Description for Renewed - Lenovo Legion Y740-15ICHG Gaming Core - i7-8750H 2.2GHz 1TB+256GB SSD 16GB 15.6 - 144Hz BT WIN10 Webcam NVIDIA - RTX 2070 8192MB - Iron Gray | 81HE0004US-LCR
Summary:
The Legion Y740 checks a lot of the right boxes, but at the same time, it misses on two of the important ones by quite a margin: the battery life and the typing experience. If you can live with those, you'll hardly get better value for your money in another performance laptop, as this scores excellent marks in the build, display, IO, performance and thermals departments, and is more affordable than most other similar devices on the market. That keyboard, though...
The Legion series is Lenovo’s lineup of gaming notebooks, and the Y740 is their highest-tier offer as of the first part of 2019.
Unlike other manufacturers, Lenovo doesn’t focus on making the best gaming ultraportable on the market, but rather at making the best value gaming machine in a fairly-portable envelope.
That’s why the Legion Y740 is not as small or as light as some of the other options, and doesn’t get all the latest features and quirks. It does, however, bundle a smartly crafted chassis, modern hardware, a thermal implementation that can squeeze excellent performance out of that hardware, a good set of ports and a high-refresh rate IPS screen, all these in a package that outprices the vast majority of the competition. On the other hand, it does come short in the keyboard and battery-life departments.
We’ve spent the last week with a retail version of the 15-inch Lenovo Legion Y741-15ICH, in the most popular configuration, with the Core i7 processor and RTX 2070 Max-Q graphics, and gathered all our impressions in the review below, with the strong points and the few annoying quirks that can actually ruin this for some of you.
Make sure to go through all our findings before vouching for this Legion with your wallet.
Design and construction
Aesthetically, the Legion Y740 is one of the simplest and most concealed gaming laptops on the market. Lenovo went with a simple dark-gray/black theme, with some subtle black branding elements and very little bling, and that makes this laptop an option that would be accepted in strict work and office environments, where many other performance devices with flashier designs might now.
This does get RGB lighting, with a small light integrated within the LEGION branding on the lid-cover and some light bars in the cooling elements, on the sides and on the back. However, all of these RGB elements can be independently controlled (and deactivated if so desired) in the included Corsair iCUE software, which also controls the keyboard’s backlighting and the LED within the power-button. This implementation gives the Y740 the kind of flexibility very few other gaming laptops benefit from, allowing it to satisfy both gamers and professional users.
Specs as reviewed
Lenovo Legion Y740-15ICH | |
Screen | 15.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 px, IPS, non-touch, anti-glare |
Processor | Intel Kaby Lake Core i7-8750H CPU |
Video | Intel HD 630 + Nvidia RTX 2070 Max-Q 8GB (80W) – GeForce 430.39 drivers |
Memory | 16 GB DDR4 2666 MHz (2x DIMMs, up to 64 GB) |
Storage | 256 GB SSD (Sk Hynix PC401 HFS256GD9TNG – M.2 NVMe 80 mm) + 2 TB 5400 HDD (Seagate ST2000LM007 – 2.5″ 7 mm bay) |
Connectivity | Gigabit LAN (Realtek RTL8168/8111), Wireless AC (Killer 1550i, 2×2), Bluetooth 5.0 |
Ports | 2x USB 3.1 gen 1, 1x USB 3.1 gen 2, 1x USB-C 3.1 with Thunderbolt 3, HDMI 2.0, mini DisplayPort 1.4, mic/earphone, LAN, Lock |
Battery | 57 Wh, 230 W charger |
Size | 362 mm or 14.2” (w) x 267 mm or 10.5” (d) x 22.5 mm or 0.88” (h) |
Weight | 4.96 lbs (2.25 kg) + 1.98 lbs (.9 kg) charger and cables, US version |
Extras | RGB backlit keyboard, 2x 2W bottom-placed speakers, webcam |
Specifications for Renewed - Lenovo Legion Y740-15ICHG Gaming Core - i7-8750H 2.2GHz 1TB+256GB SSD 16GB 15.6 - 144Hz BT WIN10 Webcam NVIDIA - RTX 2070 8192MB - Iron Gray | 81HE0004US-LCR
- 81HE0004US-LCR
- 52169
- 15 June, 2020
- 3.75 Kg
- 9.00 cm x 55.50 cm x 35.01 cm
- Intel core i7
- 16 GB
- 15 Inch - 15.9 Inch
- Gaming