Lenovo LOQ Essential 15IAX9E
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Reviews for the Lenovo LOQ Essential 15IAX9E
Source: Techradar
The LOQ Essential 15 Gen 9 offers fantastic quality for the price. It feels premium, even if its construction isn’t the most sturdy, while the clear and vivid display helps to showcase games in their full glory. However, the lack of graphical power on the low end is likely to disappoint hardcore gamers, as is the keyboard, which is more conducive to productivity than gaming. Regardless of these drawbacks, though, the LOQ Essential 15 Gen 9 is still the strongest budget overall pick given its reasonable price point.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/30/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 70% mobility: 70%
Source: Laptop Media
The Lenovo LOQ Essential 15″ (Gen 9, 15IAX9E) is a masterclass in smart compromises. As its “Essential” name suggests, this laptop strips away the frills to focus on delivering a core gaming experience that punches well above its weight class. It’s a machine designed for the budget-conscious gamer who prioritizes frames-per-second and a great screen over all-day portability and premium materials. While it makes some significant cuts to reach its price point, the areas where it excels make it a genuinely compelling and high-value option for anyone taking their first steps into PC gaming or needing a capable secondary machine. When placed against a rival like the Dell Inspiron 5630 (detailed review) with a similar GPU, the LOQ 15’s philosophy becomes crystal clear. The Dell may offer more than double the battery life, but it is also severely limiting its GPU to just 30W.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/28/2025
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Medium, Date: 06/28/2025
Foreign Reviews
Source: Phong Vu
VN→ENPositive: Slim size; light weight; decent performance; good price; modern design; excellent display; good price. Negative: Average battery life; mediocre touchpad.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/01/2025
Source: Laptopmedia CN
zh-CN→ENPositive: Excellent gaming performance; good cooling system; beautiful display; memory card slot. Negative: Hard to upgrade; short battery life.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/28/2025
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU: Mid-range gaming laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA107 chip. Offers 2560 shaders and is offered in different TGP (power consumption) variants from 35 to 80 Watt with different clock speeds and therefore performance. Refresh of the RTX 3050 with 6GB, higher shader count but a reduced memory bandwidth of 96Bit.
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.
i5-12450HX: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 12 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.8 to 4.4 GHz. The CPU does not support vPro and ECC memory.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
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