Lenovo LOQ Essential 15IAX9E
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Reviews for the Lenovo LOQ Essential 15IAX9E
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
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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→ENSingle 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.
15.60":
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.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
