Deal | This Lenovo Legion gaming laptop with a 20-core CPU and 165 Hz OLED display is $858 off for a limited time

As we have mentioned plenty of times before, the ongoing RAM and storage pricing crisis has spelled doom for many shoppers looking for well-equipped gaming laptops and desktops. However, a few attractive deals can still be found every now and then if one looks hard enough.

The Lenovo Legion Pro 5i gaming laptop is a very potent system, packing an Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX CPU and GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU. Thanks to an ongoing sale on Lenovo's official store, interested customers can purchase the gaming laptop at just $1,196 after utilizing the "EXTRASAVEAFF" coupon during checkout.

Powerful 16-inch OLED gaming laptop with 20-core Arrow Lake-HX CPU

This variant of the Legion Pro 5i comes equipped with 16 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM and a 1 TB PCIe Gen 4 TLC SSD, both of which are easily upgradeable. The 20-core Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX CPU powering the laptop is a very powerful CPU, and should be able to outperform an Intel Core i9 14900HX in synthetic benchmarks.

Our in-depth review of the Legion Pro 5i gaming laptop with a higher-end CPU was free of any major complaints regarding CPU performance, with the system demonstrating good sustained performance as well. The GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU with only 8 GB of GDDR7 VRAM may not be adequate for future-proofing or even high-fidelity gaming, but 1080p at high settings should be perfectly doable, and the same goes for QHD gaming with slightly lower settings.

The 16-inch 2560 x 1600 OLED display with a refresh rate of 165 Hz is excellent for gaming, with peak full-screen brightness of over 520 nits. The panel covers 99.9% of the P3 color gamut, which makes it decent for content creation and consumption as well, especially once calibrated.

That said, folks who would prefer a 240 Hz IPS panel and are willing to sacrifice some CPU performance can check out a different SKU of the Legion Pro 5i linked here, also available with a massive 42% discount.

Fan noise is pretty loud under intense load, but our testing did reveal that they spool down pretty quickly as well. Battery life is acceptable, lasting up to 5 hours in our WiFi web surfing test with the screen set to 150 nits of brightness and 60 Hz refresh rate. The laptop features a rather small 80 Wh pack, which gives several competitors with larger batteries the upper hand in this regard.

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