracking and a lenticular lens array to seem 3D to the bare eye. Lenovo says the Legion 9i is designed for sport builders, visible artists, and 3D professionals in addition to spendy avid gamers. Along with displaying 3D content material and renders, Lenovo says its software program helps 30 video games playable in 3D. Now we have reached out to Lenovo for a listing of suitable video games, however didn’t obtain a solution by time of publication.
As you’d anticipate from a desktop replacement-class laptop computer, the Legion 9i has a bunch of ports, together with two Thunderbolt 5 ports, 4 USB 3.2 Gen 2 (three Sort-A and one Sort-C), an ethernet port, HDMI 2.1, and even a full-size SD card slot. For connectivity, it’s acquired Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 help. For those who go for the 2D display screen the 5-megapixel webcam has an f/2 aperture, although the 3D display screen possibility comes with a sooner f/1.6 lens — and each webcams function a kill swap on the aspect of the laptop computer for privateness.
The laptop computer itself has a reasonably distinctive look due to its carbon fiber lid. Lenovo says every Legion 9i’s lid is constituted of eight layers of carbon fiber, making it “lighter and stronger than aluminum.” However any weight financial savings apart, the good side of this carbon fiber creation is the seen sample on the lid — which Lenovo says is barely totally different and one-of-a-kind on every unit.
We could not understand how a lot the Legion 9i prices simply but, however that lid immediately makes it some of the attention-grabbing jumbo-sized gaming laptops in my e-book. A minimum of, so far as ones not adorned with dragons go.