Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5 16IMH G9 RTX 4050
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Primary Camera: 2 MPix
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Average of 5 scores (from 4 reviews)
Reviews for the Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5 16IMH G9 RTX 4050
The ideaPad Pro 5 16 G9 does it all when configured with its discrete GPU option. The downside, however, is a louder and much warmer system than many other ultra-thin multimedia alternatives.
Source: How to Geek
The Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5i 16" is an excellent all-around machine if you need a workstation laptop that can have some fun, too. It won't blow your hair back like the company's Legion lineup or an Alienware gaming laptop. Still, it's more than capable of meeting your work and play needs if you're in the market for a general-purpose laptop.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/02/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: PC Mag
The Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5i 16 is not an exciting-looking laptop, but it might well be one worth buying. It delivers potent CPU and GPU performance, an attractive OLED display, an enjoyable keyboard, and lots of connectivity at a reasonable MSRP of $1,499.99. It’s a decent value and even a bit of a steal when discounted. That’s not to say it’s perfect. The IdeaPad didn’t dazzle in our battery life test, and its touchpad is underwhelming. Nor is it worth buying a Costco membership just to get this laptop, despite Costco's doubling (to two years) the warranty for most computer purchases.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/30/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Slashgear
The Lenovo IdeaPad 5i 16 Gen 9 is an unusual amalgamation of attributes, with components you wouldn't expect to see in a laptop of this size and weight. It's equally at home playing the latest games, watching movies, and editing video as it is working spreadsheets or writing a novel. It's got the power to be a gaming PC, but is not obtrusively a gaming device, and is sleek and light enough to haul around without it becoming a burden. The tradeoff is that if you actually put all that power to use, you'd better be plugged in, because while it may have the guts of a gaming laptop, it doesn't have the beefy battery necessary to play much more than a single round of Helldivers 2, and I wouldn't trust it not to die on me during the middle of a particularly long DOTA 2 match.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/06/2024
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Laptop Mag
Even with our high-end specs, the IdeaPad Pro 5i keeps its promised relatively long-lasting battery life despite the increased power consumption of a discrete Nvidia RTX 4050 GPU and 16-inch 2K OLED display panel. Which should make it one of my favorite laptops. I love a good combination of power and efficiency, especially if it meets expectations. And yet, it’s the small details that trip up the IdeaPad Pro. From a grainy IR webcam, tinny audio, mushy keyboard, and boring design, there’s much to find lacking with this Lenovo laptop. While none of these faults are enough to tank the IdeaPad completely, they equate to a disappointing package.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/01/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
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NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU: Mid-range graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 6 GB of GDDR6 VRAM (96 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 35 - 115W (+ Dynamic Boost).
With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Ultra 9 185H: The top-of-the-line Meteor Lake chip that debuted in December 2023. This 1st Gen Core Ultra processor has come to replace 13th generation Core chips; it has 16 cores (6 + 8 + 2) and 22 threads at its disposal. Its Performance cores, of which there are 6, run at up to 5.1 GHz while its Efficient cores, of which there are 10 (8 main cores plus 2 extra ones found in the Low Power Island) run at up to 3.8 GHz. The 8-core Arc GPU, just out of the oven, serves as the integrated graphics adapter - this runs at up to 2.35 GHz - and there is a bevy of other brand-new technologies on offer as well such as the integrated AI Boost NPU with two Gen 3 engines for hardware AI workload acceleration. vPro Enterprise and business-centric features such as the Remote Platform Erase are onboard as well. This laptop processors's "base" power consumption is 45 W, while its Turbo power consumption is not supposed to go over 115 W.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
16.00":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.Lenovo: Lenovo ("Le" from English legend, novo (Latin) for new) was founded in 1984 as a Chinese computer trading company. As of 2004, the company was the largest laptop manufacturer in China and, after acquiring IBM's PC division in 2005, the fourth largest in the world. In addition to desktops and notebooks, the company manufactures monitors, projectors, servers, etc, and specializes in developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, enterprise solutions and related services.
In 2016, the company ranked first in the world in computer sales. It still held it in 2023 with about 23% global market share. Important product lines are Thinkpad, Legion and Ideapad.
In 2011, it acquired a majority stake in Medion AG, a European computer hardware manufacturer. In 2014, Motorola Mobility was purchased, which gave Lenovo a boost in the smartphone market.
80.94%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.
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